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David Finckel and Wu Han, Co-Artistic Directors
2022-23 Season Preview
 Clockwise, from top left: Kristin Lee, Matthew Lipman, Michael Stephen Brown, Joseph Conyers (Opening Night, Oct 16)
With an international, intergenerational roster of world-renowned artists, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center will present 41 concerts this season, with music from the 1700s to the present moment, including world premieres from Zosha di Castri and James Lee III as well as the annual Baroque Festival in December, Schubert in February and the last New York series of the Emerson String Quartet.
Concerts take place in Alice Tully Hall (ATH), Rose Studio (RS) and Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse (KP).
2022-23 Season Highlights
Sunday, October 16, 2022, 5:00 PM, ATH
OPENING NIGHT - SOLOISTS IN THE SPOTLIGHT
A celebratory opening night highlights the virtuosity of CMS performers in dazzling works for piano and strings by Bach, Schubert, Handel/Halvorsen and Mendelssohn.
Event page with artists and program.
Thursday, October 27, 2022, 6:30 & 9:00 PM, RS
ROSE STUDIO CONCERTS: CPE BACH, DEBUSSY, BRITTEN AND FAURÉ
The first of this season’s series of Rose Studio Concerts, with cabaret seating and two performances – one at 6:30 pm and another at 9 pm.
Event page with artists and program.
Tuesday, October 30, 2022, 7:30 PM, ATH
DANISH STRING QUARTET
The Quartet’s first New York concert of their 20th Anniversary Season, and their first return to CMS after their triumphant Beethoven series in 2020.
Event page with artists and program.
Sunday, November 13, 2022, 5:00 PM, ATH
VIOLINIST PAUL HUANG AND PIANIST ANNE-MARIE MCDERMOTT IN RECITAL
Repertoire by Arvo Pärt and John Corigliano, as well as Prokofiev’s dark and brooding Sonata No. 1, which he wrote between 1938 and 1946, and Mozart’s Sonata in F major, composed in 1781 and ultimately part of a collection with five other sonatas.
Event page with performers and program.
 Clockwise from top left: Composers Gity Razaz, Zosha Di Castri, Christopher Cerrone, Hannah Kendall, Misato Mochizuki, Carlos Sánchez-Gutiérrez (New Milestones, Dec 8)
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December 4-20
CMS’s ANNUAL DECEMBER BAROQUE FESTIVAL
Alice Tully Hall
 Anthony Roth Costanzo, Yura Lee, Bridget Kibbey (Handel and Vivaldi, Dec 4 & 6)
Sunday, December 4, 2022, 5:00 PM, ATH
Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 7:30 PM, ATH
BAROQUE FESTIVAL: HANDEL AND VIVALDI, WITH VOCALIST ANTHONY ROTH COSTANZO
Classics and rarities from two masters, for vocals and chamber ensemble.
Event page with artists and program.
Sunday, December 11, 2022, 5:00 PM, ATH
BAROQUE FESTIVAL: BACH’S SONATAS
Six Bach sonatas for Cello and Piano and for Violin and Piano, with pianist Juho Pohjonen, violinist Cho-Liang Lin, and cellist Inbal Segev.
Event page with artists and program.
Friday, December 16, 2022, 7:30 PM, ATH
Sunday, December 18, 2022, 5:00 PM, ATH
Tuesday, December 20, 2022, 7:30 PM, ATH
BAROQUE FESTIVAL: BACH’S COMPLETE BRANDENBURG CONCERTOS
The beloved NYC tradition continues for the 29th year.
Event page with artists and program.
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January 22 – February 12
WINTER FESTIVAL
THE MAGIC OF SCHUBERT: A Five-Concert Series
Alice Tully Hall
Four programs spanning Schubert’s career, with well-known masterpieces and less familiar repertoire, both vocal and instrumental, that deserves to be heard. A fifth concert explores Schubert’s influence on composers who followed him in the late-19th and 20th centuries.
 Joélle Harvey (Feb 10 & 12), Nikolay Borchev (Jan 22), Jennifer Johnson Cano (Feb 3)
Sunday, January 22, 2023, 5:00 PM, ATH
THE MAGIC OF SCHUBERT I: Into Eternity
The Orion String Quartet performs Beethoven’s Op. 135 Quartet (1826); baritone Nikolay Borchev and pianist and CMS Artistic Director Wu Han perform Schubert’s song cycle Die Winterreise (1827).
