The New York Philharmonic 2024-2025 Season is expanding the classical music canon with film scores, pop, and now jazz. It is also presenting classical composers and artists of color. Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel takes the baton in 2026. He is already leading a classical music renaissance in New York City. 🇻🇪
JANUARY
Argentine Opera Singer
Isabel Leonard, the Grammy-winning Argentine American mezzo-soprano, sing’s Berlioz’s “Le Nuits d´été” love song cycle in a concert with Strauss’s “Also sprach Zarathustra (“2001: A Space Odyssey” Theme), and Moussa’s “Elysium;” in the Wu Tsai Theater at David Geffen Hall in Lincoln Center; on Thursday-Saturday, January 2-4, and Tuesday, January 7, 2025, at 7:30pm. From $44. 🇦🇷
DECEMBER
Holiday Choral Music
The New York York Philharmonic’s Handel’s “Messiah” is conducted by Ton Koopman, with Indian American soprano Maya Kherani, countertenor Maarten Engeltjes, tenor Kieran White, bass-baritone Klaus Mertens, and the Musica Sacra chorus directed by Kent Tritle (Cathedral of St. John the Divine); in the Wu Tsai Theater at David Geffen Hall in Lincoln Center, Manhatta; on Wednesday-Saturday, December 11-14, 2024. 🇬🇧 🇳🇱 🇩🇪 🇮🇳
SEPTEMBER
Classical Music
SEASON OPENER
The New York Philharmonic opens its 2024-25 Season with conductor Michael Tilson Thomas and pianist Emanuel Ax playing Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 14, and Mahler’s Fifth Symphony; on Thursday-Sunday, September 12-15, 2024. From $45.
Classical, Bebop & Ellington
The New York Philharmonic program Bach, Mahler & “Symphonic Metamorphosis,” conducted by Ken-David Masur, includes the World Premiere NY Phil Commission of Augusta Read Thomas’ “Bebop Kaleidoscope to Duke Ellington,” and Ellington’s “Harlem;” in the Wu Tsai Theater at David Geffen Hall in Lincoln Center, Manhattan; on Thursday, September 19 and Saturday, September 21, 2024, at 7:30pm. From $83. 🇺🇸
This is a strong statement on the evolution of classical music. Bach is Baroque, Mahler is Romantic, and Ellington is Modern. The New York Phil places Duke Ellington with the giants of classical music. He was one of the most prolific American composers, and the Jazz Age of the 1920s-1930s defined American culture. Ellington also connects with the very beginning of American classical music through ragtime, which with blues and gospel is the root of most American popular music.
NY Phil Opening Gala
The New York Philharmonic Opening Gala conducted by Manfred Honeck with Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award winner, and double Oscar nominee vocalist Cynthia Erivo, play a wide-ranging concert with everything from Puccini to Lennox in the Wu Tsai Theater at David Geffen Hall in Lincoln Center, Manhattan; on Tuesday, September 24, 2024 at 7pm. From $104. 🇺🇸
JUNE
Concerts in the Parks
New York Philharmonic Concerts in the Parks 2024 plays classical classics and new music, including some very young composers in Van Cortlandt Park, The Bronx; Central Park, Manhattan; Cunningham Park, Queens; Prospect Park Brooklyn, and an indoor program of string quartets at the St George Theatre in Staten Island; Tuesday-Sunday, June 11-16, 2024. FREE! 🇺🇸 🇪🇸
MAY
Trinidadian Conductor Classical New Music
PROJECT 19 WOMEN’S COMMISSIONS
In “Sound On,” the New York Philharmonic conducted by Trinidadian Kwame Ryan, plays a World Premiere music-documentary by Armenian American composer Mary Kouyoumdjian and photojournalist Scout Tufankjian, about the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh; in the Wu Tsai Theater at David Geffen Hall in Lincoln Center; on Friday, May 10, 2023 at 8pm. From $34. 🇦🇲 🇹🇹
Free Memorial Day Concert
The New York Philharmonic Free Memorial Day Concert conducted by Jaap van Zweden; plays Wagner, Copland, and Brahms; at the Cathedral Church of St John the Divine; in Morningside Heights, Manhattan; on Monday, May 27, 2023 at 7pm. FREE.
APRIL
Spring Gala with Gustavo Dudamel, Common, Park, and Williams
New York Philharmonic Spring Gala with Gustavo Dudamel features American rapper Common, South Korean soprano Hera Hyesang Park, and Puerto Rican jazz guitarist Bernie Williams (Yankees), playing Shekhar (India), Villa-Lobos (Brazil), Márquez (Mexico), Williams (Puerto Rico), Common (Chicago), and Strauss (Austria); in the Wu Tsai Theater at David Geffen Hall in Lincoln Center; on Wednesday, April 24, 2024 at 7pm. 🇦🇹 🇧🇷 🇮🇳 🇲🇽 🇵🇷 🇰🇷 🇺🇸 🇻🇪
Spanish, Argentine, and French Violin and Orchestra Classics
Hilary Hahn and Sounds of Spain has the multiple Grammy winning Artist-in-Residence, playing Sarasate’s “Carmen Fantasy,” and Ginastera’s Violin Concerto with the New York Philharmonic with Spanish conductor Juanjo Mena. The program includes Spanish reveries by French composers Ravel and Debussy; in the Wu Tsai Theater at David Geffen Hall in Lincoln Center; on Thursday-Saturday, April 25-27, 2024. From $115. 🇪🇸 🇦🇷 🇫🇷
New York Philharmonic Tickets
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About the New York Philharmonic
The New York Philharmonic was founded in 1842 as the Philharmonic Society of New York, a collective led by the musicians themselves. It is one of America’s oldest musical institutions. From 1891, it’s home was Carnegie Hall. It moved to Lincoln Center in 1962.
Popular traditions include:
- Memorial Day Concert at Cathedral of St John the Divine in May.
- Concerts in the Parks in June.
- Handel’s “Messiah” in December
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Latin Artists
Etienne Charles, the Trinidadian trumpeter, plays Carnival-influenced jazz. He composed “San Juan Hill: A New York Story” about the Latin neighborhood that Lincoln Center replaced, for the reopening of David Geffen Hall. 🇹🇹
Isabel Leonard is a multiple Grammy-winning Argentine American mezzo-soprano. 🇦🇷
Leonard Bernstein, the legendary composer of “West Side Story,” was music director from 1958 to 1969.
Marcos Balter, the Brazilian composer, wrote “Oyá” a piece about the Yoruba orisha of death and rebirth for the reopening of David Geffen Hall in 2022. We never expected an African Diaspora saint to be honored at Lincoln Center. Thank you. ¡Ashé! 🇧🇷
Tania León, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Cuban composer and conductor, has been New Music Advisor. 🇨🇺