2024/25 Season
Ticket & Subscription Information
Purchase your subscription package to The Knights’ three-concert series today! You can now also "Create Your Own Series" by mixing and matching a Knights performance with additional events presented by Carnegie Hall across the entire season. Individual concert tickets will go on sale on August 12th. We hope you can join us!
Thursday, October 24, 2024 with Aaron Diehl
PROGRAM
Keith Jarrett arr. Michael P Atkinson Suite from Book of Ways featuring Aaron Diehl, piano (World Premiere)
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 4 in B-flat major, Op. 60
Michael Schachter New Work / Rhapsody featuring Aaron Diehl, piano (World Premiere, co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall)
George Gershwin arr. Michael P. Atkinson Rhapsody in Blue, featuring Aaron Diehl, piano
The intrepid orchestral ensemble The Knights continues their multi-year Rhapsody commissioning project, inspired by the Rhapsody in Blue centennial. They invite several of today’s most visionary composers to create an original rhapsody, which artistic directors Colin and Eric Jacobsen describe as “one of the most ecstatically joyful expressions of art ... [a] combination of virtuosity, improvisation, and unfettered imagination.” In this program, pianist and master improviser Aaron Diehl joins The Knights, conducted by Eric Jacobsen, in a world premiere by Michael Schachter, a new suite of music by Keith Jarrett as arranged by Michael P. Atkinson, and the rhapsodic Gershwin masterpiece. The orchestra also treats audiences to Beethoven’s exhilarating Fourth Symphony.
Thursday, February 20, 2025 with Aoife O’Donovan
PROGRAM
W.A. Mozart Overture to Le Nozze di Figaro
Aoife O'Donovan arr. Tanner Porter America, Come featuring Aoife O'Donovan, vocals
Felix Mendelssohn Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 56 "Scottish"
Traditional Scottish Folk Tunes
Experience the majestic “Scottish” Symphony like never before, as The Knights, led by conductor Eric Jacobsen, intersperse the piece with traditional Scottish tunes, bringing a fresh context to one of Felix Mendelssohn’s great orchestral works. Grammy Award–winning singer-songwriter Aoife O’Donovan joins the ensemble to perform America, Come, an original suite inspired by the lives, letters, and speeches of Carrie Chapman Catt and President Woodrow Wilson in the summer of 1920, when the suffragists made their pivotal march to Tennessee. The program opens with the brisk, timeless overture to Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro.
Thursday, MAY 15, 2025 with Christina Courtin, Alex Sopp, and Kathryn Muller
PROGRAM
Christina Courtin & Alex Sopp “Pea Pretty and the Blue”
Reena Esmail The History of Red featuring Kathryn Mueller, soprano (New York City Premiere)
Christina Courtin New Rhapsody for Orchestra (World Premiere)
Antonín Dvořák Serenade for Strings in E major, Op. 22 B52
The Knights is a self-described “fellowship of adventurous musicians” known for transforming the orchestral concert experience. In this concert, led by Artistic Director and violinist Colin Jacobsen, they perform a time-tested masterpiece—Dvořák’s ever-popular Serenade for Strings—alongside the New York City premiere of Reena Esmail’s The History of Red, a stirring work for chamber orchestra and soprano, inspired in part by Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915. The program also highlights the extraordinary compositional talents of The Knights’ own members, with a world premiere by violinist and vocalist Christina Courtin and a piece written collaboratively by Ms. Courtin with flutist and vocalist Alex Sopp.
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