Carnegie Hall

Keyboard Virtuosos I showcases the incredible technical mastery and artistic individuality that can be achieved on piano—as well as the instrument’s remarkable variety of repertoire. From the most delicate moments to the most grandiose, world-class piano music in the storied setting of Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage offers a thrill like none other. This season, hear Mao Fujita, Hélène Grimaud, Yuja Wang with Víkingur Ólafsson, Yefim Bronfman, and Evgeny Kissin!

Some of the most uniquely gifted pianists of our time are featured in this popular, five-concert series. Recitals by Kirill Gerstein, Igor Levit, Nobuyuki Tsujii, Mitsuko Uchida, and Yunchan Lim rank among the season’s most eagerly anticipated performances, each offering fresh amazement and new insight into masterworks of the piano repertoire.

Keyboard Virtuosos III brings you even closer to the music with piano recitals in Zankel Hall. This season, hear International Chopin Piano Competition winner Yulianna Avdeeva; a matinee performance by Pierre-Laurent Aimard that spans nearly 400 years of fantasias from around the world; and a boldly imaginative program by Conrad Tao, whom New York Magazine calls “the kind of musician who is shaping the future of classical music.”

Enjoy a quintessential Carnegie Hall experience, as world-class ensembles and singular soloists perform on our most iconic stage. Across four concerts, discover the breathtaking artistry of Yunchan Lim, the London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Antonio Pappano, Evgeny Kissin, Maxim Vengerov, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Gateways Music Festival Orchestra, Anthony Parnther, Gautier Capuçon, and more.

Hearing top artists in Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage is a world-renowned musical experience, and this series features some of the finest. Daniil Trifonov and Seong-Jin Cho perform two of the season’s most anticipated piano recitals, with Cho’s program making Carnegie Hall history. The London Symphony Orchestra makes its long-awaited return to the Hall with Sir Antonio Pappano and violinist Janine Jansen. One of the most acclaimed recital partnerships of our time also returns to the stage: violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter with pianist Lambert Orkis.

Some of the world’s finest artists take center stage in this series. Leonidas Kavakos and Daniil Trifonov play masterpieces of the violin-piano repertoire. Violin virtuoso Janine Jansen and pianist Denis Kozhukhin pair violin sonatas by Brahms with arch-Romantic works by Clara and Robert Schumann. Violinist Maxim Vengerov leads a journey through some of Mozart’s greatest music for violin and orchestra with Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and violist Lawrence Power. Audience favorite Emanuel Ax brings a lifetime of artistic insight to a solo recital—always an anticipated event.

With great demand and a season full of truly great artists, we are thrilled to add a third Great Artists series in 2024–2025, featuring some of today’s most sought-after performers in solo, duo, and trio concerts. Sheku Kanneh-Mason and Isata Kanneh-Mason make their duo debut in Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage. Pianists Bruce Liu and Leif Ove Andsnes curate a pair of distinctive recitals. An all-star trio of Anne-Sophie Mutter, Pablo Ferrández, and Yefim Bronfman performs awe-inspiring works by Beethoven and Tchaikovsky.

Join us in the Hall’s most intimate performance space, and witness history-in-the-making in this series of Carnegie Hall headlining debuts. Discover two of today’s most exciting rising violinists in concerts with exceptional collaborative pianists, as well as two great pianists in solo recitals. For this major career milestone, each artist brings a program that highlights their unique artistic accomplishments and ambitions. Performers include María Dueñas, Alexander Malofeev, Filippo Gorini, Zlata Chochieva, Blake Pouliot, and Henry Kramer.

Put three of the season’s most anticipated concerts on your calendar and look forward to unbeatable weekend plans. Hear one of the world’s great Mahler orchestras—the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra—perform the First Symphony and Schoenberg’s popular Verklärte Nacht with future chief conductor Klaus Mäkelä. Hear pianist Evgeny Kissin lead an all-star, all-Shostakovich concert with Gidon Kremer, Giedrė Dirvanauskaitė, the Kopelman Quartet, and more. Plus, experience one of Carnegie Hall’s most beloved annual traditions: The English Concert’s matinee performance of Handel—this season featuring Giulio Cesare in Egitto.

Fifty years since its inception—and four decades since it was first presented by Carnegie Hall—New York’s Orchestra of St. Luke’s is now one of the most recognizable and prolific ensembles on our stages. The orchestra begins this season’s landmark series—its 30th consecutive subscription series at the Hall—with concerts led by two renowned conductors in their Carnegie Hall debuts: Louis Langrée (longtime music director of the Mostly Mozart festival) and Raphaël Pichon. The orchestra then performs a special pair of concerts led by its longest-tenured principal conductor, Bernard Labadie. Guest artists this season include Marc-André Hamelin, Sterling Elliott, Christian Gerhaher, Ying Fang, Ensemble Altera, La Chapelle de Québec, and more.

The United States is home to several of the world’s top orchestras, and this series presents four of them on the country’s most iconic stage for music. Hear the Los Angeles Philharmonic with Gustavo Dudamel and cellist Alisa Weilerstein; the Chicago Symphony Orchestra with Riccardo Muti; the Boston Symphony Orchestra with Andris Nelsons and pianist Mitsuko Uchida; and The Cleveland Orchestra with Franz Welser-Möst and soprano Asmik Grigorian in her Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage debut.

Four exceptional orchestras perform in one of our flagship concert series. In addition to pieces by Schubert, Bruckner, Mozart, Rachmaninoff, and others, this series also features great works by Dvořák and Janáček as part of the worldwide Year of Czech Music celebration. Artists include Riccardo Muti with the Vienna Philharmonic; Kirill Petrenko with the Berliner Philharmoniker and violinist Hilary Hahn; pianist Mitsuko Uchida leading the Mahler Chamber Orchestra from the keyboard; and Semyon Bychkov conducting the Czech Philharmonic with pianist Daniil Trifonov, the Prague Philharmonic Choir, and soloists.