Carnegie Hall

CARNEGIE HALL’S OPENING NIGHT GALA
THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA
Wednesday, October 6, 2021 at 7:00 p.m.
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)

PROGRAM UPDATE:
Carnegie Hall will reopen its doors to the public on Wednesday, October 6 at 7:00 p.m. with a celebratory Opening Night performance featuring The Philadelphia Orchestra joined by renowned pianist Yuja Wang under the baton of Yannick Nézet-Séguin. The Opening Night program begins with a new work by Valerie Coleman titled Seven O’Clock Shout, an anthem commissioned by the orchestra and written in response to COVID-19, honoring frontline workers. Yuja Wang joins Maestro Nézet-Séguin and the Orchestra as soloist for Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 2 (replacing the originally announced Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2.) and Bernstein’s Overture to Candide has been added to the program. A highlight of the performance will be another topical Philadelphia commission—Iman Habibi’s Jeder Baum spricht—a rhapsodic reflection on the climate crisis written in dialogue with Beethoven’s music. The finale of this season-opening concert will be Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, kicking off a five-concert Beethoven cycle at Carnegie Hall by the Orchestra. This Opening Night performance will be heard by listeners around the world, launching the eleventh annual Carnegie Hall Live broadcast and digital series with a live radio broadcast on WQXR FM in New York, also streamed on wqxr.org and carnegiehall.org/wqxr.

LANG LANG
Tuesday, October 12, 2021 at 8:00 p.m.
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)

PROGRAM UPDATE:
Renowned pianist Lang Lang returns to perform J. S. Bach’s monumental Goldberg Variations as well as R. Schumann’s Arabeske in C Major.

SPHINX VIRTUOSI
Friday, October 15, 2021 at 7:00 p.m.
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)

PROGRAM UPDATE:
The Sphinx Virtuosi—a chamber orchestra comprising alumni of the renowned Sphinx Competition—return to Carnegie Hall with a program that features Jessie Montgomery’s Banner (her previously announced work, Divided is no longer on the program). In addition, the program now features cellist Thomas Mesa and bass-baritone Davóne Tines performing works to include Xavier Foley’s "Ev'ry Voice," Ricardo Herz’s “Inocente” and “Mourinho,” Andrea Casarrubios’s Seven, and more.

LEONIDAS KAVAKOS, Violin
YUJA WANG, Piano
Thursday, November 4, 2021 at 8:00 p.m.
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)

PROGRAM UPDATE:
As part of his 2021–2022 Perspectives series, violinist Leonidas Kavakos is joined by frequent collaborator and pianist Yuja Wang in a program of J. S. Bach’s sonatas for violin and piano in E major (BWV 1016); Shostakovich’s Violin Sonata, and Busoni’s Violin Sonata No. 2. Bach’s Sonata in B minor (BWV 1014) is no longer on the program.

JESSICA VOSK
Monday, November 8, 2021 at 8:00 p.m.
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)

ARTIST UPDATE:
Pentatonix’s Scott Hoying performs as a special guest on Jessica Vosk’s Carnegie Hall headlining debut. She is also joined by special guest Kristin Chenoweth for an evening that is an homage to the likes of Barbra Streisand, Judy Garland, Sarah Vaughan, and other legendary voices.

ENSEMBLE CONNECT
Tuesday, December 7, 2021 at 7:30 p.m.
Monday, April 11, 2022 at 7:30 p.m.
(Weill Recital Hall )

PROGRAM UPDATE:
Ensemble Connect has announced complete programs for its two concerts in Weill Recital Hall. In addition to performing Coleridge-Taylor’s Nonet in F Minor, Op. 2 as previously announced, the group plays the traditional “Deep River” (arranged by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Sheku Kanneh-Mason), Cheryl Frances-Hoad’s “The Forgiveness Machine,” Rameau’s Gavotte and Six Doubles (arr. Ryohei Kakagawa), and Beethoven’s Serenade in D Major, Op. 25 in December. For their April concert, the ensemble performs Wynton Marsalis’s "Meeelaan,” R. Schumann’s Märchenerzählungen, and Brahms’s Trio in E-flat Major for Violin, Horn, and Piano, Op. 40 on a program that also includes the previously announced world premiere of Kaija Saariaho’s Semafor.

GALILEE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Friday, March 18, 2022 at 8:00 p.m.
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)

PROGRAM ADDITION:
The Galilee Chamber Orchestra makes its Carnegie Hall debut with Music Director Saleem Abboud Ashkar in a program that features violinist Joshua Bell playing Bloch’s Baal Shem (Three Pictures of Chassidic Life) and Sarasate’s Zigeunerweisen on a program that also includes Haydn’s Symphony No. 59, “Fire” as well as Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1. The orchestra was co-founded in 2012 by Nabeel Abboud Ashkar, a music educator from Nazareth, Israel, and former violinist with the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. The ensemble is a program of Polyphony Education, an Israeli nonprofit that aims to bridge the divide between Arab and Jewish communities in Israel through classical music education, performance, and cultural dialogue.

AMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA
Friday, March 25, 2022 at 7:30 PM
(Zankel Hall)

ARTIST ADDITION AND PROGRAM UPDATE:
Conductor Marin Alsop leads the American Composers Orchestra with a program that includes the New York premiere of Anna Clyne’s Restless Oceans, the US premiere of Hannah Kendall’s Tuxedo: Vasco 'de' Gama, the world premieres of new works by Paula Matthusen and Dai Wei, and the previously announced New York premiere of Lisa Bielawa’s Sanctuary featuring violinist Jennifer Koh. The previously announced Carlos Bandera premiere is no longer on the program.

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