Carnegie Hall

Broadcast from July 31, 2026

Experience America’s bright musical future on Carnegie Hall’s biggest stage. This evening’s performance by the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America (NYO-USA) opens with Barber’s playful first orchestral work: Overture to The School for Scandal. Gershwin’s jazz-infused Piano Concerto in F follows, featuring soloist Kirill Gerstein—a pianist praised for his “blazing technique” (The Wall Street Journal) and “the kind of … virtuosic music-making that keeps classical music alive” (The Observer). Bartók’s quintessential Concerto for Orchestra rounds out the program. For the first time, NYO-USA is conducted by Karina Canellakis, the exemplary chief conductor of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and principal guest conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Broadcast from March 18, 2026

Concerto Köln by Sonja Werner, Shunske Sato by Marco Borggreve, Max Volbers by Andrej Grilc The renowned early-music ensemble performs works by Telemann, Mrs Philarmonica, J. S. Bach, Giuseppe Sammartini, and Handel, plus a very special rendition of Vivaldi’s double concerto for two violins, featuring violinist extraordinaire Shunske Sato and eminent recorder player Max Volbers in his Carnegie Hall debut. Concerto Köln has described this repertoire as “a tapestry of baroque brilliance,” and their distinguished collaborators make this program something truly unique.

Broadcast from January, 20, 2026

Verdi’s Requiem is a 90-minute journey of operatic intensity, heart-stopping musical grandeur, and existential human drama. It’s not often that Verdi was criticized as “too operatic”—but when his Requiem first emerged, critics found its relentless, emotionally heightened energy to be of questionable taste for an ostensibly sacred work. These same traits make for a thrilling concert experience, highlighting a monumental cornerstone of the orchestral-choral repertoire today. Experience his legendary creation brought to life by The Cleveland Orchestra (“America’s finest,” according to The New York Times), Music Director Franz Welser-Möst, and four of the world’s foremost vocal soloists: Asmik Grigorian, Deniz Uzun, Joshua Guerrero, and Tareq Nazmi.

Broadcast from December 16, 2025

With his history-making Carnegie Hall Perspectives series, violinist Maxim Vengerov is rewarding audiences with crowning jewels not only of the violin repertoire, but that of chamber music at large. Tonight only, he gathers an all-star lineup to perform Brahms’s impactful Piano Quintet and Clarinet Quintet, two absolute pinnacles of the repertoire. Collaborators Vilde Frang, James Ehnes, and Daniel Müller-Schott anchor the performance, with “powerhouse pianist” Yefim Bronfman (Los Angeles Times) and New York Philharmonic Principal Clarinetist Anthony McGill, Musical America’s 2024 Instrumentalist of the Year, featured in turn.

Broadcast from December 3, 2025

When pianist Seong-Jin Cho last performed one of Rachmaninoff’s orchestral works at Carnegie Hall, a modern-day legend was born. The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO) now invites Cho to perform another of the composer’s pulse-quickening piano-and-orchestra showpieces: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. This exciting program also features Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony, for which the PSO earned a Best Orchestral Performance Grammy Award in 2018—the same year that conductor Manfred Honeck was named Artist of the Year by the International Classical Music Awards jury. A New York premiere by internationally renowned composer Lera Auerbach, commissioned by the PSO, rounds out the performance.

Broadcast from November 12, 2025

Beatrice Rana is “an artist of truly reflective grace … combining poetry and great skill, among the most gifted musicians of her generation” (Gramophone). In her 2022 Carnegie Hall recital, Rana performed Book I of Debussy’s famously demanding etudes “with wonderful intelligence and musicianship (and, of course, that gold-plated technique)” (The New Criterion). Tonight’s program includes Book II, six more pieces that, according to Debussy, underscore “the fact that the portals of music can only be opened with formidable hands.” Among other highlights, the recital also includes Prokofiev’s arresting Piano Sonata No. 6, which Rana has performed to considerable acclaim, and selections from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet and Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker.

