Carnegie Hall

THE MET ORCHESTRA
Thursday, February 1, 2024 at 8:00 PM
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)

The Met Orchestra returns for the first of three concerts this season led by Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin. As part of the citywide festival Fall of the Weimar Republic: Dancing on the Precipice, the orchestra and Mr. Nézet-Séguin perform Webern’s orchestration of Fuga (Ricercata) a 6 voci from J. S. Bach’s Musical Offering (orch. Webern); Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 5, and are joined by soprano Lise Davidsen in her Carnegie Hall debut singing Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder.

MUNICH PHILHARMONIC
Saturday, February 3, 2024 at 8:00 PM
Sunday, February 4, 2024 at 2:00 PM
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)

Conductor Laureate Zubin Mehta leads the Munich Philharmonic in two all-Brahms concerts with pianist Yefim Bronfman. The first concert features Mr. Bronfman playing Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1 followed by the composer’s Symphony No. 4. The following evening Mr. Bronfman returns to perform Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2, alongside the Symphony No 2.

A WELL-BEING CONCERT

SEAN JONES, Trumpet
Sunday, February 4, 2024 at 6:00 PM
(Zankel Hall)

Trumpeter, composer, bandleader, and educator Sean Jones leads alums of NYO Jazz in Zankel Hall Center Stage, an intimate setting that invites audiences to sit on all sides of the performers. This communal, "in the round" configuration brings listeners closer than ever to the music—an ideal way to enjoy live jazz performed by a group of master improvisers and ensemble players. As part of the experience, artists and audiences alike will be encouraged to explore concepts of self-care and mindfulness through music.

DIANA DAMRAU, Soprano
HELMUT DEUTSCH, Piano
Tuesday, February 6, 2024 at 8:00 PM
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)

World-renowned soprano Diana Damrau returns in recital for the first time since 2015 collaborating with pianist Helmut Deutsch in songs by Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann, Richard Strauss, Rodrigo, Granados, Turina, and Obradors.

APOLLON MUSAGÈTE QUARTET
Wednesday, February 7, 2024 at 7:30 PM
(Weill Recital Hall)

Poland’s Apollon Musagète Quartet returns with a program of string quartets, including two posthumously published Schubert compositions: “Quartettsatz" in C Minor, D. 703 and String Quartet in E-flat Major, D. 87, the latter composed when Schubert was 16. The quartet also performs Dvořák’s String Quartet No. 10 in E-flat Major, Op. 51 and Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 8.

VÍKINGUR ÓLAFSSON
Wednesday, February 7, 2024 at 8:00 PM
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)

Following his acclaimed sold-out 2022 concert in Zankel Hall, Víkingur Ólafsson presents his first solo recital in Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage, playing J. S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations.

ORCHESTRA OF ST. LUKE'S
Thursday, February 8, 2024 at 8:00 PM
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)

Principal Conductor Bernard Labadie leads Orchestra of St. Luke’s in Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 and Brahms’s Violin Concerto, featuring esteemed German violinist Isabelle Faust.

UTE LEMPER
Friday, February 9, 2024 at 7:30 PM
(Zankel Hall)

Actress and chanteuse Ute Lemper explores the music of Weimar Berlin and the many artists exiled from it as part of the citywide festival Fall of the Weimar Republic: Dancing on the Precipice. For this concert in Zankel Hall Center Stage, she is joined by pianist Vana Gierig, bassist Matthew Parrish, and drummer Todd Turkisher in music by Hollaender, Weill, Brecht, Schiffer, Spoliansky, and more.

THE NEW YORK POPS
Friday, February 9, 2024 at 8:00 PM
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)

The New York Pops and Music Director Steven Reineke conclude Carnegie Hall’s celebration of the centennial of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, featuring New York Pops pianist Lee Musiker along with selections from Porgy and Bess, Cuban Overture, and several of George and Ira Gershwin’s best-loved songs sung by Broadway’s Montego Glover.

