The “elegant, polished, and heartfelt” (The Boston Globe) pianist Benjamin Hochman begins a two-concert exploration of the influence of words on music with purely instrumental works which take their inspiration…

“A virtuoso pianist is a virtuoso composer, too,” writes The New York Times of Daniil Trifonov. In this exciting program with the New York Philharmonic String Quartet, both aspects of…

Two adventurous performers highlighted in the 2018-19 season return to 92Y to plumb the breadth and depth of the sonata repertoire for violin and harpsichord. Stefan Jackiw makes his second…

The “towering…magnificent…unbearably moving” (The New York Times) bass-baritone Eric Owens arrives at 92Y with the phenomenal pianist Jeremy Denk for a performance of Schubert’s immortal Winterreise, a winter journey set…

This remarkable program from the McGill/McHale Trio, comprising Anthony McGill, clarinet; Demarre McGill, flute, and pianist Michael McHale, explores dances of all sorts: from the Hungarian Furiant and the American…

Enjoy the artistry of our esteemed School of Music instructors through our Faculty Concert Series. Maxim Anikushin performs. Free and open to the public.

English baritone Roderick Williams, the “most engaging of performers” who “has one hanging on every word” (The Evening Standard), joins artistic director and pianist Julius Drake in a continuation of…

This fascinating Inflection Series event tells two mythical stories, set to music in truly legendary fashion. First, the sublime mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano joins tenor Bille Bruley and pianist Benjamin…

Our season-long exploration of the influence of Beethoven on the song cycle continues with works of one of his greatest admirers, Robert Schumann. Beginning with the “series motto,” Beethoven’s letter to…

“Once Jay Campbell wraps himself around the cello, you’re willing to follow him anywhere”, said the Washington Post, and this is sure to be a very interesting journey! Undertaken with…

Our season-long exploration of the influence of Beethoven on the song cycle continues with the “series motto” along with the magnum opus of Hugo Wolf, the Italienisches Liederbuch. This cycle…

The Vienna Piano Trio, one of the world’s leading chamber ensembles, offers a veritable feast for the chamber music lover as they make their long-awaited 92Y debut. Haydn’s ‘sturm und…

Two legendary musicians at the top of their game unite in six staples of the violin repertoire. Bach’s Sonatas for Violin and Keyboard are true masterpieces: each one a rich,…

It is only appropriate, in a cycle of the complete works of the foremost composer of Intermezzi, that there should be an intermezzo in the cycle itself. Taking a small…

In this final concert of our 2019-2020 vocal series, we are privileged to welcome back the eminent bass-baritone Eric Owens for his second 92Y performance of the season, joining with…

“One of his generation’s most serious musical thinkers” (The New York Times), Jonathan Biss brings his rich insight and commanding technique to Beethoven’s last three piano sonatas. Written, as Beethoven…

“Liaisons is a revelation… a delightful recital with an exuberant close. De Mare’s playing was superb throughout, a combination of lyrical reflection and extroverted pyrotechnics.” Joshua Kosman, The San Francisco…

Anthony de Mare continues the celebration, paying tribute to the musical genius of Stephen Sondheim in his 90th year. This concert features more world premieres from the newly commissioned Liasons2020…

Polish phenom Rafał Blechacz returns to 92Y in an intriguing program which explores only two tonal areas: the keys of C minor and B minor. Despite this proscription, we find…

French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard is perhaps best known for two things: his illuminating performances of contemporary music, and his searching accounts of the works of Beethoven. How lucky we are…

Winner of the 2018 Honens International Piano Competition, Nicolas Namoradze, whose performances have been hailed as “sparkling … sensitive and coloristic” by the New York Times, makes his 92Y debut…

Pierre-Laurent Aimard returns with a program typical of his boundless thoughtfulness. Each work on the program combines two elements of formal musical style in ways that were revolutionary for their…

Musicians from the New York Philharmonic continue the Philharmonic’s season-long celebration of Mahler with a performance of his only surviving piece of chamber music: an early Piano Quartet, of which…

This enticing program proves to be somewhat of a musical tapas bar from the thoughtful, insightful pianist Pedja Muzijevic. Beginning with an appetizer of three Scarlatti Sonatas: the energetic, ever-shifting…

Garrick Ohlsson’s final foray into the solo piano works of Brahms ranges from the first to the last published piece of that superlative oeuvre. Opuses 4, 9, and 1 demonstrate…

Angela Hewitt’s eleventh installment of Bach’s full set of works for keyboard explores contrasts of scale and style within the composer’s mammoth oeuvre. Hewitt begins with a dive into Bach’s…

This is the first in a two-concert series that examines the piano works of Haydn, something of a specialty for Roman Rabinovich, who “plays with a warm and generous tone…

Angela Hewitt concludes her performance of the complete keyboard works of Johann Sebastian Bach with a piece that may or may not have been intended for the keyboard. The mammoth…

This is the second in a two-concert series that examines the piano works of Haydn, something of a specialty for Roman Rabinovich, who “plays with a warm and generous tone…