★ Our picks
A few concerts we’d go to this week, and why.
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Thu 7:30 PM
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Mozart: Requiem
Concert hall
Favourites
Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, Midtown
Mozart's Requiem and Ave verum corpus, sung by Saint Thomas's choir of men and boys with New
York Baroque Incorporated.
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Sun 2:00 PM
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Berliner Philharmoniker with Víkingur Ólafsson
Concert hall
Favourites
Cheap seats
Carnegie Hall, Stern Auditorium, Midtown
The Berlin Philharmonic and Kirill Petrenko bring Brahms's First Piano Concerto, with Víkingur
Ólafsson, and Strauss's Also sprach Zarathustra.
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Tue 6:00 PM
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Pop-Up Concert: Conrad Tao, piano
Up close
Adventurous
Free
Miller Theatre at Columbia University, Morningside Heights
Free and up close: Conrad Tao premieres David Fulmer's new solo piano piece, written for him,
with onstage seating and a reception.
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Wed 7:00 PM
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Music for 18 Musicians: Staged Variations
Concert hall
Adventurous
Ticketed
Park Avenue Armory, Upper East Side
Musicians encircle the audience in Alan Pierson's staging of Reich's Music for 18 Musicians, 50
years after its premiere, with Caroline Shaw.
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Free and casual
Free concerts, student recitals, open rehearsals and sing-alongs.
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Thu 7:00 PM
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Momenta Festival: Keys to Creativity
Adventurous
Free
Americas Society, Upper East Side
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Fri 6:00 PM
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Historical Performance Chamber Music
Up close
Free
Student recital
Morse Hall, The Juilliard School, Lincoln Center
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Sat 6:00 PM
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Preparatory Division Faculty Recital Series
Up close
Free
Paul Hall, The Juilliard School, Lincoln Center
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Sun 5:15 PM
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Piano Recital: Ching-Yi Lin
Concert hall
Favourites
Free
Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, Midtown
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Tue 6:00 PM
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Pop-Up Concert: Conrad Tao, piano
Up close
Adventurous
Free
Miller Theatre at Columbia University, Morningside Heights
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Tue 7:30 PM
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Lives of the Piano: Classical Meets Jazz I — Reimagined Classics
Up close
Free
Student recital
Greenfield Hall, Manhattan School of Music, Morningside Heights
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Wed 4:00 PM
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Piano Performance Forum Recital
Up close
Free
Student recital
Paul Hall, The Juilliard School, Lincoln Center
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Wed 6:00 PM
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Liederabend
Up close
Free
Student recital
Paul Hall, The Juilliard School, Lincoln Center
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Wed 7:30 PM
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MSM Symphony Orchestra conducted by Vinay Parameswaran
Concert hall
Some of each
Free
Student recital
Neidorff-Karpati Hall, Manhattan School of Music, Morningside Heights
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Thu 1:00 PM
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Afternoons at the Piano I
Up close
Cheap seats
Student recital
Topfer Rehearsal Studio, Brooklyn College, Midwood
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Thu 1:15 PM
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Midtown Concerts: ALBA Consort – Songs of the Ancient Mariners
Up close
Free
St. Malachy's Church, Theater District
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Day by day
Thursday, October 8
Friday, October 9
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6:00 PM
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Historical Performance Chamber Music
Up close
Free
Student recital
Morse Hall, The Juilliard School, Lincoln Center
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7:30 PM
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Talea Composer Spotlight: Amadeus Regucera
Concert hall
Church of St. Luke & St. Matthew, Clinton Hill
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7:30 PM
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La bohème
Opera house
Favourites
Cheap seats
Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center
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7:30 PM
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Classical Nomads: Love and Death, Tchaikovsky and Mahler
Concert hall
Favourites
Carnegie Hall, Zankel Hall, Midtown
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7:30 PM
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Curtis Stewart, violin: American Caprices
Concert hall
92NY, Upper East Side
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7:30 PM
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Faust
Concert hall
Favourites
St. Paul and St. Andrew Church, Upper West Side
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8:00 PM
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Berliner Philharmoniker with Víkingur Ólafsson
Concert hall
Favourites
Cheap seats
Carnegie Hall, Stern Auditorium, Midtown
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Saturday, October 10
Sunday, October 11
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2:00 PM
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Beethoven: Contrasting Trios (Peskanov, Magill, Levin)
Up close
Favourites
Bargemusic, DUMBO
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2:00 PM
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Berliner Philharmoniker with Víkingur Ólafsson
Concert hall
Favourites
Cheap seats
Carnegie Hall, Stern Auditorium, Midtown
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3:00 PM
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MSM Artists in Residence: American String Quartet
Up close
Cheap seats
Greenfield Hall, Manhattan School of Music, Morningside Heights
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3:00 PM
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Macbeth
Opera house
Favourites
Cheap seats
Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center
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4:00 PM
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Faust
Concert hall
Favourites
St. Paul and St. Andrew Church, Upper West Side
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5:00 PM
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Brooklyn Art Song Society
Up close
