SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL

Please Note:  The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival radio series is available free to all stations.  Each one-hour program in the 13-week series may be broadcast twice between April 1, 2013 and March 31, 2014.

The WFMT Radio Network invites your listeners to travel to Santa Fe, New Mexico through the sounds of thirteen new one-hour radio concerts from the SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL.  Now in its eighth season, the program has been broadcast on 12,345 stations across the United States and around the world.

One of the world's leading performing arts festivals, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival is known for its enduring commitment to tradition, artistic excellence, innovation, and vision.  Our weekly radio series reflects the Festival's high standards and varied repertoire by presenting superbly recorded concerts and recitals by some of today's greatest musical artists.

The 2013 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival radio series features performances recorded in 2012 in Santa Fe, New Mexico during this celebrated music festival's 40th anniversary summer season. Each broadcast hour typically contains 50 minutes of music comprised of two works representing chamber music's core repertoire. The Festival also remains dedicated to lesser known composers and compositions, and to commissioning new works.

Veteran WFMT announcer Kerry Frumkin hosts the series along with Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival artistic director, Marc Neikrug. Many of the performers provide additional commentary as they describe their experiences at the Festival and the music they've played here.

Here are some highlights from the 2013 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival radio series:
 
" Cellist Lynn Harrell opens the radio series as the featured soloist in Vivaldi's Concerto for Cello, Strings & Continuo in E minor. That first program also includes Harrell in collaboration with violinist Benny Kim and pianist Jeremy Denk and their performance of the Piano Trio in B-flat Major, D. 898 by Schubert. The season concludes with Harrell, this time with the Tokyo String Quartet, performing Schubert's final work for chamber ensemble, the String Quintet in C Major, D. 956.

" When New York Philharmonic Music Director, Alan Gilbert, agreed to serve as the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival's 2012 Artist-in-Residence, he asked to conduct two of Arnold Schoenberg's jewel-like and rarely performed chamber symphonies. In Week 3, Gilbert leads an ensemble of Festival musicians in Schoenberg's 1906 Chamber Symphony No. 1 in E Major, Op. 9. He returns in Week 6 to conduct the Chamber Symphony No. 2 in E-flat Minor, Op. 38 which Schoenberg began in 1908 and completed in 1939.

" In Week 2, an ensemble comprised of many stellar Festival musicians headed by William Preucil & Robert Ingliss bring forth Johann Sebastian Bach's Concerto for Violin & Oboe in C Minor, BWV 1060. Later in the series, pianist Inon Barnatan is the featured soloist in Bach's Piano Concerto No. 7 in G Minor, BWV 1058.

" In addition to many gems of the chamber repertoire, this season of Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival radio concerts includes two world premières commissioned by the Festival especially for its 40th anniversary season.  In Week 7, Finnish composer and pianist Magnus Lindberg performs his own Acequia Madre with clarinetist Chen Halevi. Then in Week 10, Todd Levy, Teng Li, and Haochen Zhang gather to perform Snow and Snow for Clarinet, Viola & Piano by the young Scottish composer Helen Grime. 

" Violinist Arnold Steinhardt and cellist Peter Wiley, both members of the retired Guarneri String Quartet, join violinist Ida Kavafian and violist Steven Tenenbom on stage for a performance of the String Quartet in A Minor, music the great violinist and composer Fritz Kreisler wrote in 1921.  Jeremy Denk joins with the Tokyo String Quartet to play Elgar's Piano Quintet in A Minor, Op. 84.  Clarinetist David Shifrin and pianist Anne Marie McDermott present Leonard Bernstein's 1942 Clarinet Sonata. … and much more.

Some of the other outstanding performers heard in this series are: bassoon players Theodore Soluri and Nancy Goeres; cellists Eric Kim, Gary Hoffman and Anssi Karttunen; clarinetists Anthony McGill and Michael Rusinek; horn players Philip Myers, Julia Pilant and Julie Landsman; oboists Liang Wang and Kyle Mustain; pianists Jon Kimura Parker and Haochen Zhang; percussionist David Tolen; violinists Soovin Kim, Harvey de Souza, Jennifer Gilbert, and Jennifer Frautschi; soprano Tony Arnold; and the Orion String Quartet.

Music production for the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival radio series is by Grammy award-winning recording engineer, Matt Snyder.  Louise Frank is the series producer.

You will find full program listings, along with artist biographies and photos, later in this document. You can also find program listings on our program blog at www.wfmt.com/santafe.

This free series is available for broadcast twice before March 31, 2014.  For more information please contact Tony Macaluso at (773) 279-2114, e-mail: tmacaluso@wfmt.com or Carol Martinez at (773) 279-2112, e-mail: cmartinez@wfmt.com.

