[title]
The Frick Collection has figured out a particularly elegant way to make you appreciate what NYC has to offer: put you in a gorgeous museum, surround you with great art and then add live classical music.
The museum has announced its 2026–27 concert season, continuing the ambitious programming launched after the Frick's renovation. The new Stephen A. Schwarzman Auditorium at the museum's Upper East Side home hosts a concert program that brings internationally celebrated musicians, chamber ensembles and early-music specialists into the Frick. The programming is designed to bring music into conversation with the museum's collection.
Now, that programming takes a dainty step out of the auditorium and into the garden with the 2026–27 concert season. The fall exhibition Siena: The Art of Bronze, 1450–1500 inspires two weekends of programming in November. Early-music specialists Jasper Snow, Georgia Burashko, Joshua Cheatham and Richard Pittsinger will perform surviving fragments of Sienese polyphony, while Antwerp-based ensemble Graindelavoix presents a program centered on Sena vetus, a ceremonial motet honoring the Tuscan city.
And there will also be pop-up performances in the Garden Court on November 14 and 22, ahead of evening concerts. The performances are included with museum admission, offering visitors a chance to hear the sounds of 15th-century Siena while viewing actual objects from the period.
The season officially launches on October 18 with Goya’s Musical World, a program inspired by the music that surrounded Spanish painter Francisco de Goya. Violinist and musical curator Francisco Fullana will be joined by the Dolphins Quartet, Viano Quartet and guitarist Rafael Aguirre for a program ranging from Boccherini and Spanish folk music to a contemporary work by composer Mauricio Sotelo.
The season also brings back Anthony Roth Costanzo, who performed in the inaugural concert at the Schwarzman Auditorium. In November, the acclaimed countertenor and Opera Philadelphia leader will preview his forthcoming book and album, Countertenor, with a recital spanning Baroque laments, traditional Hawaiian music, Klaus Nomi and Philip Glass's Einstein on the Beach. That alone might be worth joining the Frick as a member.
Spring 2027 brings another exhibition-inspired pairing. Painting with Fire: Susanne de Court and the Art of Enamel, devoted to the only known woman enamel artist of the French Renaissance, will inspire performances by early-music ensembles Twelfth Night and the Helicon Ensemble.
The season also features an impressive collection of international soloists and collaborators, including Tunisian-Canadian mezzo-soprano Rihab Chaieb, English tenor Ian Bostridge, French cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras, pianist Alexandre Tharaud and pianist Paul Lewis. Rising pianists Federico Colli and 19-year-old Alexandra Dovgan will make their Frick debuts, while composer Matthew Aucoin will curate two spring concerts, including the world premiere of a new Frick-commissioned work by Aucoin, performed by cellist Coleman Itzkoff and Aucoin.
There will also be lunchtime performances by Juilliard415 and students from London's Royal Academy of Music on October 22, December 17, February 4 and March 4.
Tickets for the October–December 2026 concerts go on sale September 8, with a member presale beginning September 1. Tickets for January–May 2027 performances go on sale December 15, with the member presale beginning December 8.
Evening concerts cost $80, while lunchtime concerts are $35. Frick members get 20 percent off, and every concert ticket includes museum admission for up to two hours before the performance. The Garden Court pop-ups are free with museum admission and will have limited seating plus standing room on a first-come, first-served basis.
For more information and to buy tickets, click here.