A WELL-BEING CONCERT

KINAN AZMEH'S CITYBAND
Sunday, February 11, 2024 at 5:00 PM
(Resnick Education Wing)

Immerse yourself in a mesmerizing musical performance by “spellbinding” (The New Yorker) clarinetist Kinan Azmeh and his genre-crossing CityBand, hosted by Lucas Johnson. Joined by guitarist Kyle Sanna, percussionist John Hadfield, bassist Josh Myers, and special guest violinist Layale Chaker, Azmeh creates a dynamic blend of classical music, jazz, and the music of his homeland, Syria. Masterful improvisation and elements of interaction with the audience make this Well-Being Concert an especially powerful communal experience.

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.

NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Monday, February 12, 2024 at 8:00 PM
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)

Music Director Gianandrea Noseda leads the National Symphony Orchestra in a concert as part of the citywide festival Fall of the Weimar Republic: Dancing on the Precipice which includes selections from Berg’s Lyric Suite, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3, “Eroica,” and Korngold’s Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35, featuring violinist James Ehnes.

PAVEL KOLESNIKOV, Piano
SAMSON TSOY, Piano
Tuesday, February 13, 2024 at 7:30 PM
(Weill Recital Hall)

Pianists Pavel Kolesnikov and Samson Tsoy make their Carnegie Hall piano-duo debut with the original four-hands version of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, Schubert's F-Minor Fantasie, and the US Premiere of Leonid Desyatnikov’s Trompe-l'œil—commissioned for Mr. Kolesnikov and Mr. Tsoy by the Aldeburgh Festival in 2023.

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POWER NETWORK
Tuesday, February 13, 2024 at 8:00 PM
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)

A BLACK HISTORY MONTH CONVERSATION AND CELEBRATION

Following a groundbreaking premiere in 2023, the Power Network returns with its second annual Black History Month Conversation and Celebration featuring a performance by Grammy Award–nominated, 10X platinum artist Rick Ross performing with orchestra. This year’s program welcomes back Chairman and CEO of Vista Equity Partners Robert F. Smith and features dynamic panel discussions led by the financial-empowerment visionaries of Earn Your Leisure—Rashad Bilal and Troy Millings. Governor of Maryland and best-selling author GovernorWes Moore and founder & CEO of HarbourView Equity Partners Sherrese Clarke Soares also join the program alongside other industry leaders in candid conversation about leveraging content, influence, and technology to drive real change and close the economic divide. Additional panelists to be announced in the coming weeks. The event will also feature a musical performance by DJ Suss One, house DJ on the Sherri Shepherd show.

SOLOISTS OF THE KRONBERG ACADEMY
TABEA ZIMMERMANN, Viola
Thursday, February 15, 2024 at 7:30 PM
(Zankel Hall)

Four exceptionally talented young artists from the world-renowned Kronberg Academy in Germany join violist Tabea Zimmermann for works by Brahms, Hindemith, and Korngold as part of the citywide festival Fall of the Weimar Republic: Dancing on the Precipice, performed in the intimate setting of Zankel Hall Center Stage.

ENSEMBLE CONNECT
Tuesday, February 20, 2024 at 7:30 PM
(Weill Recital Hall)

The musicians of Ensemble Connect return for the second of three concerts in Weill Recital Hall this season with the New York premiere of a new work by inti figgis-vizueta (commissioned by Carnegie Hall); Beethoven’s Quintet for Piano and Winds in E-flat Major, Op. 16; Gabriela Lena Frank’s Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout, and De Memorias—a woodwind quintet by Carnegie Hall’s 2023–2024 Debs Composer’s Chair, Tania León.

YUNCHAN LIM, Piano
Wednesday, February 21, 2024 at 8:00 PM
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)

In June 2022, Yunchan Lim became the youngest person ever to win gold at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. He makes his Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage debut with an all-Chopin program of études.

