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KAUFMAN MUSIC CENTER PRESENTS

The Westerlies: Improvisation For Everyone

Friday | January 15, 2027 | 7:30 pm

MENTOR SESSIONS The Grammy-nominated brass quartet The Westerlies strongly believe in improvisation as a universal means of personal expression and communication. In this hands-on workshop for musicians of all instruments, experience levels and stylistic backgrounds, they’ll break down the…

(classical, new-music, season-highlights)

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World Music Institute presents

Peace Through Music: Tribute to Ustad Sabri Khan

Thursday | January 28, 2027 | 8 pm

Ustad Kamal Sabri Ustad Tari Khan Tapas Yagnik Arpan DeAngelo

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KAUFMAN MUSIC CENTER PRESENTS

Broadway Playhouse: Rodgers & Hammerstein

Sunday | January 31, 2027 | 11 am

BROADWAY PLAYHOUSE For ages 4-11 The groundbreaking collaborations of Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II gave birth to the modern musical and helped define the Golden Age of Broadway. This family-friendly exploration of the evolution of American musical theater and the greatest theater…

(family, musical-theater, season-highlights, vocal-performance)

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KAUFMAN MUSIC CENTER PRESENTS

2027 Concerto Competition Winners' Concert

Sunday | February 7, 2027 | 4:30 pm

STUDENT SOUNDS Rising star soloists from Special Music School and Lucy Moses School perform with an orchestra. 2026-27 tickets go on sale in July.

(classical, season-highlights)

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KAUFMAN MUSIC CENTER PRESENTS

Trio Azura

Tuesday | February 9, 2027 | 2 pm

TUESDAY MATINEES Works by Beethoven, Arvo Pärt and Bedřich Smetana One of today's most promising young ensembles, Trio Azura is hailed for its “intelligence and imagination” and “profound emotion” (Gramophone). Currently the Ensemble-in-Residence at the Colburn…

(classical, season-highlights)

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Kaufman Music Center & NYFOS Co-present

New York Festival of Song: United We Stand

Wednesday | February 10, 2027 | 8 pm

A new program exploring the universal values that unite us all, through music by Joni Mitchell, Carlos López Buchardo, Fairuz, Franz Schubert and others. Their songs take a stand against cruelty and intolerance, singing of kindness, connection, love and the beauty of a day well lived. NYFOS…

(classical, musical-theater, season-highlights, vocal-performance)

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Kaufman Music Center & the John J. Cali School of Music co-present

Chloe Flower

Saturday | February 13, 2027 | 7:30 pm

BRIDGES Pianist, composer, and multi-hyphenate star Chloe Flower brings her signature “popsical” approach to bridging pop and classical music to an immersive interdisciplinary experience featuring her original works, dance and cinematic video. Blending classical elegance with…

(classical, new-music, season-highlights)

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Kaufman music center & concert artists Guild co-present

Katarina Quartet & Carter Johnson, piano

Thursday | February 18, 2027 | 7:30 pm

MUSICIANS ON THE RISE SCHUBERT  –  Quartettsatz, D 703 BEETHOVEN  –  Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 2, “Quasi una Fantasia” (“Moonlight”) KONSTANTIA GOURZI  –  Anájikon - The Angel in the Blue Garden,…

(classical, season-highlights)

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parlando presents

Parlando: Zappa Files His Taxes

Friday | February 19, 2027 | 7:30 pm

SCHNITTKE  –  Gogol Suite ZAPPA  –  The Adventures of Gregory Peccary Morgan Mastrangelo, tenor How can music capture the absurdity of modern life and bureaucracy? Alfred Schnittke's Gogol Suite channels the grotesque comedy of 19th-century Russia's greatest…

(classical, new-music, season-highlights, vocal-performance)

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KAUFMAN MUSIC CENTER PRESENTS

What Makes It Great? John Adams’s "Shaker Loops"

Monday | February 22, 2027 | 7:30 pm

WHAT MAKES IT GREAT? Featuring Terra String Quartet Host Rob Kapilow takes you back to the heady days of early minimalism, when composers like Steve Reich and Philip Glass were rejecting the abstract and often inaccessible music of the previous generation and re-shaping the sound of the era. John…

(classical, new-music, season-highlights)

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KAUFMAN MUSIC CENTER PRESENTS

