September 30 – October 11, 2026
Concert News keeps you updated on the upcoming classical music performances in Santa Fe, Albuquerque, Los Alamos, Taos, and more! Hear Concert News each and every weekday at 9am on air! Submit your event information here.
UNM Department of Music Presents:
Browers, Nims & Ditlow
Victoria Browers, soprano
Abigail Nims, mezzo-soprano
Dr. Kristin Ditlow, piano
Performing music by Robert Schumann, Hugo Wolf, and a song cycle by Ricky Ian Gordon to the text of Emily Dickinson.
On Thursday, October 1st, 2pm in Keller Hall. Information at music.unm.edu.
Choral Prism
On Friday, October 2nd, 7:30pm in Keller Hall on the campus of the University of New Mexico. Livestream available on the UNM Music YouTube channel. Tickets and information at unmtickets.com.
Junior Piano Recital
Featuring Lina Wong.
On Saturday, October 3rd, 2pm. Livestream available on the UNM Music YouTube channel.
Junior Flute Recital
Featuring Nikki Ulrich.
On Saturday, October 3rd, 4pm in Keller Hall. Livestream available on the UNM Music YouTube channel. Information at music.unm.edu.
UNM Sinfonia
An all-strings undergraduate orchestra, led by Art Sheinberg.
On Monday, October 5th, 7:30pm in Keller Hall.
UNM Bands
Emily Moss, conductor of UNM Symphonic Band
Dr. Chad Simon, conductor of UNM Concert Band
On Wednesday, October 7th, 7:30pm in Popejoy Hall. Tickets and information at unmtickets.com.
UNM Oboe Day
UNM professor & oboist, Dr. Jillian Kouzel with the UNM Oboe Studio presents a full day of performance, masterclasses, & reed-making for high school musicians.
On Friday, October 9th, 9am-5pm in Popejoy Hall on the campus of the University of New Mexico. Email Jkouzel@unm.edu to register your student.
First Presbyterian Church of Santa Fe Presents:
TGIF Concert Series
Travis Bregier, tenor
Deborah Wagner, piano
On Friday, October 2nd, 5:30pm at First Presbyterian Church, 208 Grant Ave in Santa Fe. Doors to the sanctuary open at 5:15pm.
Black Mesa Brass Quintet
On Friday, October 9th, 5:30pm at First Presbyterian Church, 208 Grant Ave in Santa Fe. Doors to the sanctuary open at 5:15pm. Information at fpcsantafe.org.
Popejoy Hall Presents:
Ghostbusters in Concert
Experience the beloved 1984 classic film like never before, with the music performed on stage by an orchestra fully synced to a live performance of Academy Award®-winning composer Elmer Bernstein‘s spine-tingling score.
On Friday, October 2nd, 7:30pm in Popejoy Hall on the campus of the University of New Mexico. Tickets and information at unmtickets.com.
Chatter Presents:
Late Works
David Felberg, viola d’amore
Jesse Tatum, flute
Judith Gordon, piano
Kory Reeder, electronics
Alan Zimmerman, percussion
Featured works:
Scott Wollschleger, Rogers Ave. & We See Things That Are Not There
Kory Reeder, Untitled
Morton Feldman, Why Patterns?
On Friday, October 2nd, 9pm at 912 3rd St NW in Albuquerque. Doors open at 8:15pm and a cash bar will be available provided by Rumor Brewing.
Chatter North & Chatter Sunday: Three Places in the High Plains
David Felberg & Megan Holland, violins
Lisa Donald, cello
Luke Gullickson, piano
Kim Fredenburgh, viola
David Oates, spoken word
Featured works:
Arvo Pärt, Spiegel im Spiegel
Charles Ives, Violin Sonata No. 4, “Children’s Day at the Camp Meeting”
Kory Reeder, Sometime, Even Later: Three Places in the High Plains (world premiere!)
On Saturday, October 3rd, 10:30am at the Center for Contemporary Arts, 1050 Old Pecos Trail in Santa Fe. And Sunday, October 4th, 10:30am at 912 3rd St NW in Albuquerque. Information and tickets at chatterabq.org.
Chatter North & Chatter Sunday: Brahms + Curve with Plateaux
Markus Placci, violin
Rhonda Rider, cello
Judith Gordon, piano
Barbara Rockman (SF) & John Graham (ABQ), spoken word
Featured works:
Witold Lutoslawski, Subito
Jonathan Harvey, Curve with Plateaux
Johannes Brahms, Piano Trio in C Minor, Op. 101
On Saturday, October 10th, 10:30am at the Center for Contemporary Arts, 1050 Old Pecos Trail in Santa Fe. And Sunday, October 11th, 10:30am at 912 3rd St NW in Albuquerque.
