Fri. 5/31 10a: The Borromeo, Shanghai and Brentano String Quartets, pianists Robert McDonald and Thomas Sauer, and violist Michael Tree are the faculty members in residence this summer at the Taos School of Music. From June 16 through August 4, as part of the School's 51st Annual Chamber Music Festival, the faculty and their students perform in concerts at both the Taos Community Auditorium and the Hotel St. Bernard in the Taos Ski Valley. Spencer Beckwith is joined by the Executive Director of the Taos School of Music, Kathleen Anderson Knox.
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.