Carnegie Hall’s 2024-2025 Season

With Carnegie Hall’s Opening Night just three months away, we are eagerly anticipating the 2024–2025 season. Major programming highlights include Nuestros sonidos (Our Sounds), a season-long festival celebrating the vibrant sounds, diverse traditions, and influence of Latin culture in the United States with performances spanning a range of genres, highlighting the game-changing contributions and constant evolution of Latin music; four Perspectives series curated by celebrated artists—pianists Lang Lang and Mitsuko Uchida, violinist Maxim Vengerov, and vocalist, composer, and visual artist Cécile McLorin Salvant; and the season-long appointment of Gabriela Ortiz to hold the Richard and Barbara Debs Composer’s Chair.

• Carnegie Hall’s 2024–2025 season launches on Tuesday, October 8 with a festive Opening Night Gala performance by Gustavo Dudamel leading the Los Angeles Philharmonic featuring Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with Carnegie Hall Perspectives artist Lang Lang, plus Ginastera’s ballet Estancia with baritone Gustavo Castillo. Mr. Dudamel and the Philharmonic return the following evening, October 9, with the New York premiere of a new work for cellist Alisa Weilerstein by Gabriela Ortiz (this season’s holder of the Richard and Barbara Debs Composer’s Chair), and Felix Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, narrated by internationally renowned Spanish actress María Valverde. For their third and final performance, on October 10, Mr. Dudamel and the orchestra reunite with Mexican singer-songwriter Natalia Lafourcade, a four-time Grammy and 17-time Latin Grammy winner who returns following her sold-out Carnegie Hall debut in 2022. These concerts launch Carnegie Hall’s season-long festival Nuestros sonidos: Celebrating Latin Culture in the US.
• The Nuestros sonidos festival continues on October 23 with soprano Lisette Oropesa—one of the most sought-after lyric coloratura artists today—performing an evening of songs that includes works by Cuban composers such as Joaquín Nin, Ernesto Lecuona, Eduardo Sánchez de Fuentes, Jorge Anckermann, and Gonzalo Roig with pianist Ken Noda in Zankel Hall. Cuban American soprano Elena Villalón offers a program that includes songs by Cuban composer Ernesto Lecuona and Mexican composer María Grever with pianist Craig Terry on November 13 in Weill Recital Hall.
• Additional fall festival highlights include a performance in Zankel Hall by Quetzal, the Grammy Award-winning, genre-crossing group from East Los Angeles in a program that traces the history of Mexican music in the US on November 15. The “Queen of Reggaeton” Ivy Queen—Billboard’s 2023 Women in Music Icon, who first emerged on the music scene in the 1990s with a powerful ethos of empowerment and self-determination—makes her Carnegie Hall debut on November 20.
• • Composer Gabriela Ortiz continues her series on October 18, with the New York premiere of Can We Know the Sound of Forgiveness, a groundbreaking collaborative performance by The Crossing, flutist Alejandro Escuer, and others merging her music with visual art, dance, movement, and spoken word. Violinist María Dueñas presents the New York premiere of a new work by Ortiz on her October 22 recital with pianist Alexander Malofeev. Ortiz curates a program for a double-bill concert with Roomful of Teeth featuring the world premiere of her new work for the ensemble, co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall; and Tambuco Percussion Ensemble, playing music by Ortiz and other contemporary Latin American composers on January 25 in Zankel Hall Center Stage as part of the Nuestros sonidos festival. She serves as Artistic Partner for an Ensemble Connect Close Up concert on January 27 in the Resnick Education Wing, to include the world premiere of a Carnegie Hall commission by Colombian composer Carolina Noguera. The Attacca Quartet plays the world premiere of a new work (co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall) on a program that also includes Ortiz’s Altar de muertos in Zankel Hall on May 1. Her residency concludes on June 18 with Yannick Nézet-Séguin leading The Met Orchestra in Ortiz’s Antrópolis, a work which offers a reflection of Mexico City as told through its legendary dance halls.
  • The Knights return on October 24 a three-concert series this season in Zankel Hall, led by artistic directors Colin and Eric Jacobsen. With creative programs that expand the boundaries of classical music, this first concert features pianist Aaron Diehl in two world premieres – one a Carnegie Hall co-commission by Michael Schachter and the other an arrangement by Michael P. Atkinson of music from Keith Jarrett’s Book of Ways – as well as an arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. The Knights return in 2025 with singer and Grammy-Award winning songwriter Aoife O’Donovan on February 20 with music by O’Donovan, Mozart, and Mendelssohn, and, on May 15, with soprano Kathryn Mueller, on a program that also feature Knights multi-instrumentalists Christina Courtin and Alex Sopp. In addition to their Zankel Hall series, The Knights also appear this season with Perspectives artist Cécile McLorin Salvant on March 27 in Stern Auditorium, playing timeless jazz ballads newly arranged by Darcy James Argue.
  • From October 25–29, Carnegie Hall shines a spotlight on music from South Africa, welcoming several of the country’s leading musicians to New York City to perform, including celebrated jazz pianist Nduduzo Makhathini on October 25, genre-defying cellist Abel Selaocoe and his Bantu Ensemble on October 26, the Ndlovu Youth Choir on October 27, and two of South Africa’s foremost singer songwriters: Zolani Mahola and Jesse Clegg who will appear in a not-to-be missed double bill program on October 29, all in Zankel Hall. As part of the exploration, works by South African composers will also be performed by The MET Orchestra Chamber Ensemble collaborating with overtone singer Gareth Lubbe on October 28, and Ensemble Connect on October 27.

