Carnegie Hall has announced its 2026–27 concert season, and featured among the performers taking the esteemed hall's stages are Caroline Shaw, who has been named Richard and Barbara Debs Composer’s Chair for the season, and Jeremy Denk, Gabriel Kahane, Kronos Quartet, Punch Brothers, Silkroad Ensemble with Rhiannon Giddens, and heard throughout its halls will be works by Steve Reich, John Adams, and David Longstreth.

Caroline Shaw, the Richard and Barbara Debs Composer’s Chair for the 2026–2027 season, is featured on 12 programs next season. Miró Quartet performs Shaw’s “Entr'acte” from her 2019 album with Attacca Quartet Orange on Friday, October 23, in Weill Recital Hall. Ariel Quartet performs “Blueprint” from Shaw’s 2022 album with Attacca Quartet Evergreen, in Weill Recital Hall on Tuesday, December 8. Decoda performs Shaw’s “Thousandth Orange” and By and by in Weill Recital Hall on Thursday, January 28. Junction Trio gives the World Premiere of a piano arrangement of First Essay, “Nimrod,” from Three Essays at Weill Recital Hall on Thursday, February 4. Artists from The Juilliard School perform Shaw’s works in Zankel Hall on Wednesday, February 10. The Met Orchestra Chamber Ensemble and artists from the Metropolitan Opera and beyond perform Shaw’s Cantico delle creature in Weill Recital Hall on Monday, April 5. Ensemble Connect brings Shaw’s Draft of a High-Rise to Weill Recital Hall on Monday, April 12. Marmen Quartet performs Shaw’s “Schisma” in Weill Recital Hall on Tuesday, April 20. The Knights return to Zankel Hall, performing The Mountain That Loved a Bird on Wednesday, April 28. The Philadelphia Orchestra gives the New York premiere of The Observatory in Stern Auditorium on Friday, June 4.

Shaw takes the stage, joining Attacca Quartet, performing The Evergreen and “And So” from their 2022 album Evergreen at Zankel Hall on Friday, February 5. Cinematic electro-pop duo Ringdown—Danni Lee Parpan and Shaw—gives the world premiere of Reverberations, a multidisciplinary, semi-staged work, co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall, composed and performed with Decoda in Zankel Hall on Saturday, May 15. The program blends original music and poetry with works and words by Copland, Bernstein, Clara Schumann, Brahms, Pears, Britten, and more.

Jeremy Denk joins Takács Quartet for a performance in Zankel Hall on Friday, October 16. The program includes works by Felix Mendelssohn, Carlos Simon, and Franck. Denk then returns to Stern Auditorium on Monday, December 28, joining New York String Orchestra, conducted by Michael Stern, for its annual New Year's concert. The program includes Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4, as well as works by J. Strauss Jr., Valerie Coleman, and Stravinsky.

Steve Reich’s 90th birthday is celebrated at Steve Reich at 90, in Stern Auditorium, Thursday, October 22, with performances by Bang on a Can All-Stars, Ensemble Signal, pianists Lisa Kaplan and Nico Muhly, conducted by Brad Lubman. The all-Reich program features the US Premiere of In All Your Ways, co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall, as well as the US Premiere of Two Pianos and performances of Electric Counterpoint, Double Sextet, and Jacob’s Ladder.

The Punch Brothers perform at Stern Auditorium on Wednesday, November 4. The band's latest album, Hell on Church Street, is a reimagining of, and homage to, the late bluegrass great Tony Rice’s landmark solo album Church Street Blues, featuring an inspired collection of songs by Bob Dylan, Gordon Lightfoot, Bill Monroe, and others.

Silkroad Ensemble, featuring artistic director Rhiannon Giddens and founder/former artistic director Yo-Yo Ma, performs in Stern Auditorium on Saturday, November 14. Silkroad and Giddens' album American Railroad, which uncovers and uplifts stories of those who built the transcontinental railroad and connecting railways across North America, was released on Nonesuch in 2024.

Gabriel Kahane brings Every Love Song Is a Protest to Zankel Hall on Tuesday, February 9. The solo program co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall interweaves a pocket history of civil resistance and nonviolent protest—drawing inspiration from Sojourner Truth, Václav Havel, Martin Luther King Jr., the songs of the 1960s, and more—with a set of new tunes animated by a sincere belief in the power of love and our inescapable interconnectedness. 

Kronos Quartet returns to Zankel Hall on Thursday, February 25, to present A Hard Rain, a collaboration with the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, inspired by the Doomsday Clock, which explores the fragility of civilization and honors the scientists working to safeguard it. The program features reimagined works by Bob Dylan, Nicole Lizée, Philip Glass, Nina Shekdar, and more, as well as spoken texts specially contributed by notable scientists.

Also next season, composer Philip Glass’ birthday is celebrated by Orchestra of St. Luke’s, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies, at Stern Auditorium on Sunday, January 31; the Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, performs John Adams’ Harmonielehre in Stern Auditorium on Tuesday, February 2; and Jlin and Third Coast Percussion perform the New York premiere of David Longstreth’s new Carnegie Hall co-commissioned piece in Zankel Hall, Saturday, March, 6.

Subscriptions for the Carnegie Hall 2026–27 season are on sale now. Create-your-own-series tickets go on sale April 29. Individual concert tickets go on sale August 3. For all the details, visit carnegiehall.org.