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7.18.24 Season Opening Orchestra Concert

The dazzling Mexican-born singer and songwriter Magos Herrera launches Santa Fe Pro Musica’s 2024–2025 season with original songs and classics from the Latin American songbook. Many of the songs on this concert are from her latest album Aire (2023)…

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7.11.24 Isidore Quartet

The Isidore Quartet is the newest and youngest prize-winning string quartet on the world’s stage today. Also, bravo to violinist Phoenix Avalon (pictured third from the left) who grew up in Santa Fe! .

Formed in 2019, they won first prize and the Haydn prize at the 2022 Banff International String Quartet Competition…

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6.27.24 The Art of the Concerto Grosso

The Art of the Concerto Grosso celebrates the conversational virtuosity of multiple soloists in dialogue with each other and the larger ensemble. Syrian-born clarinetist Kinan Azmeh (pictured), brings the 18th century Baroque form into the 21st century with his soulful Concertino Grosso (literally means “a big little concerto”), combining his Middle Eastern, jazz, and classical backgrounds…

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6.20.24 Pro Musica’s Baroque Christmas

Last Christmas we gave you two performances and you all filled the house. This Christmas we’re doing three performances. Not long ago, in a church not far away, the house was packed, over several days, and two shows a day! We deeply appreciate your continued attendance at our long-running holiday performances and we are greatly looking forward to seeing you again…

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6.12.24 2024-2025 Youth Concerts, Masterclasses, Lectures oh my

Youth Concerts

Every year, the Santa Fe Pro Musica Orchestra and featured artists present a Youth Concert Series, reaching thousands of local students and introducing them to the power of live classical music. These one-hour concerts are FREE to public, private, alternative, and home school students.

Masterclasses

Explore the mechanisms of music making in these FREE masterclasses presented by world-renowned string quartets and selected student ensembles.

Lectures and Demos

Explore the music and meet the musicians in these FREE one-hour lecture-demos presented by world-renowned string quartets.

Family Concert

We welcome you and your family to a fun, festive, and FREE one-hour exploration of Bach—a wonderful addition to your December holiday experiences

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6.5.24 Join us for our Special Events

Join us for a variety of private concerts, conversations, and dinners following selected concerts throughout the season.

Exclusive events in some of Santa Fe’s finest restaurants with opportunities to meet our guest artists. Includes a three-course dinner with wine.

Sunday, October 13, at 5:30 PM | Catalyst Quartet

Sunday, November 10 at 5:30 PM | Colin Jacobsen, violinist and artistic director

Sunday, February 16 at 5:30 PM | Brentano Quartet

Sunday, March 2 at 5:30 PM | Isidore Quartet

Sunday, April 27 at 5:30 PM | Brooklyn Rider

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5.26.24 ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL—Cultivating the Arts

“Santa Fe Pro Musica is also set to receive $20,000 from the NEA. According to Sam McClung, Santa Fe Pro Musica marketing manager, the funds will be used to support its season opening orchestra concert — “I Hear America Singing” — on Sept. 29.”—Adrian Gomez, Albuquerque Journal

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5.23.24 Santa Fe Pro Musica Awarded $20,000 From the NEA

We are excited to announce the National Endowment for the Arts has awarded Pro Musica $20,000 to support our Season Opening Orchestra Concert on Sunday, September 29 at 3 PM.

“Projects like Santa Fe Pro Musica’s Season Opening Orchestra Concert exemplify the creativity and care with which communities are telling their stories, creating connection, and responding to challenges and opportunities in their communities—all through the arts”—NEA Chair Maria Rosario Jackson

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5.22.24 OPERAWIRE Santa Fe Pro Musica Receives NEA Grant

“Santa Fe Pro Musica has received a $20,000 grant from the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA). The grant will support the company’s opening concert “I Hear America Singing” on Sept. 29, 2024 at 3 p.m. at the Lensic Performing Arts Center.”—David Salazar, OperaWire

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5.21.24 Subscribe and Save on Baroque Holy Week

On April 12 and 13, 2025, the Santa Fe Pro Musica Baroque Ensemble, New Mexico’s pre-eminent historical instrument group, presents their Holy Week Concerts at the historic First Presbyterian Church on Grant Avenue. This concert will offer a multifaceted commemoration of Mary, the mother of Jesus.

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5.16.24 Subscribe and Save on Our Bach Festival

Join us from December 19 through 23 and 28 through 29 for Pro Musica’s annual Bach Festival. Why Bach? Because when one thinks of Bach, one thinks of the best. “Nearly 300 years after his death, Johann Sebastian Bach is still the gold standard in classical music” (BBC Culture Magazine). Experience Santa Fe Pro Musica’s Bach Festival and hear for yourself the spirtual and the earthy, the intellectual and the emotional, the glorious music of Bach!

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5.1.24 Subscribe and Save on Our Orchestra Series

“Each of our 5 orchestral programs features special guest soloists who have a composing practice as well as being virtuosic performers themselves. We kick the season off with the richly hued voice of the Mexican-born songstress Magos Herrera in a concert exploring music of the Americas old and new. Clarinetist Kinan Azmeh joins for a program with roots in the Italian Baroque alongside hypnotic Middle Eastern modes and rhythms. First lady of the pipa (Chinese lute), Wu Man helps us celebrate both lunar New Year and Mozart’s birthday. And we bring shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute) master Kojiro Umezaki’s blending of Japanese tradition and modern technology” —Colin Jacobsen, violinist, composer, and Artistic Director

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4.21.24 ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL—Santa Fe Pro Musica to perform Mozart’s ‘Requiem’

“Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s ‘Requiem’ is a choral masterpiece … [Thomas] O’Connor will lead the Santa Fe Pro Musica orchestra, Polyphony: Voices of New Mexico and four soloists through the composer’s final triumph on Saturday, April 27 and Sunday, April 28 at the Lensic Performing Arts Center”—Kathaleen Roberts, Albuquerque Journal

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