2026-27 Season
Ticket & Subscription Information
Purchase your subscription package to The Knights’ three-concert series today! As of April 29 you can "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 are available as of August 10. We hope you can join us!
Photo credit: Nigel Parry
TUESDAY, October 20, 2026
PROGRAM
Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges Overture to L’amant anonyme
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Concerto No. 17 in G major, K. 453
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Concerto No. 25 in C major, K. 503
Emanuel Ax, piano
Audience favorite Emanuel Ax joins The Knights in a concert of Mozart’s piano concertos No. 17 and 25, and an overture by Joseph Bologne. Piano Concerto No. 17 is a delightful piece that’s as memorable for its unusually prominent wind writing as it is for its melodic piano part. Piano Concerto No. 25 blends the heroic and the humane into a whole that continues to excite. The program opens with Carnegie Hall’s first-ever performance of the overture from Saint-Georges’s L’amant anonyme. Composed in 1779, it is a brisk and energetic three-movement work that highlights the extraordinary symphonic gifts of one of Mozart’s leading contemporaries.
Photo credit: Marco Giannavola
Wednesday, February 24, 2027
PROGRAM
Henry Purcell Fantasia Upon One Note
Nico Muhly All Appeared New
Brooklyn Rider, string quartet
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 5
Experience The Knights’ must-hear collaboration with two of today’s most beloved innovators: the inimitable Brooklyn Rider, an ensemble that represents “the vitality of the string quartet, limited to four instruments yet seemingly unlimited in its expression” (The New York Times); and visionary composer Nico Muhly, whose new work for string quartet and orchestra receives its New York premiere. This wide-ranging program also features Beethoven’s dramatic Fifth Symphony and selected Henry Purcell’s Fantasia Upon One Note.
Photo Credit: Shervin Lainez
Wednesday, April 28, 2027
PROGRAM
Francesco Geminiani Concerto Grosso in D Minor
Caroline Shaw The Mountain That Loved a Bird
Narrator to be announced
Igor Stravinsky Concerto in D
Johann Sebastian Bach Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B Minor, BWV 1067
The Knights’ final Zankel Hall performance of the 2026–2027 season begins with Geminiani’s brief Concerto Grosso in D Minor (after Corelli’s Violin Sonata Op. 5, No. 12, “Folia”), followed by a piece by genre-defying musical innovator Caroline Shaw, holder of Carnegie Hall’s 2026–2027 Debs Composer’s Chair and the youngest-ever Pulitzer Prize–winning composer. Shaw’s Carnegie Hall–commissioned The Mountain That Loved a Bird sets to music a heartwarming children’s tale with a universal message of love and friendship. The performance continues with Stravinsky’s Concerto in D—the composer’s first work as an American citizen—followed by J. S. Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 2.
Open Rehearsals
Open rehearsals during The Knights' 2026/27 season are generously sponsored by Debra and Dale Lewis.
The Knights are thrilled to welcome our donors behind the scenes for exclusive open rehearsals for our Carnegie Hall series and additional concerts throughout the season. Free with reservation for our Knights family, join us for an inside look at The Knights' uniquely collaborative rehearsal process.
For more information, please contact Executive Director Steven Sobol at steven@theknightsnyc.com.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2026
Hear music by W.A. Mozart and Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint Georges at the open rehearsal of our October 2026 Carnegie Hall, Music Worcester, and Tilles Center program, featuring special guest soloist Emanuel Ax.
Tuesday, FEBRUARY 23, 2027
Join us for an exciting first listen to Nico Muhly’s All Appeared New, as well as music by Beethoven and Purcell at the open rehearsal of our February 2027 Carnegie Hall program, featuring special guest string quartet Brooklyn Rider.
DATE TBA, APRIL 2027
The Knights welcome listeners to an open rehearsal of our Carnegie Hall season finale program, featuring Caroline Shaw’s eco-fable The Mountain That Loved A Bird, plus music by Stravinsky, Geminiani, and Bach.