B-sides
David Felberg, violin
Amy Huzjak, cello
Heidi Swedberg, recitation
Luke Gullickson, piano
Featured works:
Samuel Adams, Violin Diptych
John Corigliano, The Red Violin Caprices
Caroline Shaw, Shenandoah
Kaija Saariaho, Prelude
Eric Malmquist, Sonata for Cello and Piano
Philip Glass, Wichita Vortex Sutra
On Sunday, October 11th, 6pm at Unit B by Chocolate Maven, 821 W San Mateo Rd in Santa Fe. Doors open at 4:45pm. Information and tickets at chatterabq.org.
The Lensic Presents:
The Met Live in HD: Cosi fan tutte
Mozart’s satirical comedy of fickle young love. The staging is inspired by Coney Island in the 1950s.
On Saturday, October 3rd, 11am at the Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco Dr in Santa Fe. Tickets and information at lensic.org.
A classically trained tenor, Two-Spirit song carrier, polymuse, activist, ethnomusicologist, and member of Neqotkuk (Tobique First Nation) in Eastern Canada. Dedicated to language revitalization, Jeremy’s debut album Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa unearthed century-old archival recordings of his ancestors, turning them into collaborative compositions on the grand piano.
On Thursday, October 8th, 7:30pm at the Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W San Francisco St in Santa Fe. At 6:30 pm is a special presentation by Maura Dhu Studi on the vital work of the Indigenous Language Institute, which provides language-related programs and services to Native nations, tribes, and communities nationwide. Tickets and information at lensic.org.
Musica Antigua de Albuquerque Presents:
Dancing, Drinking, & Diversions
A lighthearted program about the ways in which people spent their leisure time in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and how they sometimes got into trouble in the process!
On Saturday, October 3rd, 4:30pm at St. Bede’s Episcopal Church, 550 W San Mateo Rd in Santa Fe and Sunday, October 4th, 4:30pm at St. Michael & All Angels Church, 601 Montano Rd in Albuquerque. Information and tickets at musica-antigua.org.
New Mexico Philharmonic Presents:
Dvořák’s New World
Roberto Minczuk, conductor
Paul Huang, violin
Featured works:
Jessie Montgomery, Starburst
Leonard Bernstein, Serenade (after Plato’s Symposium)
Antonín Dvořák, Symphony No. 9, From the New World
On Saturday, October 3rd, 6pm in Popejoy Hall on the campus of the University of New Mexico. New Mexico Philharmonic’s new CEO, Amanda Gates presents a pre-concert talk at 5pm before the show. Tickets and information at nmphil.org.
Musical Fiesta
An afternoon featuring violinist Paul Huang, known for his immaculate technique and the resonant tone he produces with his ex-Wieniawski Guarneri del Gesù violin. Hosted by NMPhil violinist Julanie Lee and her husband Jae Lee at their expansive Southwest Contemporary home in North Albuquerque Acres.
On Sunday, October 4th, 4pm. Tickets and information at nmphil.org.
New Mexico Women’s Chorus Presents:
Cabaret Night
Get your kicks on Route 66!
On Saturday, October 3rd, 7pm at Tractor Brewing, 1800 4th St NW in Albuquerque. Tickets and information at nmwomenschorus.org.
Los Alamos Symphony Presents:
Season Opener
William Waag, conductor
Featured works:
Elena Kats-Chernin, Dance of the Paper Umbrellas
Antonín Dvořák, Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, “From the New World”
On Saturday, October 3rd, 7pm in Duane Smith Auditorium, 1300 Diamond Dr in Los Alamos. Information at losalamossymphony.org.
Albuquerque Concert Band Presents:
Symphonic Sounds!
Andrew Vaughn, Director of Bands-Manzano High School
Presenting the first concert of our fall/winter concert series. The William Tell Overture, What’s up at the Symphony and more. Escape the crazy world for an hour of great music!
On Sunday, October 4th, 3pm at Eldorado High School Performing Arts Center, 11300 Montgomery Blvd NE in Albuquerque. Information at abqband.org.
Santa Fe Pro Musica Presents:
Brooklyn Rider
Temples of Resonance
Philip Glass String Quartets
On Sunday, October 4th, 3pm in St. Francis Auditorium at the New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 W Palace Ave in Santa Fe. KHFM’s Brent Stevens presents Meet the Music, a pre-concert talk that takes place an hour before the performance. Information and tickets at sfpromusica.org.
