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. 2026-27 tickets go on sale in July.
(classical, season-highlights)
Monday | April 12, 2027 | 7:30 pm
ARTIST AS CURATOR Curated by Isabel Hagen 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 Show veteran whose stand-up “blends existential humor and raunchy…
(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)
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)
Wednesday | April 28, 2027 | 7:30 pm
ARTIST AS CURATOR Curated by Isabel Hagen Comedian, filmmaker and Juilliard-trained violist Isabel Hagen blends music and comedy in hysterical, high-energy evenings of stand-up that “blends existential humor and raunchy anecdotes with Bach and Mozart” (Deadline). A veteran of The Tonight…
(classical, new-music, season-highlights)
Thursday | May 6, 2027 | 7:30 pm
PIANO DIALOGUES The pianist hailed as “a unique voice in the forest of Bach interpretation” (The New York Times) and “an artist of strikingly original ideas and irrefutable integrity” (The Washington Post) joins her string ensemble Baroklyn and Concora: Connecticut Choral…
(classical, season-highlights, vocal-performance)
Tuesday | May 11, 2027 | 2 pm
TUESDAY MATINEES J. S. BACH – Fantasy and Fugue in A minor, BWV 944 O. KERN – Status Animae (State of Soul) BRAHMS – Sonata Op. 2 in F sharp minor FÁBREGAS – Portraits l STRAVINSKY-AGOSTI – …
(classical, season-highlights)
Sunday | May 16, 2027 | 4 pm
MENTOR SESSIONS The acclaimed pianist celebrated as “a unique voice in the forest of Bach interpretation” (The New York Times) hosts a performance of the complete Bach Sinfonias and Inventions featuring remarkable pianists of all ages from Kaufman Music Center’s Lucy Moses School.…
(classical, season-highlights)
Tuesday | May 18, 2027 | 7:30 pm
ARTIST AS CURATOR Curated by American Composers Orchestra The leading champion of new orchestral music, ACO brings works by today’s most innovative and visionary composers to the concert stage. The program includes world premieres by Joshua Henderson and Matthew Jamal, plus commissions…
(classical, new-music, season-highlights)
Sunday | May 23, 2027 | 6 pm
STUDENT SOUNDS Extraordinary young musicians from Special Music School and Lucy Moses School perform a wide variety of works for small ensembles. 2026-27 tickets go on sale in July.
(classical, season-highlights)
Monday | May 24, 2027 | 7:30 pm
WHAT MAKES IT GREAT? Featuring singer-songwriter Eugene Ruffalo, guitarist Ann Klein and more TBA Get a fresh perspective on the legendary artist who became one of the most beloved musicians and defining voices of the 1970s singer-songwriter era with hits like “Fire and Rain” and…
(season-highlights, vocal-performance)
Thursday | May 27, 2027 | 7:30 pm
ARTIST AS CURATOR Curated by Lauren Lovette This peformance also takes place on May 28. The celebrated choreographer and former New York City Ballet principal ballerina Lauren Lovette teams up with the Grammy and Emmy-winning ensemble Time For Three for an evening of music and dance. Time For…
(classical, new-music, season-highlights)
Friday | May 28, 2027 | 7:30 pm
ARTIST AS CURATOR Curated by Lauren Lovette This performance also takes place on May 27. The celebrated choreographer and former New York City Ballet principal ballerina Lauren Lovette teams up with the Grammy and Emmy-winning ensemble Time For Three for an evening of music and dance. Time For…
(classical, new-music, season-highlights)
Sunday | June 6, 2027 | 7 pm
Nashir! The Rottenberg Chorale performs Jewish music spanning centuries and continents, bringing a sense of joy and passion to repertoire both spiritual and whimsical. 2026-27 tickets go on sale in July.
Sunday | June 13, 2027 | 6:30 pm
STUDENT SOUNDS See the highly accomplished winners of the 2026 Special Music School High School Concert Competition. Park Avenue Chamber Symphony, led by Music Director David Bernard, will accompany this year’s winners. Kaufman Music Center's Special Music School is the nation's only…
(classical, season-highlights)