Wednesday | May 13, 2026 | 1 pm
MENTOR SESSIONS See the result of groundbreaking artists mentoring a new generation of outstanding young performers. The acclaimed pianist hosts performances by virtuosic young musicians from Kaufman Music Center. May 12: Jonathan Biss: Words Fail Student-artist collaborations at Kaufman Music…
(classical, season-highlights)
Sunday | May 17, 2026 | 6 pm
STUDENT SOUNDS Extraordinary young musicians from Special Music School and Lucy Moses School perform a wide variety of works for small ensembles including music by Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert, Dvořák, Fauré, Bruch, Arensky, Dohnányi and more.
(classical, season-highlights)
Tuesday | May 19, 2026 | 2 pm
TUESDAY MATINEES W.A. MOZART – Fantasy in C minor, K.475 CLAUDE DEBUSSY – Estampes ENRIQUE GRANADOS – Goyescas BÉLA BARTÓK – Sonata Sz. 80 ROBERT SCHUMANN – Humoreske in B-flat Major, Op. 20…
(classical, season-highlights)
Friday | June 5, 2026 | 6 pm
100 YEARS OF AMERICAN PIANO MUSIC 100 Years of Virtuosity An artist of keen musicianship, brilliant technique and a compelling perspective shaped by a deep fluency in global culture, pianist Jenny Lin surveys the landscape of American piano works that stretch the limits of technical prowess and…
(classical, new-music, season-highlights)
Friday | June 5, 2026 | 8 pm
100 YEARS OF AMERICAN PIANO MUSIC Broken Lines Pianist and composer Conrad Tao has been dubbed “the kind of musician who is shaping the future of classical music” by New York Magazine, and an artist of “probing intellect and open-hearted vision” by The New York…
(classical, new-music, season-highlights)
Saturday | June 6, 2026 | 6 pm
100 YEARS OF AMERICAN PIANO MUSIC The pianist known for his “Lisztian pyrotechnics” (New York Classical Review) and hailed as “exceptional” by The New York Times returns to Merkin Hall for an evening of contemporary music by Caroline Shaw, Philip Glass, Duke Ellington, Aaron…
(classical, new-music, season-highlights)
Saturday | June 6, 2026 | 8 pm
100 YEARS OF AMERICAN PIANO MUSIC The Maverick Jungle The trailblazing pianist takes audiences on a journey through iconoclastic American composers from Conlon Nancarrow to John Adams and Meredith Monk, traversing multiple genres. One of the world’s foremost champions of contemporary…
(classical, new-music, season-highlights)
Sunday | June 14, 2026 | 6 pm
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…
(classical, season-highlights)
Friday | June 26, 2026 | 2 pm
See the remarkable winners of the 2026 Kaufman Music Center International Youth Piano Competition perform in Merkin Hall. Open to young pianists up to age 18, the competition awards more than $12,000 in cash prizes and gives winners the opportunity to perform in New York's prestigious…
(classical, season-highlights)
Tuesday | July 7, 2026 | 8 pm
$10 senior and student tickets are available. Call the box office at 212 501 3330. BRAHMS – Rhapsodies, Op. 79 SCHUBERT – Sonata in C Minor, D. 958 LISZT – Sonata in B Minor Jerome Rose, hailed as “the Last Romantic of our…
(classical, season-highlights)
Wednesday | July 8, 2026 | 8 pm
$10 senior and student tickets are available. Call the box office at 212 501 3330. DEBUSSY – Estampes SCHUMANN – Sonata No. 1 in F-sharp Minor, Op. 11 RZEWSKI – Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues BARBER – Sonata in…
(classical, season-highlights)
Thursday | July 9, 2026 | 8 pm
$10 senior and student tickets are available. Call the box office at 212 501 3330. MOZART – Sonata in A Major, K. 331 MOZART – Sonata in F Major, K. 533/494 BRAHMS – Three Intermezzi, Op. 117 BRAHMS – Variations…
(classical, season-highlights)
Friday | July 10, 2026 | 8 pm
$10 senior and student tickets are available. Call the box office at 212 501 3330. SCARLATTI – Sonata in B Minor, K. 87 CLEMENTI – Sonata in B Minor, Op. 40, No. 2 SCHUBERT – Moment Musicaux, Op. 94, No. 2 in A-flat Major (D. 780)…
(classical, season-highlights)
Saturday | July 11, 2026 | 8 pm
$10 senior and student tickets are available. Call the box office at 212 501 3330. BRAHMS – Four Klavierstücke, Op. 119 SCHUMANN – Kreisleriana, Op. 16 CHOPIN – Ballade No. 2 in F Major, Op. 38 CHOPIN – Four…
(classical, season-highlights)
Sunday | July 12, 2026 | 8 pm
$10 senior and student tickets are available. Call the box office at 212 501 3330. TCHAIKOVSKY – Grand Sonata in G Major, Op. 37 RAVEL – Valses nobles et sentimentales SCHUBERT – Sonata-Fantasia in G Major, D. 894 Martín…
(classical, season-highlights)
Tuesday | September 29, 2026 | 2 pm
TUESDAY MATINEES Works by Schubert, Albeniz, Liszt, Franck and Chopin Hailed for his “electrifying… pyrotechnical prowess” (Peninsula Reviews) and playing of “thunderous authority and loads of interpretive nuance” (Upstage), pianist Michael Davidman is the winner of…
(classical, season-highlights)
Monday | October 19, 2026 | 7:30 pm
WHAT MAKES IT GREAT? Featuring violinist Timothy Chooi and the Manhattan School of Music Camerata Nova The 1881 premiere of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D Major got one of the most famous bad reviews in the history of Western music. Savaged as “music that stinks to the ear” in…
(classical, season-highlights)
Tuesday | November 3, 2026 | 2 pm
TUESDAY MATINEES CLARA SCHUMANN – Three Romances, Op. 22 ALBAN BERG – Vier Stücke, Op. 5 ERWIN SCHULHOFF – Suite Op. 1, for Violin and Piano (arr. Jonathan Leibovitz for clarinet and piano) ROBERT SCHUMANN –…
(classical, season-highlights)
Tuesday | December 8, 2026 | 2 pm
TUESDAY MATINEES R. SCHUMANN – Drei Romanzen for Oboe and Piano, Op. 94 J. BRAHMS – Cello Sonata No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 38 C. SCHUMANN – Three Romances for Violin and Piano, Op. 22 J. BRAHMS – Cello Sonata No. 2 in F Major,…
(classical, season-highlights)
Monday | December 14, 2026 | 7:30 pm
WHAT MAKES IT GREAT? Featuring Terra String Quartet Schubert’s gripping quartet is one of the most frequently performed and emotionally affecting works in the chamber music repertoire. Written during a period of illness, isolation and despair, this haunting piece pushes the string quartet to…
(classical, season-highlights)