Event page with artists and program.
Tuesday, January 24, 2023, 7:30 PM, ATH
THE MAGIC OF SCHUBERT II: Grand Statements
The Escher Quartet performs two Schubert string quartets, and pianist Gilbert Kalish performs Schubert’s last piano sonata, D. 960.
Event page with artists and program.
Sunday, January 29, 2023, 5:00 PM
Tuesday, January 31, 2023, 7:30 PM, ATH
THE MAGIC OF SCHUBERT III: The Virtuoso Tradition
Virtuoso works by Schubert for piano and strings and for piano, four hands.
Event page with artists and program.
Friday, February 3, 2023, 7:30 PM, ATH
THE MAGIC OF SCHUBERT IV: Schubert Forever
Mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano performs Previn’s Vocalise and Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder. Also on the program are works by Mendelssohn, Ernst, Harbison and Korngold.
Event page with artists and program.
Friday, February 10, 2023, 7:30 PM, ATH
Sunday, February 12, 2023, 5:00 PM, ATH
THE MAGIC OF SCHUBERT V: From Song
Soprano Joélle Harvey sings Schubert’s songs, plus Schubert’s Octet for clarinet, bassoon, horn, two violins, two violas, cello and double bass.
Event page with artists and program.
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 Composers Liza Lim, Philippe Hurel, Igor Santos, Andrea Clearfield (New Milestones, Jan 26)
Thursday, January 26, 2023, 7:30 PM, KP
NEW MILESTONES: IMPRESSION
Music by Henri Dutilleux and four living composers: Igor Santos, Andrea Clearfield, Liza Lim and Philippe Hurel. (Kaplan Penthouse at CMS)
Event page with artists and program.
 Composers Gabriella Ortiz, Reena Esmail, Julia Adolphe, Chen Yi (New Milestones, Feb 23)
Thursday, February 23, 2023, 7:30 PM, RS
NEW MILESTONES: MEMORY
The Sitkovetsky Trio performs a world premiere CMS commission by Julia Adolphe, “Spiral Galaxy” by David Ludwig, winner of CMS’s 2022 Stoeger Prize, and works by Chen Yi, Gabriella Ortiz and Reena Esmail.
Event page with artists and program.
Thursday, March 2, 2023, 7:30 PM, RS
CLARINETIST TOMMASO LONQUICH AND PIANIST GILLES VONSATTEL
Solo repertoire for clarinet and piano by the extraordinary clarinetist/composer/conductor Jörg Widman, and duos by Salonen, Berg, Schumann and Weber.
Event page with artists and program.
Thursday, March 30, 2023, 7:30 PM, RS
PIANIST GILBERT KALISH IN RECITAL
The world premiere of a new CMS commission by Eric Nathan, plus solo piano works by Bach, Janáček and Ives.
Event page with artists and program.
Sunday, April 2, 2023, 5:00 PM, ATH
CELEBRATING JOSEPH KALICHSTEIN AND THE KLR TRIO
A celebration of the KLR Trio and its late, beloved pianist, Joseph Kalichstein (1946-2022), in a tribute concert with Jaime Laredo, Sharon Robinson, and close friends and colleagues. The program includes Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s Abgang and Kaddish.
Event page with artists and program.
Thursday, April 6, 2023, 7:30 PM, RS
NEW MILESTONES: EVOCATION
Inbal Segev gives the first public performance of James Lee III’s Ekah, which she recorded for Volume I of her pandemic-inspired commissioning project, “20 for 2020.” She is joined by Sarajevo-born pianist Pedja Muzijevic. Also, music by Shawn E. Okpebholo and Mario Diaz de Leon.
Event page with artists and program.
Sundays, April 23, 30 and May 7 at 5:00 PM, ATH
EMERSON DIMENSIONS I, II AND II
The legendary quartet in its final New York concert series, performing the repertoire for which it is most famous and a world premiere by Sarah Kirkland Snider. Over three concerts, The Emerson traverses some of the greatest quartets in the classical canon, from the 17th to the 20th centuries.
Emerson Dimensions I - April 23 Program, ATH
Emerson Dimensions II - April 30 Program, ATH
Emerson Dimensions III – May 7 Program, ATH
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