2008 Season Highlights

Music from Angel Fire celebrates its 25th Silver Anniversary Season of presenting exquisite, world class chamber music in the beauty and seclusion of Northern New Mexico's spectacular mountain communities of Angel Fire, Taos, Raton and Las Vegas beginning Friday, August 15 through Monday, September 1, 2008.

The Festival continues its 25-year tradition of presenting chamber music concerts in the magical, intimate settings of the Festival's concert venues including the Angel Fire Community Center and United Church of Angel Fire in Angel Fire, the Taos Community Auditorium in Taos, the Ilfeld Auditorium and Immaculate Conception Parish in Las Vegas, and the Shuler Theater in Raton.

In addition to 3 weeks of glorious chamber music, the Festival will once again present the Music from Angel Fire Young Artist Program. In its tenth year, this ever popular educational outreach program will feature performances by wind and string students from the famed Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia. These "up and coming" young artists will be a part of the Festival's Music in Our Schools rural residency program and will present over 30 hands-on classroom programs in the public schools of Northern New Mexico.

Festival Artistic Director Ida Kavafian will host two special Musical Conversations at the United Church of Angel Fire on August 17 and 28. Other program highlights will include a special string quartet project by Grammy Award winning fiddler and violinist Mark O’Connor, the favorite 'Salon Concert' where artists strut their stuff in an informal setting with unique repertoire on August 24 and an all Baroque Concert on August 27 to be presented at the Taos Community Auditorium. 2008 Composer-in-Residence Joan Tower will join the Festival during her 70th Birthday Celebration Year with a work commissioned by Music from Angel Fire through the Bruce E. Howden, Jr. American Composers Project, which will be premiered in Angel Fire by the Miami String Quartet.

The 2008 Season is presented in part by the Eugene V. & Clare E. Thaw Charitable Trust of Santa Fe, the Albert I. Pierce Foundation of Albuquerque, the Benton Family of Houston, the Anderson Family of Gail/Angel Fire, the Hubbard Broadcasting Foundation of St. Paul, the Whited Foundation and United Chevrolet and Toyota of Raton, International Bank of Angel Fire and Raton, the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Foundation, Valley Market of Angel Fire, the Angel Fire Resort, the Angel Fire, Las Vegas and San Miguel County Lodgers' Tax, New Mexico Arts Division and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Join Music from Angel Fire in celebrating its 25th Anniversary Season with one great concert after another. Ticket prices range from $20 to $30 with all Family/Youth concerts and the Raton Community Concert complimentary. The music will be dazzling and your experience exhilarating.