Join us as we celebrate the students enrolled in our Youth Programs! On November 17, the Youth Philharmonic, Youth Symphony, Quemazon Jazz Combo, and Mariachi Estrella will perform in RISING STARS. Then, December 7 at 2 PM, the Winter Showcase I features our Running Start Beginning Orchestra, Prelude String Orchestra, and Mariachi Citlali. December 7 at 4:30 PM, Winter Showcase II features Intermezzo String Orchestra, students from our chamber music program, and Pasitos Clase de Mariachi. Finally, Black Box Jazz Club in Los Alamos features our intermediate and advanced jazz students.

Experience a brilliant program packed with winter favorites the entire family can enjoy under the baton of Maestro Guillermo Figueroa, with a special guest conductor appearance by Laurie Rossi. TOGETHER is better, and we are thrilled to share the stage with the “future players” from our Santa Fe Youth Symphony Orchestra, prepared by Maestro William Waag—the first side-by-side performance since our merger with the Santa Fe Youth Symphony! Enjoy a very special appearance by this year’s senior division winner of The Symphony’s 2024 Concerto Competition. Reserve your seats now, this popular concert often sells out. No preview talk.

Carmen Flórez-Mansi leads The Santa Fe Symphony Chorus for this spectacular community concert at the iconic Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi in downtown Santa Fe, with Paul Roth on collaborative piano. Join us for some of the most beloved Christmas carols of all time (including O Come All Ye Faithful, O Holy Night, and Angels We Have Heard on High), as well as musical selections by The Symphony Brass and a performance by our youth choruses. Several carols will be singalongs!

This free concert is our gift to the Santa Fe community during the holiday season. All ages are welcome; no tickets required. Doors open at 6:15 pm.

As promised, we have something for everyone this season! Enjoy Christmas Eve with Time for Three (Tf3) and The Santa Fe Symphony. This outstanding trio, known for its charismatic performances that have been leaving audiences around the globe captivated, joins us on the Lensic stage for two amazing performances. Standing at the intersection of Americana, modern pop, and classical music, Tf3 and The Symphony will perform incredible arrangements of works by Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Guns N’ Roses, and more, in addition to special arrangements of holiday favorites such as “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” and several of their own compositions.

Join us as we ring in the new year with a blockbuster program featuring silver screen classics by the legendary film composer John Williams. Experience this all-Williams extravaganza performed by your Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra under the baton of GRAMMY® Award-winning conductor Richard Kaufman. An Emmy-nominated producer and director as well, Maestro Kaufman is one of Hollywood’s most sought-after film score conductors, regularly appearing with top orchestras across the globe. Don’t miss the debut of this musical genius with The Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra at the Lensic!

Celebrate the musical culture of Latin America as Maestro Guillermo Figueroa leads the Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra and guest soloists JP Jofre and Miguel del Águila. JP Jofre, one of the world’s leading performers of the bandoneón—the Latin American version of the accordion—joins us for Astor Piazzolla’s Concerto for Bandoneón, “Aconcagua.” We are also honored to have a special appearance by Latin GRAMMY®-nominated composer and musician Miguel del Águila playing the piano on his popular “Conga,” a not-to-be-missed performance! This exciting afternoon of great music also presents Roberto Sierra’s Symphony No. 3, “La Salsa” and Ariel Ramírez’ Misa Criolla (conducted by Choral Director Carmen Flórez-Mansi), plus appearances by local guitarists and percussionists.

Critics are raving about the “impeccable technique” and “extraordinary musicianship” of Sirena Huang, Gold Medalist of the prestigious 11th Quadrennial International Violin Competition of Indianapolis. Maestro Guillermo Figueroa conducts The Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra for this brilliant program featuring Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D Major, regarded as the pinnacle of Romantic music and one of the most famous violin concertos of all time. Complementing this magnificent work is Amy Beach’s Symphony in E Minor “Gaelic” and Sibelius’ Finlandia, featuring a side-by-side performance with our Santa Fe Symphony Youth Orchestra.

The Santa Fe Symphony Concertmaster, David Felberg, performs Jennifer Higdon’s 2010 Pulitzer Prize-winning Concerto for Violin & Orchestra in its Santa Fe debut. The program opens with Starburst for String Orchestra by Jessie Montgomery, concluding with Beethoven’s anthem to freedom and liberty—Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major “Eroica,” and its retracted dedication to Napoleon, once the French had occupied the composer’s native Vienna.

The legend of Faust has been retold in countless ways over the centuries and while five versions are known to exist, Faust always sells his soul to the Devil for unlimited knowledge and a lifetime of worldly pleasure! Under the baton of Maestro Guillermo Figueroa, with choral direction by Carmen Flórez-Mansi, Hector Berlioz’ légende dramatique, La Damnation de Faust, is not to be missed! One of Berlioz’ most striking works, La Damnation de Faust was inspired by the composer’s reading of the first translation of Göethe’s Faust into French. Likely to sell out in advance, this grande season finale will showcase the full Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra & Chorus plus an all-star cast of four seasoned professionals and familiar faces from the opera world: mezzo-soprano Maire Therese Carmack; tenor Joseph Dennis; and bass-baritones Brandon Cedel and Christopher Humbert, Jr.

Carmen Flórez-Mansi leads The Santa Fe Symphony Chorus in a spectacular—and free—community concert. Enjoy beautiful choral music at the iconic Cathedral-Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi in downtown Santa Fe and be inspired by The Symphony Chorus, The Symphony Chamber Singers, The Symphony Choral Scholars, The Symphony Chamber Ensembles and members of our newly formed Youth Choruses. All ages welcome, no tickets required. Doors open at 6:15 PM.

You’re invited to our biggest event of the year! This elegant evening begins with live music, cocktails, and passed hors d’oeuvres while you peruse exciting silent auction items and a live auction preview, with all proceeds benefiting the ongoing operations of your Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra & Chorus. Experience a night you will never forget with fine wines, a multi-course gourmet dinner, and live entertainment. Sponsored by Mercedes-Benz Santa Fe.