Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center 
David Finckel and Wu Han, Artistic Directors
2025-2026: The Magnificent Violin

November 2025
Concert Calendar

NOV 6
SONIC SPECTRUM I 
World Premiere by Valerie Coleman

NOV 15
BEETHOVEN, MOZART, AND VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Celebrating the Viola

NOV 18
AN EVENING WITH JEAN-EFFLAM BAVOUZET
Ravel: Complete Solo Piano Works 

NOV 20
ROSE STUDIO SERIES II
Music for Winds

NOV 23
AN EVENING WITH BENJAMIN BEILMAN AND GLORIA CHIEN

† Indicates that this artist is a current Bowers Program member.
* Indicates a CMS premiere.

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Valerie Coleman New Work for Mezzo-Soprano, Clarinet, and Piano (World Premiere, CMS Co-Commission)*
Takashi Yoshimatsu Four Pieces in Bird Shape for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 18*
Chen Yi Bright Moonlight for Voice and Piano*
Huang Ruo “Scene 1: The Everlasting Sorrow” from Song of Everlasting Regret for Voice and Piano
Kian Ravaei Gulistan for Mezzo-Soprano, Clarinet, and Piano (New York Premiere)*

Fleur Barron, MEZZO-SOPRANO • Gloria Chien, PIANO • Anthony McGill, CLARINET

Saturday Nov 15, 2025, 7:30 PM
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center • Alice Tully Hall
BEETHOVEN, MOZART, AND VAUGHAN WILLIAMS - Celebrating the Viola
The unique timbre of the viola—rich, dark, and soulful—has long inspired composers seeking to deepen the beauty of chamber ensembles. CMS celebrates this distinctive voice with a one-of-a-kind program featuring violas in in every work, specifically, violists Matthew Lipman and Paul Neubauer. The repertoire ranges from Mozart’s celebrated C major String Quintet to seldom-heard gems rarely encountered in concert. 
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Beethoven Fugue in D major for Two Violins, Two Violas, and Cello, Op. 137
Vaughan Williams Phantasy Quintet for Two Violins, Two Violas, and Cello
Bowen Two Duos in G major for Two Violas
Brett Dean Epitaphs for Two Violins, Two Violas, and Cello
Mozart Quintet in C major for Two Violins, Two Violas, and Cello, K. 515

Stella Chen, Alexander Sitkovetsky, VIOLIN • Matthew Lipman, Paul Neubauer, VIOLA • Keith Robinson, CELLO

Tuesday Nov 18, 2025, 7:00 PM - Note early start time
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center • Alice Tully Hall
AN EVENING WITH JEAN-EFFLAM BAVOUZET -- Ravel's Solo Piano Works

To honor the 150th anniversary of Maurice Ravel’s birth, CMS welcomes French pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, who returns to CMS with a landmark recital of Ravel’s complete catalog of published solo piano works, which he recently recorded (Chandos, April 2025) to great acclaim.  Among other accolades, the album was named an Editor's Choice in Gramophone, which wrote, "Bavouzet’s seasoned mastery, stylish perception and caring commitment to this repertoire is never in doubt."  
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Ravel 
Sérénade grotesque for Piano (c. 1893)
Menuet antique for Piano (1895)
Pavane pour une infante défunte for Piano (1899)
Jeux d'eau for Piano (1901)
Sonatine for Piano (1903-05)
Miroirs for Piano (1904–05)
Gaspard de la nuit for Piano (1908)
Minuet sur le nom d'Haydn for Piano (1909)
Valses nobles et sentimentales for Piano (1911-12)
À la manière de Chabrier for Piano (1912-13)
À la manière de Borodine for Piano (1912-13)
Prélude for Piano (1913)
Le tombeau de Couperin for Piano (1914-17)

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, PIANO

Thursday Nov 20, 2025, 6:30 PM and 9 PM
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center • Rose Studios at CMS
ROSE STUDIO SERIES II - Music for Winds
An all-star quintet of wind players gather for an evening of music by Mozart, Schumann and Spohr. The ensemble includes two-time GRAMMY nominee Tara Helen O’Connor, flute; oboist James Austin Smith, whom The New York Times called dazzling and virtuosic; master of the clarinet (and onetime CMS Artistic Director) David Shifrin; Jake Thonis, Acting Principal Bassoon of the Winnipeg Symphony in his CMS debut and Eric Reed, horn player in the American Brass Quintet and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Joining them on piano is Erven Ozel, a CMS Bowers Program member and Van Cliburn medalist. 
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Mozart Adagio and Allegro (Fantasia) in F minor for Wind Quintet, K. 594 (arr. Purvis)
R. Schumann Three Romances for Oboe and Piano, Op. 94
Spohr Quintet for Flute, Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn, and Piano, Op. 52

