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 7, 2026 | 4 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. At their annual 2026 performance they'll perform works by Salamone Rossi, Gerald Cohen, Elliot Z. Levine,…
(season-highlights, vocal-performance)
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)
Monday | June 15, 2026 | 1 pm
Students at Kaufman Music Center's Special Music School perform a wide range of songs from around the world. Featuring choruses from Kindergarten through 8th grade led by Sean Harley, Yukiko Konishi and Will Roslak, plus the Kaufman Music…
(family, season-highlights, vocal-performance)
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)
Monday | August 10, 2026 | 7:30 pm
The evening will feature a discussion with author Clay McLeod Chapman. Each ticket comes with a signed book and the opportunity to take a photo with Riley following the event. In 1926, five women disappeared from a remote island in Vermont. Now, one hundred years later,…
(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)
Monday | October 26, 2026 | 7:30 pm
BROADWAY CLOSE UP Hosted by Sean Hartley Celebrate one of the most distinctive voices in modern musical theater at this festive soirée honoring the life and work of the Tony-winning composer and lyricist William Finn (1952-2025). A stellar lineup of cast members – many of whom worked…
(musical-theater, 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)
Monday | November 16, 2026 | 7:30 pm
BOUND FOR BROADWAY Hosted by Liz Callaway Bound for Broadway returns with a sneak peek at four of the best new shows headed for New York’s bright lights! Emmy Award-winner and Tony nominee Liz Callaway interviews some of musical theater’s most fascinating voices, followed by performances…
(musical-theater, season-highlights, vocal-performance)
Monday | December 7, 2026 | 7:30 pm
BROADWAY CLOSE UP Hosted by Sean Hartley During the Golden Age of Musical Theater, the musical play came into its own with smash hits by larger-than-life Broadway legends like Rodgers & Hammerstein, Lerner & Loewe, Frank Loesser and Leonard Bernstein. Get the inside stories and hear song…
(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)