Kirill Gerstein, piano, and the Dover String Quartet perform at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, 2024. Image by Garret Vreeland.
Join the WFMT Radio Network on a musical journey to the foothills of New Mexico’s Sangre de Cristo Mountains as we present thirteen new, music-filled hours from the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival.
Founded in 1972, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival brings together the world’s finest musicians to perform classical chamber music in all its forms. For over half a century, it has reigned internationally among leading performing arts festivals, earning both critical praise and dedicated audiences for its lasting commitment to tradition, artistic excellence, and vision.
Our 2026-27 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival radio series offers a varied selection of superbly recorded performances captured during the Festival’s 2024 summer season. Each broadcast contains two or three full-length works representing chamber music’s widely dynamic repertoire, including celebrated core selections and lesser-known composers and compositions.
The series host is longtime WFMT announcer Kerry Frumkin. Composer Marc Neikrug, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival’s artistic director, provides insightful commentary. Many musicians share thoughts about their experiences at this remarkable Festival, and the music they’ve played here. Music production for the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival radio series is by Grammy award-winning recording engineer, Matthew Snyder. The series producer is Louise Frank, whose Studs Terkel: Montage of a Life garnered the Gold World Award as well as the top honor, the Grand Award, at the New York Festivals. and whose prolific and extensive profiles of international music makers include programs about Chicago’s Music of the Baroque, the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra, the Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival, Marilyn Horne, Renée Fleming, Twyla Tharp, and Philip Glass.