Broadcast from July 20, 2025

The increasingly world-renowned National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America (NYO-USA) returns to Carnegie Hall’s biggest stage, led by esteemed conductor Gianandrea Noseda. The program opens with Carlos Simon’s Festive Fanfare and Overture, a celebratory Carnegie Hall co-commission that echoes Shostakovich in its brass fanfare and builds across the orchestra sections toward a triumphant, full-ensemble conclusion. The enormously popular violin virtuoso Ray Chen then takes the stage as soloist in Felix Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto. His previous performance of the piece at Carnegie Hall—with the Bamberg Symphony—was called “riveting” (Bachtrack). The concert concludes with Rachmaninoff’s passionate Second Symphony, one of the composer’s grandest achievements and favorite works.

Broadcast from April 27, 2025

The Gateways Festival Orchestra returns to Carnegie Hall following a remarkable 2022 debut that featured pianist Jon Batiste. This extraordinary ensemble that comprises musicians from many of the nation’s top orchestras and conservatory faculties showcases the contributions of classical musicians of African descent, including composers and performers both past and present. Led by its highly versatile conductor Anthony Parnther, the orchestra presents a brand-new program in this matinee concert. Hear Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8, Dawson’s Negro Folk Symphony, and the New York premiere of Damien Sneed’s Reflections of Resilience: Five Spirituals, featuring multiple Grammy Award–winning mezzo-soprano J’Nai Bridges.

Broadcast from April 15, 2025

Hear The Philadelphia Orchestra in its third and final Mahler symphony performance of the Carnegie Hall season. When the ensemble last performed the Sixth Symphony on our stage in 2016, The New York Times called it a “stunning account ... notable for its sheer beauty.” They are meaningful words regarding the larger-than-life piece most commonly associated with Mahler’s personal tragedies (unforgettably punctuated by the fateful hammer blows in the surging finale)—and an affirmation of the undying love embedded in its searing melodies.

Broadcast from March 19, 2025

Franz Welser-Möst leads the world-class Cleveland Orchestra in a pair of Russian symphonic masterpieces, starting with the folkloric magic of Pétrouchka. Stravinsky’s tragic, direct musical storytelling offers a powerful contrast to Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony, a quintessentially Romantic work that grapples with questions of fate throughout its breathtaking journey from darkness to triumph.

Broadcast from February 6, 2025

Hear two of today’s most distinguished instrumentalists in their first-ever duo performance at Carnegie Hall. Anthony McGill is principal clarinetist of the New York Philharmonic and a dynamic soloist known for his “trademark brilliance” (The New York Times), and the exceptionally thoughtful pianist Emanuel Ax has been one of the most beloved performers at Carnegie Hall for decades. Their eclectic program includes Beethoven’s “Moonlight” Sonata; a recent work by James Lee III; stirring short pieces by Price and Jessie Montgomery; Bernstein’s Clarinet Sonata; Robert Schumann’s Fantasiestücke, Op. 73; and a melodious Schubert sonata of fascinating origin that shines on clarinet.

Broadcast from January 28, 2025

Enjoy a new perspective on the hugely popular period ensemble Les Arts Florissants in Zankel Hall Center Stage, which invites audiences to sit on all sides of the performers. Led by William Christie on the occasion of his 80th birthday, this special concert features works by the French Baroque composers he has championed throughout his career—including Charpentier, Lully, and Rameau—with guest vocalists.

Broadcast from December 4, 2024

In each of its three concerts this week, the inimitable Czech Philharmonic pairs an orchestral masterwork with one of Dvořák’s concertos, each featuring a superstar soloist. Tonight, the soloist is violin icon Gil Shaham, who performs the vibrant, Czech folk–infused Violin Concerto. Mahler’s Fifth Symphony follows, giving audiences a chance to experience the orchestra’s acclaimed interpretation under conductor Semyon Bychkov. Their 2022 recording of the Fifth was named Best Classical Record of 2022 by London’s The Times, which praised their “fine balance in this visionary work, a musical universe of dreams and prophecies in which Bychkov matches intelligent pacing with great-hearted warmth and sonic opulence with textural clarity.”