Carnegie Hall

MUSICAL EXPLORERS FAMILY CONCERT
Saturday, January 13, 2024 at 12:00 PM
Saturday, January 13, 2024 at 3:00 PM
(Zankel Hall)

Discover music from around the world in this vibrant, highly interactive concert for children. Artists with magnetic personalities teach families all about their musical traditions—including Mele Hawai'i led by Grammy Award winner, Kalani Pe'a; violinist and singer Layth Sidiq, illuminating traditions of Iraqi folk music; and Dominican Roots music, led by guitarist, vocalist, and composer Yasser Tejeda. Free pre-concert activities take place in Zankel Hall one hour before the performance. Recommended for families with students in grades K–2.

A WELL-BEING CONCERT

ABLAYE CISSOKO
CYRILLE BROTTO
Tuesday, January 16, 2024 at 6:30 PM
(Resnick Education Wing)

Music’s ability to bridge cultures, expand traditions, and connect individuals can be felt in this powerful, interactive Well-Being Concert with Senegalese kora master and djeli Ablaye Cissoko and French accordionist Cyrille Brotto. This intimate performance by the acclaimed duo aspires to generate new feelings of connection and make a long-lasting, uplifting impression on audience members.

Audience members can choose from a variety of casual and comfortable seating options, with mats, cushions, and chairs all available on a first-come, first-served basis.

KIRILL GERSTEIN, Piano
Thursday, January 18, 2024 at 7:30 PM
(Zankel Hall)

Pianist Kirill Gerstein presents a solo recital to include music by Chopin, Fauré, Poulenc, Liszt, R. Schumann, and Godowsky’s “Die Fledermaus” from Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes by Johann Strauss.

JULIA BULLOCK, Soprano
BRETTON BROWN, Piano
Friday, January 19, 2024 at 7:30 PM
(Zankel Hall)

Classical singer Julia Bullock returns with pianist Bretton Brown for a recital program to include works by Barber, Converse, Poulenc, Weill, R. Strauss, Berg, as well as songs by Bob Dylan, Mary Rodgers, Richard Rodgers, and more. The program also includes new arrangements by Ms. Bullock and Mr. Brown, inspired by Odetta and Elizabeth Cotten.

THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA
Saturday, January 20, 2024 at 8:00 PM
Sunday, January 21, 2024 at 2:00 PM
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)

Music Director and Perspectives artist Franz Welser-Möst and The Cleveland Orchestra launch this season’s citywide festival Fall of the Weimar Republic: Dancing on the Precipice at Carnegie Hall with two programs that demonstrate the diverse musical styles of the Weimar era. The first program includes works by Bartók, Krenek’s Little Symphony, Op. 58—his final symphonic work before fleeing his homeland of Austria and the Anschluss of 1938—and Mahler’s unfinished Adagio from Symphony No. 10 in F-sharp Major, completed by Ernst Krenek. The orchestra returns the following evening to present Prokofiev’s symphonies nos. 2 and 5 and Webern’s Symphony, Op. 21.

SONGSTUDIO MASTER CLASSES
Graham Johnson Monday, January 22, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Nicholas Phan Tuesday, January 23, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Angel Blue Wednesday, January 24, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Renée Fleming Friday, January 26, 2024 at 6:00 PM
(Resnick Education Wing)

SONGSTUDIO: YOUNG ARTISTS RECITAL
Saturday, January 27, 2024 7:30 PM
(Zankel Hall)

SongStudio, under the leadership of internationally-acclaimed soprano Renée Fleming, brings leading musicians and other performing artists together to mentor emerging vocalists and collaborative pianists. Each master class explores innovative approaches to both classic and current song repertoire, inviting new audiences to engage with the time-honored, evolving art form of the vocal recital. The week of public master classes led by Ms. Fleming, soprano Angel Blue, tenor Nicholas Phan, and collaborative pianist Graham Johnson, culminates in a recital, showcasing the vocalists and pianists who have taken part in this intensive program, with this season’s concert taking place in the Center Stage configuration in Zankel Hall

THE MET ORCHESTRA CHAMBER ENSEMBLE
Monday, January 22, 2024 at 7:30 AM
(Weill Recital Hall)

As a part of the citywide festival Fall of the Weimar Republic: Dancing on the Precipice, The Met Orchestra Chamber Ensemble celebrates The Golden Twenties with a program including Weill’s Little Threepenny Music, two Schoenberg arrangements of Johann Strauss Jr., as well as works by Hindemith.

THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA
Tuesday, January 23, 2024 at 8:00 PM
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)

For the second of The Philadelphia Orchestra’s six performances this season, Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads the orchestra as a part of citywide festival Fall of the Weimar Republic: Dancing on the Precipice. Joined by Marcus Roberts Trio—a jazz trio comprising pianist Marcus Roberts, drummer Jason Marsalis, and bassist Martin Jaffe, the ensemble performs Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, marking this landmark work’s centennial year. The program also includes Stravinsky’s Pétrouchka (1947 version) and Weill’s Symphony No. 2.

BEHZOD ABDURAIMOV
Friday, January 26, 2024 at 8:00 PM
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)

Pianist Behzod Abduraimov returns for the first time since 2019 with a solo recital program to include music by Franck, Ravel, Price, Prokofiev, and the New York premiere of fellow Uzbek composer Dilorom Saidaminova’s The Walls of Ancient Bukhara.

BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Monday, January 29, 2024 at 8:00 PM
Tuesday, January 30, 2024 at 7:00 PM
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)

Music Director and conductor Andris Nelsons leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring and Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, featuring International Chopin Piano Competition winner Seong-Jin Cho. This concert, part of the citywide festival Fall of the Weimar Republic: Dancing on the Precipice, also includes an opportunity for audiences to revisit the 2021 Pulitzer Prize–winning Stride by Tania León, Carnegie Hall’s 2023–2024 Debs Composer’s Chair. The following evening, Maestro Nelsons and the orchestra present a concert performance of Shostakovich’s opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk featuring Kristine Opolais, Brenden Gunnell, Peter Hoare, Günther Groissböck, and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus.

BRAD MEHLDAU
Wednesday, January 31, 2024 at 7:30 PM
(Zankel Hall)

Composer and pianist Brad Mehldau returns to present an evening that features his original works, including Fourteen Reveries—a New York premiere co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall—in Zankel Hall Center Stage. Zankel Hall’s stage will be transformed into an in-the-round configuration, offering concertgoers an intimate and unique setting to experience music at Carnegie Hall.