Upcoming Events
Chorus Master: Mozart’s ‘Requiem
Saturday, April 27, 2024 | 7:30 PM | The Lensic Theatre, Santa Fe, NM
Sunday, April 28, 2024 | 3:00 PM | The Lensic Theatre, Santa Fe, NM
Polyphony: Voices of New Mexico
Maxine Thévenot, chorus master
Thomas O’Connor, conductor laureate
ANNA CLYNE Within Her Arms
W. A. MOZART Requiem in d minor K. 626
CHORUS:
SOLOISTS:
Sherezade Panthaki, soprano
Meg Bragle, alto
Thomas Cooley, tenor
Douglas Williams, bass
Organ Recital
Wednesday, May 15, 2024 | NOON | St. Francis Auditorium, Santa Fe, NM
Santa Fe Pro Musica Organ Recital Series
- The Frederick R Haas pipe organ -
Maxine Thévenot, organ recitalist
Organist, New Mexico Philharmonic
Roman Echoes
Saturday, May 18, 2024 | 6:00 PM | Emmanuel Presbyterian Church, Albuquerque, NM
Roberto Minczuk, Music Director
Anna Tifu violin
Glinka Overture to Ruslan and Lyudmila
Khachaturian Violin Concerto
Khachaturian Spartacus Suite No. 2
Respighi Pines of Rome*
Artistic Director, & Guest conductor: 4th Annual Reuter Organ Festival
Sunday, July 7 - Sunday, July 14, 2024 | The Cathedral of St. John, Albuquerque, NM
Sunday, July 7th, 2024
Raul Prieto Ramíerez, organist
Tuesday, July 9th, 2024
Käthe Wright Kaufman, organist
Friday, July 12th, 2024
Polyphony: Voices of New Mexico, Dr. Maxine Thévenot, Artistic Director
Guest organist, Stephen Tharp and guest cellist, Amy Huzjak
Program includes the world premiere of a newly commissioned work for Polyphony: VNM by Cecilia McDowall, Cantos Sagrados, James MacMillan, and Kaija Saariaho’s Offrande for cello and organ.
Sunday, July 14th, 2024
Stephen Tharp, organist
Solo Organ Recital
Sunday, July 28, 2024 | 5:00 PM | Reykjavík, Iceland
Organ Summer in Hallgrímskirkja Series
Maxine Thévenot, organ - USA
Chorus Master: Opera premiere
Thursday, August 29, 2024 | 7:00 PM | The Lensic Theatre, Santa Fe, NM
Saturday, August 31, 2024 | 7:00 PM | The Lensic Theatre, Santa Fe, NM
World Premiere
ZOZOBRA: The Revenge
Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Burning Man - ZOZOBRA
Polyphony: Voices of New Mexico, Opera Chorus
Soprano Amy Owens
Baritone (offstage voice) Edmund Connolly
Music: Joe Illick
Libretto: Doug Preston
Story: Will Shuster
Conductor
Sunday, November 17, 2024 | 11:00 AM
This Choral Eucharist Service at The Cathedral of St. John will feature the WORLD PREMIERE performance of a new anthem commissioned by Friends of Cathedral Music to be sung by the Cathedral Choirs.
The featured composer-in-residence is Dr. David Hurd.
Air & Hammers DUO performance
Monday, December 9, 2024 | 6:00 PM
Santa Fe Desert Chorale: Salon Recital
PRIVATE DONOR FUNCTION, Las Campanas Santa Fe, NM
Accompanist for British baritone, Edmund Connolly
Chorus Master - Beethoven's Symphony No. 9
Tuesday, December 31, 2024 | 1:00 PM | The Lensic Theatre, Santa Fe, NM
Tuesday, December 31, 2024 | 5:00 PM | The Lensic Theatre, Santa Fe, NM
Polyphony: Voices of New Mexico join Maestro Joe Illick & The New Year’s Eve Orchestra
in two performances of Maurice Ravel’s Concerto in G Major and Ludvig van Beethoven’s epic
Symphony No. 9 in d minor, Opus 125. Williams, bass
Guest Conductor - Panel participant
January ‘JumpStart’ 2025
Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church
Saturday, January 25 | Workshop day | 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
An American Guild of Organists, Philadelphia Chapter sponsored event
Guest Clinician & Conductor for a Sung Matins liturgy to begin an all-day workshop with the choir of Church of the Redeemer Episcopal, Bryn Mawr, PA. A panel discussion regarding sacred music will follow.
