Carnegie Hall

VIENNA PHILHARMONIC
Saturday, March 1 at 8:00 PM
Sunday, March 2 at 2:00 PM
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)

Following their performance on February 28, Riccardo Muti leads the Vienna Philharmonic in two back-to-back March concerts with programs to include Mozart’s Symphony No. 41, “Jupiter;” Schubert’s Symphony in C Major, “Great;” and Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9, “From the New World.” The March 1 performance opens with Carnegie Hall’s first-ever performance of Catalani’s Contemplazione and a symphonic suite from Stravinsky’s Le baiser de la fée (The Fairy’s Kiss), which based on The Ice-Maiden, pays tribute to the life and music of Tchaikovsky.

The concert on Saturday, March 1 will be heard by listeners around the world as part of the Carnegie Hall Live broadcast and digital series. Produced by WQXR and Carnegie Hall, and co-hosted by WQXR’s Jeff Spurgeon and WNYC’s 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.

PIERRE-LAURENT AIMARD, Piano
Sunday, March 2 at 2:00 PM
(Weill Recital Hall)

As part of Carnegie Hall’s celebration of the centenary year of the late visionary composer Pierre Boulez’s birth, Pierre-Laurent Aimard—renowned pianist and founding member of Boulez’s Ensemble intercontemporain—presents an intimate recital featuring multiple works by Boulez alongside pieces by Bartók, Ravel, and Schoenberg.

LEONIDAS KAVAKOS, Violin
DANIIL TRIFONOV, Piano
Tuesday, March 4, at 8:00 PM
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)

An all-star duo—violinist Leonidas Kavakos and pianist Daniil Trifonov—offer a recital program featuring pivotal works of violin sonatas by Beethoven, Poulenc, and Brahms as well as Bartók’s Rhapsody No. 1.

LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Wednesday, March 5 at 8:00 PM
Thursday, March 6 at 8:00 PM
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)

The London Symphony Orchestra returns for their first Carnegie Hall appearances in 20 years. Led by newly appointed Chief Conductor Sir Antonio Pappano, the orchestra plays George Walker’s Sinfonia No. 5, “Visions;” Bernstein’s Serenade (after Plato’s Symposium) with violinist Janine Jansen; and Mahler’s Symphony No. 1. The following evening, the orchestra is joined by Yunchan Lim for Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2, on a program that also includes Walton’s Symphony No. 1.

AMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA
Thursday, March 6 at 7:30 PM
(Zankel Hall)

Tito Muñoz conducts the American Composers Orchestra in Hello, America: Transatlantic, a program featuring music from various parts of Latin America highlighting its influence on jazz and classical music in the US. The performance—part of Carnegie Hall’s season-long Nuestros sonidos (Our Sounds) festival—includes the world premiere of Bordones by Colombian jazz harpist and composer Edmar Castañeda, featuring Castañeda on harp; a new work by Brazilian singer and composer Clarice Assad, featuring Assad on electronics; interludes by Brazilian percussion ensemble Harlem Samba, as well as their take, arranged by Curtis Stewart, on music by Alice Coltrane, inspired by Dvořák; a world premiere of Wayfarer by Tomàs Peire Serrate; as well as music by Tania León.

PARKER QUARTET
Thursday, March 6 at 7:30 PM
(Weill Recital Hall)

The Grammy Award-winning Parker Quartet makes its long-awaited return to Carnegie Hall presenting string quartets by Zemlinsky and Brahms alongside Thomas Adès’s The Four Quarters—a Carnegie Hall commission that was first heard in its 2011 world premiere performed by the Emerson String Quartet at Carnegie Hall.

PALAVER STRINGS
A Well-Being Concert
Friday, March 7 at 6:30 PM
(Resnick Education Wing)

In this interactive Well-Being Concert, the forward-thinking Palaver Strings ensemble takes listeners on an enriching musical journey with two of today’s leading jazz musicians: vocalist Vuyo Sotashe and pianist Chris Pattishall. Together, they celebrate South Africa’s rich musical and linguistic cultures with a program that includes both traditional folk songs and pieces by South African jazz musicians—including original works by Sotashe. Hear songs that celebrate women from multiple perspectives (performed in Xhosa, Sepedi, and Zulu), works that contemplate interactions between humanity and nature, and more.