Broadcast Schedule - Spring 2013

PROGRAM #:  SFE 13-01
RELEASE:  April 1, 2013

SOLOISTS:  Lynn Harrell, solo cello; Benny Kim & Kathleen Brauer, violins; L.P. How, viola; Joseph
Johnson, cello; Kristen Bruya, bass; Kathleen McIntosh, harpsichord
Vivaldi:  Concerto for Cello, Strings & Continuo in E Minor (arr. by Paul Bazelaire) (orig. pub. 1740)

SOLOISTS:  Benny Kim, violin; Lynn Harrell, cello; Jeremy Denk, piano
Franz Schubert:  Piano Trio in B-Flat Major, D. 898

PROGRAM #:  SFE 13-02
RELEASE:  April 8, 2013

SOLOISTS:  William Preucil, violin & Robert Ingliss, oboe; Jennifer Frautschi & L. P. How, violins;
Aloysia Friedmann, viola; Joseph Johnson, cello; Marji Danilow, bass; Kathleen McIntosh, harpsichord
J.S. Bach:  Concerto for Concerto for Violin & Oboe in C Minor, BWV 1060 (c. 1736)

SOLOISTS:  Jeremy Denk, piano; Tokyo String Quartet: Martin Beaver & Kikuei Ikeda, violins; Kazuhide
Isomura, viola; Clive Greensmith, cello
Elgar:  Piano Quintet in A Minor, Op. 84 (1918-19) 

PROGRAM #:  SFE 13-03
RELEASE:  April 15, 2013

SOLOISTS:  Benny Kim, violin; Lynn Harrell, cello; Jeremy Denk, piano
Beethoven:  Piano Trio in C Minor, Op. 1, No. 3 (1795)

SOLOISTS:Tara Helen O'Connor, flute; Liang Wang, oboe; Kyle Mustain, English horn; Todd Levy &
Michael Rusinek, clarinets; Stephen Ahearn, bass clarinet; Nancy Goeres, bassoon; Lewis Kirk,
contrabassoon; Philip Myers & Julie Landsman, horn s; Jennifer Gilbert & Harvey de Souza, violins; Hsin
-Yun Huang, viola; Eric Kim, cello; Marji Danilow, bass; Alan Gilbert, conductor 
Arnold Schoenberg:  Chamber Symphony No. 1 in E Major, Op. 9 (1906)
 

PROGRAM #:  SFE 13-04
RELEASE:  April 22, 2013

SOLOISTS:  David Shifrin, clarinet; Anne-Marie McDermott, piano
Ferruccio Busoni: Elegy (1920)
 
SOLOISTS:  David Shifrin, clarinet; Anne-Marie McDermott, piano
Leonard Bernstein:  Clarinet Sonata (1942)

SOLOISTS:  Philip Myers, horn; Lily Francis, violin; Inon Barnatan, piano
Johannes Brahms:  Horn Trio in E-Flat Major, Op. 40 (1865)

PROGRAM #:  SFE 13-05
RELEASE:  April 29, 2013

SOLOISTS:  Ida Kavafian, violin; Steven Tenenbom, viola; Peter Wiley, cello
Beethoven:  String Trio in C Minor, Op. 9, No. 3 (1797-98)

SOLOISTS:  Arnold Steinhardt & Ida Kavafian, violins; Steve Tenenbom, viola; Peter Wiley, cello
Fritz Kreisler:   String Quartet in A Minor (1921)

PROGRAM #:  SFE 13-06
RELEASE:  May 6, 2013

SOLOISTS:  Tokyo String Quartet: Martin Beaver & Kikuei Ikeda, violins; Kazuhide Isomura, viola; Clive
Greensmith, cello
Haydn:   String Quartet No. 27 in D Major, Op. 20, No. 4, Hob. III:34 (1772)

SOLOISTS:  Bart Feller, flute; Tara Helen O'Connor, flute/piccolo; Liang Wang, oboe; Kyle Mustain,
oboe/English horn; Anthony McGill & Michael Rusinek, clarinets; Nancy Goeres & Theodore Soluri,
bassoons; Philip Myers & Julie Landsman, horns; Charley Lea & David Dash, trumpets; Jennifer Gilbert,
Daniel Phillips, Todd Phillips & Harvey de Souza, 1st violins; Kathleen Brauer, L. P. How, Ida Kavafian &
Benny Kim, 2nd violins; Lily Francis, Hsin-Yun Huang & Steven Tenenbom, violas; Timothy Eddy, Eric
 Kim & Peter Wiley, cellos; Marji Danilow, bass; Alan Gilbert, conductor
Arnold Schoenberg:   Chamber Symphony No. 2 in E-Flat Minor, Op. 38 (1908; 1939)
 