Guest Conductor
Sunday, January 26, 2025 |
Church of the Redeemer, Bryn Mawr, PA
Guest conductor for the 9:30 AM morning MATINS liturgy with the 35-voice chorister and adult choral ensemble at the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer (Mr. Andrew Senn, Director of Music, host)
Guest Conductor - Clinician
Saturday, March 22, 2025 | Workshop day | Nashville, TN
Sunday, March 23, 2025 | 11:15 AM Holy Eucharist | Nashville, TN
Sunday, March 23, 2025 | 4:00 PM Choral Evensong | Nashville, TN
26th Annual Cathedral Chorister Festival
Christ Church Cathedral, Nashville, TN (Canon Dr. Michael Velting, host)
Guest Clinician & Conductor for an all-day workshop with the Cathedral Choristers and children from surrounding parishes, followed by a day of worship services.
Guest Director
Saturday, July 19 - Sunday, July 27, 2025 | New York City, NY
Guest Director for the 20th anniversary of the Saint Thomas Girl Chorister Course
The Saint Thomas Girl Chorister Course is an intensive choral experience for girls ages 11-18 at Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, New York City. Throughout the course, girls and staff live at Saint Thomas Choir School and take part in choral rehearsals and services, music history and theory classes, private vocal coaching, and outings to various sites around the city.
Guest Conductor, Clinician, Organist
Sunday, April 21, 2024 | Trinity Episcopal Church, Indianapolis, IN
Indianapolis Three Choir Festival includes the choirs of:
Christ Church Episcopal Cathedral, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, and Trinity Episcopal Church.
Together they combine to make a choir of 35+ treble choristers and 95 adult choristers.
10:00 AM | Sung Eucharist with music by McNeil Robinson, Mark Sedio, and Adolphus Hailstork
5:00 PM | Choral Evensong with music by Cecilia McDowall, Maxine Thévenot, Gabriel Jackson and Alexander Guilmant
Workshop Clinician & Conductor
Tune in to Mozart!
Saturday, April 13, 2024 | The Cathedral of St. John, Albuquerque, NM
10:30 am-11:30 am Introduction to W. A. Mozart's Requiem:
lecture by Professor Bruce Redford (Boston University, emeritus)
11:30 am-12:15 pm Box lunch
12:30 pm-2:00 pm A musical walk-through of W. A. Mozart's Requiem:
An opportunity to sing with members of Polyphony: Voices of New Mexico (Click on this link to sign up)
led by Founding & Artistic Director, Dr. Maxine Thévenot, accompanied by Mr. Stephen Montoya.
Lecture, lunch, and rehearsal ($50)
Lecture only ($15)
Lecture & lunch ($30)
Rehearsal only ($25)
Lunch & rehearsal ($40)
Chamber Musician - Continuo
Friday, March 15, 2024 | 3:00 PM | The Cathedral of St. John, Albuquerque, NM
A setting of Psalm 51, Tilge, Höchster, meine Sünden (BWV 1083 J. S. Bach) is Johann Sebastian Bach’s arrangement made in the 1740s of Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater from 1736.
Hayden Eberhart, soprano
Sarah Nickerson, mezzo-soprano
Stephen Redfield, violin, concertmaster
David Felberg, violin
Jeffrey Smith, viola
Katie Rietman, cello
Maxine Thévenot, continuo
This is a ticketed event but is FREE for all full-time students.
Please bring your valid student ID for admission.
