Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival

Wednesdays at 9:00 pm

Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival

Enjoy great chamber works recorded live at the Chamber Music Festival.

The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival is known for its enduring commitment to tradition, artistic excellence, innovation, and vision. This radio series draws performances from the most recent summer festival in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Each broadcast hour contains two-to-three works representing the Festival’s commitment to core repertoire, as well as underperformed and newly-composed works. Performers provide commentary about the festival, their experience in Santa Fe, and the music.

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Vivaldi, Ran, and Haydn

July 20, 2017

This program features both 18th century works by Vivaldi and Haydn, as well as a work by living composer Shulamit Ran.

Elizabeth Ogonek

A Premiere by Elizabeth Ogonek and a String Sextet by Dvořák

July 13, 2017

This program features a classic work by Czech composer Antonín Dvořák as well as world-premiere by living composer Elizabeth Ogonek.

Alessio Bax

Purcell, Mozart, Brahms

July 7, 2017

Hear a diverse program of Purcell, Brahms, and Mozart. Alessio Bax is the featured soloist in Piano Concerto No. 14.

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Meet the Host

Kerry is a regular host of live concert broadcasts including Live from WFMT, concerts from the Ravinia Festival, and WFMT’s premiere visiting artist series, Impromptu. Kerry hosts many WFMT Radio Network broadcasts from such locations as the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and the Salzburg Festival. A native Chicagoan, Kerry grew up with WFMT. His love of music and radio played an important part in his life at Northwestern University and the University of Wisconsin, where he eventually became program director of Wisconsin Public Radio. He’s always been a strong advocate of live music broadcasts, and cherishes having interviewed many of the performers he admires including Itzhak Perlman, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Renée Fleming, John Adams, Leif Ove Andsnes – even the award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns.