2024 Festival Season highlights include:

The Festival debut of Donald Runnicles—General Music Director of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and Music Director of the Grand Teton Music Festival—conducting a chamber orchestra in two performances of Mahler’s song-symphony Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth), which features soloists mezzo-soprano Annika Schlicht, tenor Clay Hilley

The Escher String Quartet (pictured) playing Festival’s first-ever complete cycle of Bartók’s String Quartets—six towering masterpieces of the chamber music repertoire

Violinist Leila Josefowicz, violist Milena Pajaro-Van de Stadt, and cellist Paul Watkins performing works of Kodály and Schoenberg, and pianist Kirill Gerstein collaborating for the first time with the Dover Quartet on Dvorak’s beloved Piano Quintet in A Major.

Recitals by mezzo-sopranos Fleur Barron, Jamie Barton, Annika Schlicht, and Kelley O’Connor; baritone Benjamin Appl; and pianists Zoltán Fejérvári, Kirill Gerstein, Gilles Vonsattel, and Haochen Zhang

Handel’s regal Water Music led by Santa Fe Opera Music Director Harry Bicket in his first Festival appearance, and guitar virtuoso Łukasz Kuropaczewski performing fiery duos of Paganini and Giuliani with violinist Danbi Um, in her own Festival debut.

Four world premieres of Festival-commissioned works by Finnish composer Outi Tarkiainen, Xinyang Wang and the two participants of our 11^th-annual Young Composers String Quartet Project.

Festival debuts of Tchaikovsky Competition Gold Medalist cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan, solo bassist of San Francisco’s New Century Chamber Orchestra Anthony Manzo, and Cleveland Orchestra principal horn Nathaniel Silberschlag. 

Dozens of returning artists including pianist Katia Skanavi, violinists Paul Huang, William Hagen, and John Storgårds, cellists Eric Kim and Peter Stumpf, oboist Nathan Hughes, clarinetist David Shifrin, and the Miami and FLUX string quartets.

And much more!