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for all our events and concerts
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Every Story Counts - June 20th-27th
🔗 https://www.chelseamusicfestival.org/2026
Season Passes are now live! Secure your VIP seat at every Festival event (& save 20%)!
Explore all that this season offers including 17 NY Premieres,
our first foray into the theater district,
& a Jazz Finale headlined by vibraphonist Warren Wolf
🔗 https://www.chelseamusicfestival.org/2026
🎺 Happy Birthday to Arcangelo Corelli!
Hear II Allemanda. Allegro from Sonata in E Minor Op 5 No 8
with Caleb Hudson, Claire Bourg, Christine Lamprea, Cellist, Emi Ferguson, & Mark Dover
🔗 youtu.be/matEIrrbtr8
🧧Happy Lunar New Year!🐴
Ring it in with Cardume's Gongs Song 🎊
performed by Rogerio Boccato, Keita Ogawa, & Cleber Almeida
🔗 youtu.be/gN0sUJceyWg
Check out V. Allegro from Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 9 in E-Flat Major with Verona Quartet in concert with Aubrey Williams's Shostakovich series painting called "Quartet No 9, Opus 117"
Courtesy the Estate of Aubrey Williams and October Gallery
🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpUN...
A gift of music 🎶 Hear what John Patitucci wrote for his wife Sachi Patitucci as a Valentine's day present 💝 featuring Adam Cruz on drums and Julian Shore on piano
🔗 youtu.be/4pbr4nrygxA
Take a "Deep Blue Dive" with Cardume percussionists (Rogerio Boccato, Keita Ogawa, Cleber Almeida) with digital media artwork live-coded by Fame
🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqVj...
#tbt Revisit "A Skylark" 🐦⬛ from Märchentänze (“Dances from Fairytale”) by Thomas Adès with violinist 🎻 Max Tan, as we wait for warmer weather
🔗 youtu.be/ClMuKhk4Gg4
We hope this offering of music brings you a moment of respite...
Hear Theotokos Ensemble
(vocals - leiken & keyboards Doug Balliett)
perform Te Deum from Historia Sancti Magni
by Hermann of Richenau
🔗 youtu.be/Wb3rNeYClvk
🏆 Congratulations to ARKAI on their GRAMMY Win!
Hear their 2022 CMF Performance of Patchwork
🔗 youtu.be/g-avlbwalHM?...
Catch the Festival's billboard in Times Square
at 1500 Broadway til Jan 21, 2026 (4x/hr)!
Happy New Year! 🥳
✨ Wishing you and your loved ones a joyful, peaceful, and Happy New Year 🌟
Thank you for all your generous and ongoing support this season! 🙏
Please know that contributions up to $25k will be matched thru January 9, 2026!
🔗 www.chelseamusicfestival.org/support
Season 17 highlight:
We look forward to featuring songs composed by Steven Ward based on poems by Paul Dunbar sung by mezzo-soprano Clara Osowski 🎶
Save the dates June 20-27, 2026!
As you plan your year-end giving, consider a donation to support the Festival's 17th Season!
So grateful for an anonymous donor matching all gifts thru Jan 9th up to $25k.
Learn more about how your support can have an ongoing impact for our artists!
🔗 www.chelseamusicfestival.org/support
Season 17 highlight:
On the jazz front, we are delighted to bring back vibraphonist, percussionist, and pianist Warren Wolf for his first headlining experience at the Festival!
So save the dates June 20-27, 2026!
🎁 Need a last minute holiday gift?
Consider the gift of music
with our Festival Giftcard
which can be used toward
Festival concerts, family events, and more!
🔗 chelseamusicfestival.org/shop/p/giftcard
Season 17 highlight:
For the first time ever, the Festival will be presenting in the NYC theater district!
Written by composer, producer, & playwright Bill Barclay, audiences will enjoy a theatrical concert merging Aaron Copland’s music with Mark Twain’s observations of a changing America.
Wishing you all a joyful holiday season!
Since year one, we have been telling the stories of composers, musicians, artists, chefs, & sharing those stories with our growing community in NYC.
Join our 17th season celebrating America’s 250th with our theme—
EVERY STORY COUNTS
June 20-27, 2026
🎶 Happy Birthday to Felix Mendelssohn 🎉
whose music & watercolor art came to life
in Verona Quartet’s 2025 performance!
📸 : Ryan Muir
✨ Chelsea Music Festival celebrates the appointment of our co-Founder & co-Artistic Director, Ken-David Masur, as the newest artistic partner of the Grammy-winning Oregon Bach Festival!
🎶
📸: Fadi Kheir
🎶 For our 2025 Festival Jazz Finale...
...the incomparable John Patitucci
unveiled two stunning works,
"Planet of Peril"
& "Communion"
at the DiMenna Center!
📷: Fadi Kheir
✨🎻 This season’s Verona Quartet performance
paired Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 9
with Aubrey Williams's painting inspired by the music.
📷: Ryan Muir
Chef Regine Bigler’s curated plant-based dinner, up close — from NeueHouse Madison Square and the Jazz Finale experience! 🪴
📷: Fadi Kheir
leiken’s vocals brought new life to Hermann of Reichenau’s reimagined medieval work featuring Doug Balliett on keyboards!
📸: Fadi Kheir
Thrilled to have Miho Saegusa perform Winkelman's "Ciaccona" to open our 2025 season 🎻✨
📸: Fadi Kheir
🎨: Chrissy Angliker, (detail of) Late Blooms (2024), courtesy of Massey Klein Gallery
✨💡Special thanks to Aion Entertainment
for lighting the way at our concerts this past season
to showcase the historic German Church St. Paul's New York!
📸 Fadi Kheir
All purchases on Bandcamp today go toward the artists!
Celebrate Bandcamp Friday and
check out our five albums! 💿
🔗 https://chelseamusicfestivalrecords.bandcamp.com/
📸 : Fadi Kheir (@londonisburning)
Congratulations to Suzanne Jackson
whose major museum retrospective opens
today @sfmoma123.bsky.social -
we were excited to feature her artwork
(with thanks to Ortuzar Projects)
in a concert with Ivalas Quartet this past June!
With his trio Cardume, Grammy-winning Brazilian percussionist Rogerio Boccato strips away the familiar structures of jazz to create something more elemental—three musicians moving like a school of fish through uncharted sonic waters.
Rogerio Boccato's Cardume Swims Against the Jazz Current:
