Sunday | April 7, 2024 | 3 pm
Musicians from The New York Philharmonic Melinda WAGNER – Elegy Flywheel (Project 19) JANÁČEK – String Quartet No. 1 …
(classical, season-highlights)
Monday | April 8, 2024 | 7:30 pm
WHAT MAKES IT GREAT? Hosted by Rob Kapilow and featuring violinist Ariel Horowitz and the Manhattan School of Music Sinfonia Beethoven’s only violin concerto – one of the most famous of all time – was deeply misunderstood by his contemporaries, who were bewildered by its length and…
(classical, season-highlights)
Tuesday | April 9, 2024 | 2 pm
TUESDAY MATINEES CLAUDE DEBUSSY – Selected Preludes FRANZ SCHUBERT – Sonata TBA L.V. BEETHOVEN – Variations and Fugue in E-flat Major, Op. 35 (“Eroica”) IGOR STRAVINSKY – Trois mouvements de Petrouchka…
(classical, season-highlights)
Thursday | April 11, 2024 | 7:30 pm
PROGRAM Triptych for string quartet (2002) American Pilgrimage for string quartet (2016) Wave Upon Wave for string quartet (2017) Contrapassos for soprano and string quartet (2019) with text by Stevan Cavalier The American String Quartet, Telegraph Quartet and soprano…
(classical, new-music, season-highlights)
Friday | April 12, 2024 | 7:30 pm
ROBERT SCHUMANN – Three Fantasy Pieces, Op. 73 (arranged by J. Keren for clarinet and string quartet) SAMUEL BARBER – Knoxville: Summer of 1915 (arranged by Y. Shapiro) NAJI HAKIM – The Dove GITY…
(classical, new-music, vocal-performance, season-highlights)
Sunday | April 14, 2024 | 4:30 pm
STUDENT SOUNDS Music of Female, Nonbinary and Gender Nonconforming Composers Featuring rising star musicians from Kaufman Music Center’s Special Music School, New York’s only K-12 public school prioritizing an intensive, immersive and musically-focused education without financial…
(classical, new-music, family, season-highlights)
Tuesday | April 16, 2024 | 7:30 pm
CLAUDE DEBUSSY – Études, Book I GEORGE CRUMB – A Little Suite for Christmas, A.D. 1979 L.V. BEETHOVEN – Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-flat Major, Op. 106 “Hammerklavier” “My debut program highlights some of the most…
(classical, new-music, season-highlights)
Thursday | April 18, 2024 | 7:30 pm
GREAT VOCALISTS The Grammy-winning vocal ensemble Chanticleer has been hailed as “the world’s reigning male chorus” by The New Yorker, and is known around the world as “an orchestra of voices” for its dazzling virtuosity and impassioned musicianship. Founded in San…
(classical, new-music, vocal-performance, season-highlights)
Sunday | April 21, 2024 | 3 pm
Musicians from The New York Philharmonic PROKOFIEV – Quintet in G minor, Op. 39 BEETHOVEN – Serenade in D major for Flute, Violin and Viola, Op. 25 Fe.…
(classical, season-highlights)
Thursday | April 25, 2024 | 7:30 pm
PIANO DIALOGUES The Wolf-Tempered Klavier Noted for her musical command, cosmopolitan artistry and visionary independence, Sara Davis Buechner is lauded for her “intelligence, integrity and all-encompassing technical prowess” (New York Times), “thoughtful artistry”…
(classical, new-music, season-highlights)
Saturday | April 27, 2024 | 12 pm
Enjoy outstanding musical performances by the 1st place Winners of the 4th annual Music International Grand Prix Competition in Voice, Piano, Strings, Winds & Brass, Ensembles, and Original Composition. Talented artists from around the world gather in NYC to compete in the Finals. …
Wednesday | May 1, 2024 | 7:30 pm
PARLANDO REYNALDO HAHN – Mozart Overture ALFRED SCHNITTKE – Moz-Art à la Haydn NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV – Mozart and Salieri Joseph Parrish, bass-baritone Daniel McGrew, tenor Young composers have…
(classical, season-highlights)
Thursday | May 2, 2024 | 7:30 pm
ARTIST AS CURATOR Curated by Isabel Hagen Listen and laugh at the world premiere of a new evening of chamber music and comedy with Grammy-winning violinist Charles Yang, an adventurous composer, arranger and songwriter who “plays classical violin with the charisma of a rock…
(classical, new-music, vocal-performance, season-highlights)
Tuesday | May 14, 2024 | 2 pm
TUESDAY MATINEES Works by Franz Schubert, Johannes Brahms and Richard Strauss Violinist SooBeen Lee has been praised by The Washington Post for her “poised presence, a luxurious sound, spot-on intonation and a bow arm that surely will be the envy of her peers.”…
(classical, season-highlights)
Sunday | May 19, 2024 | 6:30 pm
STUDENT SOUNDS Rising star musicians from Kaufman Music Center’s Special Music School, New York’s only K-12 public school prioritizing an intensive, immersive and musically-focused education without financial barriers, and Lucy Moses School, Manhattan’s largest community…
(classical, vocal-performance, season-highlights)
Monday | May 20, 2024 | 7:30 pm
WHAT MAKES IT GREAT? Hosted by Rob Kapilow and featuring vocalists Michael Winther and Clarke Thorell Explore the extraordinary music and the surprising stories behind hit songs by one of the best-selling musical groups of the 1960s, including “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” “The…
(vocal-performance, season-highlights)
Thursday | May 23, 2024 | 12:30 pm
STUDENT SOUNDS Extraordinary teen musicians showcase their innovative music program with highlights of ensemble work from Baroque to contemporary. Kaufman Music Center’s Special Music School is New York’s only K-12 public school prioritizing an intensive, immersive and…
(classical, new-music, family, vocal-performance, season-highlights)
Thursday | May 23, 2024 | 7:30 pm
ARTIST AS CURATOR Curated by Conrad Tao JÜRG FREY – Extended Circular Music No. 2 Conrad Tao, piano HANNA HARTMAN – The Cloud Factory Distractfold ANDREW GREENWALD – A Thing Made Whole VIII (World Premiere) Distractfold MAURICIO PAULY…
(classical, new-music, season-highlights)
Wednesday | May 29, 2024 | 7:30 pm
Adventurous young musicians from Kaufman Music Center’s teen new-music program Face the Music and special guests wrap up their 2023-24 season with world premieres by boundary-pushing contemporary composers. Face the Music is the country’s only youth program dedicated…
(classical, new-music, family, season-highlights)
Thursday | May 30, 2024 | 7:30 pm
GREAT VOCALISTS Tenor and 2023-24 Kaufman Music Center Artist-in-Residence Nicholas Phan is hailed as “one of the world’s most remarkable singers” (Boston Globe), “one of the most beautiful young lyric voices around” (Opera News) and “an artist who must be…
(classical, new-music, vocal-performance, season-highlights)