Carnegie Hall

SOMI
A Well-Being Concert
Sunday, January 11 at 5:00 PM
(Resnick Education Wing)

Grammy-nominated and NAACP Image Award–winning jazz, soul, and pop vocalist Somi leads this Well-Being Concert featuring her transatlantic, electro-acoustic blend of musical genres and sonic storytelling. Carnegie Hall’s Well-Being Concerts invite audiences to enjoy world-class musical performances while exploring ideas of mindfulness and self-care.

SONGSTUDIO PUBLIC MASTER CLASSES
Lisette Oropesa Monday, January 12 at 6:00 PM
Bryan Wagorn Tuesday, January 13 at 6:00 PM
Anthony Roth Costanzo Thursday, January 15 at 6:00 PM
Lawrence Brownlee Friday, January 16 at 6:00 PM
(Resnick Education Wing)

SONGSTUDIO: YOUNG ARTISTS RECITAL
Sunday, January 18 at 7:30 PM
(Zankel Hall)

Designed to renew and refresh the presentation and experience of the vocal recital, SongStudio brings leading artists together to mentor emerging vocalists and collaborative pianists, exploring innovative approaches to both classic and current song repertoire. A week of public master classes led by soprano Lisette Oropesa, pianist Bryan Wagorn, countertenor and SongStudio 2026 Artistic Director Anthony Roth Costanzo, and tenor Lawrence Brownlee culminates in an adventurous Young Artists Recital in Zankel Hall, showcasing the vocalists and pianists who have taken part in this intensive program. Created with Costanzo, maverick artist and director Doug Fitch, and pianist and scholar Javier Arrebola, the performance—titled Songs from the Edge of Reality—explores what the space between real and imagined sounds like.

RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN’S OKLAHOMA! IN CONCERT
Monday, January 12 at 7:00 PM
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)

Launching Carnegie Hall’s United in Sound: America at 250 festival, New York’s Orchestra of St. Luke’s brings Rodgers and Hammerstein’s first Broadway classic—Oklahoma!—to the Carnegie Hall concert stage. Conducted by Emmy- and Grammy-winning music director Rob Berman, this concert features the original orchestrations by iconic Broadway and Hollywood arranger Robert Russell Bennett. Cast members include Tony- and Grammy Award-nominee Micaela Diamond as Laurey Williams (Parade and The Cher Show) and opera baritone Emmett O’Hanlon as Curly McLain in the lead roles as well as Parvesh Cheena (best known for his TV roles in Outsourced and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend), Jonathan Christopher (Sweeney Todd), Tony Award nominee Andrew Durand (Dead Outlaw), Ana Gasteyer (Wicked and The Rocky Horror Show), Tony Award winner David Hyde Pierce (Curtains), and Tony Award nominee Jasmine Amy Rogers (BOOP! The Musical).

THE MET ORCHESTRA CHAMBER ENSEMBLE
Monday, January 12 at 7:30 PM
(Weill Recital Hall)

The Met Orchestra Chamber Ensemble series features musicians from the legendary Met Orchestra in a variety of unique performances throughout the season. For this concert, acclaimed soloists soprano Erin Morley and tenor Lawrence Brownlee are featured in this program of works by Mozart, Schubert, and Messiaen.

ISABEL LEONARD AND FRIENDS
Thursday, January 15 at 8:00 PM
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)

Perspectives artist Isabel Leonard welcomes fellow star of the Metropolitan Opera, Ryan Speedo Green, and vocalist and actor Jordan Donica (Broadway’s Sunset Boulevard and Camelot, The Gilded Age) for this one-night-only performance. Joined by collaborative pianist John Arida, they perform a wide range of repertoire drawn from the 1930s and ’40s songbooks of Bernstein, Berlin, Ellington, Porter, Still, Price, Copland, Weill, and more.

MUSICAL EXPLORERS FAMILY CONCERTS
Saturday, January 17 at 12:00 PM
Saturday, January 17 at 3:00 PM
(Zankel Hall)

Families are invited to discover music from around the world at this popular and highly interactive concert program. Designed for children ages 4-8, these performances features stirring American freedom songs with S T A R R busby; vibrant Puerto Rican bomba and plena with Juan Gutiérrez, and Julia Gutiérrez-Rivera; and colorful Indian classical music with Grammy Award winner Falu Shah.

THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA
Tuesday, January 20 at 8:00 PM
Wednesday, January 21 at 8:00 PM
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)

Music Director Franz Welser-Möst and The Cleveland Orchestra return for two concerts, beginning with Verdi’s epic Requiem with soprano Asmik Grigorian, mezzo-soprano Deniz Uzun, tenor Joshua Guerrero, bass Tareq Nazmi, and The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus. The following evening’s performance includes Mozart’s Symphony No. 41, “Jupiter” and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 11, “The Year 1905.”

The performance of Verdi’s Requiem on January 20 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.

JAEMIN HAN, Cello
JANICE CARISSA, Piano
Wednesday, January 21 at 7:30 PM
(Weill Recital Hall)

Part of Carnegie Hall’s Distinctive Debuts series, South Korean cellist Jaemin Han—the youngest musician to win the Grand Prix at the George Enescu International Competition is joined by pianist Janice Carissa for cello sonatas by Debussy and Prokofiev, Glazunov’s Chant du ménéstrel, and Franck’s Violin Sonata, transcribed for cello by Delsart.