  Tony Award–winning stage and screen icon Bernadette Peters returns to Carnegie Hall on October 28, after nearly 30 years. In this highly anticipated concert, she masterfully blends acting and musical performance with the sharp comedic instincts that have made her one of Broadway’s greatest entertainers.

• Global icon and five-time Grammy Award winner Angélique Kidjo concludes a year-long world tour at Carnegie Hall on November 2. celebrating her incomparable 40-year career. Celebrated violinist Maxim Vengerov kicks off his three-year Perspectives series on November 6 and 7, performing Mozart’s complete works for violin and orchestra with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra joined by Orpheus violinist Miho Saegusa and guest violist Lawrence Power. On January 30, he performs Brahms’s Violin Concerto with Myung-Whun Chung and The Met Orchestra. Mr. Vengerov’s residency will also include a public master class on November 10 for young professional violinists, exploring Mozart concerti, presented by Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute.
• Beloved pianist Mitsuko Uchida returns for the third and final installment of her three-season Perspectives, beginning on November 12, with a Zankel Hall concert featuring works by Robert Schumann, György Kurtág, and Beethoven performed with select musicians from the Marlboro Music Festival of which Uchida is an artistic director. She returns in spring 2025, leading the Mahler Chamber Orchestra from the keyboard on March 29; an eagerly anticipated solo recital on April 9; and a performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 with Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra on April 23.
• Celebrating its 50th anniversary next season, Orchestra of St. Luke’s appears four times in 2024–2025, beginning on November 14 with Louis Langrée making his Carnegie Hall debut on a program that includes Valerie Coleman’s Fanfare for Uncommon Times, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7, and Haydn’s Cello Concerto No. 2 in D Major featuring Sterling Elliott. The orchestra returns in the new year on January 23 with conductor Raphaël Pichon also making his Carnegie Hall debut on a program of songs by Schubert, Robert Schumann, and Carl Maria von Weber (including arrangements and orchestrations by Liszt and Brahms) with baritone Christian Gerhaher, soprano Ying Fang, and Ensemble Altera. In his final season as OSL Principal Conductor, Bernard Labadie leads two concerts: the first on February 13 with pianist Marc-André Hamelin and then concluding his OSL tenure on April 10 with a performance of Bach’s St. John Passion featuring tenor Andrew Haji and bass-baritone Philippe Sly.
• One of the world’s most respected jazz musicians, fearless vocalist, composer, and visual artist Cécile McLorin Salvant launches her four-concert Perspectives series on November 16 in Zankel Hall singing a variety of original works, time-tested songs, and totally unexpected hidden gems. She returns to Zankel Hall on December 13 with her musical partner, pianist Sullivan Fortner. On March 27, she is joined by innovative orchestra The Knights performing inventive new arrangements of jazz ballads in Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage. Her Perspectives series concludes in Zankel Hall on May 21 with a performance of Ogresse, a haunting musical fable that features her own original illustrations and costume designs, with an ensemble led by Darcy James Argue.
• Chief Conductor Kirill Petrenko returns with the Berliner Philharmoniker, leading three concerts in November. Violinist Hilary Hahn is soloist on both November 17 and 19 playing Korngold’s Violin Concerto on a program that also includes Rachmaninoff’s Isle of the Dead and Dvořák’s Symphony No. 7. For their second concert, on November 18, Maestro Petrenko and the orchestra perform Bruckner’s Symphony No. 5.
• The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra returns with its next chief conductor Klaus Mäkelä leading the orchestra in the US premiere of a new work by Ellen Reid, co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall, as well as Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2 and Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2 with soloist Lisa Batiashvili on November 22. Mäkelä and the orchestra return the following evening, November 23, with Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht and Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 1.
• • From December 3–7, Carnegie Hall joins music lovers around the world in commemorating the 2024 Year of Czech Music, a decennial celebration that highlights legendary Czech composers. At the Hall’s celebration, Chief Conductor and Music Director Semyon Bychkov and the Czech Philharmonic return to the Hall for the first time since 2018, joined by Yo-Yo Ma on December 3, Gil Shaham on December 4, and Daniil Trifonov on December 5 performing beloved and lesser-known concertos by Dvořák, plus music by Smetana, Gustav Mahler, and Janáček’s magnificent Glagolitic Mass featuring the Prague Philharmonic Choir. The Prague Philharmonic Choir returns for its own performance of Czech choral works in Zankel Hall on December 6. The series concludes on December 7 with an all-Czech program by today’s most celebrated Czech string quartet—the Pavel Haas Quartet—in Weill Recital Hall. In addition, Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads The Met Chamber Ensemble on November 18 for a program of Czech music including Janáček’s String Quartet No. 1, “Kreutzer Sonata;” Martinů’s Nonet, H. 374; and Dvořák’s Serenade for Strings.
  • On December 14, A Night of Inspiration—an uplifting evening of music, dance, and spoken word from diverse traditions featuring an all-star lineup of artists under the direction of Ray Chew—returns to Carnegie Hall, featuring Regina Belle, Shirley Caesar, Erica Campbell featuring Krista Campbell, Tina Campbell, Cory Henry, Rahsaan Patterson, Kierra Sheard-Kelly, Bishop Hezekiah Walker, Brian Courtney Wilson, and a special tribute to The Winans.
  • Two of the classical music world’s biggest rising stars, cellist Sheku Kenneh-Mason and his sister, pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason, perform for the first time together in Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage on December 15 offering a recital program of cello sonatas by Felix Mendelssohn, Fauré, and Poulenc as well as the New York premiere of Natalie Klouda’s Tor Mordôn.