Organ Recital
Friday February 23, 2024 | 7:00 PM
Emmanuel Concert Series
Maxine Thévenot, organ recitalist
Organ Recital
Sunday February 18, 2024 | 4:00 PM
Westminster Presbyterian Organ Recital Series
Maxine Thévenot, organ recitalist
Guest Conductor & Organist
Sunday, February 18, 2024 | 10:00 AM Holy Eucharist Rite II
Guest Conductor & Organist with the choirs from St. Paul’s Memorial Church, Charlottesville, VA
Organist, New Mexico Philharmonic Orchestra
Sunday January 28, 2024 | 3:00PM
Winter Serenade
SPITALL - Consort for Ten Winds
DVORAK - Serenade, Op. 44, D.77, D minor
GIGOUT/MILLER - Grand Chœr Dialogue with Organ
PLOG - Music for Brass Octet
WHITACRE/MILLER - October
PRICE - Music for Brasses and Piano
This afternoon program is centered on Dvořák’s Serenade for Winds, a work of charming melody and instrumental virtuosity. Dvořák’s work was championed by no less than Johannes Brahms, and this 1878 work will take the NMPhil audience to a serene musical landscape. The second half of the program contrasts Dvořák’s winds with hearty brass including Eugene Gigout’s Grand Choeur Dialogue for Organ and Brass.
Cathedral of St. John
318 Silver Ave SW / Albuquerque NM 87102
Conductor
Saturday, December 23 | 6:30 PM
A special Choral Prelude featuring Benjamin Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols sung by the upper voices of the Cathedral Choir and select Cathedral Choristers with harpist Emily Levin of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Canon Maxine Thévenot.
This prelude is immediately followed by the annual Christmas Lessons & Carols service.
Conductor
Saturday, December 16, 2023 | 10:30 AM
8th Annual CHILDREN’S MESSIAH
- a 45-minute version of choruses, arias, and recitatives drawn from Part One, Messiah.
Polyphony: Voices of New Mexico joins middle and high school music students from across the State of NM to form a choir of 80+ singers, along with a chamber orchestra led by concertmistress, Lindi Mariani, under the direction of Founding & Artistic Director, Maxine Thévenot, to sing through a portion of Handel’s beloved MESSIAH (Part One - Christmas section). Soloists are drawn from the professional roster of PVNM.
FREE Admission
*Please bring 2 non-perishable food items for The Cathedral of St. John's food pantry
*Bring a comfy pillow to sit on
*Wear something festive and bright!
Guest Conductor, Clinician, & Organist
Memphis Girl and Boy Choir & the Choir of Grace-St. Luke’s
Organist, New Mexico Philharmonic Orchestra
Saturday October 7, 2023 | 6:00PM
Mozart Overture to Don Giovanni
Mozart Symphony No. 25 in g minor
Rimsky-Korsakov Mozart & Salieri
Mozart “Queen of the Night” aria from The Magic Flute
Salieri Aria
Mozart Requiem in d K626
Roberto Minczuk Music Director
Amy Owens soprano
Olga Perez Flora mezzo-soprano
James Flora tenor
Carlos Archuleta baritone
Coro Lux Oratorio Society
“Melody is the essence of music,” Mozart said. “I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpointists to hack post-horses.” Perhaps no instrument conveys melody quite like the human voice. Join us for this program of music featuring the Coro Lux Oratorio Society choir and soloists, as well as Rimsky-Korsakov’s mythical tribute to the rivalry between Mozart and Antonio Salieri.
Immanuel Presbyterian Church
114 Carlisle Blvd SE / Albuquerque, NM 87106
Concerto soloist & Conductor
Sunday October 1, 2023 | 6:00PM
This inaugural concert of the 30th anniversary season of Friends of Cathedral Music celebrates the eightieth birthday of a master and a masterpiece. The master is Philip Moore, one of the United Kingdom’s most important organists and composers. The masterpiece is Rejoice in the Lamb by Benjamin Britten--a work that entered the world, together with the infant Philip, in September 1943. Britten’s brilliant cantata will be paired with two works by Moore that have close ties to Cathedral Music: his Concerto for Organ, Strings, and Timpani (whose North American premiere was given by Maxine Thévenot under the composer’s direction) and his anthem As Kingfishers Catch Fire (which received its world premiere at the Cathedral in 2020).