Roulette, Downtown Brooklyn
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5:15 PM
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Piano Recital: Ching-Yi Lin
Concert hall
Favourites
Free
Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, Midtown
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Monday, October 12
Tuesday, October 13
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6:00 PM
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Pop-Up Concert: Conrad Tao, piano
Up close
Adventurous
Free
Miller Theatre at Columbia University, Morningside Heights
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7:30 PM
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Marshall Opera: An Evening with Adolphus Hailstork
Concert hall
Adventurous
Merkin Hall, Kaufman Music Center, Lincoln Center
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7:30 PM
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Lives of the Piano: Classical Meets Jazz I — Reimagined Classics
Up close
Free
Student recital
Greenfield Hall, Manhattan School of Music, Morningside Heights
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7:30 PM
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Opening Night: Copland’s Appalachian Spring
Concert hall
Some of each
Deals for students and under-40s
Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center
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7:30 PM
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The Philadelphia Orchestra: Mahler Five
Concert hall
Some of each
Cheap seats
Carnegie Hall, Stern Auditorium, Midtown
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7:30 PM
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Chengcheng Ma and Guest Artists
Up close
Some of each
Carnegie Hall, Weill Recital Hall, Midtown
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7:30 PM
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Così fan tutte
Opera house
Favourites
Cheap seats
Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center
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Wednesday, October 14
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2:00 PM
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REICH90 by Kuniko Kato & Musicians
Concert hall
Adventurous
Cheap seats
Merkin Hall, Kaufman Music Center, Lincoln Center
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4:00 PM
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Piano Performance Forum Recital
Up close
Free
Student recital
Paul Hall, The Juilliard School, Lincoln Center
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6:00 PM
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Liederabend
Up close
Free
Student recital
Paul Hall, The Juilliard School, Lincoln Center
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7:00 PM
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Music for 18 Musicians: Staged Variations
Concert hall
Adventurous
Ticketed
Park Avenue Armory, Upper East Side
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7:30 PM
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Young Concert Artists 2025 Audition Winner: Trio Azura
Concert hall
Some of each
Cheap seats
Carnegie Hall, Zankel Hall, Midtown
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7:30 PM
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Macbeth
Opera house
Favourites
Cheap seats
Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center
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7:30 PM
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MSM Symphony Orchestra conducted by Vinay Parameswaran
Concert hall
Some of each
Free
Student recital
Neidorff-Karpati Hall, Manhattan School of Music, Morningside Heights
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Thursday, October 15
Watch and listen from anywhere
Livestreams, radio broadcasts, competitions and opera in cinemas. Times are Eastern. Links go to the
official pages.
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Oct 9 – 21
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Wieniawski Violin Competition: Stages 1-4 and semi-final
Competition
Free
Free live stream on the Wieniawski Society YouTube channel (youtube.com/@WieniawskiSociety);
also on The Violin Channel, medici.tv and Amadeus.tv
One of the oldest violin competitions (first held in 1935), held every five years; every round
streams, and the final is on Oct 22.
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Thu 11:00 PM ET
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NY Phil This Week: Dudamel conducts Beethoven 5 and Corigliano's Symphony No. 1
Radio
Recorded
Free
WFMT 98.7 FM Chicago and the live stream at wfmt.com
Dudamel in his first season as the New York Philharmonic's music director; Corigliano's First
Symphony is his memorial to friends lost to AIDS.
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Fri 1:00 PM ET
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Neue Stimmen singing competition: final
Competition
Free
Livestream on OperaVision (operavision.eu)
One of the main international competitions for young opera singers; its finalists regularly go
on to major opera houses.
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Fri 8:00 PM ET
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Berlin Phil, Kirill Petrenko and Víkingur Ólafsson live from Carnegie Hall
Radio
Free
WQXR 105.9 FM and wqxr.org (Carnegie Hall Live, also carried by NPR stations)
The Berlin Philharmonic's Carnegie Hall concert on its US tour, broadcast live, with Víkingur
Ólafsson in Brahms's First Piano Concerto.
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Sat 1:00 PM ET
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Zemlinsky's A Florentine Tragedy and Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle from the Vienna State Opera
Livestream
Free, sign-up
State Opera Play (play.wiener-staatsoper.at), in a browser or on the iOS/Apple TV and Fire TV
apps, with English subtitles. Available for up to 72 hours after the performance ends
A double bill of two short, intense one-act operas, with Asmik Grigorian, one of today's
leading opera singers.
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Sat 8:00 PM ET
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Nelsons and Gerstein: Francisco Coll's new Piano Concerto plus Beethoven 7
Radio
Free
CRB Classical 99.5 FM Boston and classicalwcrb.org. Encore broadcast Monday at 8 PM; the page
says episodes are available on demand
It is the U.S. premiere of a new piano concerto by Spanish composer Francisco Coll, paired with
Beethoven's Seventh.
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Sun 4:00 PM ET
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Garrick Ohlsson plays Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23 with the Cleveland Orchestra
Radio
Recorded
Free
WCLV 90.3 FM Cleveland and ideastream.org/wclv (recorded Nov 1, 2025). Sunday broadcasts are
generally available on demand for two weeks after they air
It is a full concert by the Cleveland Orchestra under its longtime music director, with a
Mozart concerto and Schumann's 'Rhenish' Symphony.
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