Thurs. 7/11 10a: This year, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival welcomes three young composers to Santa Fe for a week-long string quartet workshop. The workshop culminates on July 26 in the St. Francis Auditorium with the Flux Quartet performing the young composers' works, along with the String Quartet No. 4 by the Festival's Artistic Director, Marc Neikrug. Spencer Beckwith talks with Marc Neikrug about his hopes for the workshop.
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.