Ensemble Connect
Known for “fresh, exciting performances charged with creativity, energy, and daring” (New York Classical Review), Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect opens its 2026–2027 season with a characteristically adventurous program. Discover works by some of the chamber repertoire’s most distinctive composers. In addition to notable but underperformed works by Ligeti, Loeffler, and Kodály, the ensemble performs a favorite: Bartók’s Contrasts, a piece created in response to requests by jazz great Benny Goodman and Hungarian violinist Joseph Szigeti.
Performers
Ensemble Connect
Program
LIGETI Trio for Violin, Horn, and Piano
LOEFFLER Two Rhapsodies for Oboe, Viola, and Piano
KODÁLY Serenade
BARTÓK Contrasts
Salon Encores
Join us for a free drink at a post-concert reception in Weill Recital Hall’s Jacobs Room.
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Lead funding has been provided by Max H. Gluck Foundation, the Hearst Foundations, The Kovner Foundation, Phyllis and Charles Rosenthal, 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, Susan and Elihu Rose Foundation, Sarah Billinghurst Solomon and Howard Solomon, Jonathan and Ronit Leitersdorf, and Carlos Tome and Theresa Kim.
Ensemble Connect is also supported, in part, by endowment grants from The Kovner Foundation and the Estate of Eleanor Doblin Unger.