- Louis Langrée leads Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique & Les nuits d’été with Benjamin Bernheim
- OSL celebrates Philip Glass at 90 with New York premiere of his Symphony No. 15, “Lincoln”
- Christophe Rousset makes OSL debut with Mozart Requiem
- Andrew Manze conducts Beethoven’s “Eroica”
- Semyon Bychkov, Evgeny Kissin, & Maxim Vengerov honor Rostropovich centenary
- Daniele Rustioni & Nobuyuki Tsujii debut in Chopin
(February 2026) – “A mainstay of New York’s classical scene” (The New Yorker), long celebrated for its “exceptionally fine and committed music-making” (The New York Times), Orchestra of St. Luke’s (OSL) gives six performances at Carnegie Hall in 2026–27. French maestro Louis Langrée returns to open the season with an all-Berlioz program featuring tenor Benjamin Bernheim (Nov 5, 2026). Three leading exponents of the music of Philip Glass – conductor Dennis Russell Davies, violinist Robert McDuffie and baritone Zachary James – join the orchestra to celebrate the composer’s 90th birthday with a program showcasing the New York premiere of his 15th Symphony (Jan 31, 2027).French conductor Christophe Rousset makes his OSL debut with Mozart’s Requiem, performed in collaboration with soloists Liv Redpath, Beth Taylor, Andrew Staples, Ryan Speedo Green, and the Clarion Choir (Feb 11, 2027). OSL joins English conductor Andrew Manze for Beethoven’s “Eroica” Symphony and Third Piano Concerto, with Yeol Eum Son as soloist (March 11, 2027). Soviet-born conductor Semyon Bychkov, violinist Maxim Vengerov, and pianist Evgeny Kissin honor the Rostropovich centennial with works by Britten, Prokofiev, and Shostakovich in a special benefit performance for Carnegie Hall (March 27, 2027). Finally, Italian conductor Daniele Rustioni concludes the season with a program of Busoni, Dvořák, and Chopin, featuring Japanese sensation Nobuyuki Tsujii in the Polish composer’s Second Piano Concerto (April 15, 2027). Learn more about OSL’s 2026–27 Carnegie Hall season here.
James Roe, OSL’s President and Executive Director, comments:
“Our 2026–27 programs at Carnegie Hall reflect what audiences have long valued about OSL: virtuoso playing, stylistic range, and a true sense of occasion. Across six programs in Stern Auditorium, we are happy to welcome back conductors Louis Langrée and Andrew Manze, and to be joined by Christophe Rousset and Daniele Rustioni for their OSL debuts, alongside an extraordinary roster of soloists including Benjamin Bernheim, Ryan Speedo Green, Yeol Eum Son, and Nobuyuki Tsujii. A special season highlight is our 90th-birthday celebration of Philip Glass, led by Dennis Russell Davies – one of the composer’s great champions – with Robert McDuffie and Zachary James, and featuring the New York premiere of Glass’s Symphony No. 15, ‘Lincoln.’”
Meanwhile, three concerts remain in the orchestra’s present Carnegie Hall season. Andrew Manze juxtaposes John Adams’s Fearful Symmetries, a 1988 OSL commission, with Haydn’s Symphony No. 47 and Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto, featuring Paul Lewis (Feb 12); Louis Langrée and jazz pianist Gerald Clayton take part in an all-American evening of Ives, Ellington, Gershwin, and Bernstein (March 26); and Masaaki Suzuki conducts Mendelssohn’s “Italian” Symphony, Mozart’s Don Giovanni Overture, and the Beethoven Violin Concerto, featuring Midori (April 30).
Louis Langrée conducts Berlioz (Nov 5, 2026)
Following a pair of recent collaborations with the orchestra, French conductor Louis Langrée returns to open OSL’s Carnegie Hall season with an all-Berlioz program. Bookended by Les francs-juges Overture and the revolutionary Symphonie fantastique is the composer’s orchestral song cycle Les nuits d’été, featuring French lyric tenor Benjamin Bernheim – “a singer of immense refinement and tonal lustre [with] distinctively Gallic qualities” (Gramophone) – in his house and OSL debuts. Langrée, now serving as Director of the Théâtre national de l’Opéra Comique in Paris and Music Director Laureate of the Cincinnati Symphony, has long been a favorite of New York City audiences for his artistic leadership of the Mostly Mozart Festival, where his two-decade tenure was “a triumph of ensemble-building and musical curiosity” (The New York Times).
