Frick Expands Its Concert Season

The new, 218-seat Stephen A. Schwarzman Auditorium in the recently reopened Frick Museum will host an inaugural season of 25 classical performances from Oct. 10, 2025 to May 22, 2026—more than double the number from previous years.

Among the series’ innovations is the Frick's first ever ensemble-in-residence—the early-music group Sonnambula, which in three concerts will explore the connections among music, visual art, and cultural history in 17^th- and 18^th-century Europe. Bass-baritone Davone Tines will headline the first concert, while Gregory Spears’s newly commissioned work, inspired by Giovanni Battista Moroni's Portrait of a Woman, highlights the second. The final program will illuminate themes from the 2026 exhibition Gainsborough: The Fashion of Portraiture.

Complementing To the Holy Sepulcher: Treasures from the Terra Sancta Museum, an exhibition opening on Oct. 2, will be concerts by Les Arts Florissants and pianist  George Fu and harpist Parker Ramsay. A new partnership with The Juilliard School and the Royal Academy of Music yields weekday lunchtime concerts of new works by students and alumni. 

The 2025-26 season includes debuts by violinist Isabelle Faust and the Esme Quartet, as well as the return of mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter and harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani, and early-music ensemble Ruckus and flutist Emi Ferguson, among others. The JACK Quartet and pianist Shai Wosner will offer piano quintets from the Baroque to contemporary eras; mandolinist Avi Avital and the Viano Quartet are also on the docket.

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