Carnegie Hall has announced its 2025–26 concert season, and featured among the performers taking its Zankel Hall stage are Timo Andres, Kronos Quartet, Davóne Tines, and Sō Percussion, all part of Carnegie's United in Sound: America at 250 festival, and heard throughout its halls will be works by Caroline Shaw, Gabriel Kahane, and Steve Reich.

Sō Percussion kicks things off with a performance on Friday, January 23, 2026. The group gives the New York premiere of new Carnegie Hall co-commissioned works by Caroline Shaw, with whom it just won the GRAMMY Award for Best Chamber Music / Small Ensemble Performance for the album Rectangles and Circumstance; Bryce Dessner, Kendall K. Williams, and tap dancer Michael J. Love, who performs with Sō for the concert.

Timo Andres and fellow composer/pianist Aaron Diehl give a duo recital exploring themes of American art and musical language on Wednesday, January 28, on Zankel Hall Center Stage. The program features music by Duke Ellington, Julia Wolfe, and Thelonious Monk, plus the performers themselves, including a Carnegie Hall–commissioned world premiere by Andres and selections from his 2010 Nonesuch debut album, Shy and Mighty.

On Friday, January 30, singer Davóne Tines joins early music band Ruckus for a program of American revolutionary music, traveling through four centuries of songs, hymns, ballads, and new co-commissioned works by Tines and Doug Balliett, including their arrangement of "The House I Live In," a song Tines performs on ROBESON, his 2024 solo recording debut with his band THE TRUTH.

Kronos Quartet returns to Zankel Hall on Saturday, April 25, to present a semi-staged, multisensory exploration of the histories of Indigenous, Gullah-Geechee, and Chinese American communities in the United States. The group is joined for the concert by percussionist Quentin E. Baxter, electric Apache violinist and vocalist Laura Ortman, and pipa virtuoso Wu Man.

Additionally, The Knights give the New York premiere of a new Carnegie Hall co-commission by Gabriel Kahane (on a program that also features Christina Courtin on vocals) on April 9. The Met Orchestra Chamber Ensemble performs Steve Reich's Piano Phase for Two Marimbas in Weill Recital Hall on May 18. Arvo Pärt—holder of the 2025–2026 Debs Composer’s Chair at Carnegie Hall—is featured in a number of concerts, including one by Gidon Kremer, in which he performs Fratres (which Kronos performs on its 1988 album Winter Was Hard), on December 4, and another in which Nico Muhly performs on October 23.

Subscriptions for the Carnegie Hall 2025–26 season are on sale now. Create-your-own-series tickets go on sale April 17. Individual concert tickets go on sale August 11. For all the details, visit carnegiehall.org.