Don’t miss our remaining chamber music concerts at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Hall! Met Chamber Ensemble 2024-2025 season January 15th, 2025 at 7:30 PM Featuring our MD Yannick Nézet-Séguin-Seguin on piano. PRICE Suite for Brasses JOSQUIN Selected Motets (arr. for bassoon quartet) RAVEL Sonata for Violin and Cello CAROLINE LIZOTTE Raga for Two Harps, Op....
During the summer of 2024, we embarked on an extraordinary two-week tour across Asia, with unforgettable stops in Korea, Japan, and Taiwan. The journey was a truly remarkable experience for all of us, filled with moments of musical fulfillment and cultural exchange. A heartfelt thank you to our brilliant Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin for leading...
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...
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...
We are delighted to collaborate again with Lessonface for this year’s live online masterclasses. The first masterclass will be with our Principal Second Violin Jeremías Sergiani-Velázquez on Sunday October 30th at 2pm EST. The application deadline to perform in this live online masterclass is October 8th. For more information on how to apply, please...
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...
