Craig Terry, Piano

Grammy Award winning pianist and arranger Craig Terry enjoys an international career regularly performing with the world’s leading singers and instrumentalists. Currently Craig serves as Music Director of The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center at Lyric Opera of Chicago after having served…

Beethoven’s Ninth Soloists

Teresa Perrotta, Soprano Soprano Teresa Perrotta is a 2023 Grand Finals Winner of The Metropolitan Opera’s Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition and a first-year Cafritz Young Artist at Washington National Opera. In the 2022-2023 season, she made her Kennedy Center debut as Fünfte Magd in…

Ana María Martínez, Soprano

Grammy Award® winner Ana María Martínez is considered to be one of the foremost sopranos of her time, with an international career that spans the world’s most important opera houses and concert halls. A winner of the 15th Annual Opera News Awards, her repertoire encompasses...

Thomas Heuser, Guest Conductor

American conductor Thomas Heuser has been widely recognized for his stirring leadership and energetic presence both onstage and in the community. Currently he serves as Music Director of the Idaho Falls Symphony in Idaho Falls, Idaho, as well as the San Juan Symphony, an innovative...

Emma Scherer, Executive Director

Emma Scherer joined The Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra & Chorus as Executive Director in September of 2021, stewarding The Symphony into a triumphant return to live performances with its 2021–2022 Season, amid the ongoing global pandemic. With deep ties to New Mexico, including an extensive…

Gloria Velasco, Violin II

Violinist Gloria Velasco has been playing with The Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra since it was founded in 1984. She is a retired Albuquerque Public School orchestra teacher and still works for APS as a mentor for first-year music teachers. Gloria also runs music clinics, judges…

Program Notes | American Classics

Sunday, February 18, 2024 / 4:00 pm GALA FLAGELLO Born 1994, Westwood, NJ Vitality Vitality (2022) was written for the Aspen Conducting Academy 2022 orchestral readings and was inspired by a quote by Martha Graham: “There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening, that...

Cris Moore

Cristopher Moore received his B.A. in Physics, Mathematics, and Integrated Science from Northwestern University, and his Ph.D. in Physics from Cornell. From 2000 to 2012 he was a professor at the University of New Mexico, with joint appointments in Computer Science and Physics. Since 2012,…

Jason Vieaux, Guitar

Grammy-winner Jason Vieaux, “among the elite of today’s classical guitarists” (Gramophone), is described by NPR as “perhaps the most precise and soulful classical guitarist of his generation.” In appearances from New York’s Lincoln Center to Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw and the Seoul Arts Center, Jason Vieaux has...

Philippe Quint, Violin

One of the most versatile and imaginative artists on the concert stage today, multiple Grammy Award-nominated American violinist Philippe Quint is internationally recognized for his unique approach to classical core repertoire, championing new music, rediscovering neglected works and creating a new format of “docu-concert” experience:…