Celebrating 30+ Years of Wild and Scenic Music
2025-2026 CONCERTS
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TCMG’s 33rd SEASON
Contributor’s Concert and Reception
August 10th at 3pm at Elizabeth Baker’s Home
As a thank you to our donors for the 2025-2026 Annual Fund, TCMG is pleased to offer a free concert and reception. This event has limited seats and does fill up quickly, so priority will be given to the early donors of $200 or more to the fund (donor level details here).
Last year’s event was a wonderful and very personal opportunity to spend time with the TCMG family while enjoying a concert by TCMG core musicians who generously donate their beautiful artistry for this special event. We hope you can join us this year and we look forward to seeing you soon!
Changing Seasons
Saturday, October 4, 2025, 5:30 p.m.
Sunday, October 5, 2025, 3:30 p.m. matinee
Program:
Carradine String Quartet While Summer Lasts (TCMG commission and world premiere)
Schubert String Quartet No. 1 d18
Beethoven String Quartet Op. 18 No. 3
With Elizabeth Baker, violin; Kim Fredenburgh viola; Sally Guenther, cello; Ruxandra Marquardt, violin
Every Day Sacred
Saturday, November 1, 2025, 5:30 p.m.
Sunday, November 2, 2025, 3:30 p.m. matinee
Program:
HILDEGARD VON BINGEN
O virtus sapientie + bowed piano drone
KATE SOPER
The Fragments of Parmenides
GERMAINE TAILLEFERRE
Partita for Piano
PAULINE OLIVEROS
The Inner/Outer Sound Matrix
HILDEGARD VON BINGEN
O quam magnum miraculum + plucked piano strings a la medieval harp?
OLIVIER MESSIAEN
Chants de Terre et de Ciel
“Bail avec Mi” (for my wife)
“Antienne du silence” (for the day of the Guardian Angels)
“Danse du bébé-pilule” (for my little Pascal)
“Arc-en-ciel d’innocence” (for my little Pascal)
“Minuit pile et face” (for death)
“Résurrection” (for Easter Day)
With Tara Khozein, soprano; Judith Gordon, piano
Annual Holiday Season Festival
Gleb Ivanov’ in recital
Friday, December 12, 2025, 5:30 p.m.
TCMG’s annual Holiday Season Festival begins this year with a perennial favorite, Gleb Ivanov, in solo recital. 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.
Returns for his 8th Annual appearance
All-Chopin program
Gleb Ivanov, piano
Holiday Season Festival Weekend
Isn’t it Romantic
Saturday, December 13, 2025, 5:30 p.m.
Sunday, December 14, 2025, 3:30 p.m. matinee
TCMG artists have been performing for you since 13-14 (13th appearance)
Program:
Brahms Sonata No. 2 for Viola and Piano in E flat Major, Op. 120
Grieg Piano Trio, EG116
Brahms Piano Quartet in G minor, Op. 25
With Gleb Ivanov, piano; LP How, violin; Laura Chang, viola; Sally Guenther, cello
The Light Returning
Saturday, February 21, 2026, 5:30 p.m.
Sunday, February 22, 2026, 3:30 p.m. matinee
Program:
Aaron Copland “As it fell upon a day”
Flute, Clarinet, Soprano
Martinu Flute Sonata No. 1
Flute, Piano
V. Coleman “Portrait of Langson”
Flute, Clarinet, Piano, Narrator
John Musto: Island
Poulenc: C
Charles Ives: Tom Sails Away
Francis Poulenc: Fetes Galantes
John Musto: Litany
Voice, Piano
With Jessee Tatum, flute; Jeffrey Brooks, clarinet; Tara Khozein, soprano; Debra Ayers, piano
Spring Festival 2026
Third Annual “Taos School of Music Alumni/Faculty on Tour”
Saturday, April 11, 2026, 5:30 p.m.
Sunday, April 12, 2026, 3:30 p.m. matinee
TCMG is delighted to present, for the third time in its series, the Taos School of Music alumni in spring performances. This continues the long tradition of collaboration with TSofM, which for 60+ summers 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.
With Alumni and faculty from the Taos School of Music
Elevated Baroque
Saturday, May 16, 2026, 5:30 p.m.
Sunday, May 17, 2026, 3:30 p.m. matinee
The music of the High Baroque performed at an elevation of 7,000 feet!
As a period instrument ensemble, we perform this music as the composers themselves would
likely have heard it in their day. We play on 18th-century instruments, using gut strings, at low
pitch, and with a stylistic approach from the time of the compositions.
Program:
Handel: selected Soprano Arias (with obligatos)
Vivaldi: Chamber Concerto for Flute
Duphly: work for Harpsichord
Bach: Sonata for Violin and Harpsichord
Telemann: Paris Quartet
With Kathlene Ritch, soprano; Kim Pineda, baroque flute & recorder; Stephen Redfield, baroque violin; Katie Rietman, baroque cello; Kathleen McIntosh, harpsichord
