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Recent Carnegie Hall Citywide Performance at Brooklyn Public Library and Upcoming Met Orchestra Concerts at Carnegie Hall   Recent Performance: Carnegie Hall Citywide Series at Brooklyn Public Library We are pleased to share that musicians from the Met Orchestra Chamber Ensemble recently performed at the Brooklyn Public Library as part of the Carnegie Hall Citywide...
Please join us for the next concert by the Met Orchestra Chamber Ensemble at Carnegie Hall. It will take place on Monday, December 11th at 7:30PM. The program will feature the following works: ANDY AKIHO LIgNEouS 1 for Marimba and String Quartet JAMES LEE III “Awashoha” and “Celebrated Emblems” from Clarinet Quintet JUSTINIAN TAMUSUZA “Ekitundu Ekisooka” for String Quartet CHAUSSON Chanson...
David Alexander Acting Second Horn “I’m David alexander, a horn player and recent and recent alum of the New World Symphony and the Juilliard School, After watching and admiring the Metropolitan Opera for years, I am delighted to join the orchestra this season. On top of some beautiful staples of the repertoire, I can’t wait to...
Check what some of our musicians were up to during our European tour of 2023! The wonderful Neville Braithwaite is the man behind the camera.      
In the recent otherwise excellent article in the New York Times about the Met’s innovative new production of Die Zauberflöte, we were disheartened to read our guest conductor’s supposition that the Met Orchestra might be bored playing in the pit. “There’s nothing more boring than being an orchestra musician and being in the back of a...
Yesterday, on May 7th, the Met Orchestra Chamber Ensemble presented their final concert of the season at Carnegie Hall in a sold out performance. It was a wonderful afternoon of chamber music featuring many of our incredible colleagues. The program also featured our Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin, as well as bass-baritones Ryan Speedo Green and...
Announcing our new Associate Principal and Assistant Principal violas. Congratulations Shmuel and Tal! From The Strad:  New York’s Metropolitan Opera Orchestra announced two new appointments last week, both in the viola section. Shmuel Katz had been an associate member of the orchestra for a decade and has now been appointed associate principal viola. He serves as...
Philip Glass’ Akhnaten, a modern opera, has won the 2022 Grammy award for Best Opera Recording. The award is given to the recording’s conductor, Karen Kamensek; stars J’Nai Bridges, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Zachary James, and Dísella Lárusdóttir; producer David Frost; The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; and The Metropolitan Opera Chorus. Read more here.
On Monday, March 14, at 6PM ET, the Metropolitan Opera will present a benefit performance to support Ukrainian citizens under attack, with all ticket sales and donations going to support relief efforts in Ukraine. Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin will lead the Met Orchestra and Chorus and star soloists in a 70-minute program, featuring music...
Hear the Met Orchestra Chamber Ensemble rehearse Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto #1 The next Chamber Ensemble concert takes place on Monday January 24th at 7:30, 2022 at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall. A few tickets remain for purchase. For more information and tickets, please use the following link: https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2022/01/24/The-MET-Orchestra-Chamber-Ensemble-0730PM Program: R. STRAUSS Sextet from Capriccio, Op....
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