Community Calendar

Following their wildly successful family concert in November 2024, The Knights return to GatherNYC with a new program, also designed for the whole family. “Toy Bricks” is an interactive family concert that highlights playful interactions between stringed instruments, both large and small! Musical games and friendly competition bring friends together in a range of repertoire, culminating in a performance of Paul Wiancko’s Toy Bricks for violin, two cellos, and bass. This program is created and hosted by Knights cellist Caitlin Sullivan.

GatherNYC is a revolutionary concert experience founded in 2018 by cellist Laura Metcalf and guitarist Rupert Boyd. The 2025-2026 season includes 31 concerts that run from October 2025 through May 2026, with concerts held every Sunday at 11am in The Theater at MAD.

Guests at GatherNYC are served exquisite live classical music performed by New York’s immensely talented artists, artisanal coffee and pastries, a taste of spoken word, and a brief celebration of silence. The entire experience lasts one hour and evokes the community and spiritual nourishment of a religious service – but the religion is music, and all are welcome. Coffee and pastries are served before each performance at 10:30am.

THE MTM Players

Boisterous, ribald and ultimately shattering, The MTM Players bring us the unforgettable story of a mental hospital and its inhabitants. When a brash new inmate arrives, the rigid routine of the ward, headed by the tyrannical Nurse Ratched, is thrown up for grabs. In a world where sanity means conformity and following the rules is the only way to survive, this drama is a powerful exploration of both the beauty and the danger of being an original!

Fri. Mar. 20 & 27, 2026 at 8pm                                                                            Sat. Mar. 21 at 8pm
Sat. Mar. 28 at 2pm                                                                                                            

Sun. Mar. 22 & 29 at 2pm

Join La Fiocco on a musical journey from 18th-century London down to the Low Countries, Vienna, Venice, Rome, Paris, and then for a stopover in Leipzig, to wish a very happy 341st birthday to Johann Sebastian Bach, and a return to London. Dazzling music by George Frideric Handel, Carolus Hacquart, Nicolaes A Kempis, Arcangelo Corelli, Anne Dunican Philidor, Johann Sebastian Bach, and William Babell, featuring recorder and violin, with harpsichord, theorbo, baroque guitar, and baroque cello.

LA FIOCCO
Lewis R. Baratz, recorder & artistic director
Jeremy Rhizor, baroque violin
Graham Cohen, baroque violin
Donna Fournier, baroque cello
Dani Zanuttini-Frank, theorbo & baroque guitar
Cameron Khan, harpsichord

Mosaic Youth Chorus (MYC) announces the launch of Troubadours, a new non-auditioned 12 week program serving children in grades 4, 5, and 6. Troubadours will provide instruction in vocal technique, musicianship, ensemble skills, and leadership. MYC provides a nurturing environment where every young person can thrive and express their authentic artistic selves. We focus on giving youth voice and addressing topics of importance to young people. Troubadours provides foundational instruction to start young singers on this journey.
Mosaic Youth Chorus website, http://mosaicyouthchorus.org.

How does one of the greatest violinists of our time respond to the threat of global collapse? Join us for a haunting and powerful evening as violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja joins Princeton University faculty and students to present the East Coast premiere of her Dies Irae project at the iconic Princeton University Chapel. This provocative, semi-staged performance offers a deeply moving musical reflection on the devastating consequences of global warming, resource wars, and the refugee crisis, drawing inspiration from the Gregorian Dies Irae chant, a symbol of fear and impending judgment. Spanning centuries of music, the program contemplates the end of civilization with works including Heinrich Biber’s Battalia à 10, evoking the chaos of war, and George Crumb’s Black Angels, a searing critique of the Vietnam War. The evening’s centerpiece is Galina Ustvolskaya’s intense Dies Irae, with Kopatchinskaja playing percussion alongside eight double basses and piano, creating a visceral and emotionally charged soundscape. Dies Irae, which has toured the world including the Lucerne Festival, Ojai Festival, and Southbank Centre to great acclaim, is a bold, unflinching exploration of today’s most urgent global issues, pushing the boundaries of classical music to challenge our understanding of the world and our role in shaping its future.

Xian Zhang conductor
Juan Esteban Martinez clarinet
New Jersey Symphony

In this first week of spring, you’ll feel the joy of being outdoors again in Beethoven’s Sixth (perhaps best known as his “Pastoral”) Symphony–even with a thunderstorm brewing on the horizon. Mozart casts bright bolts of sunshine in his Divertimento that spotlights the New Jersey Symphony’s superb strings, and in his Clarinet Concerto featuring Principal Clarinet Juan Esteban Martinez.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Divertimento in D Major, K. 136
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Clarinet Concerto
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral”

THE MTM Players

Boisterous, ribald and ultimately shattering, The MTM Players bring us the unforgettable story of a mental hospital and its inhabitants. When a brash new inmate arrives, the rigid routine of the ward, headed by the tyrannical Nurse Ratched, is thrown up for grabs. In a world where sanity means conformity and following the rules is the only way to survive, this drama is a powerful exploration of both the beauty and the danger of being an original.!

Xian Zhang conductor
New Jersey Symphony

Discover the storytelling power of classical music! Beethoven’s “Pastoral” Symphony was one of his only works that depicts very specific scenes and storylines, which we’ll dive into measure by measure in this concert.

Inspired by Leonard Bernstein’s masterful way of putting young audiences at the center of music-making, this interactive concert will feature inside tips, listening cues, and fun facts that make for the perfect Saturday afternoon family outing!

This New Jersey Symphony Family Concert is presented in NJPAC’s Prudential Hall.

Xian Zhang conductor
Juan Esteban Martinez clarinet
New Jersey Symphony

In this first week of spring, you’ll feel the joy of being outdoors again in Beethoven’s Sixth (perhaps best known as his “Pastoral”) Symphony–even with a thunderstorm brewing on the horizon. Mozart casts bright bolts of sunshine in his Divertimento that spotlights the New Jersey Symphony’s superb strings, and in his Clarinet Concerto featuring Principal Clarinet Juan Esteban Martinez.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Divertimento in D Major, K. 136
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Clarinet Concerto
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral”

GatherNYC presents violinist Miranda Cuckson, violist Jessica Meyer, and cellist Laura Metcalf. This program brings together four electrifying contemporary string trios by living female composers: Jessica Meyer, Missy Mazzolli, Nina C. Young, and Dobrinka Tabakova. These powerful works push the boundaries of what is possible on three stringed instruments.

GatherNYC is a revolutionary concert experience founded in 2018 by cellist Laura Metcalf and guitarist Rupert Boyd. The 2025-2026 season includes 31 concerts that run from October 2025 through May 2026, with concerts held every Sunday at 11am in The Theater at MAD.

Guests at GatherNYC are served exquisite live classical music performed by New York’s immensely talented artists, artisanal coffee and pastries, a taste of spoken word, and a brief celebration of silence. The entire experience lasts one hour and evokes the community and spiritual nourishment of a religious service – but the religion is music, and all are welcome. Coffee and pastries are served before each performance at 10:30am.