RACHELL ELLEN WONG, Violin
DAVID BELKOVSKI, Harpsichord
Thursday, January 22 at 7:30 PM
(Weill Recital Hall)

For this early music program, violinist Rachell Ellen Wong—the sole Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient in Baroque music—partners with harpsichordist David Belkovski for a wide-ranging program to include works by Biber, J. S. Bach, Veracini, Tartini, Royer, Leclair, and Corelli. Cellist Coleman Itzkoff is also featured at this performance.

IGOR LEVIT, Piano
Thursday, January 22 at 8:00 PM
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)

Beloved pianist Igor Levit returns in recital to play Beethoven’s monumental Thirty-Three Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli, Op. 120 alongside Rzewski’s The People United Will Never Be Defeated variations.

SŌ PERCUSSION
Friday, January 23 at 9:00 PM
(Zankel Hall)

Part of Carnegie Hall’s United in Sound: America at 250 festival, Sō Percussion returns with a program titled American Flow (Vol. 1) featuring premieres by leading American musical innovators that celebrate the bi-directional impact of popular genres like jazz, tap, hip-hop, rock, and disco on concert music and experimental music. The evening features the world premiere of a new work by Bryce Dessner (co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall) as well as New York premieres by Caroline Shaw, Kendall K. Williams, and interdisciplinary tap dance artist and composer Michael J. Love, who performs a work created with Jason Treuting of Sō Percussion.

JAMES AUSTIN SMITH
A Well-Being Concert
Saturday, January 24 at 5:00 PM
(Resnick Education Wing)

Oboist James Austin Smith calls himself “a musician with a passion for communication, [who] specializes in deepening the listening experience through engaging commentary and attempted humor.” At this performance, he leads a Well-Being Concert, part of Carnegie Hall’s series that invites audiences to enjoy world-class musical performances while exploring ideas of mindfulness and self-care.

SONGS OF AMERICA
Saturday, January 24 at 8:00 PM
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)

Part of Carnegie Hall’s United in Sound: America at 250 festival, Music Director Ray Chew leads Songs of America, a celebration of iconic, genre-spanning songs that have defined the heart, sound, and soul of America through the decades with co-producer Vivian Scott Chew. The evening features DJ / rapper Kid Capri, pianist Min Kwon, gospel singer Donnie McClurkin, guitarist Joel Hoekstra, singer CP Lacey, bandleader Tito Puente Jr., guitarist and songwriter Vernon Reid, singer-songwriter Kathy Sledge, Tony Award winner Ali Stroker, and Young, Gifted and Broadway.

LEIF OVE ANDSNES, Piano
Tuesday, January 27 at 8:00 PM
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)

Celebrated pianist Leif Ove Andsnes returns in recital, performing rarely heard selections by György Kurtág and Robert Schumann; the complete Book I of Janáček’s seminal On the Overgrown Path piano cycle; and Carnaval, Schumann’s beloved set of 21 miniatures.

AXELLE FANYO, Soprano
JULIUS DRAKE, Piano
Wednesday, January 28 at 7:30 PM
(Weill Recital Hall)

French soprano and 2025 Grammy Award winner Axelle Fanyo is joined by pianist Julius Drake for an eclectic recital program titled Master and Apprentice to include works by Schoenberg, Cage, Messiaen, and William Bolcom.

TIMO ANDRES, Piano
AARON DIEHL, Piano
Wednesday, January 28 at 7:30 PM
(Zankel Hall)

Composer-pianists Timo Andres and Aaron Diehl come together for a boundary-pushing duo-recital that includes the world premiere of a new work by Andres (commissioned by Carnegie Hall) plus selections from his album Shy and Mighty. The performance—part of Carnegie Hall’s United in Sound: America at 250 festival—also features Julia Wolfe’s my lips from speaking, Ellington’s “Tonk,” Monk’s “Green Chimneys” along with other compositions by Timo Andres.

BROOKLYN RIDER
Thursday, January 29 at 7:30 PM
(Zankel Hall)

Brooklyn Rider returns with Citizenship Notes, a program in which the string quartet is explored as a microcosm of democracy: an “ecosystem of equal voices with clear rights and responsibilities,” per the ensemble. Part of Carnegie Hall’s United in Sound: America at 250 festival, this concert features New York premieres of works by Don Byron, Ted Hearne, and Angélica Negrón, all co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall. The ensemble also performs Haydn’s String Quartet in F Minor, Op. 20, No. 5 and a new arrangement of Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are a-Changin’” by Colin Jacobson. The evening concludes with Beethoven’s heroic Third “Razumovsky” Quartet, which the ensemble suggests holds “the ultimate representation of a musical democracy” in its fugal final movement.

RUCKUS AND DAVÓNE TINES
Friday, January 30 at 7:30 PM
(Zankel Hall)

Intrepid early music band Ruckus and pathbreaking bass-baritone Davóne Tines present a modern reimagining of America’s earliest revolutionary music, time-traveling through four centuries of reimagined American songs, hymns, and ballads, and newly commissioned works by Tines and Doug Balliett. The concert is part of Carnegie Hall’s United in Sound: America at 250 festival.

ENSEMBLE CONNECT UP CLOSE
Saturday, January 31 at 7:30 PM
(Resnick Education Wing)

Up Close performances re-imagine the boundaries of the traditional concert experience, inviting a visionary artistic partner to create new, cross-disciplinary musical experiences in collaboration with the adventurous Ensemble Connect. For this concert, world-renowned conductor and Perspectives artist Marin Alsop curates and leads an Up Close performance featuring music by Jesse Montgomery, Jennifer Higdon, Diemer, and Rouse. This performance is part of Carnegie Hall’s United in Sound: America at 250festival.