Win Tickets to a Santa Fe Desert Chorale Summer Concert!

Enter for your chance to win tickets to one of Santa Fe Desert Chorale’s performances, part of their 2025 summer season.  

Cantos y Cuentos – July 26 @ 1 p.m. 
If you loved last year’s Songs of the Americas program, you won’t want to miss this treasure trove of songs from North and South America. Continue to journey through this diverse and dynamic musical landscape with sixteen professional Desert Chorale artists. Experience the vibrant rhythms and soulful melodies of modern-day Latin America as you’re transported across Brazil, Argentina, and Venezuela. Enjoy the world premiere of Dos Salmos para el Alma (Two Psalms for the Soul) by Cuban-American composer Ernesto Herrera. Then, celebrate familiar folk tunes featuring New Mexican guitarist Nacha Mendez.

Mass for the Endangered – July 31 @ 7:30 p.m. 
Connect to our deep relationships with nature and each other through the universal language of music. A chamber orchestra joins the twenty-four Desert Chorale vocal artists for two captivating works by brilliant American women composers. Known as “a hymn for the voiceless and the discounted,” Sarah Snider’s Mass for the Endangered is an evocative meditation on the fragility of the natural world and a plea to defend it. After including a single movement of Caroline Shaw’s To the Hands in our acclaimed 2023 program The American Immigrant Experience, we are now thrilled to perform this work in its entirety, exploring themes of welcome and belonging. Join us for an evening of musical storytelling that reminds us of our shared struggles and triumphs as members of the human family.

Roots & Rivers – August 1 @ 7:30 p.m. 
Get a sneak peak at our upcoming commercial album live in concert! At the heart of this program lies The American Road: Six Songs of the Enslaved, Embattled and Emancipated by Nigerian-American composer Shawn E. Okpebholo. In this new large-scale work, Okpebholo reimagines folk songs and spirituals—including an original by Rhiannon Giddens—that both honor the pain and resilience of the past and inspire hope for the future. Be among the first to hear this momentous work paired alongside commissions from our recent past, which we plan to include in a new album coming in 2026. Kile Smith’s Northland infuses the poetry of Harlem Renaissance writer Claude McKay with jazz, blues, and melodic lyricism to describe the Jamaican immigrant’s experiences in his new home. The bilingual work Caminante (Traveler) by Jocelyn Hagen exemplifies musically and poetically the miracle of people from all walks of life coming together as fellow travelers. The Tipping Point by Indian-American composer Reena Esmail combines Western and Indian musical techniques to portray the constant struggle between light and darkness, and that miraculous moment of the scale tipping in favor of light. Pianist Nathan Salazar and tabla player Sutanu Sur join the twenty-four Desert Chorale vocal artists for a journey through American choral music.

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