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  • September 19 ~ Concordian Dawn
    Le Roman de Fauvel. Watch online here or on YouTube  View the program Amber Evans ~ soprano & percussionThomas McCargar ~ baritoneNiccolo Seligmann ~ vielle & percussionChristopher Preston Thompson ~ director, tenor & harp Le Roman de Fauvel is a fourteenth-ce...
    September 26 ~ NEMA a4
    Death and the Maiden. Watch online here or on YouTube  Manami Mizumoto ~ violin Edson Scheid ~ violin Andrew Gonzalez ~ viola Nathan Whittaker ~ violoncello  In 1824 Franz Schubert was staring down his own mortality, but what he saw was anything but morose. ...
    October 3 ~ Arrow Quartet
    Music of the Melting Pot. Watch online here or on YouTube  Amelia Sie ~ violin Vivian Mayers ~ violin Jimmy Dranscak ~ viola Chelsea Bernstein ~ violoncello Incorporating music by some of the earliest composers of the Americas, the Arrow Quartet has chosen repertoire that repre...
    October 10 ~ Bud Roach
    Songs of Love, from Court to Country. Watch online here or on YouTube  Bud Roach ~ tenor & theorbo Songs of Love, from Court to Country features 17th-century Italian love songs by Perti, Stefani, and Cazzati, and English airs by Purcell, Blow, and Lawes. Some of these arias...
    October 17 ~ Intesa
    From the Eastern Gate. Watch online here or on YouTube  Lucine Musaelian ~ bass viol & voice Nathan Giorgetti ~ bass viol  This program leads listeners on a journey from Armenia to Western Europe, telling timeless and universal stories about love and loss. It feat...

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October 24
Melanie Williams & Rebecca Pechefsky
Bach’s Star Pupil Meets a Bohemian Virtuoso

October 31
Rita Lilly, Clea Galhano & Peter Sykes
The Soul Awaits

November 7
Richard Pittsinger, Rafa Prendergast & Friends
The Decorated Madrigal

November 14
As The Crow Flies
The Pearl Earring ~ Music of the Dutch Golden Age
 

November 21
The Lost Mode
Constellations ~ Echos Across Time

December 5
Julia Bengtsson from The New York Baroque Dance Company
Transformation

December 12
Les Bergers
Joyeux Noël

December 19
Concentus
The Sammartini Brothers

January 2
Duo Cok & Verschuren
European Grand Tour

January 9
Baltimore Consort
Food of Love

January 16
Theotokos
The Passion Before Bach

January 23
Passiones Animae
Parisian Sensibilities

January 30
Emmanuel Coppey
Bach Violin

February 6
Schwarz / Shin Duo
Four Bach Sonatas for Violin & Harpsichord

February 13
Abendmusik
War & Peace ~ Music in the Time of the Thirty Years War

February 20
Hesperus
O Italia! Celebrating the Codex Faenza

February 27
ALBA Consort
The Plucked Rose: Songs of Love and Loss

March 6
Assai Ad Libitum
The Great Fear ~ Musical Exiles of the French Revolution

March 13
House of Time
All Bach

March 20
Dan McCarthy
In Love with the Viola

March 27
Eurasia Consort
Music of Paradise

April 3
Caroline Nicolas and Jeffrey Grossman
All In The Family

April 10
Nuova Pratica
Back In Style

April 17
Pascal Valois
Guitaromanie

April 24
The Chivalrous Crickets
The Company Dressed in Green: A May Day Celebration

May 1
Arnie Tanimoto and Friends
Twilight in Paris

May 8
Magdalena
Óró Mhór a Mhóirín ~ Songs of Ireland and Scotland

May 15
Opera Essentia
Excerpts of a Distillation ~ Handel Opera

May 22
Koester & Figg
Skeletons of the Opera

May 29
Richard Kolb
Goûts Réunis, 1620 ~ Michelangelo Galilei and Contemporaries

June 5
BALAM Dance Theatre
Old and New Spain in Music, Song, Dance, and Destreza Fencing

June 12
Midnight Viols
England's Glory

June 19
Marc Bellassai
Law & DISorder

June 26
The Harmonie Collective
Upper Voices

1:15–2:00 pm
All concerts are free; no tickets or reservations are necessary.

All concerts will be in person at St. Malachy's Church, 239 West 49th Street, Manhattan

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Welcome to the largest and most diverse series of free chamber music concerts in the nation, comprising weekly performances by over 40 different professional ensembles & artists.

The twenty-seventh season of Midtown Concerts will begin on September 19, 2024 and will run until June 26, 2025.

VIEW THE 2024–2025 ROSTER

Concerts are Thursdays at 1:15pm. In-person and live streamed from St. Malachy's Church in NYC (map).

Watch live from home here, or on YouTube

Or watch past concerts on-demand on YouTube.


The Midtown Concerts series provides exceptional and interactive musical experiences to our audiences. Offering about 40 distinctive FREE weekly concerts, our series aims to nurture local artists at all stages of their careers and to contribute to the enhancement of a more vibrant early music community. We are proud to provide performance opportunities for over 200 artists, featuring local, national, and internationally acclaimed groups, and serving over 3,000 audience members each year. Each program features unique historically informed repertoire on period instruments. Our ultimate goal is to offer a meaningful contribution to New York’s cultural tapestry, making rarely heard music accessible to all and enriching the musical lives of the members of our community. We are proud to offer the greatest number and most diverse free concerts in the city, and we hope to continue reaching new audience members every week.

 

 

GEMS is a non-profit corporation that supports and promotes the artists and organizations in New York devoted to early music — playing repertoire from the Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, and early Classical periods.