The New York edit
Recently added recommendations. New here does not mean newly opened.
This is our growing New York selection. Follow each listing for checked practical information and the official source.
Inuk singer Elisapie brings songs from Inuktitut into her Lincoln Center debut. Her reinterpretations of familiar rock and pop material in her mother tongue offer a personal route into language, memory and community.
Bogotá quartet Nicolás y Los Fumadores make their US debut with indie rock shaped by Colombian life. Their mix of post-punk and Latin American rock makes this an appealing discovery for guitar-band listeners.
Pianist Mathis Picard explores the musical inheritance of San Juan Hill with guests Godwin Louis and Marco López. The intimate studio setting suits a programme about the neighbourhood's overlapping cultures and sounds.
Mick Sullivan brings children's history podcast The Past and The Curious to a live audience. Stories, music and games revisit unusual historical firsts, with a format designed to make younger listeners curious.
Temple University's ensembles pair orchestral and jazz music with landscape and urban photography. The programme includes the Brubecks' Ansel Adams: America, John Clayton's TWO FIVE O: Reflections and music by Bernstein.
Philosophy meets performance in an evening about gender across the long Roman Empire. Artist Kinlaw joins scholars Kristina Milnor and Leonora Neville to explore people who challenged the expectations of their times.
Toshi Reagon curates a musical remembrance of her mother, Bernice Johnson Reagon. Live performances and personal testimony connect the Sweet Honey in the Rock founder's work with her wider history of art and activism.
Mei Semones joins Japanese and English lyrics to guitar music that moves between jazz, bossa nova and indie pop. Her Lincoln Center debut is a chance to hear the Brooklyn songwriter's Animaru-era sound live.
Spain's Teatro Real orchestra brings Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez to New York with guitarist Juan Manuel Cañizares. Gustavo Gimeno conducts a programme also featuring Falla, soprano Adriana González and Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade.
Chilean duo Emilia y Pablo bring their blend of Latin American folk and flamenco to their US debut. Guitars, voices and visuals connect musical traditions from across Spanish-speaking cultures.
Sekou McMiller & Friends turn Afro-diasporic social dance into an evening-length stage work. Live music drives connections between salsa, mambo, jazz, house and street dance in this New York premiere.
Countertenor Morten Grove Frandsen plays multiple roles in a solo opera about loneliness and online life. Its text draws on young people's social-media posts, giving this Danish work an unusually contemporary point of entry.
The Golden Night Concert marks its tenth anniversary with the Manhattan Philharmonic and conductor Steven Fei Fang. The announced guests include violinist Lu Siqing, pipa player Fang Jinlong and singers Huo Zun and Cheng Lin.
Moving Body–Moving Image explores migration through films built around movement and dance. Curated by Gabri Christa, this edition includes work by Carrie Mae Weems and Alesandra Seutin, with further programme details still to come.
Unsound brings three distinct approaches to experimental performance into one evening: FUJI|||||||||||TA with Ka Baird, an audiovisual set from Actress, and Team Rolfes' Mustang Speedrun. Expect sound, live visuals and virtual-performance techniques.
Two Polish-American collaborations share an Unsound bill. claire rousay and Martyna Basta present hotel room, while Keith Giant Claw Rankin and Julek ploski bring their audiovisual work CONTROL FREAK.
Kentucky rapper suhREEtah makes her Lincoln Center debut after finding a wider audience through jazz-inflected performance clips. Her work connects music, movement and the experience of growing up Black in Appalachia.
Hania Rani performs Non-Fiction with Sinfonia Varsovia, joined by Valentina Magaletti and Jack Wyllie. The Unsound evening also includes Polish group Księżyc revisiting the material of its 1996 debut.
Aja Grant and Coulou lead a family-friendly sound bath and guided meditation. Synthesizers, guitar and trumpet provide a live setting for a quieter participatory visit to Lincoln Center.
Join a community choir session built around climate-themed songs, led by Ben Bram. No singing experience is needed: the programme includes new commissions associated with Climate Sing and a shared rendition of Take Me Home, Country Roads.
The New York Choral Society and Mannes Orchestra pair Tippett's A Child of Our Time with Hindemith's Mathis der Maler symphony. Both works frame music as a response to political pressure and human conflict.
Wynton Marsalis and the Metropolitan Opera's Peter Gelb discuss the ways jazz crosses artistic boundaries. Materials from the performing-arts library's collections help connect the conversation to musical history.
Trumpeter and composer Ambrose Akinmusire joins choreographer Aszure Barton for BEND. Live music and dance share the stage in a work built around tension, changing scale and the physical presence of its performers.
Topaz Jones marks ten years since Arcade with a performance connecting hip-hop, funk and soul. The New Jersey rapper, producer and filmmaker brings his multidisciplinary approach to the Atrium.
