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)
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)
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.
(classical, new-music, season-highlights)
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.
(classical, season-highlights)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Friday | April 9, 2027 | 7:30 pm
BRIDGES “Blanchard’s body of work is one of the broadest and most imposing of any living jazz musician,” raves The New York Times. A true “Renaissance man,” Terence Blanchard stands tall as one of jazz’s most-esteemed trumpeters and defies expectations by creating…
(classical, new-music, season-highlights)
Saturday | April 10, 2027 | 7:30 pm
SCHOENBERG – Chamber Symphony No. 1 TAKEMITSU – Rain Coming BERIO – Beatles Songs Songs from In This Short Life Devony Smith, mezzo-soprano After the catastrophe of World War I, much of classical music turned from Romantic emotionality to…
(classical, new-music, vocal-performance)
Sunday | April 11, 2027 | 4:30 pm
STUDENT SOUNDS Featuring rising star soloists from Special Music School and Lucy Moses School.
(classical, season-highlights)
Monday | April 12, 2027 | 7:30 pm
ARTIST AS CURATOR Curated by Isabel Hagen Apr 28: Isabel Hagen & the Manhatan School of Music Camerata Nova The dynamic trio returns to Merkin Hall with an all-new, high-energy evening of chamber music and comedy. Comedian, filmmaker and Juilliard-trained violist Isabel Hagen, a Tonight…
(classical, new-music, season-highlights, vocal-performance)
Tuesday | April 13, 2027 | 2 pm
TUESDAY MATINEES HAYDN – Op. 50, No. 2 JANÁČEK – Quartet No. 2 “Intimate Letters” MENDELSSOHN – Op. 44, No.1 Winners of the 2025 Naumburg Chamber Music Competition and the 2025 Bordeaux and Wigmore Hall International…
(classical, season-highlights)
Friday | April 16, 2027 | 6:30 pm
PIANO DIALOGUES Grammy-nominated pianist Adam Tendler performs Béla Bartók’s complete Mikrokosmos in a landmark theatrical recital led by critically-acclaimed director Mary Birnbaum. A comprehensive piano method and audacious survey of a composer's own…
(classical, season-highlights)
Sunday | April 18, 2027 | 3 pm
Up Close and Personal Join Musicians of the Philharmonic for personal and intimate performances, and experience the personality of the performers. See how a small setting can amplify a huge musical event! WOLF – Italian Serenade KODÁLY – Duo for…
(classical, season-highlights)
Monday | April 19, 2027 | 6 pm
The New York Youth Symphony Chamber Music Program, led by Dr. Lisa Tipton, presents its first of three season-ending chamber music concerts. NYYS musicians work through the year with some of New York's finest chamber musicians as mentors, preparing both classic literature from the chamber canon…
(classical, season-highlights)
Monday | April 19, 2027 | 8:30 pm
The New York Youth Symphony Chamber Music Program, led by Dr. Lisa Tipton, presents its first of three season-ending chamber music concerts. NYYS musicians work through the year with some of New York's finest chamber musicians as mentors, preparing both classic literature from the chamber canon…
(classical, new-music, season-highlights)