Well-Being Concerts invite audiences to enjoy world-class music while comfortably exploring techniques for self-care and mindfulness.

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.

ANGEL BLUE, Soprano
LANG LANG, Piano
Saturday, March 8 at 8:00 PM
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)

Grammy Award-winning soprano Angel Blue makes her Carnegie Hall recital debut collaborating with pianist and Perspectives artist Lang Lang in his first full-concert at the Hall collaborating with a vocalist in recital. The program includes works by Richard Strauss, Hoiby, Fauré, Rachmaninoff, Debussy, Copland, and Gershwin as well as traditional spirituals, and more.

DECODA
Tuesday, March 11 at 7:30 PM
(Weill Recital Hall)

Decoda—the affiliate ensemble of Carnegie Hall, comprised of alums of Ensemble Connect—returns with a program inspired by humanity’s intricate nature with the natural world. The evening features A Forest Unfolding, as narrated by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Powers. A collaborative effort from composers David Kirkland Garner, Stephen Jaffe, Eric Moe, and Melinda Wagner—A Forest Unfolding features soprano Lucy Fitz Gibbon and baritone Thomas Meglioranza. The program also includes Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht; Robert Schumann’s “Eintritt” from Waldszenen; Clara Schumann’s “Geheimes Flüstern,” Op. 23; Gustav Mahler’s “Ich ging mit Lust durch einen grünen Wald;” and Alma Mahler’s “Licht in der Nacht.”

LANG LANG, Piano
Wednesday, March 12 at 8:00 PM
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)

World renowned pianist Lang Lang concludes the first season of his two-year Perspectives series with a solo recital featuring Fauré’s Pavane in F-sharp Minor, Robert Schumann’s Kreisleriana, and works by Chopin, including several of the composer’s beloved mazurkas.

THE NEW YORK POPS
Friday, March 14 at 8:00 PM
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)

The New York Pops, led by Steven Reineke, caps their 2024–2025 subscription season with a chronological tribute to the greatest film scores of all-time—from classics like King Kong and Psychoto modern favorites like Jurassic Park and Gladiator.

STEVEN BERNSTEIN’S
MILLENNIAL TERRITORY ORCHESTRA AT 25
Friday, March 14, at 9:00 PM
(Zankel Hall)

Grammy Award-winning trumpeter and bandleader Steven Bernstein has been an essential voice in New York City’s jazz and creative music scene since the 1970s. Prolific, versatile, and undefinable, Bernstein now makes his Carnegie Hall headlining debut, leading his nine-piece “little big band” Millennial Territory Orchestra with special guests: Grammy-winning jazz vocalist Catherine Russell, guitar legend Vernon Reid, and pianist and organist John Medeski. Showcasing Bernstein’s irreverent, genre-crossing musical approach, the program offers a radical reimagining of repertoire that spans 1920s and ’30s swing gems to songs by The Beatles, Charles Mingus, Sly Stone, and Prince.

THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA
Tuesday, March 18 at 8:00 PM
Wednesday, March 19 at 8:00 PM
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)

Music Director Franz Welser-Möst and The Cleveland Orchestra return for two concerts: the first featuring the Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage debut of soprano Asmik Grigorian as part of a program that includes Haydn’s Symphony No. 52 in C Minor, Richard Strauss’s Four Last Songs, Janáček’s Suite from From the House of the Dead (arr. František Jílek), and the final scene from Puccini’s Suor Angelica. The following evening includes a pair of Russian symphonic masterpieces: Stravinsky’s Pétrouchka (1947 version) and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5.

The concert on Wednesday, March 19 will be heard by listeners around the world as part of theCarnegie Hall Livebroadcast and digital series. Produced by WQXR and Carnegie Hall, and co-hosted by WQXR’s Jeff Spurgeon and WNYC’s 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.

NEVERMIND
Wednesday, March 19 at 7:30 PM
(Weill Recital Hall)

The love and passion for ancient repertoire and music from all horizons led Anna Besson(flute), Louis Creac’h (violin), Robin Pharo (viola da gamba), and Jean Rondeau (harpsichord) to create the group Nevermind in 2013. Together, their mission is to share the works they love, showcasing quartet repertoire from the 17th and 18th centuries. The quartet’s program includes music by one of the few well-known women French Baroque composers Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, as well as Couperin and others.

