Join us on Sunday, November 5 at 3 PM at the Lensic Performing Arts Center for our Season Opening Orchestra Concert. Titled “Source Code,” this concert explores the life-giving well of folk music and how it has informed and colored classical music. Click here to read about some of the orchestral music to be performed at this concert under the leadership of Colin Jacobsen.
9.27.23 Concert Exploration—Part I
For those of you who heard Pro Musica’s Artistic Director and violinist Colin Jacobsen’s special performances last week at El Castillo, La Secoya, Quail Run, Chatter North, Chatter Sunday, and at the Subscriber and Volunteer Appreciation Party (La Fonda), you know Pro Musica’s artistic vision is in the hands of a master! These performances were exciting sneak peeks into our Season Opening Orchestra Concert to be performed on Sunday, November 5 at 3pm at the Lensic. Titled “Source Code,” this concert explores the life-giving well of folk music and how it has informed and colored classical music. Buy tickets here.
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9.13.23 Get involved! Volunteer with Pro Musica
9.8.23 Pasatiempo—The Classics
Read Pasatiempo’s fall round-up that includes Pro Musica’s season-opening concert “Source Code” on November 5 and other fall offerings.
“New artistic director Colin Jacobsen is very much in the forefront of Pro Musica’s fall offerings. The acclaimed violinist and composer leads the orchestra in Source Code on November 5. It’s an exploration of classical music’s roots in folk and spiritual antecedents, with works by Bela Bartók, Heinrich Biber, Edvard Grieg, and Jessie Montgomery, plus an arrangement of world folk music by Jacobsen.”—Mark Tiaras, Pasatiempo
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9.6.23 Join us for Our Season Opening Week
This November, we open our 2023–24 season with four specially curated events culminating in Artistic Director Colin Jacobsen’s innovative concert with the Pro Musica Orchestra—“Source Code.” In this celebration of our 42nd season and our bright future with Jacobsen, we’ll dive into classical music’s deep roots and wide connections to pop, jazz, and folk music.
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8.30.23 2023–24 Youth Concert Series
Each year Pro Musica’s Youth Concert Series introduces thousands of local students to the power of live classical music. Our Youth Concerts are free to public, private, and homeschooled students. If you would like to make a contribution to support this program, click here.
Source Code
Friday, November 3 at 10 AM | Lensic Performing Arts Center
Exploration of folk and pop in classical music.
The Mozart Requiem
Friday, April 26 at 10 AM | Lensic Performing Arts Center
A look into Mozart’s final masterpiece.
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8.23.23 $10 Tickets for Students, Youth and Families
Student Tickets
$10 tickets are available to students of all ages to Pro Musica concerts.
Special Rate for Families
As part of Santa Fe Pro Musica’s outreach to youth and families, we provide a special rate for families—a limited number of tickets are $10 per person for youth (ages 18 and younger) and accompanying adult(s). This special rate provides accessibility and opportunity to experience classical music.Call the Pro Musica Box Office at 505.988.4640 ext. 1000 to take advantage of these special programs.
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8.16.23 Join us for our 2023–24 Discovery Series
Meet our artists, participate in lifelong learning, deepen your connections to music, and expand your classical music experiences through conversations and special events.
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8.14.23 Five Questions to Xavier Foley (bassist, composer)
Click below to read Xavier Foley’s interview with the American Composers Forum. Santa Fe Pro Music commissioned and premiered Foley’s exciting “Victory” Concerto with Foley as the double bass soloist in March 2023.
“Foley also embodies the versatility required of musicians in the 21st century, fully embracing technological advancements and entrepreneurship as integral parts of his artistic profile. He has been commissioned by Santa Fe Pro Musica, the Sphinx Organization co-commissioned with Carnegie Hall, Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s MusicNOW, the Oregon Symphony, and Juilliard Pre-College.”—Forrest Howell, American Music Forum
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Click here to hear Foley’s “Victory” Concerto with the Pro Musica Orchestra in our Spring Youth Concert.
Celebrate Tradition with Pro Musica’s 2023–24 Baroque Series!
Join us for Pro Musica’s aclaimed Baroque Series. Enjoy our annual Holiday Bach Festival in December and our holy week celebration of 18th century French Baroque women composers in March.
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Join us for Pro Musica’s 2023–24 String Quartet Series
NPR remarks that we’re in a golden age of string quartets and Pro Musica will bring five of the world’s best to Santa Fe. Enjoy Colin Jacobsen’s quartet Brooklyn Rider with mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter, as well as the Brentano, Diderot, Quatuor Ébène, and Elias quartets. Subscriptions and single tickets are on sale now! Call the Pro Musica Box Office at 505.988.4640.
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8.2.23 The Magic Violin—Interview with Artistic Director Colin Jacobsen
Enjoy Pro Musica Artistic Director Colin Jacobsen’s interview with the Santa Fe Magazine—”The Magic Violin.”
“When Beethoven was around, classical music was new music. It was the music of the time, of the culture. Bach was a person who took all the styles that he encountered all around Europe and made them his own. It was modern.”—Colin Jacobsen, artistic director
Join us for Pro Musica’s 2023–24 Orchestra Series
The GRAMMY-nominated Pro Musica Orchestra presents the best of the traditional and the innovative in three programs at the Lensic Performing Arts Center. Subscriptions and single tickets are on sale now!
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7.19.23 Subscribe and Save!
Pro Musica’s 2023–24 Season Ticket Brochures are Here!
Join us for Pro Musica’s 42nd season of bringing together outstanding musicians to inspire and educate audiences of all ages through the performance of great music by subscribing today.
Didn’t get your ticket brochure?—email Sam at mcclung@sfpromusica.org and he’ll make sure you get one. Or you can view our online brochure.
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6.29.23 Special Message From Colin Jacobsen
Enjoy this special message from violinist and Artistic Director Colin Jacobsen while he performs an excerpt from J.S. Bach’s Violin Partita No. 3 in E Major, “Preludio.”
“I can’t wait to share many magical moments with you this season.
See you soon!”—Colin Jacobsen, artistic director
