Santa Fe Pro Musica announces 2024-25 season
Santa Fe Pro Musica has announced its 2024–2025 season, running from September through May. The concerts will take place at the Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St.; St. Francis Auditorium in the New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 W. Palace Ave.; and at First Presbyterian Church, 208 Grant Ave.; all in Santa Fe.
In addition to their string quartet series, holiday Bach festival and Baroque Holy Week concerts, artistic director Colin Jacobsen has also announced the group’s orchestra concerts. The orchestra series will include five featured artists as both soloists and composers — Syrian clarinetist Kinan Azmeh, Mexican singer Magos Herrera, violinist Colin Jacobsen, Wu Man (pipa) and shakuhachi player Kojiru Umezaki.
The season also features a variety of educational and social events: lectures, demonstrations, masterclasses, youth concerts and post-concert dinners and receptions with the artists.
Ticket prices range from $24$104 at 505-988-4640 or sfpromusica.org.
Orchestra Series Season Opening Orchestra
Concert: “I Hear America Singing,” Sunday, Sept. 29, Lensic Performing Arts Center. Featuring violin and leader Colin Jacobsen, singer and songwriter Magos Herrera, and conductor David Felberg; music by Vivaldi, Herrera, Walt Whitman and Gabriela Lena Frank.
Fall Orchestra Concert: “The Art of the Concerto Grosso,” Saturday, Nov. 9, and Sunday, Nov. 10, First Presbyterian Church of Santa Fe. Featuring violin and leader Colin Jacobsen, Syrian clarinetist and composer Kinan Azmeh, and guitarist Kyle Sanna; music by Vivaldi, Azmeh, Scarlatti, Bloch.
Winter Orchestra Concert: “Mozart’s Birthday & Chinese New Year,” Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025, and Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025, St. Francis Auditorium in the New Mexico Museum of Art. Featuring violin and leader Colin Jacobsen and Wu Man, pipa; music by Mozart, Lou Harrison, Wu Man.
Spring Orchestra Concert: “The Lark Ascending,” Saturday, March 15, 2025, and Sunday, March 16, 2025, St. Francis Auditorium in the New Mexico Museum of Art. Featuring violin and leader Colin Jacobsen, Kojiru Umezaki (shakuhachi), conductor David Felberg and composer Raven Chacon’s “Voiceless Mass;” music by Mendelssohn, Umezaki, Jacobsen, Dvorák, Raven Chacon, Vaughan Williams.
Season Orchestra Finale: “Appalachian Spring,” Sunday, May 4, 2025, Lensic Performing Arts Center. Featuring violin and leader Colin Jacobsen and conductor laureate Thomas O’Connor; music by Jacobsen, Gabriela Ortiz, Copland.
String Quartet Series
Catalyst Quartet: Sunday, Oct. 13, St. Francis Auditorium in the New Mexico Museum of Art. Music by Paquito D’Rivera, Piazzolla, Gershwin, Ravel.
Brooklyn Rider: Sunday, Jan. 19, 2025, St. Francis Auditorium in the New Mexico Museum of Art. Music by Purcell, Philip Glass, Betsy Jolas, Arvo Pärt, Brahms.
Brentano Quartet: Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025, St. Francis Auditorium in the New Mexico Museum of Art. Music by Haydn, Britten, Brahms.
Isidore Quartet: Sunday, March 2, 2025, St. Francis Auditorium in the New Mexico Museum of Art. Music by Mozart, Gabriella Smith, Mendelssohn.
Brooklyn Rider with soprano Ariadne Greif: “Chalk and Soot,” Sunday, April 27, 2025, Lensic Performing Arts Center. Music by Clarice Assad, Giovanni Sollima, Schoenberg, Jacobsen
Holiday Bach Festival: Dec. 19–23, 28–29, St. Francis Auditorium in the New Mexico Museum of Art.
Bach’s Cello Suites on Violin. Part I: Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024, Part II: Friday, Dec. 20, 2024; Johnny Gandelsman, violin.
A Baroque Christmas: Dec. 21-23, Santa Fe Pro Musica Bach Ensemble. Stephen Redfield, violin and leader; Clara Rottsolk, soprano; Brian Shaw, natural trumpet.
Bach and Beyond. Part I: Saturday, Dec. 28; Part II: Sunday, Dec. 29; violinist Colin Jacobsen leads the Santa Fe Pro Musica Bach Ensemble in the complete Brandenburg Concertos and more.
Baroque Holy Week. Saturday, April 12, 2025, and Sunday, April 13, 2025, First Presbyterian Church of Santa Fe; music by Corelli, Vivaldi, Heinrich Biber, and Pergolesi.