Broadway Playhouse: Stephen Sondheim

Sunday | February 28, 2027 | 11 am

BROADWAY PLAYHOUSE For ages 4-11 Widely regarded as the most influential musical theater writer of the late 20th century, Stephen Sondheim is celebrated for his sophisticated lyrics, inventive scores and psychologically complex characters. Through songs, sing-alongs, skits and games, the Broadway…

(family, musical-theater, season-highlights, vocal-performance)

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KAUFMAN MUSIC CENTER PRESENTS

Contemporary Festival

Sunday | March 7, 2027 | 4:30 pm

STUDENT SOUNDS Highly accomplished young musicians from Special Music School and Lucy Moses School perform music by composers of the last 50 years. 2026-27 tickets go on sale in July.

(classical, new-music, season-highlights)

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KAUFMAN MUSIC CENTER PRESENTS

Henry Schneider Young Artists Concert

Tuesday | March 9, 2027 | 2 pm

STUDENT SOUNDS Meet a new generation of classical virtuosos at this annual showcase of musicians from Lucy Moses School. 2026-27 tickets go on sale in July.

(classical, season-highlights)

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Kaufman Music Center & NYFOS co-present

New York Festival of Song: Guilty Pleasures

Tuesday | March 9, 2027 | 8 pm

A program of secrets, admonitions, parables, guilt and delights from many cultures and centuries. This bracing dive into the Seven Deadly Sins (with a side tour to some sweeter peccadillos) includes songs by Strauss, Britten, John Jacob Niles, Brahms and Irving Berlin, sung by Caramoor’s 2027…

(classical, musical-theater, season-highlights, vocal-performance)

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KAUFMAN MUSIC CENTER PRESENTS

Lorelei Ensemble: WILD

Thursday | March 11, 2027 | 7:30 pm

GREAT VOCALISTS KATHERINE BALCH  –  songs and interludes ANGÉLICA NEGRÓN  –  (ritual: postcathexis) (world premiere) SARAH KIRKLAND SNIDER  –  We Split Open (world premiere) TINA TALLON  –  broad band (world premiere)…

(classical, new-music, season-highlights, vocal-performance)

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KAUFMAN MUSIC CENTER PRESENTS

Chanticleer & ACRONYM

Wednesday | March 17, 2027 | 7:30 pm

GREAT VOCALISTS Returning to Merkin Hall after sold-out performances last season, the Grammy-winning vocal ensemble hailed as “the world’s reigning male chorus” by The New Yorker teams up with the acclaimed early music string ensemble ACRONYM for an evening of music by Italian…

(classical, season-highlights, vocal-performance)

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KAUFMAN MUSIC CENTER PRESENTS

What Makes It Great? Count Basie

Monday | March 22, 2027 | 7:30 pm

WHAT MAKES IT GREAT? Featuring the Manhattan School of Music Jazz Orchestra Explore the music and extraordinary 50-year career of the leader of one of the most important big band leaders of the 20th century. Host Rob Kapilow takes you from his early days in 1930s Kansas City and Chicago at the…

(classical, season-highlights)

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KAUFMAN MUSIC CENTER PRESENTS

Broadway Playhouse: Leonard Bernstein

Sunday | April 4, 2027 | 11 am

BROADWAY PLAYHOUSE For ages 4-11 Renowned for his extraordinary achievements as a composer, conductor, pianist and communicator who brought classical music to millions, Leonard Bernstein helped redefine American music and inspired generations of artists and audiences alike. The dynamic Broadway…

(family, musical-theater, season-highlights, vocal-performance)

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Kaufman Music Center & NYFOS co-present

New York Festival of Song: Harlem Renaissance

Monday | April 5, 2027 | 8 pm

The songs of “Fats” Waller, Florence Price, Duke Ellington, Eubie Blake, J. Rosamund Johnson and William Grant Still join the writings of Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, evoking the creative power of Black America that surged a hundred years ago. Two powerhouse singers, Lucia…

(classical, musical-theater, new-music, season-highlights, vocal-performance)

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KAUFMAN MUSIC CENTER PRESENTS

American Composers Orchestra

Thursday | April 8, 2027 | 1 pm

MENTOR SESSIONS The leading champion of new orchestral music, American Composers Orchestra brings works by today’s most innovative and visionary composers to the concert stage. As Kaufman Music Center’s 2026-27 Artist-in-Residence, they’ll engage in unique collaborations and acts…

(classical, new-music, season-highlights)

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