Performance Calendar

Celebrated mezzo-soprano J’Nai Bridges, acclaimed for captivating roles in opera houses worldwide, delivers a powerful vocal recital highlighting her rich voice and dramatic presence. Known for portrayals of iconic characters like Nefertiti and Carmen, Bridges enchants listeners with nuanced performances that reveal profound emotional depth, vividly showcasing her command of operatic and recital stages.

Music From The Sole combines exhilarating tap dance with dynamic live music in House is Open, Going Dark, a performance depicting the creative process between musicians and dancers sharing intimate space. Known for their energetic, genre-blurring performances, this ensemble transforms everyday interactions into extraordinary art, providing audiences with an immersive exploration of rhythm, movement, and collaboration.

Music From The Sole combines exhilarating tap dance with dynamic live music in House is Open, Going Dark, a performance depicting the creative process between musicians and dancers sharing intimate space. Known for their energetic, genre-blurring performances, this ensemble transforms everyday interactions into extraordinary art, providing audiences with an immersive exploration of rhythm, movement, and collaboration.

In this What Makes It Great? performance, Celebrity Series favorite Rob Kapilow unpacks the first of the late quartets of Haydn’s Opus 76. He reveals how Haydn playfully subverted expectations and how this quartet encompasses much of what made Haydn great over his long and innovative career. Joining Kapilow is the renowned Balourdet Quartet, fresh off major career milestones, including a 2024 Avery Fisher Career Grant.

Music From The Sole combines exhilarating tap dance with dynamic live music in House is Open, Going Dark, a performance depicting the creative process between musicians and dancers sharing intimate space. Known for their energetic, genre-blurring performances, this ensemble transforms everyday interactions into extraordinary art, providing audiences with an immersive exploration of rhythm, movement, and collaboration.

Pianist Yunchan Lim showcases Bach’s Goldberg Variations, highlighting his versatile artistry: he captured the classical music world’s attention with Romantic-era virtuosity and now takes on nuanced Baroque clarity. Don’t miss Yunchan Lim’s Celebrity Series recital debut: be amazed by a young artist who can do it all.

Baritone Matthias Goerne and pianist Daniil Trifonov offer a deeply expressive recital featuring Schubert’s profound late masterpieces. Combining Goerne’s interpretative depth with Trifonov’s fiery pianism, they deliver an emotionally rich performance exploring themes of farewell and introspection through moving renditions of Schwanengesang and his final Piano Sonata (D.960).

Nordic roots trio Dreamers’ Circus blends echoes of the past with the vital pulse of the present, creating magic in their evocative, vibrant arrangements and original compositions. Their new album and tour, Handed On, aims to spark an interest in folk music among listeners and practitioners of all ages and levels of familiarity. Experience the boundless beauty and joy of Nordic folk music, reimagined and shared by Dreamers’ Circus.

Whether unearthing forgotten rarities or performing 20th-century standards, vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant makes every song unmistakably her own. Each song on her setlist unfolds like a fully realized drama: beautiful, complicated, and thought-provoking. Experience the artistry of an extraordinary storyteller when Cécile McLorin Salvant returns to Celebrity Series.

Renowned for their openness, curiosity, and versatility, Finnish quartet Meta4 makes their Celebrity Series  debut with a program steeped in remembrance and reflection. They begin with an evocative work by Kaija Saariaho, a composer with whom they’re deeply associated. Saariaho’s second string quartet, bearing the descriptive name “Terra Memoria” and the dedication “For Those Departed,” sets a poignant tone for the program.