Carnegie Hall

Celebrating 50 years during the 2024–2025 season, New York City’s Orchestra of St. Luke’s (OSL) and its acclaimed concert musicians make their artistic home at Carnegie Hall, where OSL has performed more than any other orchestra since making its debut there in 1983. Bernard Labadie, an internationally renowned specialist in 18th-century music, was named OSL’s principal conductor in 2018 and will step down in 2025, concluding an expansive and critically acclaimed tenure. OSL’s annual season features a concert series in each of Carnegie Hall’s three venues as well as the Visionary Sounds and DeGaetano Composition Institute programs, which focus on contemporary composers at The DiMenna Center for Classical Music—a rehearsal, recording, and performance facility that OSL built in 2011 in Manhattan’s Hudson Yards neighborhood. OSL proudly collaborates with the Paul Taylor Dance Company in its Lincoln Center season each year and performs with a variety of artistic partners at venues throughout the city and beyond. Founded in 1974 when a group of virtuoso chamber musicians began performing together in Greenwich Village at The Church of St. Luke in the Fields, the ensemble later expanded into an orchestra before catching fire in New York’s classical music scene. OSL has participated in 120 recordings, four of which have won Grammy Awards; has commissioned more than 75 new works; and has given more than 200 world, US, and New York premieres. OSL champions composers from groups historically underrepresented in classical music. In recent seasons, it has presented works by Kinan Azmeh, Margaret Bonds, Valerie Coleman, Julius Eastman, Wynton Marsalis, Florence Price, Rita Dove, and Chen Yi, among others. Central to OSL’s mission is the Education and Community Engagement program, which presents free concerts to thousands of New York City public school students each year; offers the 120-student–strong Youth Orchestra of St. Luke’s (YOSL), the city’s only youth orchestra under the umbrella of a professional group; provides a mentorship program for pre-professional musicians; and brings accessible concerts to all five boroughs. To learn more, visit OSLmusic.org and follow @OSLmusic on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Spotify, and TikTok.

French conductor Louis Langrée was named director of the Théâtre national de l’Opéra Comique in 2021 by French President Emmanuel Macron. Following 10 successful years as music director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Mr. Langrée has been appointed music director laureate, with his first return to the orchestra in this role scheduled for the 2025–2026 season.

In the 2024–2025 season, Mr. Langrée brings l’Opéra Comique to Lille, France, with a production of Gounod’s Faust. On the symphonic stage, he conducts Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Carnegie Hall, Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal, and NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra in Bremen, Lubeck, and Hamburg; in addition, he leads the Juilliard Orchestra in a program of works by Ravel, and returns to the Interlochen and Ravinia festivals. Recent highlights include performances of Thomas’s Hamlet; performances of new works by Jonathan Bailey Holland, Bryce Dessner, and Anthony Davis with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; and Carmen with l’Opéra Comique at the Edinburgh International Festival.

A regular presence in New York since his 1998 debut, Mr. Langrée has conducted approximately 250 performances and concerts at the Mostly Mozart Festival, Metropolitan Opera, and New York Philharmonic. Guest-conducting engagements have included performances with the Berliner Philharmoniker; Vienna and Czech philharmonics; London Philharmonic Orchestra; Philadelphia, Budapest Festival, and Leipzig Gewandhaus orchestras; NHK Symphony Orchestra; Orchestre National de France; Orchestre de Paris; Orchestre des Champs-Élysées; Freiburg Barockorchester; and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. In addition to the Met, he frequently conducts at such leading opera houses as the Vienna and Bavarian state operas; Teatro alla Scala; Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; and Lyric Opera of Chicago, as well as at festivals that include Glyndebourne, Aix-en-Provence, BBC Proms, Edinburgh International, Hong Kong Arts, Wiener Festwochen, Salzburg Mozartwoche, and Whitsun.

An advocate for the music of our time, Mr. Langrée has conducted world premieres by Julia Adolphe, Daníel Bjarnason, Anna Clyne, Guillaume Connesson, Jonathan Bailey Holland, David Lang, Nico Muhly, André Previn, Christopher Rouse, Caroline Shaw, and Julia Wolfe.

Acclaimed for his stellar stage presence and joyous musicianship, cellist Sterling Elliott is a 2021 Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient and the winner of the Senior Division of the 2019 National Sphinx Competition. He has appeared with major orchestras that include the Philadelphia and Cleveland orchestras, New York and Los Angeles philharmonics, and Boston Symphony Orchestra.

In the 2024–2025 season, Mr. Elliott debuts with the Atlanta, Ann Arbor, and Wilmington symphony orchestras; Columbus, Des Moines, and Winston-Salem symphonies; and Reno Philharmonic. In addition, he joins the Madison Symphony Orchestra for Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with Gil and Orli Shaham, and returns to Carnegie Hall with Orchestra of St. Luke’s led by Louis Langrée. Other highlights include a tour of New Zealand as the YCAT–Music Masters Robey Artist with the London-based Young Classical Artists Trust, as well as appearances at Wigmore Hall, Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie, Konzerthaus Berlin, and Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, among others. Also this season, he begins his tenure as a BBC New Generation Artist as well as a three-year residency in the Bowers Program of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, appearing with the ensemble at Alice Tully Hall and on tour throughout the US.

Mr. Elliott has a long history with the Sphinx Organization, where he won the 2014 Junior Division Competition, becoming the first alumnus from the Sphinx Performance Academy to win the competition. Last season, he received the Sphinx Medal of Excellence, the highest honor bestowed by the Sphinx Organization.

Mr. Elliott is currently pursuing an artist diploma at The Juilliard School under the tutelage of Joel Krosnick and Clara Kim, following completion of his Master of Music and undergraduate degrees at Juilliard. He is an ambassador of Young Strings of America, a string sponsorship operated by Shar Music. He performs on a 1741 Gennaro Gagliano cello on loan through the Robert F. Smith Fine String Patron Program, in partnership with the Sphinx Organization.