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Carnegie Hall Presents
Ensemble Connect
Tuesday, February 17, 2026
7:30 PM
Weill Recital Hall
Ensemble Connect by Fadi Kheir
Carnegie Hall’s versatile Ensemble Connect is a chamber group renowned for “fresh, exciting performances charged with creativity, energy, and daring” (New York Classical Review). Tonight’s program features selections by extraordinary American composers, including Ives, Barber, and the visionary George Lewis, whose new Carnegie Hall–commissioned work receives its New York premiere.
Part of: Connections: Ensemble Connect and Decoda and United in Sound: America at 250
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Performers
Ensemble Connect
Program
Program to include:
GEORGE LEWIS New Work (NY Premiere, commissioned by Carnegie Hall)
IVES String Quartet No. 1, "From the Salvation Army"
BARBER Adagio for Strings
Ensemble Connect is a program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and the Weill Music Institute in partnership with the New York City Department of Education.
Lead funding has been provided by Max H. Gluck Foundation, the Hearst Foundations, The Kovner Foundation, Phyllis and Charles Rosenthal, Edmond de Rothschild Family Philanthropy, Beatrice Santo Domingo, and Hope and Robert F. Smith.
Global Ambassadors: Michael ByungJu Kim and Kyung Ah Park, Hope and Robert F. Smith, and Maggie and Richard Tsai.
Additional support has been provided by the Kathi and Peter Arnow Foundation, Ronald E. Blaylock and Petra Pope, E.H.A. Foundation, Barbara G. Fleischman, Clive and Anya Gillinson, Stella and Robert Jones, Martha and Robert Lipp, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Susan and Elihu Rose Foundation, Melanie and Jean E. Salata, The Morris and Alma Schapiro Fund, Sarah Billinghurst Solomon and Howard Solomon, Carlos Tome and Theresa Kim, and David S. Winter.
Lead funding has been provided by Max H. Gluck Foundation, the Hearst Foundations, The Kovner Foundation, Phyllis and Charles Rosenthal, Edmond de Rothschild Family Philanthropy, Beatrice Santo Domingo, and Hope and Robert F. Smith.
Global Ambassadors: Michael ByungJu Kim and Kyung Ah Park, Hope and Robert F. Smith, and Maggie and Richard Tsai.
Additional support has been provided by the Kathi and Peter Arnow Foundation, Ronald E. Blaylock and Petra Pope, E.H.A. Foundation, Barbara G. Fleischman, Clive and Anya Gillinson, Stella and Robert Jones, Martha and Robert Lipp, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Susan and Elihu Rose Foundation, Melanie and Jean E. Salata, The Morris and Alma Schapiro Fund, Sarah Billinghurst Solomon and Howard Solomon, Carlos Tome and Theresa Kim, and David S. Winter.
Ensemble Connect is also supported, in part, by endowment grants from The Kovner Foundation and the Estate of Eleanor Doblin Unger.
Ensemble Connect is also supported, in part, by endowment grants from The Kovner Foundation and the Estate of Eleanor Doblin Unger.
Support for United in Sound: America at 250 is provided by the Hearst Foundations.