Little Orchestra Society: The Three C’s

Sunday, Oct 6, Various times

Brooklyn Children’s Museum

The Little Orchestra Society is in residence at Brooklyn Children’s Museum for a series of family music workshops. Each session explores music of a different culture, engaging children, parents, and caregivers through movement, song, composition, and an introduction to world instruments.  This event explores, culture, classical music, and composing! FREE

Flute Story Time

Monday, Oct 7, 4:30pm

Silver Music 72nd St

Join our flute teacher, Zara Lawler, for 30 delightful minutes of flute-playing and story time. This is an opportunity to hear and see the flute up close and hear books come to life enhanced by flute music. This event will be geared towards children 3-7 years old. FREE

Powell Artist Flute Recital

Tuesday, Oct. 8, 6:30pm

Buffet Crampon NY Showroom

Powell Flutes Boston Artist Elise Blatchford, (a colleague of our flute teacher, Zara Lawler) will be giving a Flute Recital featuring Bach and a sonata by Carl Vine that sounds like video games! FREE

Juilliard Piano Faculty Quartet

Thursday, Oct 10, 7:30pm

Paul Hall

Juilliard faculty members and alumni will perform an evening of chamber music as part of the Daniel Saidenberg Faculty Recital Series. The program features Schumann’s Piano Quartet with composer/cellist Paul Wiancko’s American Haiku, and Ives’ complex Piano Trio. $10-$20

The Philadelphia Orchestra

Tuesday, October 15, 8pm

Carnegie Hall

Come hear one of America’s greatest orchestra with nearly 130 instruments on stage—including wind and thunder machines! The program will include Richard Strauss’ Eine Alpensinfonie and Bartok’s Piano Concerto No. 3. Tickets from $20.50

CMS Kids: Creative Creatures

Sunday, Oct 20, 11am

Rose Studio

Featuring host Rami Vamos and CMS Artists, each CMS Kids program is an inclusive concert experience adapted for neurodiverse audiences, including children with autism or other special needs. Tickets are $25

Little Orchestra Society

Saturday, Oct 19, various times

Kaye Playhouse

Entering its 72nd Season, Little Orchestra Society (LOS) is devoted to bringing innovative classical music concerts to young concertgoers and families, featuring music — from classical to jazz. Tickets start at $16

Join us for an Open House on December 16 from 4-4:30pm at our 72nd St location!

All ages welcome–come by to see our school, try an instrument, and learn more about our programs.

Our location is 218 W 72nd St, press buzzer #2RW to enter.
We are at the top of one flight of stairs, strollers may be left downstairs by the mailboxes.

Hope to see you on Sunday!

Shine and the Moonbeams
Saturday, Dec. 1, 11am
David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center
A soulful, groove-heavy R&B musical extravaganza in a rock ’n roll package, capturing the sweetness, uncertainty, and simplicity of youth. FREE (recommended for ages 2-5)

Accordion Holiday Concert
Sunday, Dec. 2, 6pm
Berg’n
A unique and jolly way to celebrate the season! Come sing holiday carols with 20+ accordion-players and other instrumentalists. Our program director, Blythe Bonnaffons, will be performing and MCing this event. Appropriate for all ages. $5-$10 sliding scale.

Nouveau Classical Project: Currents
Thursday, Dec. 6, 7:30pm
David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center
NCP has commissioned Currents, its latest evening-length performance featuring music for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, and electronics by some of today’s most exciting composers: Olga Bell, David Bird, Gabrielle Herbst, and Isaac Schankler. FREE

Jazz for Kids
Sunday, Dec. 2, 9, 16, 2pm
Jazz Standard
The Jazz Standard Youth Orchestra, made up of talented youngsters between the ages of 11 and 18, provides the music including big band classics like “Cherokee” and “Billie’s Bounce.” Suggested donation $5.

Sonatenabend
Wednesday, Dec. 5, 6pm
Paul Recital Hall
Pianists from Juilliard’s Collaborative Piano department perform sonata repertoire in partnership with student instrumentalists. FREE.