FLEUR BARRON, Mezzo-Soprano
KUNAL LAHIRY, Piano
Thursday, March 20 at 7:30 PM
(Weill Recital Hall)

Mezzo-soprano Fleur Barron returns to the Hall for the first time since 2013 joined by BBC New Generation Artist and frequent collaborator, pianist Kunal Lahiry. In a program titled ‘The Power and the Glory,’ Ms. Barron and Mr. Lahiry explore diverse perspectives on colonial history through songs by Montsalvatge, Valcárcel, Messiaen, Lecuona, Gustav Mahler, Schoenberg, Ilse Weber, Weill/Brecht, Delage, Kamala Sankaram, Ravel, Zubaida Azezi / Edo Frenkel, and Huang Ruo, plus a US premiere by Kian Ravaei and traditional Chinese selections.

NOBUYUKI TSUJII, Piano
Friday, March 21 at 8:00 PM
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)

Celebrated for his recitals in the world’s leading concert halls, pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii returns to Carnegie Hall with music by three of the greatest composers for the piano: Beethoven, Liszt, and Chopin.

THE MET ORCHESTRA CHAMBER ENSEMBLE
Monday, March 24 at 7:30 PM
(Weill Recital Hall)

The Met Orchestra Chamber Ensemble—featuring musicians drawn from the illustrious Met Orchestra—performs Wynton Marsalis’s A Fiddler's Tale Suite alongside Beethoven’s Septet in E-flat Major, Op. 20 and selections from Bolling’s Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio.

JUILLIARD AT ZANKEL HALL
Monday, March 24 at 7:30 PM
(Zankel Hall)

Carnegie Hall presents the first of several upcoming concerts this season and next featuring Juilliard at Zankel Hall with a program of solo and chamber music works by three of the school’s Arnhold Creative Associates: Caroline Shaw, and Juilliard alums Matthew Aucoin and Jessie Montgomery. The compositions—including a world premiere by Shaw—will be performed by Juilliard’s remarkable students in a program co-hosted by Juilliard President Damian Woetzel, Aucoin, Montgomery, and Shaw.

LEIF OVE ANDSNES, Piano
Tuesday, March 25 at 8:00 PM
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)

Internationally acclaimed pianist Leif Ove Andsnes returns with the first-ever Carnegie Hall performance of 20th-century Norwegian composer Geirr Tveitt’s Piano Sonata No. 29—an ambitious work infused with Norwegian folk melodies—paired with Grieg’s sole Piano Sonata. The program’s second half features Chopin’s Twenty-Four Preludes, Op. 28.

TETZLAFF QUARTET
Thursday, March 27 at 7:30 PM
(Zankel Hall)

Since the German ensemble made its Zankel Hall debut in 2008, the Tetzlaff Quartet has been an enduring favorite. This concert program features string quartets by Felix Mendelssohn and Dvořák along with Jörg Widmann’s String Quartet No. 2, “Choralquartett.”

AN EVENING WITH CÉCILE MCLORIN SALVANT
Thursday, March 27 at 8:00 PM
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)

As part of her season-long Perspectives series, three-time Grammy Award-winning vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant is joined by the genre-defying orchestra The Knights, a rhythm section comprising three of today’s most sought-after jazz musicians, as well as mandolinist, singer-songwriter, and audience favorite Chris Thile, just announced as special guest. The program features timeless jazz ballads newly arranged by Darcy James Argue, plus more.

KRONOS QUARTET
Friday, March 28 at 7:30 PM
(Zankel Hall)

The trailblazing Kronos Quartet pays tribute to Terry Riley in honor of his 90th birthday with a program that features music by Sun Ra, reimagined by Terry Riley and Sara Miyamoto in collaboration with Kronos. Also on the program is a new piece by Norwegian artists Benedicte Maurseth and Kristine Tjøgersen (with Maurseth and Kronos joining forces on Hardanger fiddles); New York premieres by Aleksandra Vrebalov and Viet Cuong as well as arrangements of songs made famous by Nina Simone and Neil Young.

MAHLER CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
MITSUKO UCHIDA, Piano and Director
Saturday, March 29 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. 18 in B-flat Major, K. 456 and Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major, K. 467 in the fifth and final chapter of their five-year survey of Mozart concerti by Ms. Uchida and the orchestra. This program also includes Janáček’s Mládí, a sextet that is notable for its characterful wind music.