Evren Ozel †, PIANO • Tara Helen O’Connor, FLUTE • James Austin Smith, OBOE • David Shifrin, CLARINET • Jake Thonis, BASSOON • Eric Reed, HORN

Sunday Nov 23, 2025, 5 PM
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center • Alice Tully Hall
AN EVENING WITH BENJAMIN BEILMAN AND GLORIA CHIEN
Violinist Benjamin Beilman, celebrated for his golden tone and commanding artistry, is joined by pianist Gloria Chien for a program he curated, highlighting the violin’s versatility and its enduring dialogue with composers. “I’ve always been intrigued by the way violin virtuosos have shaped and inspired the composers who write for them,” said Beilman. The program features Franck’s monumental Sonata, written for Eugène Ysaÿe’s wedding (Beilman plays a 1740 Guarneri del Gesù violin that once belonged to Ysaÿe), and the New York premiere of Chris Rogerson’s work composed for Beilman’s own wedding. The concert aims to illuminate the deep connections between virtuosos and the music created for them.
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Ysaÿe Sonata in D minor for Violin, Op. 27, No. 3, “Ballade”
Bartók Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano, BB 85
Szymanowski Nocturne and Tarantella for Violin and Piano, Op. 28
Chris Rogerson Arietta for Violin and Piano (New York Premiere)*
Franck Sonata in A major for Violin and Piano

Benjamin Beilman, VIOLIN • Gloria Chien, PIANO

CMS Community Concert in NYC

Nov 8 at 7:00 pm
CMS in Queens - Admission is FREE. The Viano Quartet performs Haydn, Mendelssohn and Shostakovich at the Stone Circle Theatre in Ridgewood, Queens, located in the historic Ridgewood Presbyterian Church, 59-14 70th Avenue. 
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About the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS) is one of eleven constituents of the largest performing arts complex in the world, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Through its many performance, education, recording, digital, and broadcast activities, CMS brings the experience of great chamber music to more people than any other organization of its kind with a full season in New York, as well as national and international tours. Under the artistic leadership of David Finckel and Wu Han, CMS presents a wide variety of concert series and educational events for listeners of all ages, appealing to both connoisseurs and newcomers. The performing artists constitute a revolving multi-generational and international roster of the world’s best chamber musicians, enabling CMS to present chamber music of every instrumentation, style, and historical period. The CMS Bowers Program, its competitive three-season residency, is dedicated to developing the chamber music leaders of the future and integrates this selection of extraordinary early-career musicians into every facet of CMS activities. Its incomparable digital presence, which regularly enables CMS to reach hundreds of thousands of viewers and listeners around the globe annually, includes: a growing number of live-streamed programs; more than 1,600 hours of performance and education videos free to the public on its website; a 52-week public radio series across the US; radio programming in Taiwan and mainland China; appearances on American Public Media; a new relationship with Apple Music Classical; the monthly program “In Concert with CMS” on the ALL ARTS broadcast channel;  the NY-Emmy-nominated documentary “Transcending: The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Celebrates 50 Years;” the PBS documentary film, "Chamber Music Society Returns;" and performances featured on Medici.tv, Tencent, and SiriusXM’s Symphony Hall channel.

Thousands of children, teens, and adults discover the joys of chamber music and deepen their knowledge and appreciation of this beautiful art form through CMS education and community engagement programs. CMS offers an extraordinary number of learning formats and experiences to engage and inform listeners of all ages, backgrounds, and levels of musical knowledge, and to provide unique educational opportunities for the most talented early career chamber musicians. This includes school-based programs for elementary school students; family concerts in both traditional and casual and accessible formats; teen-centered programs; free concerts in the Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn through the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Initiative for Music and Community Engagement; master classes throughout the United States and internationally; pre-concert composer chats; and insightful lectures for adults on the season’s repertoire.