Handel’s Messiah
Sunday, Dec. 8, 8:00pm
Carnegie Hall
Messiah has become the best known and most performed of all of Handel’s works, as well as the most performed choral work, throughout the world. Come hear the Cecelia Chorus perform this work at Carnegie and see if you can spot our viola teacher, Surai Balbeisi in the orchestra! Tickets start at $25.

Wednesdays at One: Juilliard Lab Orchestra
Wednesday, Dec. 12, 1pm
Alice Tully Hall
Juilliard artists share their talent with the community in these free, hour-long lunchtime concerts on Wednesday afternoons throughout the season. FREE.

Brandenburg Concertos
Wednesday, December 12, 6:30pm
Temple Emanu-El
Come hear the renowned St. Luke’s Orchestra perform one of the greatest works of the Baroque era, Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos, with each movement showcasing the virtuosity and distinct sonority of a different instrument. A perfect follow-up to our Faculty Concerts featuring concerti! FREE

Carnival of the Animals
Saturday, December 15, 1pm, 4pm
Miller Theatre at Columbia University
Miller’s annual holiday treat returns, a playful production that brings Camille Saint-Saëns’s beloved work to life—Carnival of the Animals. Experience the magic, as everyday objects take on new lives as lions, elephants, and birds, through the incredible vision of director Lake Simons and some of New York’s best puppeteers. $9-$30

Colonial Christmas
Saturday, December 15, 7:30pm
The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine
Early Music New York presents 18th-century New England shape-note anthems and hymns sung by the men’s vocal ensemble, with English country dance tunes played by a band of fiddle, flute and bass. Tickets start at $20.

Holiday Brass
Sunday, Dec. 16, 3:00pm
David Geffen Hall
A family-friendly event for ages 4+, experience the power, brilliance, and virtuosity of the New York Philharmonic Brass and Percussion. $59

Home Alone in Concert
Thursday & Friday, Dec. 20-21, 7pm
David Geffen Hall
Don’t miss this holiday blockbuster as the Philharmonic performs John Williams’s score live to film. Tickets start at $45

Recital: Keiko Tokunaga, Violin
Saturday, Nov. 3, 6pm
Paul Hall
Pre-College and college alumnae Keiko Tokunaga and Mika Emily Sasaki present a recital featuring a work by Pre-College faculty member and college alumnus Evan Fein. FREE

The Melita Ensemble
Friday, Nov. 2, 7pm
The Church of St. Paul the Apostle
Come hear our viola teacher, Molly Goldman, perform with The Melita Ensemble on the Upper West Side!

Elena Moon Park: Rabbit Days and Dumplings
Saturday, Nov. 3, 11am
David Rubenstein Atrium
Elena Moon Park and Friends celebrates folk and children’s music from all over East Asia, reinterpreted to mix various musical traditions, languages, styles, and stories. FREE (ages 2-5)

Mozart for Munchkins: Jazz for Juniors
Saturday, Nov. 3, 4pm
Greenwich House Music School
MfM creates an interactive and engaging atmosphere in which families can experience and enjoy music! Each interactive performance is followed by an “instrument petting zoo” where everyone is welcome to try the instruments and meet the performers! Kids under 12: FREE, Adults: $30

Sonatenabend
Wednesday, Nov. 14, 6pm
Julliard
Pianists from Juilliard’s Collaborative Piano department perform sonata repertoire in partnership with student instrumentalists. FREE

Silver Music Faculty Recital
Saturday, Nov. 17, 5pm
218 W 72nd St
Come hear our faculty perform! One teacher from each of our departments (flute, violin, viola, cello, piano) will be performing a show piece or movement of a concerto. The recital will be interactive with questions and commentary specifically designed for our students. $12/advance, $15 at the door.

CMS Kids
Sunday, Nov. 18, 3pm
Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio
Program curated for ages 3-6 where families can explore the up-close and friendly world of chamber music in the intimate Rose Studio. $25

Juilliard String Quartet
Monday, Nov. 19, 7:30pm
Alice Tully Hall
Areta Zhulla and Ronald Copes, violins. Roger Tapping, viola. Astrid Schween, cello. Tickets start at $30 (15 for Juilliard Students)