Carnegie Hall

OMAR SOSA AND SECKOU KEITA
A Well-Being Concert
Saturday, February 1 at 6:00 PM
(Zankel Hall Center Stage)

Audience members are invited to experience the transportive power of music in a Well-Being Concert specially programmed for Carnegie Hall’s immersive Zankel Hall Center Stage. Hosted by National Humanities Medal recipient and Peabody Award–winning journalist, author, and radio host Krista Tippett, this performance features a collaboration between Cuban jazz pianist Omar Sosa, Senegalese kora master Seckou Keita, and Venezuelan percussion virtuoso Gustavo Ovalles. This concert is part of the citywide festival Nuestros sonidos.

SEONG-JIN CHO, Piano
Wednesday, February 5 at 8:00 PM
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)

Following multiple sold-out recitals at Carnegie Hall in recent years, pianist Seong-Jin Cho returns with an all-Ravel program, performing the composer’s complete solo piano works, in recognition of the 150th anniversary of Ravel’s birth.

ANTHONY MCGILL, Clarinet
EMANUEL AX, Piano
Thursday, February 6 at 7:30 PM
(Zankel Hall Center Stage)

Principal clarinetist of the New York Philharmonic Anthony McGill pairs up with pianist Emanuel Ax for a program to include James Lee III’s Ad anah?, Schubert’s Sonata in A Minor, D. 821, “Arpeggione,” Price’s Adoration, Jessie Montgomery’s Peace, R. Schumann’s Fantasiestücke, Op. 73, Bernstein’s Clarinet Sonata, and Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp Minor, Op. 27, No. 2, “Moonlight".”

This concert 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.

THE NEW YORK POPS
Friday, February 7 at 8:00 PM
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)

The New York Pops and Music Director Steven Reineke are joined by guest artist singer and pianist Tony DeSare; trumpet player and vocalist Bria Skonberg; and tap dancer and vocalist John Manzari as they give their fresh spin on Cole Porter’s hits.

CLAUDIA ACUÑA, Vocals
Friday, February 7 at 9:00 PM
(Zankel Hall Center Stage)

Chilean jazz vocalist and Latin Grammy nominee Claudia Acuña performs treasures from the Latin American songbook in the intimate Zankel Hall Center Stage. Among the featured selections are festive and poignant songs made famous to American listeners by Nat King Cole’s trio of Spanish-language albums. This concert is part of the citywide festival Nuestros sonidos.

ENSEMBLE CONNECT
Monday, February 10 at 7:30 PM
(Weill Recital Hall)

Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect offers a program that begins with Schubert’s unfinished “Quartettsatz,” which endures today as a striking single movement and one of music’s great “what-ifs.” Two New York premieres followed by Katherine Balch, both commissioned by Carnegie Hall. Berio’s Ricorrenze, written for the composer’s friend Pierre Boulez, is featured as part of Carnegie Hall’s ongoing Boulez centennial celebration. The concert closes with Beethoven’s Septet in E-flat Major, Op. 20, one of the septet format’s quintessential works during Beethoven’s lifetime and ours.

THEATRE OF VOICES
Tuesday, February 11 at 7:30 PM
(Zankel Hall Center Stage)

Led by Artistic Director Paul Hillier, the Grammy Award-winning vocal ensemble Theatre of Voices returns with the world premiere of a new work by Julia Wolfe and the US premiere of A Brief Descent into Deep Time by John Luther Adams (both co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall). This Zankel Hall Center Stage program opens with A Western, a recent work by Michael Gordon.

BRENTANO STRING QUARTET
Thursday, February 13 at 7:00 PM
(Zankel Hall Center Stage)

Appearing in the in-the-round setting of Zankel Hall Center Stage, the magnificent Brentano String Quartet returns to perform Haydn’s complete Op. 33 string quartets.

ARYEH NUSSBAUM COHEN, Countertenor
JOHN CHURCHWELL, Piano
Thursday, February 13 at 7:30 PM
(Weill Recital Hall)

Winner of the 2017 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions Grand Final, countertenor Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen and pianist John Churchwell offer a program to include Robert Schumann’s Liederkreis, Op. 39; songs by Korngold, Clara Schumann, Brahms, Janowski, Ravel, Leslie Adams, Price, and Handel; plus the New York premiere of Jake Heggie’s Oh Children: Three Poems by Margaret Atwood.

ORCHESTRA OF ST. LUKE’S
Thursday, February 13 at 8:00 PM
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)

In his final season as Orchestra of St. Luke’s’ Principal Conductor, Bernard Labadie takes to the podium for Haydn’s Introduzione from The Seven Last Words of Christ, Mozart’s Symphony No. 39, and Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5, “Emperor” featuring Marc-André Hamelin.

JINKX MONSOON
Friday, February 14 at 8:00 PM
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)

Actress and vocalist Jinkx Monsoon, who broke box office records in Broadway’s Chicago and made history as the first and only artist to win RuPaul’s Drag Race twice, makes her Carnegie Hall debut. This extraordinary entertainer with an irresistibly wicked-but-welcoming sense of humor is joined by a first-rate band (and special guests) in original songs and inspired covers that range from cabaret, blues, show tunes, and torch songs to high-energy rock and pop.

JENNIFER SIMARD
CHRISTOPHER SIEBER
Monday, February 17 at 7:30 PM
(Zankel Hall)

Tony Award nominees Jennifer Simard and Christopher Sieber present a concert performance of the delightful off-Broadway hit Pete ‘n’ Keely, a playfully knowing throwback to the variety shows of the 1960s, called “the brightest, happiest, and most entertaining little show in town” (The New York Observer).

YUJA WANG, Piano
VÍKINGUR ÓLAFSSON, Piano
Wednesday, February 19 at 8:00 PM
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)

In an all-star pairing, pianists Yuja Wang and Víkingur Ólafsson offer a duo-recital program to include Berio’s “Wasserklavier” from Six Encores for Piano, Schubert’s Fantasie in F Minor, D. 940, Cage’s Experiences No.1, Nancarrow’s Study No. 6 (arr. Thomas Adès), John Adams’s Hallelujah Junction, Arvo Pärt’s Hymn to a Great City, and Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances.

THE KNIGHTS
Thursday, February 20 at 7:30 PM
(Zankel Hall)

The Knights—led by conductor Eric Jacobson—are joined by Aoife O’Donovan on vocals and guitar for her own America, Come (arr. Tanner Porter) paired with Felix Mendelssohn’s “Scottish” symphony and traditional Scottish tunes for violin and orchestra. America, Come is an original suite inspired by the lives, letters, and speeches of Carrie Chapman Catt and President Woodrow Wilson in the summer of 1920, when the suffragists made their pivotal march to Tennessee. The program opens with Mozart’s overture to The Marriage of Figaro.

MONSIEUR PERINÉ
Saturday, February 22 at 7:30 PM
(Zankel Hall)

Experience the ensemble that's been described as a “Colombian Postmodern Jukebox” (Billboard). Winner of the 2023 Latin Grammy Award for Best Alternative Album and one of the most exciting ensembles in Latin music today, Bogotá's colorful Monsieur Periné makes its Zankel Hall debut with a program that features an upbeat, swinging blend of Latin American and European flavors as part of the citywide festival Nuestros sonidos.

CONCERTO COPENHAGEN
Tuesday, February 25 at 7:30 PM
(Zankel Hall)

Since its first concerts in 1991, Concerto Copenhagen has developed into one of the leading Baroque orchestras in the world. Joined by artistic director, conductor, and harpsichordist, Lars Ulrik Mortensen at the helm, they perform at Carnegie Hall for the first time, presenting music by Muffat (drawn from their award-winning 2022 album Armonico Tributo), Handel, and J. S. Bach.

STANDARD TIME WITH MICHAEL FEINSTEIN
Wednesday, February 26 at 7:30 PM
(Zankel Hall)

With his trademark insight, sense of humor, and expert curation, entertainer extraordinaire Michael Feinstein presents “I Won’t Dance,” a program of songs that are all about dancing, featuring the Carnegie Hall Big Band.

THIRD COAST PERCUSSION
Thursday, February 27 at 7:30 PM
(Zankel Hall)

Third Coast Percussion returns playing the New York premieres of new works by Jlin, Tigran Hamasyan, Jessie Montgomery, and Zakir Hussain’s Murmurs In Time (co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall) with soloist to be announced in honor of the late tabla virtuoso who passed away in December.

Just Added:
POWER NETWORK
Thursday, February 27 at 8:00 PM
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)

Experience the third edition of Power Network—a groundbreaking Black History Month conversation, celebration, and concert at Carnegie Hall that combines world-class entertainment with invaluable financial insight from business and economic innovators. Host Ed Lover leads a wide-ranging panel of industry leaders, including Chairman and CEO of LVMH (Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton) North America Anish Melwani alongside Rashad Bilal and Troy Millings—the financial empowerment visionaries of Earn Your Leisure—in eye-opening and candid conversations. Plus, enjoy musical performances by hip-hop legend Rakim (one of Billboard’s “10 Greatest Rappers of All Time”) with Igmar Thomas’ 32-piece Revive Big Band orchestra, DJ Spinderella (Salt-N-Pepa), and more!

VIENNA PHILHARMONIC
Friday, February 28 at 8:00 PM
Saturday, March 1 at 8:00 PM
Sunday, March 2 at 2:00 PM
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)

Riccardo Muti leads the Vienna Philharmonic in three concerts with programs to include Mozart’s “Jupiter” Symphony; Schubert’s symphonies nos. 4 (“Tragic”) and 9 (“Great”); Bruckner’s Symphony No. 7; and Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9, “From the New World”; alongside works by Catalani and Stravinsky.

The orchestra’s concert on 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.