Friends of the Public Library Present:
The Albuquerque Mandolin Orchestra
Playing music in the renaissance, baroque and contemporary traditions as well as the traditional Italian mandolin orchestra repertoire.
On Saturday, October 10th, 3pm in the Community Meeting Room at the library at Central and Unser SW in Albuquerque. Information at abqlibrary.org/concerts.
New Mexico Performing Arts Society Presents:
Part 1: The Sights & Sounds of Route 66: A Centennial Celebration
Franz Vote, Music Director
Jennifer Kuchar, soprano
Melody Gallagher, soprano
Darci Balkcom, alto
Greg Gallagher, tenor
Marshal Hollingsworth, bass
Kat Bowman, piano
Music from the Great American Songbook, popular music of the 1940s to the 1970s. Harold Arlen, Tony Bennett, Ella Fitzgerald, George and Ira Gershwin, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Johnny Mercer, Cole Porter, Frank Sinatra, Billy Strayhorn, and the list goes on.
On Saturday, October 10th, 4pm in Albuquerque. Ticket holders will receive an email with the location revealed just a few days before the event and the location will be posted on Facebook and the NMPAS website the week of the performance. Information and tickets at nmpas.org.
Sangre de Cristo Chorale Presents:
Our Transcendental Passion
Featuring a New Mexico premiere of a concert-length work by contemporary composer Paul Rudoi. Written in the structure of an 18th-century German Passion, this remarkable piece combines texts of Transcendentalist writers of the 19th century, including Louisa May Alcott, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Henry David Thoreau, and others, set to music based on the shape-note, Shaker, and Southern Harmony traditions.
On Saturday, October 10th & Sunday, October 11th, 4pm at First Presbyterian Church, 208 Grant Ave in Santa Fe. Tickets and information at sdcchorale.org.
Taos Chamber Music Group Presents:
Renewal: A New Classical
Harnessing chamber music’s capacity for beauty, with one foot in the past and the other in the present featuring the Nois Quartet.
On Saturday, October 10th, 5:30pm & Sunday, October 11th, 3:30pm at the Harwood Museum of Art in Taos. Information and tickets at taoschambermusicgroup.org.
Albuquerque Chamber Soloists Present:
Season Opener
Ruxandra Marquardt & Megan Holland, violins
Laura Chang, viola
James Holland, cello
Featured works:
Franz Josef Haydn, String Quartet in D Major, Op. 64, no. 5, “The Lark”
Maurice Ravel, Sonate for Violin and Cello
Edvard Grieg, String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 27
On Sunday, October 11th, 2pm at St. Paul Lutheran Church, 1100 Indian School Rd NE in Albuquerque. A pre-concert talk will be presented in the fellowship hall at 1:15pm. Tickets and information at abqcs.com.
New Mexico Philharmonic Presents:
Young Musical Stars Play Tchaikovsky & Schumann
Roberto Minczuk, Music Director
Alicia Peng, violin
Sowmya Sankaran, piano
Featured works:
Robert Schumann, Piano Concerto in a minor, I. Allegro affettuoso
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Violin Concerto in D major, I. Allegro moderato
Ludwig van Beethoven, Leonore Overture No. 3
Sergei Prokofiev, Classical Symphony
Celebrate the artistry of the next generation of musicians as the Jackie McGehee Young Artists’ Competition winners.
On Sunday, October 11th, 2pm at the National Hispanic Cultural Center, 1701 4th St SW in Albuquerque. Tickets and information at nmphil.org.
Quintessence: a community of singers Presents:
Just a Number
A celebration of Quintessence’s 40th birthday, with music about the passage of time, and the joys and frustrations of living, loving, and aging. Music by Jonathan Dove, Johannes Brahms, Elaine Hagenberg, Dale Trumbore, Taylor Scott Davis, and Bob Dylan.
On Sunday, October 11th, 3pm at St. John’s United Methodist Church, 2626 Arizona NE in Albuquerque. quintessence-abq.com.
Chamber Music Albuquerque Presents:
A concert with Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano & Jason Vieaux, guitar
Featured works:
Enrique Granados, Selections from Tonadillas
Isaac Albéniz, Mallorca, Asturias
Joaquin Rodrigo, Tres Cancioñes Españolas
Aaron Copland, Selections from old American songs
Michael Tilson Thomas, Not Everyone Thinks I’m Beautiful
Stephen Sondheim, Children Will Listen
Leonard Bernstein, Somewhere
Jason Vieaux, Tidal Pools
On Sunday, October 11th, 4pm at the Simms Center for the Performing Arts on the campus of Albuquerque Academy. Tickets and information at chambermusicabq.com.