Random Acts

Musician Larry Mitchell and poet/musician Joy Harjo; Minneapolisbased band Davina and the Vagabonds; pianist Anne-Marie McDermott; Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival; East L.A. rockers Los Lobos; Brian Wingard jazz quartet; Santa Fe Opera apprentices; tenor

Pianist Anne-Marie McDermott exerts an anchoring presence in the musical life of the Mountain Time Zone. Since 2011 she has served as artistic director of the Vail Valley Music Festival up Colorado way, and in recent years she has appeared on the roster of the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival more often than not. That’s just part of the story. She also heads the Ocean Reef Chamber Music Festival in Florida and Avila Chamber Music Celebration in Curacao, has been an artist member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center since 1995, appears as a soloist with many orchestras, keeps busy in the recording studio, and tours as a member of both the McDermott Trio (with her violinist and cellist sisters) and the piano quartet Opus One (which will open Santa Fe Pro Musica’s season, on Sept.18). Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival audiences may catch her twice this week. At 6 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 16, at the Lensic Performing Arts Center (211 W. San Francisco St.), she is joined by the Miami String Quartet for the Piano Quintet of Béla Bartók, an infrequently visited work from the composer’s early years. On Tuesday, Aug. 18, at noon, at St. Francis Auditorium (New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 W. Palace Ave.), she devotes her program to Bach: his English Suite in A minor (BWV 807) and Partita in C minor (BWV 826), as well as the Chaconne from his Partita No. 2 in D minor for Unaccompanied Violin (BWV 1004), as recast for the keyboard by Ferruccio Busoni. For tickets ($12 to $78 for Aug. 16; $22 for Aug. 18; call for availability), visit Tickets Santa Fe at the Lensic (505-988-1234, www.ticketssantafe). — James M. Keller