Concert Calendar

Passion, playfulness, inventiveness and intimacy characterize the opening concerts of TCMG's seventeenth season in Chan Ka Nin’s Among Friends, Debussy’s Piano Trio in G minor (think flute instead of violin), Alexander Zemlinsky’s Trio for clarinet, cello and piano (think Brahms) and Cody Wright’s atmospheric …when softly she sleeps for flute and piano.
Read more about the program on the In The Press page.

Drawing on the varied and rich musical traditions of Latin America, TCMG performs Cuban composer Xavier Montsalvatge’s Canciones Negras for mezzo-soprano and piano, works by Brazilian composers Heitor Villa-Lobos (Piano Trio No. 1), Marlos Nobre (Desafio for violin and piano) and Souza Lima (Capricho Rustico for violin and piano), and Argentine composers Astor Piazzolla (Oblivion for flute and marimba), Maximo Diego Pujol (Candomberes for flute, marimba and percussion) and Alberto Ginastera (Cantos del Tucaman for voice, flute, violin, drum and piano).

TCMG’s annual Baroque concerts juxtapose music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries with music of the twentieth century in works by Dieterich Buxtehude (Sonata in G major for flute, cello and harpsichord), Georg Philipp Telemann (Trio Sonata in A minor for flute, oboe and continuo), J.S. Bach (Sonata in D major for cello and harpsichord), Francois Couperin (L’Apothéose de Corelli for flute, oboe, cello and harpsichord), Ned Rorem (Spiders for solo harpsichord), and Czech composer Ilja Hurnik (Sonata da camera for flute, oboe, cello and harpsichord).

Pianist Robert McDonald, Artistic Director of the Taos School of Music during the summers, returns to join TCMG for a program of music by Antonin Dvorak (his impassioned Piano Trio in F minor), Katherine Hoover (the Lyric Trio for flute, cello and piano) and a work for solo piano to be announced.

In celebration of spring TCMG joins forces with choreographer Amber Vasquez for a program of dance and music that includes Beethoven’s String Trio in C minor, Breton composer Guy Ropartz’s Prelude, Marine et Chanson for flute, harp and strings, Equinox for alto flute and cello by Nancy Laupheimer, and Mozart’s Concerto for flute and harp.

This dynamic program features David Lang's post-minimalist Sweet Air - accompanied by a film projection by Jake Magee - and Michael Torke's jazz- and pop-inflected Telephone Book, both for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano. A world premiere by Edie Hill composed for TCMG will reflect the sense of the sacred that is so powerful in New Mexico. In addition the interplay between the written word and music informs Paul Moravec’s Tempest Fantasy for violin, clarinet, cello and piano (based on the Shakespeare play) as well as Hill’s This Floating World for solo flute (based on Haiku poems).