Festival

10.31.2026 Alice Tully Hall 11. 1.2026 Woolsey Hall at Yale University Juilliard415, the period-instrument ensemble of The Juilliard School, and Yale Schola Cantorum will perform Bach's St. Matthew Passion The St. Matthew Passion is more than a retelling of Christ’s suffering and death.

Making Opera More Open American composer Missy Mazzoli moves freely between contemporary music, pop, rock, film music, and classical music. In October, her new opera Lincoln in the Bardo will premiere at the Metropolitan Opera. It is the Met’s first commissioned work by a female composer. Based on George

The Journey Begins at Carnegie Hall Canadian conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin will conduct Mahler’s Symphonies Nos. 1 through 9 with three orchestras—the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, and the Vienna Philharmonic—through the 2026–27 season and into spring 2027. At Carnegie Hall in October, he conducts

《For Christian Wolff》, performed at Mise-en-Place on October 6, was written in 1986 as a late major work for Christian Wolff, Feldman’s longtime friend and fellow member of the New York School. Wolff studied with John Cage and, together with Feldman and Brown, pursued new possibilities beyond

9.25.2026 7:30 PM - 9:15 PM Tribeca New Music opens its season with Best in Score 2026, welcoming the Orange Road Quartet for a program centered on new works by emerging composers. Best in Score 2026 The DiMenna Center – Benzaquen Hall, 10018 Artist Orange Road Quartet Lauren

The Berliner Philharmoniker returns to Carnegie Hall in New York for the first time in four years. Their last appearance was in 2022, and once again, the orchestra will be led by chief conductor Kirill Petrenko. October 9, 2026 Berliner Philharmoniker Kirill Petrenko, Chief Conductor Víkingur Ólafsson, Piano Brahms — Piano