Santa Fe Pro Musica Opens 44th Season Oct. 5

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SANTA FE — Santa Fe Pro Musica opens its 44th season at 3 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 5, at the Lensic Performing Arts Center. The Season Opening Orchestra Concert features American composer, pianist, and singer-songwriter Gabriel Kahane, with his work “If love will not swing wide the gates”, written for the New York Philharmonic’s principal clarinetist Anthony McGill.

The program opens with Dvořák’s Serenade for Strings, Op. 22, showcasing expressive harmonies, lyrical melodies, and vibrant energy with the Pro Musica Orchestra, followed by a collection of Kahane’s Songs.

Meet the Music

2 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 5 | Lensic Performing Arts Center

Join us one hour before the concert to explore the music with Pro Musica Artistic Director, Colin Jacobsen and KHFM Program Director, Brent Stevens. Included with ticket purchase.

Artist Dinner

5 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 5 | Alkemē

Join us for a three-course meal and wine with Colin Jacobsen, Anthony McGill, and Gabriel Kahane following the concert. Reservations required. $200 per person.

Featured Artist Bios

Anthony McGill, clarinet, is the principal clarinetist of the New York Philharmonic, a position held previously with the Metropolitan Opera. He serves on the faculty of The Juilliard School and the Curtis Institute of Music, where he was a student. He is one of the most prominent clarinetists on the world stage today with solo performances with the New York and Los Angeles philharmonics, and the symphony orchestras of Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, and Indianapolis. He earned a GRAMMY nomination (2024) for Best Chamber Music Performance for his album American Stories with the Pacifica String Quartet.

Gabriel Kahane, composer, singer, pianist, and conductor, is hailed as “one of the finest songwriters of the day” (The New Yorker) whose work spans the theater, club, and concert hall. He has produced five recordings as a singer-songwriter, and an album with Brooklyn Rider. As an author, he has been published in The New Yorker and The New York Times. A two-time MacDowell Fellow, Kahane received the 2021 Charles Ives Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Portland, Oregon where he serves as Creative Chair for the Oregon Symphony.

Colin Jacobsen, violin and leader, is Santa Fe Pro Musica’s artistic director and “one of the most interesting figures on the classical music scene” (Washington Post). He has performed, composed, and arranged music for over 30 albums, won a GRAMMY award, and has received four GRAMMY nominations. He is a co-founder of the string quartet Brooklyn Rider, the chamber orchestra The Knights, and an original member of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silkroad Ensemble. A graduate of The Juilliard School and the Royal Conservatory of the Hague, Colin plays a Joseph Guarneri filius Andreae violin (1696) and, new this season, a Patrick Robin (2024).

Tickets

Tickets run $30–$103 and are available at or by calling the Pro Musica Box Office at 505.988.4640 ext 1.

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