Connect. Discover. Explore. Merkin Hall On Demand

  • <p>Jordan Bak, viola</p>
  • <p>Nikki Renée Daniels, vocalist</p>
  • <p>Fast Forward: Music’s Next Generation</p>
  • <p>Conrad Tao, piano</p>
  • <p>Adam Tendler, piano</p>
  • <p>Orli Shaham, piano</p>
  • <p>Clifton Duncan, vocalist</p>
  • <p>Rob Kapilow, What Makes It Great? Host</p>
  • <p>Horszowski Trio</p>

A wide variety of performances filmed in Merkin Hall during the 2020-21 and 2021-22 seasons are now available on demand! Buy a virtual ticket and watch anytime for 30 days.
Additional performances will be added throughout this winter and spring.

All performances are $10.

BONUS CONCERT: Watch the Ecstatic Music – 2022 Bang on a Can People's Commissioning Fund Concert for FREE!



Music Speaks

Co-presented with Concert Artists Guild
Exceptional artists perform traditional classical repertoire and tell their personal stories.

NEW!  JORDAN BAK, VIOLA & JI YUNG LEE, PIANO

Music by H. Leslie Adams, Rebecca Clarke, György Kurtág, György Ligeti, Zoltán Kodály, Tōru Takemitsu, Georg Philipp Telemann, Henri Vieuxtemps & Delong Wang
Watch on demand

Broadway Close Up

Lecture-performances hosted by Sean Hartley explore some of musical theater's most fascinating figures.

NEW!  PARTY AT THE GERSHWINS
Featuring Farah Alvin, Kate Baldwin, Eric Comstock, Eddie Cooper, Barbara Fasano, Charlotte Maltby, Jason Robinson, Kirsten Scott, Matthew Scott, Gabrielle Stravelli, Michael Winther and Karen Ziemba
Songs by the Gershwins and others including Irving Berlin, Oscar Levant, Cole Porter and Jerome Kern
Watch on demand

OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN  Featuring Clifton Duncan
Songs from Carousel, Oklahoma, South Pacific & The Sound of Music
Watch on demands

DOROTHY FIELDS  Featuring Gabrielle Stravelli
Songs from Sweet Charity, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn & more
Watch on demand

STEPHEN SCHWARTZ  Featuring Nikki Renée Daniels & Gabrielle Stravelli
Songs from Pippin, Pocahontas, Wicked & more
Watch on demand

KAY SWIFT  Featuring Nikki Renée Daniels, Jeff Kready, Sally Wilfert and Klea Blackhurst
Songs from Fine and Dandy, music revues and the Hollywood film Never a Dull Moment
Watch on demand

KANDER & EBB  Featuring Karen Ziemba
Songs from CabaretFlora the Red Menace70 Girls, 70The Happy Time and New York, New York
Watch on demand
 

What Makes It Great?

Host Rob Kapilow will help you hear musical masterpieces with new ears.

STEPHEN SONDHEIM  Featuring Nikki Renée Daniels & Michael Winther
Watch on demand

Beethoven, the Pandemic & the Power of Connection:

THE APPASSIONATA SONATA  Featuring Orli Shaham, piano
Watch on demand

THE KREUTZER SONATA  Featuring Duo Prism: Jesse Mills, violin & Rieko Aizawa, piano
Watch on demand

THE ARCHDUKE TRIO  Featuring the Horszowski Trio
Watch on demand


Ecstatic Music

"A hotbed for visionary artistic hybridity" – The New Yorker

CONRAD TAO
  Improvised pieces + music by Brahms, John Adams, Jason Eckardt and more
Watch on demand

SETH PARKER WOODS  Music by Fredrick Gifford, Monty Adkins, Nathalie Joachim, Freida Abtan & Pierre Alexandre Tremblay, with choreography by Roderick George
Watch on demand
 

PIANO DIALOGUES

Concerts & Conversation

ORLI SHAHAM

Mozart’s Sonata No. 14 in C minor & Beethoven’s Sonata No. 8 in C minor “Pathétique”
Watch on demand

ADAM TENDLER
Robert Schumann’s Carnaval Op. 9 & Christian Wolff’s FANTAIL (World Premiere)
Watch on demand

ORLI SHAHAM
Schubert's Piano Sonata in A Major, D. 664 & Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 15 in F Major, K.33/49
Watch on demand
 

BONUS EPISODES: Watch for Free

FAST FORWARD: MUSIC'S NEXT GENERATION

Get to know a whole new generation of performers from Kaufman Music Center's Special Music School and Lucy Moses School!

Special Music School 7th & 8th graders perform Liszt, Chopin, Saint-Saëns, Dvořák and R. Schumann.
Watch now

HENRY SCHNEIDER CONCERT
Lucy Moses School students perform Bach, Ravel, Schubert, Corigliano, Gaubert, Handel and Chopin.
Watch now

COMPOSERFEST
Special Music School and Lucy Moses School perform Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Adolphus Hailstork, Scott Joplin, Aldo López-Gavilan, Tania León, Jorge López Marin, Florence Price and William Grant Still.
Watch now

CHAMBERFEST
Ensembles from Special Music School High School perform music by Mendelssohn, Rachmaninoff, Ravel and Florence Price.
Watch now

FACE THE MUSIC
Ensembles from Kaufman Music Center's teen new music program perform music by member-composers, Caroline Davis, Niloufar Nourbakhsh and Prattyush Banerjee.
Watch now


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