The Philharmonie de Paris has announced its 2025/26 season, including concerts by Cécile McLorin Salvant, Chris Thile, Brad Mehldau & Christian McBride, and Laurie Anderson, and a performance of The Blue Hour.

First up is The Blue Hour, a song cycle collaboration among five composers—Rachel Grimes, Angélica Negrón, Shara Nova, Caroline Shaw, and Sarah Kirkland Snider—performed by singer Nova and the Orchestre national Avignon-Provence with conductor Débora Waldman at Cité de la musique's Salle des concerts on Friday, October 17. The Grammy-nominated first recording of the piece, performed by Nova and A Far Cry, was released on Nonesuch and New Amsterdam Records in 2022. Set to excerpts from Carolyn Forché’s epic poem On Earth, the music follows one woman’s journey through the liminal space between life and death via thousands of hallucinatory and non-linear images.

Next up is Cécile McLorin Salvant, who performs in the Philharmonie's Grande salle Pierre Boulez on Saturday, November 8. Salvant’s latest album, Mélusine, is a mix of originals and interpretations of songs dating as far back as the 12th century, mostly sung in French along with Occitan, English, and Haitian Kreyòl. The Grammy-nominated album tells the folk tale of Mélusine, a woman who turns into a half-snake each Saturday after a childhood curse by her mother. "Anyone who thinks they already know the full extent of Cécile McLorin Salvant's artistry should listen to Mélusine without further delay," exclaims Jazzwise. "It's a remarkable recording in several respects. Beautifully recorded, Salvant continues to confound and delight at every turn."

Later that week, the music moves back to Cité de la musique's Salle des concerts for a solo concert from Chris Thile on Wednesday, November 12. Thile’s first truly solo album, Laysongs, released in 2021, is just Thile, his voice, and his mandolin, on new recordings of six original songs and three covers, all of which contextualize and banter with his ideas about spirituality. Recorded in a converted upstate New York church, Laysongs features the three-part Salt (in the Wounds) of the Earth, which was inspired by C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters; a song Thile wrote about Dionysus; a selection from Béla Bartók’s Sonata for Solo Violin; “God Is Alive, Magic Is Afoot” based on Buffy Sainte-Marie’s adaptation of a Leonard Cohen poem; and a Hazel Dickens cover.

The performances continue at Cité de la musique in 2026, starting with two nights from the piano-bass duo of Brad Mehldau and Christian McBride on Tuesday, March 17, and Wednesday, March 18. Both artists also take part in a free pre-concert talk that Wednesday evening. The two joined saxophonist Joshua Redman and drummer Brian Blade for two recent albums, RoundAgain (2020) and LongGone (2022), more than 25 years after their first recording together, MoodSwing (1994). Mehldau and McBride are joined by drummer Marcus Gilmore for a tour of Hong Kong, Japan, China, and South Korea next month, and both Mehldau and Salvant will take part in Christian McBride's World at Sea in January.

Finally, Laurie Anderson is joined by the band Sexmob—Sexmobtrumpeter Steven Bernstein, saxophonist Briggan Krauss, drummer Kenny Wollesen, and clarinetist Doug Wieselman—to perform in the Philharmonie's Grande salle Pierre Boulez on Sunday, April 12. The program, Let X=X, after the song on Anderson's debut album, Big Science, includes songs from throughout her career. Her latest album, Amelia, about renowned female aviator Amelia Earhart’s tragic last flight, was released to critical acclaim in 2024, with BBC Radio 6 calling it "absolutely incredible" and Clash calling it "a towering work of artist endeavor and creative genius."

The Philharmonie's 2025–26 also includes performances of Steve Reich's City Life (September 19), and John Adams's Absolute Jest (January 18) and John's Book of Alleged Dances (January 24).

Subscriptions for the 2025-26 season are now available; individual tickets available from Monday, May 5. For more information on these and other performances in the upcoming season, visit philharmoniedeparis.fr.