Celebrating 30+ Years of Wild and Scenic Music
IN THE PRESS
Praise for the Taos Chamber Music Group!
“One of the great treasures of Taos” -The Taos News
“Big magic…silken ensemble playing” -Albuquerque Journal
“A remarkable concert of juxtaposed styles” -Horse Fly
“Depth, vitality and inventiveness” -Spencer Beckwith, KUNM
Press Release
Taos Chamber Music Group presents
“Philosophers and Polarities”
at the Harwood Museum of Art in Taos
Saturday, 1/11/25 5:30 p.m. & Sunday, 1/12/25 3:00 p.m. (matinee)
The Taos Chamber Music Group (TCMG) is excited to bring back Chatter to Taos audiences. Formed in 2008, originally as the Church of Beethoven, Chatter now performs almost every Sunday in their unique performance space in Albuquerque and at the CCA (Center for Contemporary Art) in Santa Fe. Their mission is to present creative, approachable, and authentic musical experiences. They regularly perform to sold-out audiences. Their programs are about an hour long and feature the spoken word, followed by 2 minutes of silence, then resume with performances from the wide spectrum of music compositions.
For their program in Taos they will present Kate Soper’s Ipsa Dixit, an evening-length work of chamber music/theater for voice, flute, violin, and percussion that explores music, language, and meaning through blistering ensemble virtuosity and extended vocal technique. Forged in the uniquely intense creative atmosphere of the “sublimely exploratory” Wet Ink Ensemble (The Chicago Reader) with stage direction by Ashley Kelly Tata, Ipsa Dixit (Latin for “he, himself, said it.”) represents the cutting edge of contemporary chamber music and vocal performance. The work is organized around six texts by numerous poets including Aristotle, Plato, Sophocles, as well as Kate Soper herself.
Kate Soper, composer/soprano creates works at the intersection of expressivity, intelligibility, and sensibility, with a focus on the wonderfully treacherous landscape of the human voice. Soper is a co-director and performer for Wet Ink, a New York-based new music ensemble dedicated to seeking out adventurous music across aesthetic boundaries. She is presently Associate Professor of Music at Smith College.
The performers for this program are: David Felberg (violinist and Artistic Director of Chatter), Jesse Tatum (flute), Alan Zimmerman (percussion), and Tara Khozein (soprano).
Performances will be at the Harwood Museum in Taos on Saturday, January 11 at 5:30 pm and Sunday, January 12 at 3:00 pm (matinee).
For more information on artists and performances, visit taoschambermusicgroup.org. For tickets visit taoschambermusicgroup.org or harwoodmuseum.org.
TCMG’s 32nd Season will then continue on March 29 and 30 in 2025 for “Messiaen Musings”.
Do you want to help bring wild and scenic music to Taos? Email pam@taoschambermusicgroup.org for more information on volunteer opportunities.