Dennis Russell Davies celebrates Philip Glass at 90 (Jan 31, 2027)
Orchestra of St. Luke’s celebrates the 90th birthday of American icon Philip Glass under the baton of Grammy-winning conductor Dennis Russell Davies, whose long history with the ensemble includes their 1988 Copland recording. “The conductor who knows Glass’s work better than anyone [and] is in no small part responsible for Glass’s evolution” (The Washington Post), Davies enjoys a close working relationship with the composer, and was responsible for commissioning and premiering many of his symphonies. OSL’s concert concludes with the New York premiere of Glass’s Symphony No. 15, “Lincoln” (2026) for orchestra and solo baritone, featuring Grammy-winner Zachary James, who previously created the role of Abraham Lincoln in the premiere production of Glass’s opera The Perfect American. The all-Glass program will also include the composer’s First Violin Concerto (1987), showcasing Emmy winner Robert McDuffie, to whom Glass dedicated his Second.
Christophe Rousset makes OSL debut with Mozart Requiem (Feb 11, 2027)
The founder of ensemble Les Talens Lyriques, French conductor Christophe Rousset is known for choral interpretations “of vitality, elegance, and emotional depth” (OperaWire). He makes his OSL and Carnegie Hall conducting debuts with a pairing of Mozart’s final unfinished masterpiece, the Requiem, and Schubert’s Mass No. 2 in G. The conductor and orchestra will be joined by the Clarion Choir and a stellar quartet of soloists: soprano Liv Redpath, mezzo-soprano Beth Taylor, tenor Andrew Staples, and, in his OSL debut, three-time Grammy-winning bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green. This past fall at Carnegie Hall, Redpath, Taylor, and the choir all took part in OSL’s celebrated account of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, hailed as “a rich musical and philosophical package” (Classical Voice America) that left at least one critic “feeling as though [he]’d just heard the great work for the first time” (Bachtrack).
Andrew Manze conducts Beethoven’s “Eroica” (March 11, 2027)
OSL follows this striking success in Beethoven’s Ninth with another of the composer’s most iconic symphonies: the mighty “Eroica.” Returning to lead the orchestra after their upcoming collaboration next week (see above) is Andrew Manze, the former Principal Conductor of Hamburg’s NDR Radiophilharmonie. Known for his “glorious and memorable Beethoven” (The Guardian), Manze couples the symphony with the composer’s stirring Third Piano Concerto, featuring South Korean pianist Yeol Eum Son in her OSL and Carnegie Hall debuts. Describing Son in Beethoven, The Scotsman writes, “She might be famed for her tender touch, her refinement and poetic elegance, but she’s just as capable of fiery, muscular playing.”
Semyon Bychkov honors Rostropovich centennial (March 27, 2027)
March 27, 2027 would have been the 100th birthday of Mstislav Rostropovich (1927–2007). In a special benefit performance for Carnegie Hall, OSL honors this anniversary with three great artists who, like the seminal cellist, conductor, and activist, were born in the Soviet Union. Rostropovich was a key mentor to both Grammy-winning violinist Maxim Vengerov, whose interpretation of Prokofiev’s First Violin Concerto owes much to the cellist, and Grammy-winning pianist Evgeny Kissin, who performs selections from the 24 Preludes and Fugues for solo piano by Rostropovich’s close friend Shostakovich. The cellist was also a primary muse for both the Russian composer and Britten. Under the direction of Semyon Bychkov, chief conductor and artistic director of the Czech Philharmonic, Music Director Designate of the Paris Opera, and one of today’s leading Shostakovich interpreters, OSL’s program opens with the English composer’s Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra and concludes with the final movement from Shostakovich’s searing Fifth Symphony,
Daniele Rustioni & Nobuyuki Tsujii make OSL debuts (April 15, 2027)
Orchestra of St. Luke’s final Carnegie concert of the season brings together two great international artists in their OSL debuts. Named “Best Conductor” at the 2022 International Opera Awards, Italian maestro Daniele Rustioni is now in his inaugural season as Principal Guest Conductor of New York’s Metropolitan Opera and his ninth as Music Director of Opéra National de Lyon. He kicks off the evening with Busoni’s Comedy Overture, an homage to Mozart’s comic operas, before leading OSL in accounts of Dvořák’s Seventh Symphony and Chopin’s Second Piano Concerto. The evening’s soloist is Japanese pianist Nobuyuki “Nobu” Tsujii, a gold medalist at the 2009 Van Cliburn International Competition; as Gramophone writes, Tsujii “is one of the musical miracles of the age – a complete phenomenon.”
