KAUFMAN MUSIC CENTER PRESENTS
Dance Recital III – Students of Parsla Vintere
Sunday | May 17, 2026 | 11:15 am
Dance recital featuring Lucy Moses School students of Parsla Vintere.
(family, season-highlights)
Sunday | May 17, 2026 | 11:15 am
Dance recital featuring Lucy Moses School students of Parsla Vintere.
(family, season-highlights)
Sunday | May 17, 2026 | 2:30 pm
Dance recital featuring Lucy Moses School students of Christina Morrissey.
(family, 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)
Monday | May 18, 2026 | 7:30 pm
WHAT MAKES IT GREAT? With Shannon Conley, Tash Neil, Ann Klein, Rich Pagano and Steve Count Take a fresh look at two 1960s icons who made their indelible mark in just three brilliant years beginning with their history-making debuts at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival. Quintessential voices of the…
(season-highlights, vocal-performance)
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 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)
Tuesday | June 9, 2026 | 7:30 pm
In conversation with actress, comedian and content creator Dylan Mulvaney. Four-time Emmy-nominated actress Laverne Cox shares her journey as a transgender woman in Hollywood, confronting childhood trauma, shame, gender identity, her transition, body image issues, her search for romantic love,…
(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)
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)