Lensic Performing Arts Center

In 2005, four classical percussion students at Northwestern University began giving educational concerts in Chicago. Fourteen years, one Grammy award, and numerous world premieres later, Third Coast Percussion continues to use their “creative fearlessness with reverent precision” (BBC Music Magazine) to broaden the musical scope of percussion and, in doing so, redefine the world’s perception of modern classical music. This “brilliant” (The Independent) quartet comes to Santa Fe with mallets, marimbas, Thai gongs, tuned cowbells, and metal pipes for a…

To say that jazz titan Billy Childs is wildly talented would be a grave understatement. Childs began studying piano in early childhood; by age six he was performing publicly and by 16 attending Colburn conservatory. He has since gone on to win a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, and five Grammy awards — two for composition, two for arrangement, and one for his 2018 album Rebirth. Celebrated as one of the most diversely prolific and inventive pianists,…

Canada’s east coast is home to a place rich with Celtic tradition — Cape Breton Island. One of this beautiful isle's chief exports is Canada's reigning musical couple, award-winning fiddle virtuosos Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy. Born into music royalty, Grammy-winning superstar Natalie MacMaster has been recording gold-certified albums and performing around the world for decades. This holiday season, she combines her talents with her husband Donnell Leahy — the leader of Ontario's celebrated Celtic family band, Leahy — along…

Hailed as “master of the guitar” by none other than Plácido Domingo, Spaniard Pablo Sáinz Villegas is the greatest guitarist of his generation. Whether showcasing classical guitar or riffing on flamenco, Sáinz Villegas' unparalleled playing captures worlds of passion, playfulness, and drama. His long list of collaborators includes the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony, composer John Williams, and conductor Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, and he has won over 30 competitions, including the Andrés Segovia Competition and the inaugural Parkening…

Born in Tashkent, Israeli-American pianist Yefim Bronfman has performed in the world's greatest halls and with its brightest musical luminaries. Recognized around the globe as one of the greatest pianists of our time, this “fabulous, fearsome” (Seattle Times) performer is admired by both audiences and critics alike for his “digital dexterity, warmly romantic sentiment, and jaw-dropping bravura” (Chicago Tribune). Over his decades-long career, Bronfman has earned an Avery Fisher Prize, seven Grammy nominations, and a Grammy award. Especially known for…

Grammy-nominated clarinetist Anat Cohen — a familiar face in PSF circles thanks to her inimitable 2018 performance at the Lensic with jazz legend Fred Hersch — has teamed up with some of New York’s greatest players to create a wildly inventive and genre-bending jazz ensemble, the Anat Cohen Tentet. Consisting of accordion, piano, guitar, vibraphone, percussion, cello, bass, trombone, trumpet, and baritone saxophone and fronted by Cohen’s “terrific...beautifully crafted” (The New York Times) sound, this ensemble traverses musical continents every…