AN EVENING WITH JOHN WILLIAMS AND YO-YO MA
Thursday, February 22, 2024 at 7:00 PM
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)

Legendary composer John Williams returns to Carnegie Hall with The Philadelphia Orchestra leading a performance of his own Cello Concerto, played by Yo-Yo Ma—which Williams composed for Ma in 1994—plus the celebratory Just Down West Street ... on the left, composed as a gift for the Tanglewood Music Center’s 75th anniversary. Conductor Stéphane Denève then joins the program to conduct a grand tour through some of Williams’s most iconic film music—including selections from the Indiana Jones and Star Wars series, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, and The Book Thief—as well as his quintessential Olympic Fanfare and Theme.

TIMO ANDRES, Piano
Friday, February 23, 2024 at 7:30 PM
(Zankel Hall)

Pianist and composer Timo Andres presents an intimate recital in Zankel Hall Center Stage of wide-ranging American music by Ellington (in arrangements by Andres), Copland, Rzewski, and Philip Glass, plus the world premiere of Andres’ original work Fiddlehead and the New York premiere of Gabriella Smith’s Imaginary Pancake (both commissioned by Carnegie Hall).

KANDACE SPRINGS, Piano and Vocals
Saturday, February 24, 2024 at 9:00 PM
(Zankel Hall)

Nashville’s Kandace Springs—a rising star with a singularly soulful voice—performs in the intimate setting of Zankel Hall Center Stage, joined by bassist Caylen Bryant and drummer Camille Gainer.

CARMINA BURANA
Tuesday, February 27, 2024 at 8:00 PM
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)

As part of the citywide festival Fall of the Weimar Republic: Dancing on the Precipice, Tito Muñoz leads Orchestra of St. Luke’s in Orff’s Carmina Burana, featuring soprano Ying Fang, tenor Nicholas Phan, baritone Norman Garrett, the Westminster Symphonic Choir, and the Young People’s Chorus of New York City.

ANYTHING GOES: THE ROLE OF MUSIC IN SOCIETY
Wednesday, February 28, 2024 at 5:30 PM
(Resnick Education Wing)

Leading observers and cultural historians Larry Diamond, Oliver Rathkolb, Nadine Rossol, and music director of The Cleveland Orchestra and Perspectives artist Franz Welser-Möst offer an engaging discussion moderated by Sheri Berman as part of the citywide festival Fall of the Weimar Republic: Dancing on the Precipice. They lead a conversation comparing current political and social conditions with those accompanying the new music and art styles of the “anything-goes” society of the 1920s—conditions that by 1933, led to the demise of democracy and the rise of authoritarianism.

STANDARD TIME WITH MICHAEL FEINSTEIN
Wednesday, February 28, 2024 at 7:30 PM
(Zankel Hall)

With suave vocalism and charismatic stage presence, singer-songwriter Michael Feinstein returns with a program celebrating the Great American Songbook and Broadway titled A Salutre to New York City.

BEATRICE RANA, Piano
Wednesday, February 28, 2024 at 8:00 PM
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)

Italian pianist Beatrice Rana returns in recital, performing Scriabin’s Fantasy in B Minor, Op. 28; Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s rarely heard Cipressi, Op. 17; solo piano works by Debussy, and Liszt’s Piano Sonata in B Minor.

THE KNIGHTS
Thursday, February 29, 2024 at 7:30 PM
(Zankel Hall)

The Knights return for the second of their boundary-expanding three-concert series, led by artistic directors Colin and Eric Jacobsen. As part of the citywide Fall of the Weimar Republic festival, the ensemble looks both to the past and present through multiple layers of history and culture—exploring the connections between music by Ravel, Weill, Bob Dylan, and Chico Buarque. The ensemble is joined by violinist and singer-songwriter Christina Courtin and special guest vocalist Magos Herrera, as well as acclaimed pipa player Wu Manas soloist in the world premiere of a work by Du Yun (co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall).