Carnegie Hall

MUSICAL EXPLORERS FAMILY
Saturday, January 14, 2023 at 12:00 PM & 3:00 PM
(Zankel Hall)

Families will enjoy meeting artists from around the globe in this vibrant, highly interactive concert presentation designed for children ages 4–-8. Two Saturday afternoon Musical Explorers performances explore musical traditions that can found in New York City, including Gullah music with Quiana, Malian traditional music with Yacouba, and hip-hop with Soul Science Lab. Free pre-concert activities take place in Zankel Hall one hour before the performance.

THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA
Wednesday, January 18, 2023 at 8:00 PM
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)

Music DirectorFranz Welser-Möst leads The Cleveland Orchestra in Berg’s Lyric Suite and two works by Schubert: his Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, D. 759, “Unfinished,” and Mass No. 6 in E-flat Major, D. 950 featuring soprano Joélle Harvey, mezzo-soprano Daryl Freedman, tenors Julian Prégardien and Martin Mitterrutzner, bass Dashon Burton, and The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus. This performance will be heard live by listeners around the world through the Carnegie Hall Live broadcast and digital series, created in partnership with WQXR. Co-hosted by WQXR’s Jeff Spurgeon and New Sound'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.

yMUSIC
Thursday, January 19, 2023 at 7:30 PM
(Zankel Hall)

Genre-defying chamber ensemble yMusic—which NPR has called “one of the groups that really helped to shape the future of classical music— presents the world premiere of a new work by Allison Loggins-Hull and the New York premiere of Difference by Andrew Norman, both co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall. The program, presented in Zankel Hall’s “in the round” Center Stage configuration, also features the New York premiere of several pieces collectively written by the chamber sextet themselves.

NOBUYUKI TSUJII, Piano
Thursday, January 19, 2023 at 8:00 PM
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)

Pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii returns in his first Carnegie Hall performance since 2019, presenting an expansive program that includes major showpieces by Beethoven, Liszt, and Ravel, plus Kapustin’s Eight Concert Etudes, Op. 40.

THIRD COAST PERCUSSION
MOVEMENT ART IS
feat. JON BOOGZ & LIL BUCK
Friday, January 20, 2023 at 7:30 PM
(Zankel Hall)

Grammy Award–winning ensemble Third Coast Percussion is joined by Movement Art Is featuring co-founders, choreographers and movement artists Jon Boogz and Lil Buck for a multi-sensory evening of new works by composers who play with electronic soundscapes. This program includes the New York premieres of Tyondai Braxton’s Sunny X and Jlin’s Perspective (both co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall), and selections from Philip Glass’s Aguas da Amazonia (arranged by Third Coast Percussion). This concert will be performed in the Zankel Hall Center Stage configuration.

PAULINE OLIVEROS AT 90
Saturday, January 21, 2023 at 9:00 PM
(Zankel Hall)

Claire Chase’s residency as the Debs Creative Chair launches with a weekend of events celebrating her late mentor Pauline Oliveros in advance of the late composer’s 90th birthday. In this all-Oliveros program presented in Zankel Hall’s Center Stage configuration, a brilliant group of artists including Chase, vocalist Lisa E. Harris, percussionists Susie Ibarra and Tyshawn Sorey, pianist Alex Peh, Senem Pirler on live electronics and saxophonist Matana Roberts join with the audience to experience and become a part of two pieces of music built from the ground up every time they are performed: The Witness and The Tuning Meditation. Forest wisdom defender Manari Ushigua, anthropologist Eduardo Kohn, and artist-author IONE(Oliveros’ creative partner and spouse) join as special guests.

CLAIRE CHASE: DAY OF LISTENING
Sunday, January 22, 2023 at 10:30 AM (Part One) & 2:00 PM (Part Two)
(Zankel Hall)

Claire Chase, holder of Carnegie Hall’s Debs Creative Chair this season, hosts a daylong musical exploration for families and people of all ages to explore the legacy of visionary performer and composer Pauline Oliveros on Sunday, January 22. Attendees will experience Oliveros’s work through activities that blur the lines between listening, learning, and performing. The “Day of Listening” will be split into two sessions—“Part One” is geared towards families with small children, inviting children to interact with musicians directly and experience Zankel Hall from its Center Stage configuration; “Part Two” is for all ages, and introduces Oliveros’s concept of Deep Listening™ as the audience becomes part of the performance itself.

THE MET ORCHESTRA CHAMBER ENSEMBLE
Monday, January 23, 2023 at 7:30 PM
(Weill Recital Hall)

Baritone Joshua Hopkins joins The Met Orchestra Chamber Ensemble for an all-French program including music by Poulenc, Caplet, Debussy, and Saint Saëns.

RHIANNON GIDDENS
WITH FRANCESCO TURRISI:
THEY’RE CALLING ME HOME
Tuesday, January 24, 2023 at 7:30 PM
(Zankel Hall)

Perspectives artist Rhiannon Giddens comes together with Francesco Turrisi and bassist Jason Sypher performing songs from their Grammy Award–winning album They’re Calling Me Home, conceived and recorded in Ireland during the COVID-19 lockdown. This concert will be performed in the Zankel Hall Center Stage configuration.

MAO FUJITA, Piano
Wednesday, January 25, 2023 at 8:00 PM
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)

Pianist Mao Fujita makes his highly anticipated Carnegie Hall debut. Born in Tokyo, Mr. Fujita has earned worldwide acclaim for recital performances at major international festivals, collaborations with an enviable list of top orchestras, and commanding performances at such prestigious competitions as Switzerland’s Clara Haskil Piano Competition (First Place) and the International Tchaikovsky Competition (Silver Medal). In 2021, he signed an exclusive multi-album deal with Sony Classical International, a partnership that was launched with his eagerly-anticipated studio recording of Mozart’s complete piano sonatas in October 2022. At Carnegie Hall, Mr. Fujita performs works by Mozart, Brahms, Liszt, Clara Schumann, and Robert Schumann.

KRONOS QUARTET
Friday, January 27, 2023 at 7:30 PM
(Zankel Hall)

With this program, Kronos Quartet showcases its virtuosity and adventuresome spirit, performing a diverse collection of works written or arranged for the quartet, including four pieces that have emerged from Kronos’s singular Fifty for the Future project. The concert, performed in Zankel Hall’s Center Stage configuration, features works by women composers—Aftab Darvishi, Angélique Kidjo, Soo Yeon Lyuh, and Peni Candra Rini—all co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall. Also on the program is the world premiere of Eiko Otake’s eyes closed featuring the composer as a special guest movement artist, and New York premieres by Mazz Swift, Mary Kouyoumdjian, Vân-Ánh Võ, and Nicole Lizée.

THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA
Saturday, January 28, 2023 at 2:00 PM
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)

Celebrating the 150th birthday of Sergei Rachmaninoff, Yuja Wang joins Yannick Nézet-Séguin and The Philadelphia Orchestra for an unprecedented, all-Rachmaninoff afternoon marathon concert. With a program that includes all four of the composer’s piano concertos, plus the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, this event marks the first time that the complete Rachmaninoff concerti will ever have been performed together at Carnegie Hall.

JUAN DIEGO FLÓREZ, Tenor
VINCENZO SCALERA, Piano
Sunday, January 29, 2023 at 2:00 PM
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)

Tenor Juan Diego Flórez returns to Carnegie Hall to perform selections by Gluck, Rossini, Donizetti, Verdi, Puccini, and more, collaborating with pianist Vincenzo Scalera.

LEIF OVE ANDSNES, Piano
Tuesday, January 31, 2023 at 8:00 PM
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)

Renowned pianist Leif Ove Andsnes returns to Carnegie Hall for his first recital since 2015, presenting piano sonatas by Janáček and Beethoven, as well as Vustin’s Lamento, Valentin Silvestrov’s Bagatelle III, and Dvořák’s Poetic Tone Pictures, Op. 85.