  In the new year, 2025, the citywide festival, Nuestros sonidos (Our Sounds) continues as well as the Perspectives series by pianists Lang Lang and Mitsuko Uchida.

  • Celebrated vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth and Mexico’s Tambuco Percussion Ensemble perform on a double bill in Zankel Hall Center Stage on January 25 with a program to include the world premiere of a new vocal work by Gabriela Ortiz, as well as works for percussion by Leopoldo Novoa, Jorge Camiruaga, and Mario Lavista. Chilean jazz vocalist and Latin Grammy nominee Claudia Acuña performs a program of treasures from the Latin American songbook also in Zankel Hall Center Stage on February 7. Bogotá’s colorful Monsieur Periné offers a program featuring an upbeat, swinging blend of Latin American and European flavors on February 22 in Zankel Hall.
  • In the spring, on March 6 in Zankel Hall, the American Composers Orchestra, under the baton of Tito Muñoz, presents a program that features music from various parts of Latin America, highlighting its influence on jazz and classical music in the US, including world premieres by Colombian harpist and composer Edmar Castañeda, as well as a new work by Brazilian composer Clarice Assad. Celebrated Mexican pianist and composer Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra also perform in Zankel on April 11.
  • Colombia’s legendary Grupo Niche makes its Carnegie Hall debut on April 17 and Nicaraguan American soprano Gabriella Reyes offers a recital on April 29 featuring works for voice and piano by various Latin American composers, including Alberto Ginastera, Silvestre Revueltas, Carlos Guastavino, Ernani Braga, as well as arrangements of traditional Nicaraguan folk songs with pianist Andrés Sarre in Weill Recital Hall. Grammy-winning Cuban sensations Cimafunk and La Tribu conclude the Nuestros sonidos festival in Zankel Hall on May 22.
  • World renowned pianist Lang Lang launches his two-season Perspectives this season, marking a new chapter in his long and illustrious history at Carnegie Hall. In addition to his Opening Night performance, he returns on March 8 to collaborate with soprano Angel Blue in her Carnegie Hall recital debut and to present his own solo recital to include works by Fauré, Chopin, and Robert Schumann on March 12.

  Just announced as part of Carnegie Hall’s 2024-2025 season:

  • Carnegie Hall presents Juilliard at Zankel Hall, featuring a concert on April 3 with Juilliard students performing an interdisciplinary program celebrating the work of performer, composer, choreographer, and director Meredith Monk. The program will include works by Monk for voice, chamber music, and dance.

Ticket Information
Single tickets for Carnegie Hall’s 2024-2025 season go on sale on August 12 at 11:00 a.m. and can be purchased at the Carnegie Hall Box Office, by phone at Carnegie Charge (212-247-7800), or online at carnegiehall.org. Subscription packages including create-your-own subscription series are currently available.

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