Fri. 5/31 10a: Chamber Music Albuquerque brings two ensembles to New Mexico for its 72nd annual June Music Festival. The recently-formed piano trio, Martinez Urioste Brey, is in concert in the Simms Center at Albuquerque Academy on June 9, and Cuarteto Latinoamericano gives two concerts: a program of tango music, with bandoneonista Daniel Binelli, on June 14 at Las Puertas in downtown Albuquerque, and a classical program of music for string quartet, on June 16 in the Simms Center. Spencer Beckwith is joined by the President of the Board of Chamber Music Albuquerque, Jonathon Gerson.
Spencer Beckwith reports on the arts for KUNM. For ten years, until March of 2014, Spencer was the producer and host of KUNM's "Performance New Mexico," a weekday morning arts program that included interviews with musicians, writers and performers. Spencer is a graduate of the acting program at the Juilliard School, and, before moving to New Mexico in 2002, was for many years a professional actor based in New York City.