PROGRAM #:  SFE 13-07
RELEASE:  May 13, 2013

SOLOISTS:  Chen Halevi, clarinet; Magnus Lindberg, piano
Magnus Lindberg:  Acequia Madre (2012 Commission by the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival
                                -World Premiere)

SOLOISTS:   Jon Kimura Parker, piano; William Preucil, violin; Aloysia Friedmann, viola; Gary Hoffman,
cello; Marji Danilow, bass
Franz Schubert:  Piano Quintet in A Major, D. 667, Trout (1819)

PROGRAM #:  SFE 13-08
RELEASE:  May 20, 2013

SOLOISTS:  Inon Barnatan, piano; Jennifer Gilbert & Harvey de Souza, violins; Hsin-Yun Huang, viola;
Joseph Johnson, cello; Marji Danilow, bass
J.S. Bach:   Piano Concerto No. 7 in G Minor, BWV 1058

SOLOISTS:  Jennifer Frautschi, violin; Jon Kimura Parker, piano
Béla Bartók:  Violin Sonata No. 1 in C-Sharp Minor, Sz. 75 (1921)
 

PROGRAM #:  SFE 13-09
RELEASE:  May 27, 2013

SOLOISTS:  Tony Arnold, soprano;  Jeffrey Milarsky, conductor;  Bart Feller, flute; Tara Helen O'Connor,
alto flute; Chen Halevi & Todd Levy, clarinets; Stephen Ahearn, bass clarinet; Julie Landsman & Julia
 Pilant, horns; Andrew Russo, piano & celeste; Lynn Gorman DeVelder, harp; David Tolen, percussion; L.
 P. How & John Largess, violas; Anssi Karttunen & Felix Fan, cellos; Marji Danilow, bass
Oliver Knussen:  Songs for Sue from Requiem, Op. 33 (2006)

SOLOISTS:  Jon Kimura Parker, piano; William Preucil, violin; Jennifer Frautschi, violin; Aloysia
Friedmann, viola; Gary Hoffman, cello
Ernst von Dohnányi:  Piano Quintet No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 1 (1895)

PROGRAM #:  SFE 13-10
RELEASE:  June 3, 2013

SOLOIST:  Soovin Kim, violin
Niccolò Paganini: Selection of Caprices for Solo Violin, Op. 1: No. 1 & No. 7 (c. 1801-07)

SOLOISTS:  Todd Levy, clarinet; Teng Li, viola; Haochen Zhang, piano
Helen Grime:  Snow and Snow for Clarinet, Viola & Piano (2012 Commission by Santa Fe Chamber
                        Music Festival, World Premiere)

SOLOISTS:   Anne-Marie McDermott, piano; Orion String Quartet: Daniel Phillips and Todd Phillips
violins; Steven Tenenbom, viola; Timothy Eddy, cello
Amy Beach:   Piano Quintet in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 67 (1907)
 
SOLOIST: Kirill Gerstein, piano
George Gershwin/  arr. Earl Wild:  Somebody Loves Me;I Got Rhythm

PROGRAM #:  SFE 13-11
RELEASE:  June 10, 2013

SOLOISTS:  Ida Kavafian, violin; Chen Halevi, clarinet;  Kirill Gerstein, piano
Béla Bartók:   Contrasts, Sz. 111
 
SOLOISTS:  William Preucil, violin; Gary Hoffman, cello; Haochen Zhang, piano
Johannes Brahms: Piano Trio No. 2 in C Major, Op. 87 (1880-82)
 

PROGRAM #:  SFE 13-12
RELEASE:  June 17, 2013

SOLOISTS:  Inon Barnatan, piano; Harvey De Souza & Jennifer Gilbert, violins; Hsin-Yun Huang, viola;
Joseph Johnson, cello; Marji Danilow, bass
J.S. Bach:  Piano Concerto No. 5 in F Minor, BWV 1056

SOLOIST:  Kirill Gerstein, piano
Oliver Knussen:   Ophelia's Last Dance, Op. 32 (2010 - Commissioned for Kirill Gerstein by the Gilmore
International Keyboard Festival)

SOLOISTS:  Tokyo String Quartet: Martin Beaver & Kikuei Ikeda, violins; Kazuhide Isomura, viola; Clive
Greensmith, cello
Maurice Ravel:  String Quartet in F Major (1902-03; rev. 1910)
 

PROGRAM #:  SFE 13-13
RELEASE:  June 24, 2013

SOLOISTS:  Tokyo String Quartet: Martin Beaver & Kikuei Ikeda, violins; Kazuhide Isomura, viola; Clive
Greensmith, cello; Lynn Harrell, cello
Franz Schubert:  String Quintet in C Major, D. 956 (1828)