Song for Taos with Robert Mirabal and ETHEL 

Saturday, Jun. 3, 2023, 5:30 p.m. SOLD OUT
Sunday, Jun. 4, 2023, 5:30 p.m. SOLD OUT

NEW PERFORMANCE TIME ADDED DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND: Late Show on Sunday, Jun. 4th, 8:30 p.m. – SOLD OUT

Harwood Museum of Art

Renowned Taos Pueblo musician and longtime TCMG collaborator, Robert Mirabal, is composing a brand-new piece with the adventurous, highly acclaimed string quartet ETHEL for the culmination of TCMG’s 30th Anniversary. Also on the program will be selections from their album together, The River, and original compositions by ETHEL.

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Robert Mirabal, flutes and percussion   |   ETHEL, string quartet |   Nancy Laupheimer, flute

Contributor’s Concert  |  Saturday August 12, 2023 (3 pm) at a private home

TCMG’s 31^st season commences with an intimate gathering at a beautiful private home with musical treats and light bites. 

Kim Bakkum (piano), Elizabeth Baker (violin), Sally Guenther (cello) and a surprise local child prodigy will delight contributors with this concert repast including selected pieces by Glière, Korngold, Haydn, Ginastera and Copland. 

This concert is a special event to honor and thank our donors.  Click here for details if you would like to attend.

California Connections |  Saturday and Sunday October 7 & 8, 2023 (5:30 pm) at the Harwood Museum of Art

Here in Taos, we can appreciate how impactful kinship with a place and its people can be and this concert program evokes this idea.  California connects the composers John Cage, John Adams, Reena Esmail and Lou Harrison; and two of the musicians, Elizabeth Baker (violin) and Vicki Ray (piano), in many powerful ways. 

The 4 composers and Elizabeth and Vicki have roots in the Golden State and share some intriguing personal connections you will hear about in introductions to the specially selected pieces.  And there will be an opportunity for the community to be a part of the experience of preparing the piano for John Cage’s piece, Perilous Night (details will be provided with ticket link to be posted).  We complete the circle back to our home state with a local New Mexican musician (new to TCMG), Douglas Cardwell (percussion) who will add his unique thrum to the exotic Varied Trio by Harrison.

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The Classical Piano |  Friday December 8, 2023 (5:30 pm) at the Harwood Museum of Art

The incomparable, award-winning, Gleb Ivanov (piano) will enthrall us again this year in a solo performance featuring Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Waldstein” Sonata and works by Franz Schubert. 

This is a treasured Taos Chamber Music Group holiday tradition featuring a musician called a “super-virtuoso” by the NY Times and tickets do sell out quickly. 

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Holiday Jeux | Saturday December 9 (5:30 pm) and Sunday December 10, 2023 (3:00 pm – special winter matinee) at the Harwood Museum of Art

The holiday celebration continues with Gleb Ivanov and our beloved founder, Nancy Laupheimer (flute) delighting us with Maurice Ravel’s Flute Sonate. 

Kim Bakkum (piano) and Gleb will impart youthful wonder and imagination with Ravel’s Ma mère l’Oye (Mother Goose Suite).  The holiday treats will also include Ravel’s Jeux d’eau (Gleb solo) and Antonín Dvořák’s Piano Trio No. 1 performed by LP How (violin), Sally Guenther (cello) and Gleb.

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Winter Reverie |  Saturday January 20 (5:30 pm) and Sunday January 21, 2024 (3:00 pm – special winter matinee) at the Harwood Museum of Art

Visual and musical arts are interwoven in this program to add some vibrancy and color to the serene, snowy landscape of winter in Taos.  Debra Ayers (piano), Sally Guenther (cello), Laura Chang (viola) and Elizabeth Baker (violin) bring us winter daydreams and Romantic musings in pieces by Johannes Brahms, Ernő Dohnányi and Caroline Shaw. 

“While considering my love of Brahms’ piano quartets and my memory of playing them—and more generally how our memories of beloved music evolve over time—I began thinking about the history of still-life paintings.” – Caroline Shaw, Pulitzer prize-winning composer of Thousandth Orange. 

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Hommage à Fauré | Saturday and Sunday March 16 & 17, 2024 (5:30 pm) at the Harwood Museum of Art

The preeminent pianist and esteemed teacher, Robert McDonald, will join Sally Guenther (cello) and Ruxandra Marquardt (violin) in a tribute to Gabriel Fauré.  Also included will be the Sonatina by Fauré’s student, Arthur Honneger, as well as solo performances by Robert McDonald. 

This program presents a logical progression from Romanticism to Fauré and his link to the beginnings of the modern era.  Fauré, perhaps one of the most influential French composers, studied as a youth with Camille Saint-Saëns and together they cofounded the Société Nationale de Musique (1871) to promote new French music.  This program honors not only Fauré but reminds us of the admiration and gratitude due to those that dedicate their lives to teaching others and forging new paths.

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TCMG presents Taos School of Music on Tour | Saturday and Sunday April 20 & 21, 2024 (5:30 pm) at the Harwood Museum of Art

TCMG is delighted to present for the first time, Taos School of Music in spring performances.  This famed School is “One of the most prestigious and intimate of summer music schools in the country,” (National Public Radio). For 60 years, it has brought to Taos elite early-career musicians and prepared them to be artistic leaders. Today, its 1,000+ alumni can be found in leading chamber music ensembles, orchestras, and teaching positions throughout the world. Taos School of Music on Tour brings together School alumni and faculty for performances in Taos and beyond. 

These performances presented by TCMG are led by acclaimed cellist, Nina Lee (Brentano Quartet). After leading rehearsals with three School alumni in New York City, the quartet will perform two high-voltage concerts in Taos.

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Laura Metcalf with The Overlook | Saturday and Sunday May 18 & 19, 2024 (5:30 pm) at the Harwood Museum of Art

Laura Metcalf returns to TCMG with The Overlook, an Uptown NYC string quartet amplifying the music of Black composers with a community building mission “to create a more representative and relevant musical practice.” 

Formed during the pandemic and born out of the need to share music at this time and make it accessible, The Overlook quartet presented virtual performances with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, live performances at Lincoln Center and events in nontraditional spaces (click here for a lovely clip).

Join us for the final concert of our 31st season to meet The Overlook: Monica Davis & Ravenna Lipchik, (violins), Angela Pickett, (viola) and Laura Metcalf, (cello).

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