The New York Philharmonic or NY Phil is one of the world’s great symphony orchestras.
Its home stage is David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center.
Dutch conductor Jaap van Zweden leads the orchestra in the 2023-24 season. 🇳🇱
Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel takes the baton in 2026. He is a community builder who arrives just in time to lead the new music renaissance in New York City right now. The change is already obvious. 🇻🇪
Popular traditions include the Memorial Day Concert at Cathedral of St John the Divine, Concerts in the Parks in June, and Handel’s “Messiah” in December.
Latin Music at the New York Philharmonic
Handel’s “Messiah” by the New York Philharmonic is a New York City Holiday Tradition, “Hallejujah”
DAVID GEFFEN HALL at Lincoln Center ~ One of the most popular choral works in European art music. 🇩🇪 🇬🇧 🇮🇹
New York Philharmonic Concerts In the Parks are a Great Way to Start Summer
VAN CORTLANDT PARK, The Bronx; CENTRAL PARK, Manhattan; CUNNINGHAM PARK, Queens; PROSPECT PARK, Brooklyn; ST GEORGE THEATRE, Staten Island
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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. nyphil.org 🇪🇸 🇦🇷 🇫🇷
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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. nyphil.org 🇦🇲 🇹🇹
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. nyphil.org
NY Phil Tickets
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10 Lincoln Center Plaza
(212) 875-5656
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(1) to 66th St – Lincoln Center
Past Artists
Handel’s “Messiah” is a popular holiday concert.
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.
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