2026–2027 Season
Announcing the 2026–2027 Season
Welcome to CMS's 2026–2027 season! This year, CMS celebrates the 250th birthday of the United States of America with a series of Summer Evenings concerts offering works by American composers from the 18th century to today. The revelry continues in October with an eclectic, all-American Opening Night program concluding with Aaron Copland's iconic Appalachian Spring Suite.
At nearly the same time as the founding of the United States, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was already making his mark in the history of music, including a substantial body of chamber music. Composing some 800 works during his 35-year lifetime, Mozart set new standards in every genre he touched. At the start of this season’s Winter Festival, we greet Mozart at age 26. The next several years saw much of Mozart’s most consequential chamber music, and the festival’s four all-Mozart concerts showcase his genius in works of twelve different instrumentations. After the Winter Festival, Mozart’s works continue to appear throughout the rest of the season, including two of his final masterpieces: the Clarinet Quintet and Clarinet Concerto.
For the first time in CMS’s history, we will experience the creative life of Ludwig van Beethoven through a cycle of his piano sonatas. With great excitement, we present an outstanding interpreter of Beethoven well-known to CMS audiences: pianist Gilles Vonsattel. The series includes performances in Alice Tully Hall and the intimate Rose Studio, complemented by a lecture series.
This season also offers CMS’s signature variety of old, new, familiar, and important musical discoveries. In addition to classics by Beethoven, Haydn, Schubert, Mendelssohn, and Brahms, we will hear engaging works by Arensky, Fauré, Beach, Dvořák, Chaminade, Respighi, and Chausson, as well as the annual delights of our Baroque Festival in December. Affirming CMS’s commitment to the art of song, the New Year begins with an unforgettable performance of Schubert’s Winterreise. CMS’s Sonic Spectrum series, which celebrates music of our time, kicks off in November with the New York premiere of a string quartet by English composer Mark Anthony Turnage, a CMS co-commission.
We look forward to seeing you throughout the season.
Best wishes,
David Finckel and Wu Han
Artistic Directors
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