UPCOMING EVENTS
Jackie McGehee Young Artists’ Competition for Piano and Strings
Since 1992, the Music Guild of New Mexico (MGNM), formerly known as the New Mexico Symphony Guild (NMSG), held an annual concerto competition for young musicians in our state. This event is named for Jackie McGehee, a long-time NMSG/MGNM member and past president of the NMSG, who spearheaded and underwrote the event at its beginning and continues to underwrite the program. This event has become one of the premier competitions in the state and provides monetary awards for the winners and opportunities to perform with a professional orchestra. In 2009, this event was renamed the Music Guild of New Mexico's Jackie McGehee Young Artists' Competition for Piano and Strings to reflect an expansion of its musical scope. We are very pleased to note that, since its inception, many nationally known musicians have traveled to Albuquerque from all over the U.S. to adjudicate this competition.
Chamber Music ABQ - Takács Quartet with cellist David Requiro
Artists:
Edward Dusinberre - violin
Harumi Rhodes - violin
András Fejér - cello
Richard O'Neill - viola
Guest Artist:
David Requiro - cello
Program:
Haydn String Quartet in C major, Op. 54, No. 2 ("Tost"), Hob. III/57
Britten String Quartet No. 2
Schubert Cello Quintet in C major, D. 956, Op. Posth. 163
The world-renowned Takács Quartet is now entering its fiftieth anniversary season. 2024-25 includes concerts in South Korea, Japan, and Australia along with North American engagements in New York, Chicago, Berkeley, and Albuquerque. The Takács is known for its innovative programming.
First Prize winner of the 2008 Naumburg International Violoncello Competition, David Requiro has emerged as one of today's finest American cellists. He has made concerto appearances with the National Symphony Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, and Tokyo Philarmonic.
New Mexico Philharmonic Power Concert
The New Mexico Philharmonic’s Power Concerts series is back for another season of illuminating, affordable, family-friendly concerts! This series is geared toward introducing young audience members and their families to classical music, the orchestra, and the instruments that make it all possible. We close out the Power Concert Series with an afternoon of American music! First off, the NMPhil’s show stopping string section is on full display in Samuel Barber’s poignant and profound Adagio for Strings. Next up, two masterpieces from Aaron Copland, who many would declare the face of the American music movement: The orchestra sparkles in Copland’s Suite from Billy the Kid and the composer’s take on Mexican folk music in El Salón México.
Music Director Roberto Minczuk conducts.
New Mexico Philharmonic Power Concert
The New Mexico Philharmonic’s Power Concerts series is back for another season of illuminating, affordable, family-friendly concerts! This series is geared toward introducing young audience members and their families to classical music, the orchestra, and the instruments that make it all possible. In the second Power Concert of the season, we pair the questioning of Charles Ives with the determination and grit of Dmitri Shostakovich. The artistry of the string, brass, and wind sections are on full display in Ives’s reflective The Unanswered Question, where we find that no matter how important the questions, sometimes there are just no answers. Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5, arguably his most popular work, is a marvel of symphonic form that landed the composer a rare win: It was a triple threat of success, managing to satisfy music critics, audiences, and most surprisingly, Russian government officials. Music Director Roberto Minczuk leads the orchestra through the second and fourth movements of this masterpiece.
Santa Fe Desert Chorale Concert
Experience the warmth, light, and beauty of the holiday season during the Desert Chorale’s 2024 Winter Festival. This year’s program, A Rose in Winter, reflects on the hope and wonder we experience this time of year, as miraculous as a flower blooming during the cold of December. Joined by Elizabeth Young on violin and Nathan Salazar on piano, our twenty-four professional vocal artists will return to the Land of Enchantment from all across the nation for these concerts. Celebrate this festive time of year with familiar carols you know and love alongside new musical treasures to add to your collection of favorite seasonal tunes. For more information and tickets, click here.
NM Philarmonic Power Concert: Bruckner Meets Sci-Fi!
The New Mexico Philharmonic’s Power Concerts series is back for another season of illuminating, affordable, family-friendly concerts! This series is geared toward introducing young audience members and their families to classical music, the orchestra, and the instruments that make it all possible. Our first Power Concert of the season starts off with a bang! Our brass and percussion sections steal the show in the Power Concerts’ signature tune, the opening to Richard Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra. Then, the magic of Bruckner meets the magic of the movies when we pair movements of Bruckner’s Symphony No. 4 with two of John Williams’s classics, the “Flying Theme” from E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and “Darth Vader’s Theme” from Star Wars. Music Director Roberto Minczuk conducts.
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New Mexico Peace Choir Concert
Immanuel and Carlisle Center are happy to welcome the New Mexico Peace Choir on Sunday, June 16th for their concert"To Walk in Beauty - Lessons from the Earth". To obtain tickets please visit their website by clicking here.
NM Philharmonic Power Concert: Germany & Austria
Join Roberto Minczuk and the outstanding NM Philharmonic musicians for the final Power Concert of the season. Germany and Austria were the cultural hotspots of the day and the birthplace of Western classical music as we know it. This concert honors some of the masters of the period, featuring a dynamic variety of works by Bach, Mozart, Brahms, and Johann Strauss. For more information and to purchase tickets, click here.
Santa Fe Desert Chorale
Join in the festive Santa Fe holiday tradition of the Desert Chorale’s annual winter choral concert. This year’s program, A Glimpse of Snow and Evergreen, is filled with carols honoring the beauty of our winter mountain landscape and the traditions we keep at that special time of the year. Come wrap yourself up in the warm and joyous sounds of the season, featuring 24 of the best ensemble singers in the nation.
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University of New Mexico Symphony Orchestra
Coleridge-Taylor: Overture to The Song of Hiawatha, with Leonardo Pinto, guest conductor
Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate: Chokfi' (New Mexico Premiere)
Dvorak: Symphony no. 9
NM Philharmonic Presents: A Taste of Italy
Daniel Steven Crafts Symphony No. 18
Mendelssohn Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 90, “Italian”
It is one of the most hummable works of the classical canon, Mendelssohn’s “Italian” Symphony. An old favorite of orchestra audiences, the symphony conveys Mendelssohn’s impressions of Italy and the Mediterranean region during an 1830–31 visit. Enjoy the famous opening scherzo for yourself! Music Director Roberto Minczuk leads the orchestra in a program also including Daniel Steven Crafts’ Eighteenth Symphony, a new work.
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AMP Concerts Presents: Lisa Loeb
Lisa Loeb is a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter & touring musician, SiriusXM radio host, actor, entrepreneur, and philanthropist who started her career with the platinum-selling hit song "Stay (I Missed You)" from the film "Reality Bites." A trailblazing independent artist, Lisa was the first pop musician to have a Number 1 single while not signed to a recording contract. She followed that remarkable feat with several hit singles and six albums, two of which were certified gold.
The Dallas, TX native recently released her 15th album, A Simple Trick To Happiness, to stellar reviews from critics and fans, and followed the release of this album with the debut of her new musical, "Together Apart," which she co-wrote and co-produced with over 100 of her fellow Brown University alums to raise money for The Actors Fund. The musical received attention from prestigious outlets like The New York Times, Vanity Fair, People, and Playbill.
Lisa is also well known to parents and kids for her five children's albums, and two illustrated children's books with music.
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