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The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center bringing music to Alice Tully Hall and The Rose Studio

CMS is thrilled to have opened our 2026-27 season with our cross-country American Soundscapes tour, culminating in our O...
10/16/2026

CMS is thrilled to have opened our 2026-27 season with our cross-country American Soundscapes tour, culminating in our Opening Night concert and celebration at Lincoln Center on Tuesday.

Thanks to our amazing musicians and audience members for making this such an inspiring and energizing start to the season ❤️

Check our website for all the many exciting offerings we can’t wait to share with you in the coming months, both at home in NYC and on tour 🎻 Link in bio.

10/16/2026

Felix Mendelssohn completed his B minor Piano Quartet in January 1825 at the age of fifteen, dedicating it to German polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

This Sunday, CMS is thrilled to bring Mendelssohn’s B-minor Piano Quartet to the stage at Alice Tully Hall, on a program with works by Haydn, Beethoven, and Schubert.

This 2022 Alice Tully Hall performance features Wu Qian, piano; Ryan Meehan, violin; Jeremy Berry, viola; and Estelle Choi, cello.

10/14/2026

Mark-Anthony Turnage composed Massarosa in 2018 on a joint commission from bassoonist Peter Kolkay and the Chamber Music Society. The title comes from one of the English composer’s favorite Italian towns.

This 2019 Rose Studio world premiere features Kolkay with the Calidore String Quartet: Jeffrey Myers and Ryan Meehan, violins; Jeremy Berry, viola; and Estelle Choi, cello.

Hear another new CMS co-commission by Turnage on our Sonic Spectrum I program on Thursday, November 12. Tune into the live stream at 7:30 pm—link in our bio.

10/13/2026

Score Study // Follow along with a snippet of Czech composer Bedřich Smetana’s String Quartet No. 1 (1880), “From My Life.”

Each movement of the unusual quartet traces a different period in Smetana’s life, including his early youth, memories of first love, and his growing struggle with deafness.

The composer wrote that piece was “written purposely for four instruments, as though in a small friendly circle they are discussing among themselves what so obviously troubles me.”

This 2024 performance features The Schumann Quartett (Erik and Ken Schumann; violins; Veit Hertenstein, viola; and Mark Schumann, cello). The quartet returns to CMS for a full evening of music on November 15. Tickets available now at our website and the link in our bio.

10/12/2026

Considered the founder of the French violin school, Jean-Marie Leclair began his career as a dancer in Lyon and later served as a ballet master in Turin, where he became inspired him to devote himself to the violin. He composed his second set of six violin concertos (Op. 10) around 1740.

This 2018 Alice Tully Hall performance features Bella Hristova as violin soloist, with Aaron Boyd and Sean Lee, violins; Paul Neubauer, viola; Mihai Ma**ca, cello; Timothy Cobb, double bass; and Gilles Vonsattel, harpsichord.

Hear Bella Hristova in her Art of the Recital program with pianist Gloria Chien this Thursday (October 15) at 7:30 pm. Join us for the live stream at our website.

10/09/2026

Happy birthday to Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer, organist, pianist, and conductor, born on this day in 1835.

The Clarinet Sonata is one of three wind sonatas he composed in 1921, the year he passed away at 86, devoting what he called “my last reserves on giving rarely considered instruments the chance to be heard.”

This 2024 Alice Tully Hall performance features Anthony McGill, clarinet, and Gloria Chien, piano.

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