Emily Van Cleve

Twenty-one year old violinist Laura Lutzke comes from a family of string musicians. Her mother is a violinist, and her father is a cellist. Her older sister is also a violinist. Lutzke began winning competitions at the age of 9 and has received numerous scholarships and fellowships.

That’s why Santa Fe Pro Musica considers the senior at The Juilliard School in New York an up-and-coming young artist and is featuring her in Sunday’s “Rising Star” concert. Lutzke plays J.S. Bach’s “Violin Concerto in E Major, BWV 1042.”

“I first learned this concerto when I was about 10 years old,” Lutzke explained during a phone interview. “I haven’t played it in a while,...

To accomplish her goal of becoming a professional dancer, 14-year old Malia Byrne takes advantage of every opportunity she gets to learn more about different movement styles. A freshman at Santa Fe High School who studies at Charisma Dance Studio, Byrne has taken summer dance workshops with Ballet Hawaii and the Kansas City Ballet. This summer, she hopes her destination will be San Francisco.

“I’m sending a video of my dancing to Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet School,” she said. “I’m applying for a dance scholarship.”

Byrne already knows some of the teachers at the San Francisco dance company and school because she takes part in the New Mexico Discovery Project, a...

Many of Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra’s 19 musicians have been playing together for more than a quarter of a century. Longevity has its advantages, the group’s musical director and violinist Jeanne Lamon said.

“There are singers who have told me when they listen to the radio and hear our ensemble playing for two nanoseconds, they know it’s us,” Lamon explained by phone from her home in Toronto. “We have a distinct sound, a strong identity. We speak a common language.”

The Los Alamos Concert Association presents Tafemusik Baroque Orchestra in a performance of works by familiar composers including Purcell, Bach and Handel and lesser-known ones such as Francesco Ma...

When Coffee Kids’ communications manager Kyle Freund traveled to Oaxaca, Mexico, at the end of November to attend the opening of a new training center built by the Center of Support for the Popular Movement of Oaxaca (CAMPO), he was delighted to find 800 locals at the celebration. The training center is a place where people can learn about animal husbandry, fruit and vegetable canning and how to raise chickens.

The majority of the funding for the facility has come from Coffee Kids, a Santa Fe-based nonprofit organization that helps coffeefarming families improve the quality of their lives by partnering with agencies like CAMPO.

“I had a pretty amazing week end in Oax...

So many memories flood Maureen McGovern’s mind while she’s singing songs from her new album, “A Long and Winding Road,” that she’s occasionally overcome with emotion.

“One day, when my musical director Jeff Harris and I were rehearsing for a show, I burst into tears in the middle of ‘The Circle Game’ by Joni Mitchell,” she said during a recent phone interview. “I came to the lyrics ‘cartwheels turn to car wheels through the town’ and remembered my first car.”

McGovern describes the songs from “A Long and Winding Road” that she is performing at the Lensic Performing Arts Center on Saturday night as an autobiographical journey. It’s a trip into...