Next summer, the first sounds of our 52nd season are filled with the exquisite stylings of soprano Liv Redpath, who, on our season-opening concerts of July 13 & 14, makes her Festival debut singing Schubert’s gorgeous The Shepherd on the Rock—a roughly 12-minute work the composer wrote following a request from opera star Anna Milder-Hauptmann for a virtuosic concert piece that showcased her vocal and emotional range.
Colin Currie, makes his Festival debut! Currie, who’s been called nothing less than “the world’s finest and most daring percussionist” by The Spectator, “an athlete and a star” by The Guardian, and a musician who’s “at the summit of percussion performance today” by Gramophone. On Thursday, August 7, at 12 p.m., you can catch Currie as he not only makes his Festival debut but also gives the Festival’s first-ever solo percussion recital!
When you’re an adventurous, risk-taking chamber-music group whose mission is to “champion new string quartet music and the transformative experiences that it creates,” being hailed by The New York Times as “fearless” and “one of contemporary music’s indispensable ensembles” signifies a particular level of “mission accomplished.” But as the three-time Grammy-nominated JACK Quartet—which makes its Festival debut next summer—approaches its 20th anniversary, the group is busier and more inspired (and inspiring) than ever, and we’re thrilled to offer two chances to hear them perform in our 2025 season.
There are many ways you may be familiar with John Rubinstein: as the Tony, Drama Desk, and Theatre World award-winning Broadway actor whose numerous credits include starring in the original production of Children of a Lesser God and creating the title role in the Bob Fosse–directed production of Pippin, or as the Emmy-nominated actor who starred in such TV shows as Family and Crazy Like a Fox. You may know him as the versatile film actor who’s appeared in such movies as Being the Ricardos, Red Dragon, 21 Grams, and Someone to Watch Over Me or as the composer of several film and TV scores, including ones for China Beach and the Robert Redford movie The Candidate. You may know him as the host of the radio program Carnegie Hall Tonight or as the narrator of more than 200 audiobooks, including ones by such best-selling authors as Agatha Christie, James Patterson, Jonathan Kellerman, and Carl Hiaasen. Or you may know him as a longtime Festival collaborator.
Since making his Festival debut in 2019, violinist Paul Huang has quickly become a Festival-audience favorite, and there’s no question as to why: When listening to Huang play, you’re immediately struck—and taken in—by his tone, which The Washington Post described as “big” and “luscious” and The Strad called “unfailingly attractive, golden, and resonant.” The Post also praised Huang for having “spot-on intonation” and “a technique that makes the most punishing string phrases feel as natural as breathing.”
Here at the Festival, we started 2025 on a high note by welcoming back one of our cherished former colleagues, Joseph Hohlfeld, who began his new role as Director of Development on Thursday, January 2.