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 | October 20, 2026 | 8 pm
From Beethoven’s “Adelaide” to Fauré’s “Lydia” to Noël Coward’s “Nina,” our playlist is composed of songs whose titles are the given names of a colorful cast of characters, ranging from Biblical times (Belsazar) and Greek myths…
(classical, musical-theater, season-highlights, vocal-performance)
Thursday | October 22, 2026 | 7:30 pm
MUSICIANS ON THE RISE BRAHMS – Scherzo in C minor, WoO 2 (from FAE Sonata) YSAŸE – Sonata Op. 27, No. 3 “Ballade” DEBUSSY – Preludes, Books 1 and 2 Ondine La danse de Puck…
(classical, season-highlights)
Tuesday | October 27, 2026 | 7:30 pm
ARTIST AS CURATOR Curated by Lembit Beecher & Karen Ouzounian Grammy-nominated Armenian-Canadian cellist and composer Karen Ouzounian and her husband, Rome Prize-winning Estonian-American composer, pianist and animator Lembit Beecher, give the NYC premiere of their new program Mayrig…
(classical, new-music, season-highlights, vocal-performance)
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)
Thursday | November 12, 2026 | 7:30 pm
Religion and capitalism collide in this sharp, jazz-infused 1929 musical satire by Kurt Weill, Bertolt Brecht and Elisabeth Hauptmann. Conceived as a follow-up to the trio’s success with The Threepenny Opera, Happy End is a satire of big business and big religion set in a smoky…
(classical, musical-theater, season-highlights, vocal-performance)
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)
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)
Thursday | January 14, 2027 | 7:30 pm
ARTIST AS CURATOR Curated by The Westerlies Riley Mulerkar, trumpet Chloe Rowlands, trumpet Andy Clausen, trombone Addison-Maye-Saxon, trombone The Grammy-nominated brass quartet known for playing with the precision of a string quartet and the audacity of a rock band performs new arrangements of…
(classical, new-music, season-highlights)
Sunday | February 7, 2027 | 4:30 pm
STUDENT SOUNDS Rising star soloists from Special Music School and Lucy Moses School perform with an orchestra. 2026-27 tickets go on sale in July.
(classical, season-highlights)
Tuesday | February 9, 2027 | 2 pm
TUESDAY MATINEES Works by Beethoven, Arvo Pärt and Bedřich Smetana One of today's most promising young ensembles, Trio Azura is hailed for its “intelligence and imagination” and “profound emotion” (Gramophone). Currently the Ensemble-in-Residence at the Colburn…
(classical, season-highlights)