2025/26 Season
Ticket & Subscription Information
Purchase your subscription package to The Knights’ three-concert series today! Starting April 17th you will be able to "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 11th. We hope you can join us!
Photo credit: Shervin Laniez
Thursday, October 23, 2025
PROGRAM
Philip Glass Symphony No. 3
J. Mae Barizo Selected Poems
Robert Schumann Symphony No. 4, Op. 120
Experience the Carnegie season’s first performance by the intrepid chamber orchestra The Knights, led by artistic directors Eric Jacobsen and Colin Jacobsen. In an inspired new collaboration, they intersperse Philip Glass’s Symphony No. 3—one of the composer’s most traditionally “classical” works—with original poetry by prizewinning poet and multidisciplinary artist J. Mae Barizo. Even in its original form, this would be Carnegie Hall’s first performance of Glass’s symphony—but in the hands of The Knights, it’s something no audience has heard before. In the program’s second half, The Knights perform a timeless orchestral staple: Robert Schumann’s Symphony No. 4, a work of complex dualities and grand Romanticism.
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Thursday, February 5, 2026
PROGRAM
Franz Joseph Haydn Symphony No. 8 in G Major, "Le soir"
Osvaldo Golijov Ever Yours (NY Premiere)
Arvo Pärt In spe
Felix Mendelssohn String Octet, Op. 20
An intoxicating sense that anything is possible comes with each new performance by The Knights. Tonight, in the intimate Zankel Hall Center Stage, Colin Jacobsen leads the ensemble in a program bookended by one of Haydn’s light-footed early symphonies and the sweeping, forward-looking Octet by Felix Mendelssohn. Several exciting surprises await between these beloved repertoire pillars. Hear The Knights’ unique take on Arvo Pärt’s In spe, a spacious experiment in tintinnabuli that grants its performers extraordinary freedom. Plus, experience the New York premiere of Osvaldo Golijov’s Ever Yours, a work of “vitality, love, and attention,” whose title references Vincent van Gogh’s letters to his brother and the “intensity of being” expressed within.
Thursday, April 9, 2026 with Anthony McGill
PROGRAM
Ljova Garmoshka
Duke Ellington “Sophisticated Lady” (arr. M. Gould)
Margaret Bonds “Troubled Waters”
Gabriel Kahane If love will not swing wide the gates for Clarinet and Orchestra (NY Premiere, co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall)
Aaron Copland Appalachian Spring Suite
Albert Brumley "I'll Fly Away" (arr. Christina Courtin)
Driven by a “passion for musical discovery” and an “open-hearted spirit of camaraderie,” The Knights bring fresh excitement and insight to every performance. Tonight, conducted by Eric Jacobsen, they traverse a vast soundscape of American music as part of Carnegie Hall’s United in Sound: America at 250 festival. The program features Copland’s Pulitzer Prize–winning, folk-infused masterpiece: the Appalachian Spring Suite, plus the New York premiere of a concerto written by Gabriel Kahane for clarinetist extraordinaire Anthony McGill, part of the ensemble’s multi-year Rhapsody project. Cherished short works also undergo a “Knightsian” transformation, including Ellington’s ballad “Sophisticated Lady”; Bonds’s “Troubled Waters,” based on the spiritual “Wade in the Waters”; Brumley’s “I’ll Fly Away”; and Lev “Ljova” Zhurbin’s Garmoshka (“little accordion”).
