Wednesday | April 22, 2026 | 6:30 pm
This performance takes place at Trinity Church at 89 Broadway, NYC. GREAT VOCALISTS "The dulcet vocal ensemble Chanticleer gave Machaut’s disquisitions on courtly love an uncanny immediacy" (Alex Ross, The New Yorker) Hailed as “the world’s reigning male chorus” by The New…
(classical, season-highlights, vocal-performance)
Thursday | April 23, 2026 | 7 pm
YOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS The Peter Jay Sharp Concert BOCCHERINI – Sonata in G Major, G. 5 DEBUSSY – Cello Sonata, L.135 BRITTEN – Cello Sonata in C Major, Op. 65 MENDELSSOHN – Cello Sonata No. 2 in D Major, Op. 58 With Bogang…
(classical, season-highlights)
Monday | April 27, 2026 | 7 pm
CRESCENDO ORCHESTRA & CHAMBER MUSIC Featuring Select New York Youth Symphony Chamber Groups Dr. Lisa Tipton, Director Join us for the second concert of the NYYS Chamber Music Festival, a series of three concerts celebrating the culmination of a year of our Chamber Music program – the other…
(classical, season-highlights)
Wednesday | April 29, 2026 | 1 pm
MENTOR SESSIONS See the result of groundbreaking artists mentoring a new generation of outstanding young performers. The Grammy Award-winning composer, violinist, educator and Kaufman Music Center Artist-in-Residence performs her works plus exciting new collaborative pieces together…
(classical, new-music, season-highlights)
Friday | May 1, 2026 | 7:30 pm
ARTIST AS CURATOR Curated by Jessie Montgomery Jessie Montgomery, violin/bandleader Jannina Norpoth, violin Gabriel Cabezas, cello Allison Loggins-Hull, flute Lynn Ligammari, saxophone Pascal LeBoeuf, piano Eleonore Oppenheim, bass Michael W Davis, drums The Grammy Award-winning violinist and…
(classical, new-music, season-highlights)
Sunday | May 10, 2026 | 9:30 am
Students in Lucy Moses School’s Suzuki Program perform at their annual spring concert, led by Suzuki Chair Matthew Reichert. Part 1: 9:30 am – Guitar, Flute, and Cello students Part 2: 10:30 am – Violin students and String Ensembles Families may choose to attend only Part 1,…
(classical, family)
Tuesday | May 12, 2026 | 7:30 pm
PIANO DIALOGUES Words Fail The celebrated pianist hailed for his “impeccable taste and a formidable technique” (The New Yorker) and “probing, incisive, and deeply considered performances” (SF Classical Voice) mines music’s power to express sentiments and feelings beyond…
(classical, new-music, season-highlights)
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 | 6:15 pm
STUDENT SOUNDS Extraordinary young musicians from Special Music School and Lucy Moses School perform a wide variety of works for small ensembles.
(classical, season-highlights)
Tuesday | May 19, 2026 | 2 pm
TUESDAY MATINEES W.A. MOZART – Fantasy in C minor, K.475 CLAUDE DEBUSSY – Estampes BÉLA BARTÓK – Sonata Sz. 80 ROBERT SCHUMANN – Humoreske in B-flat Major, Op. 20 ISAAC ALBÉNIZ – Iberia, Book 2…
(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 | 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)
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)
Tuesday | January 12, 2027 | 2 pm
TUESDAY MATINEES Works by Arcangelo Corelli, Fritz Kreisler, César Franck, Louis Vierne and Zlatomir Fung Winner of the prestigious 2024 Avery Fisher Career Grant, Korean-American violinist Julian Rhee rose to international prominence following his prize-winning performances at the 2024 Queen…
(classical, season-highlights)