About Orchestra of St. Luke’s
Founded in 1974, when a group of virtuoso chamber musicians began performing together at Greenwich Village’s Church of St. Luke in the Fields, Orchestra of St. Luke’s (OSL) has since evolved into a full orchestra, becoming a vibrant force in New York’s classical music scene. Today OSL makes its artistic home at New York’s Carnegie Hall, where, since debuting at the venue in 1983, it has performed more concerts than any other orchestra. In addition to a concert series in each of Carnegie Hall’s three venues, OSL’s annual season features two programs spotlighting contemporary composers: Visionary Sounds and the DeGaetano Composition Institute. Both programs take place at The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, the midtown Manhattan rehearsal, recording, and performance facility that was designed and built by OSL in 2011. Similarly central to OSL’s mission is the Education and Community Engagement initiative, which presents free concerts to thousands of New York City public school students each year, offers a mentorship program for pre-professional musicians, brings accessible concerts to all five boroughs, and oversees the Youth Orchestra of St. Luke’s (YOSL), the city’s only youth orchestra affiliated with a professional ensemble. OSL also proudly collaborates with Paul Taylor Dance Company each yearat Lincoln Center, as well as performing with a variety of other artistic partners at venues throughout the city and beyond.
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Orchestra of St. Luke’s: Carnegie Hall mainstage performances 2026–27
All performances take place in Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium on the Perelman Stage.
Nov 5, 2026
Louis Langrée, conductor
BERLIOZ: Les francs-juges Overture
BERLIOZ: Les nuits d’été (with Benjamin Bernheim, tenor)
BERLIOZ: Symphonie fantastique
Jan 31, 2027
Philip Glass: The 90th Birthday Concert
Dennis Russell Davies, conductor
Philip GLASS: “Mechanical Ballet” from The Voyage [1992]
Philip GLASS: Violin Concerto No. 1 [1987] (with Robert McDuffie, violin)
Philip GLASS: Symphony No. 15 “Lincoln” [2026] (New York premiere; with Zachary James, baritone)
Feb 11, 2027
Christophe Rousset, conductor (OSL debut)
SCHUBERT: Mass No. 2 in G
MOZART: Requiem
(With Liv Redpath, soprano; Beth Taylor, mezzo-soprano; Andrew Staples, tenor; Ryan Speedo Green, bass-baritone; The Clarion Choir / Steven Fox, director)
March 11, 2027
Andrew Manze, conductor
BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 3 (with Yeol Eum Son, piano)
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 3 (“Eroica”)
March 27, 2027
Rostropovich Centenary Gala
Benefit performance for Carnegie Hall
Semyon Bychkov, conductor
BRITTEN: The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra (with narrator, TBA)
PROKOFIEV: Violin Concerto No. 1 (with Maxim Vengerov, violin)
SHOSTAKOVICH: Selections from 24 Preludes and Fugues (Evgeny Kissin, piano)
SHOSTAKOVICH: “Allegro non troppo” from Symphony No. 5
April 15, 2027
Daniele Rustioni, conductor (OSL debut)
BUSONI: Comedy Overture
CHOPIN Piano Concerto No. 2 (with Nobuyuki Tsujii, piano)
DVORĂK: Symphony No. 7
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