Event Type : Adult Programs

Image Credits: (left) Ivan B. McClellan, Kortnee Solomon, Hempstead, Texas, n.d., photographic print, 38 x 29 in. Courtesy of Ivan B. McClellan. (right) William Herbert “Buck” Dunton, Ginger, c. 1932, oil on canvas, 50 13/16 x 33 7/8 in. Gift of Vivian Dunton, Harwood Museum of Art of the University of New Mexico.

Taos Chamber Music Group presents the award-winning, married duo of Suzanne Teng and Gilbert Levy in a performance of original global music compositions that will take listeners on a journey around the world from a Chinese bamboo flute prayer to a Gypsy Serenade, an ecstatic Arabic-flavored trance dance, and back home with an homage to New Mexico, Kingdom of Mountains played on Native American bass flute. Also in Teng’s array of instruments are silver alto and bass flutes, Chinese flutes, Indonesian flutes and Arabic winds. Levy plays global drums and percussion as well as the bass dulcimer, Turkish saz and metal hand pan drums. They will be joined by flutist Nancy Laupheimer and cellist Mark Dudrow.

Suzanne Teng, flutes, Gilbert Levy, percussion, Mark Dudrow, cello, Nancy Laupheimer, flute

Masks are required for this event.

Taos Chamber Music Group presents the award-winning, married duo of Suzanne Teng and Gilbert Levy in a performance of original global music compositions that will take listeners on a journey around the world from a Chinese bamboo flute prayer to a Gypsy Serenade, an ecstatic Arabic-flavored trance dance, and back home with an homage to New Mexico, Kingdom of Mountains played on Native American bass flute. Also in Teng’s array of instruments are silver alto and bass flutes, Chinese flutes, Indonesian flutes and Arabic winds. Levy plays global drums and percussion as well as the bass dulcimer, Turkish saz and metal hand pan drums. They will be joined by flutist Nancy Laupheimer and cellist Mark Dudrow.

Suzanne Teng, flutes, Gilbert Levy, percussion, Mark Dudrow, cello, Nancy Laupheimer, flute

Masks are required for this event.

Join us to kick off the Frank Morgan Jazz Festival with Lorca Hart Trio with Nicolas Bearde. Joining them on the Arthur Bell Auditorium stage will be musicians Josh Nelson on the piano and Mike Glynn on bass.

Born and raised in Taos, drummer Lorca Hart built his career in California’s Bay Area. He has performed in a vast array of musical situations, working with many of the West Coast’s (and beyond) finest artists including Bobby Hutcherson, Ralph Moore, Carmen Lundy, Freddie Hubbard, Stanley Jordan, Julian Lage, Hugh Masekela, Kenny Washington and vocalist, Nicolas Bearde.

Lorca and Bearde recorded “I Remember You, Music of Nat King Cole” in 2019, to critical acclaim:“From the opening title track, everything is fine and mellow. Completely avoiding kitschy Cole, Bearde soothes, seduces, and cements his place as an inheritor of Nat King Cole’s cool.”
– Dan Bilasky, All About Jazz

“Where jazz intersects soul, there are few more satisfying stylists than Nicolas Bearde, a richly impressive amalgam of Bill Withers and Billy Eckstine.”

– Christopher Loudon, Jazz Times

This concert is presented in collaboration with the Taos Jazz Bebop Society with generous support provided by the Siegel Foundation.

Taos Chamber Music Group features the astonishingly talented pianist, Gleb Ivanov, in a recital of solo piano works that includes Tchaikovsky’s Dumka in C Minor, Op. 59 (Scenes from a Russian village), Rachmaninoff’s Sonata No.1 in D minor, Respighi’s Notturno, Ravel’s Jeux d’eau and, festively capping it all off, Grünfeld’s Soirée de Vienne, a paraphrase on Johann Strauss’s Fledermaus.

Gleb Ivanov, piano

Image credit: Robin Marlowe

Taos Chamber Music Group presents a program replete with sparkle and sorrow featuring pianist Gleb Ivanov with TCMG musicians in Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Six Morceaux Op. 11 for piano four hands, Philippe Gaubert’s Flute Sonata #2 and Bedřich Smetana’s impassioned Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 15. 

Gleb Ivanov & Kim Bakkum, piano, LP How, violin, Sally Guenther, cello, Nancy Laupheimer, flute

Taos Chamber Music Group presents a program replete with sparkle and sorrow featuring pianist Gleb Ivanov with TCMG musicians in Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Six Morceaux Op. 11 for piano four hands, Philippe Gaubert’s Flute Sonata #2 and Bedřich Smetana’s impassioned Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 15. 

Gleb Ivanov & Kim Bakkum, piano, LP How, violin, Sally Guenther, cello, Nancy Laupheimer, flute