Professor Bruce Redford (Boston University, emeritus) will deliver a pre-concert lecture at 5:15PM
Maxine Thévenot - organ soloist in the Moore with Stephen Redfield, concertmaster
- conductor for the Britten with Edmund Connolly, organist
Concerto soloist with NM Philharmonic
Sunday July 2, 2023 | 6:00 PM
Program details:
Organ Concerto in Bb major opus 4, no.6 - George Frideric Handel
Symphony No. 5 - Ludwig van Beethoven
Maxine Thévenot, organ soloist
Roberto Minczuk, conductor
3rd Annual Reuter Organ Festival, Artistic Director
July 2, 6 & 9, 2023
Organists Monica Czausz-Berney, Nicole Keller & Alcée Chriss III perform for the 3rd Annual Reuter Organ Festival.
Maxine Thévenot, Artistic Director
Summer Fusion of Sights and Sounds
SUMMER FUSION of SIGHTS & SOUNDS
Join 20 singers from the Polyphony: Voices of New Mexico roster as we explore music that speaks to the sights and sounds of the Summer Season.
Guest guitarist and sculpture artist Claudio Tolousse joins us as we offer the New Mexican premiere of Gabriel Jackson's iconic setting of Ave Regina Caelorum for SATB choir and electric guitar. Tolousse will have his artwork available for purchase at the concert event.
Other works on the program include music by William Byrd, Carlo Gesualdo, Charles V. Stanford, Abbie Betinis, Frank Bridge, Mark Sirett, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, and others.
Summer Fusion of Sights and Sounds
SUMMER FUSION of SIGHTS & SOUNDS
Join 20 singers from the Polyphony: Voices of New Mexico roster as we explore music that speaks to the sights and sounds of the Summer Season.
Guest guitarist and sculpture artist Claudio Tolousse joins us as we offer the New Mexican premiere of Gabriel Jackson's iconic setting of Ave Regina Caelorum for SATB choir and electric guitar. Tolousse will have his artwork available for purchase at the concert event.
Other works on the program include music by William Byrd, Carlo Gesualdo, Charles V. Stanford, Abbie Betinis, Frank Bridge, Mark Sirett, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, and others.
Organist with NM Philharmonic
Sunday May 28, 2023 | 3:00PM
A Magical Family Event for People of All Ages
The concert will include Symphony No. 3 - ‘Organ Symphony’- by Camille Saint-Saëns
as featured in the movie music from BABE
Theme music from the movie, Interstellar by Hans Zimmer, arr. by Edmund Connolly
Maxine Thévenot - organ soloist
Roberto Minczuk - conductor
New Mexico Philharmonic Orchestra
Immanuel Presbyterian Church
Organist with NM Philharmonic
Sunday April 23, 2023 | 3:00PM
A magical family event for people of all ages, featuring the beauty & energy of orchestral music.
The concert will include the epic, Also Sprach Zarathustra, Opus 30 by Richard Strauss which has fabulous low notes and big crashing chords from the organ as part of the full orchestra texture.
Organ Soloist: Toccata in d minor BWV 565 by J. S. Bach.
Roberto Minczuk - conductor
Concerto soloist with NM Philharmonic
The majestic sound of the organ will fill the space with simplicity, and sheer musical beauty, featuring Francis Poulenc’s Organ Concerto in g minor.
Conductor & continuo
A presentation of Stabat Mater by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi for two soloists and chamber orchestra led by Maxine Thévenot, Director of Cathedral Music & Organist.
Encountering the Spirit
Featuring the New Mexican premiere of Voiceless Mass by 2022 Pulitzer Prize-winning Diné artist, Raven Chacon.
Cathedral Commission
A special service featuring the world premiere of the 2023 Commissioned Anthem written by Zachary Wadsworth.
Christmas Lessons and Carols
A special Choral Prelude featuring Benjamin Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols with harpist Lynn Gorman DeVelder under the direction of Maxine Thévenot, Director of Cathedral Music & Organist.
7th Annual Children's MESSIAH
Voices of New Mexico joins special guest middle and high school choruses from Rio Rancho, Albuquerque, and Tijeras for this family friendly performance of Handel's Messiah.
St. James in-the-City
Reception to Follow
“Acclaimed for her “solid musicianship … technical security and poise” by The American Organist magazine, Maxine Thévenot is hailed across North America and Europe for her skillful, musical playing and inventive programming. Dr. Thévenot’s solo recital career has taken her throughout Europe, UK, in every major city across Canada, and in 42 of the 50 United States.”