Carnegie Hall

TERRI LYNE CARRINGTON AND SOCIAL SCIENCE
Thursday, March 2, 2023 at 7:30 PM
(Zankel Hall)

Grammy Award winner, drummer, and composer Terri Lyne Carrington blends jazz, indie rock, and hip-hop with her multi-talented sextet Social Science. This fresh ensemble thoughtfully confronts urgent social and societal issues through a suite of powerful compositions, inspiring a deep regard for humanity and freedom, while always exciting on a purely musical level.

VIENNA PHILHARMONIC
Friday, March 3, 2023 at 8:00 PM
Saturday, March 4, 2023 at 8:00 PM
Sunday, March 5, 2023 at 2:00 PM
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)

The world-renowned Vienna Philharmonic returns to Carnegie Hall for a three-concert residency led by Christian Thielemann. The orchestra’s first program includes Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht and Richard Strauss’s powerful tone poem, Eine Alpensinfonie. The following evening, the orchestra plays Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture, Op. 26 and Symphony No. 3, “Scottish” along with Brahms’s Symphony No. 2. In its final program of the weekend, Mr. Thielemann leads the orchestra in Bruckner’s towering Symphony No. 8. Extending beyond the walls of Carnegie Hall, the orchestra’s concert on Friday, March 3 will be heard live by listeners around the world through the Carnegie Hall Live broadcast and digital series, created in partnership with WQXR. Co-hosted by WQXR’s Jeff Spurgeon and New Sounds’ John Schaefer, the concert will be broadcast on WQXR 105.9 FM in New York and streamed online at wqxr.org and carnegiehall.org/wqxr.

THE MET ORCHESTRA CHAMBER ENSEMBLE
Monday, March 6, 2023 at 7:30 PM
(Weill Recital Hall)

Yannick Nézet-Séguin performs both as conductor and pianist for this concert with The Met Orchestra Chamber Ensemble. The program opens with Metamorphosen: A Study for 23 Strings, written by Richard Strauss in his later years, and closes with Brahms’s Piano Quintet, widely regarded as a chamber music masterpiece.

DECODA
Wednesday, March 8, 2023 at 7:30 PM
(Weill Recital Hall)

Decoda—Carnegie Hall’s first-ever affiliate ensemble, made up of alums of Ensemble Connect—performs the world premieres of new works by Joseph Jones and Sarah Kirkland Snider (co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall), alongside Coltrane’s “Naima,” (arranged by Decoda founding member and former artistic director Brad Balliett), selections from Corea’s Children’s Songs (arranged by Decoda), Catherine Gregory’s arrangements of Stravinsky’s Suite italienne, and selections from Rameau’s Les Gentils Airs.

MAHLER CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
MITSUKO UCHIDA, Piano and Director
Thursday, March 9, 2023 at 8:00 PM
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)

Perspectives artist and pianist Mitsuko Uchida leads the Mahler Chamber Orchestra from the keyboard, performing Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 25 in C Major, K. 503, and Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-flat Major, K. 595, as part of a multi-year survey of Mozart concerti by Ms. Uchida and the orchestra. This program also includes Schoenberg’s Kammersymphonie No. 1. This concert will be heard live by listeners around the world through the Carnegie Hall Live broadcast and digital series, created in partnership with WQXR. Co-hosted by WQXR’s Jeff Spurgeon and New Sounds’ John Schaefer, the concert will be broadcast on WQXR 105.9 FM in New York and streamed online at wqxr.org and carnegiehall.org/wqxr.

RHIANNON GIDDENS WITH MEMBERS OF THE SILKROAD ENSEMBLE
Friday, March 10, 2023 at 7:30 PM
(Zankel Hall)

Rhiannon Giddens’s Perspectives series culminates with a stunning collaboration of global instrumentation and strings where she leads women and non-binary members of Silkroad Ensemble and special guest Tuscarora/Taino singer-songwriter Pura Fé on a musical journey that connects the music of indigenous North America to the world.

SAMANTHA HANKEY, Mezzo-Soprano
SOPHIE RAYNAUD, Piano
Friday, March 10, 2023 at 7:30 PM
(Weill Recital Hall)

Mezzo-soprano Samantha Hankey makes her first-ever appearance at Carnegie Hall, collaborating with pianist Sophie Raynaud on selections by Berg, Schoenberg, Zemlinsky, Ravel, Alma Mahler, and Richard Strauss.

THE ENGLISH CONCERT
Sunday, March 12, 2023 at 2:00 PM
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)

As part of their multi-year Handel project at Carnegie Hall, Artistic Director Harry Bicket conducts The English Concert in Handel’s oratorio Solomon with Swedish mezzo-soprano Ann Hallenberg singing the title role, joined by sopranos Miah Persson (Solomon’s Queen and First Harlot) and Elena Villalón (Queen of Sheba), James Way (Zadok), Brandon Cedel (A Levite), Niamh O’Sullivan (Second Harlot), and The Clarion Choir with Artistic Director Stephen Fox.

AMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA
Thursday, March 16, 2023 at 7:30 PM
(Zankel Hall)

Daniela Candellari conducts the American Composers Orchestra in an evening of new commissions. The concert includes new orchestral renderings by composer DJ Sparr of pieces by fellow composer Kaki King (who performs on guitar), including her acclaimed album, Modern Yesterdays. The program also includes the New York premiere of Floodplain by 2019 Pulitzer Prize winner Ellen Reid; Fate Now Conquers by 2021 Sphinx Medal of Excellence recipient Carlos Simon, and the world premiere of Carlos Bandera’s Materia Prima.

LAWRENCE BROWNLEE, Tenor
KEVIN MILLER, Piano
Thursday, March 23, 2023 at 7:30 PM
(Zankel Hall)

Tenor Lawrence Brownlee returns to Carnegie Hall with pianist Kevin Miller presenting a new recital program titled Rising, including a series of newly commissioned works with texts drawn from great Black authors and poets of the Harlem Renaissance. The performance includes works by Robert Owens, Jeremiah Evans, Margaret Bonds, Carlos Simon, Jasmine Barnes, Brandon Spencer, Damien Sneed, Shawn Okpebholo, and Joel Thompson.

FLOR DE TOLOACHE
NELLA
Friday, March 24, 2023 at 7:30 PM
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)

This special double-bill begins with New York City’s singular, all-women mariachi group, Flor De Toloache, and their irresistible, boundary-pushing artistry. The evening continues with the musical storytelling of Venezuelan vocalist Nella, 2019’s Best New Artist Latin Grammy Award winner.

THE NEW YORK POPS
Friday, March 24, 2023 at 8:00 PM
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)

Cabaret legend Marilyn Maye takes the stage, just prior to her 95th birthday, with Music Director Steven Reineke leading The New York Pops in a program of standards and music theater classics that make clear why she’s been celebrated as one of America’s greatest jazz singers for more than 50 years.

ENSEMBLE INTERCONTEMPORAIN
Saturday, March 25, 2023 at 7:30 PM
(Zankel Hall)

One of the world’s top contemporary music groups, Ensemble intercontemporain appears at Carnegie Hall for the first time in 20 years. The evening’s program is a tribute to the group’s iconic founder, the late Pierre Boulez. Music Director Matthias Pintscher leads the musicians in Schoenberg’s Five Pieces, Op. 16 (arranged for chamber ensemble by Schoenberg), Boulez’sDérive2, and the New York premiere of Pintscher’s Sonic Eclipse.

ALEXANDRE THARAUD, Piano
Sunday, March 26, 2023 at 3:00 PM
(Zankel Hall)

Pianist Alexandre Tharaud performs Gustav Mahler’s Adagietto from Symphony No. 5 (transcr. Alexandre Tharaud); Schubert’s Four Impromptus, D. 899; Rameau’s Selections from Suite in A Minor from Nouvelles suites de pièces de clavecin; and Ravel’s Miroirs.

ENSEMBLE CONNECT UP CLOSE
Monday, March 27, 2023 at 7:30 PM
(Resnick Education Wing)

In collaboration with members of interdisciplinary group American Modern Opera Company (AMOC*), Ensemble Connect invites audiences to an evening of close listening and engagement with sound, silence, movement, and space. Through compositions by Michael Pisaro, Jennifer Walshe, Jürg Frey, Carolyn Chen, and more, the concert explores physical awareness, attention to each other, and the spontaneity of personal and collective responses. Listeners are encouraged to arrive when doors open at 7 PM to engage with Pisaro’s space and other pieces of music.

JEANINE DE BIQUE AND CONCERTO KÖLN
Tuesday, March 28, 2023 at 7:30 PM
(Zankel Hall)

Internationally renowned soprano Jeanine De Bique makes her Zankel Hall debut collaborating with opera and early music ensemble Concerto Köln. The program features music from De Bique’s acclaimed debut album, Mirrors, which pairs emotionally charged Baroque arias by Handel with recently discovered works by his contemporaries Carl Heinrich Graun and Leonardo Vinci. This concert will be heard live by listeners around the world through the Carnegie Hall Live broadcast and digital series, created in partnership with WQXR. Co-hosted by WQXR’s Jeff Spurgeon andNew Sounds’ John Schaefer, the concert will be broadcast on WQXR 105.9 FM in New York and streamed online at wqxr.org and carnegiehall.org/wqxr.

STANDARD TIME WITH MICHAEL FEINSTEIN
Wednesday, March 29, 2023 at 7:30 PM
(Zankel Hall)

Singer-songwriter Michael Feinstein travels through the life and songs of Judy Garland to celebrate her 100th birthday. This brand-new multimedia show features big-screen film clips, never-before-seen photos, rare audio recordings, great music, and good humor. Feinstein explores different segments of Garland’s life, from the Gumm Sisters to her trip over the rainbow, her time on TV, and the concert years. Hear songs you know and love like “Get Happy,” “Over the Rainbow,” and more.

THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA
Friday, March 31, 2023 at 8:00 PM
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)

For their final concert of Carnegie Hall’s 2022–2023 season, Yannick Nézet-Séguin and The Philadelphia Orchestra are joined by Grammy Award–winning choir The Crossing for the New York premiere of John Luther Adams’s Vespers of the Blessed Earth, performed alongside Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring.