Music Connects Us

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....

We are excited to partner with The Metropolitan Opera in creating this video with members of our Eurydice percussion section! Catch this fascinating conversation with composer Matthew Aucoin, Principal Percussionist Greg Zuber, Principal Timpanist Parker Lee and Assistant Principal Timpanist and Percussionist Steven White, as they discuss Aucoin’s eclectic use of percussion to highlight motifs...

We had so much fun celebrating soprano Angela Gheorghiu’s Birthday! The Metropolitan Opera’s Music Director Yannick Nezet-Seguin conducts the entire MET Orchestra in a Verdi “La Traviata” and “Happy Birthday” mashup, arranged by MET Principal Horn Erik Ralske. The idea to celebrate Ms. Gheorghiu was hatched by MET Hornist Barbara Jostlein Currie when she remembered...

“Led by the Met’s music director, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the “Resurrection” Symphony brought the full company and its audience back together in grand style: 90 minutes; an orchestra of 116; a chorus of 100; and 2,500 attending in the park, as well as hundreds more listening from the street.” Read more from Zachary Woolfe in the...

“For musicians, we start when we’re little kids. It’s not just a job, it’s a calling. When it’s something you do your whole life, and suddenly nobody needs you, it was really just devastating, honestly… a project like this has been uplifting… it’s been good for my heart.” – Sylvia Danburg Volpe, Associate Principal Second...

Here is a clip from our recent MET Orchestra Spotlight Series concert featuring some of the MET Opera Horns section: Erik Ralske (Principal Horn), Javier Gándara (Third Horn), Brad Gemeinhardt (Third Horn), and Barbara Jostlein Currie (Fourth Horn). ***We would like to thank many people who made this concert possible, especially those behind the scenes....

 Have you missed hearing opera arias with the MET Orchestra? ➡ Please enjoy the following opera collaboration with the Nikikai Opera Theatre in #Tokyo! This opera concert video was filmed remotely and collaboratively by members of MET Orchestra Musicians in NYC at the HighLineNine gallery in Chelsea, and Ms. Mihoko Kinoshita, soprano of Tokyo Nikikai...

The MET Orchestra Musicians are proud to perform virtually with Tokyo’s Nikikai Opera Soprano Mihoko Kinoshita! This YouTube clip is a conversation with Ms.Kinoshita and four members of the MET Orchestra: Mariko Anraku (Harp), Amy Kauffman (Violin), Barbara Jostlein Currie (Horn), and Dov Scheindlin (Viola and arranger of these three arias). Listen to the beautiful...

It doesn’t get any better than Frederica “Flicka” Von Stade! Tickets are now available at: Spotlight.METOrchestraMusicians.org for our upcoming MET Orchestra Spotlight Series concert, “Songs Without Words” on Sunday April 25th at 3PM ET

MET Orchestra Musicians perform “Song to the Moon” with soprano Angela Gheorghiu from Antonín Dvořák’s opera “Rusalka” on our February 2021 MET Orchestra Spotlight Series concert. Angela Gheorghiu performs from the Romanian Atheneum in Bucharest with the MET Musicians performing in upstate New York. Tickets: Spotlight.METOrchestraMusicians.org Nancy Wu and Bruno Eicher, violin Desiree Elsevier, viola...

One of the benefits of the MET Orchestra Spotlight Series concerts is that it allows us to come together in a safe way to make music together again. This large brass​ and percussion​ ensemble marks the first time that we have performed together in one year. What a bittersweet and beautiful time for us! We...

A year ago, our “April Fool’s Day” was sadly not very funny, as this was the start of an enormously difficult year. This marked the beginning of massive financial insecurity, musical career insecurity and an ultimate sense of loss of spirit for us as artists. Despite these enormous challenges, and with your continued support, we...

It has been over a year since we were able to perform together at the Metropolitan Opera. We felt it was important to share this with all of you because we are still here, waiting for it to be deemed safe for us to return to the house we love and have dedicated our artistic...

Join us this Sunday, March 28th at 3 PM Eastern as we “Celebrate Opera in a Year Like No Other”, with Host Mezzo-soprano Susan Graham! We are beyond excited to perform selections from Carmen, Lucia, La Sonnambula, Aida, Tannhäuser and others as we commemorate a year since our last performance at the The Metropolitan Opera...

There is still time to enjoy some “Warmth from Other Suns” by purchasing a ticket at Spotlight.MetOrchestraMusicians.org! This concert features Sphinx Organization Medal of Excellence winner Carlos Simon, Pulitzer-prize winning composer Caroline Shaw, Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden”, arrangements from the “Magic Flute”, “William Tell” and the Flower Duet from Delibes! Tickets are only $15...

Chelsea Knox (Principal Flute) and Julia Bruskin Wunsch (Cello) perform a selection from Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” arranged by Eric Stephenson, on our third MET Orchestra Spotlight Series concert January 17th, 2021. Tickets are still available at: Spotlight.METOrchestraMusicians.org for $15

We are very grateful to SupportNYC and ARKAI for producing this beautiful video of our players performing at Reed Yeboah Fine Violins. With their mission of lifting up small businesses like Julie Reed Yeboah’s wonderful fine instrument shop and musicians like the MET Orchestra Musicians, SupportNYC is doing vital work during these challenging times. Thanks...

Join the MET Orchestra Musicians NOV 22 at 3PM EST for the opening concert of their NEW Spotlight Series. Tickets available here. The program will include the beloved opera aria Nessun Dorma from Puccini’s Turandot arranged for four horns, Tchaikovsky’s tour de force for string sextet, Souvenir de Florence and the genre-bending string quartet Strum...

Please enjoy this performance of Mozart’s Duo for Violin and Viola, performed by MET Orchestra violinist Caterina Szepes on viola with her husband, Peter Winograd of the American String Quartet on violin.

#WeWillMetAgain has become a mantra for us during this difficult time. One way that we have remained engaged with who we are in our core is through teaching. We are happy to present these masterclasses to you, which we gave this past summer for students of the Blackburn Academy of Festival Napa Valley. These masterclasses...

MET Orchestra #cellist Julia Bruskin talks to MET #violinist Julia Choi about falling vacuum cleaners, her favorite operas to play, what she misses most about being away from the orchestra, and advice for young musicians during these challenging times. For the rest of this interview and more, check out Entr’acte with Julia: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/…/entrac… Spotify:...

MET Orchestra Principal #Flute Chelsea Knox speaks to MET violinist Julia Choi about funny times in the pit, her favorite operas, what she misses about being away from the orchestra, and advice for young musicians! For the rest of this interview and more, check out Entr’acte with Julia: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/…/entrac… Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2yyGXYw… Youtube: https://youtu.be/oY1BFcSFqHE

Please enjoy this beautiful performance by Elaine Douvas (Principal Oboe) and Howard Watkins (Assistant Conductor at The Metropolitan Opera). This piece by Debussy (arranged by Luccarelli) is the Arabesque #2 for Oboe and Piano. Enjoy!

The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra – the only world-class orchestra in America furloughed with no pay since April 1, 2020 – has been actively pursuing ways to get back to work safely with the help of scientists and engineers from Princeton University and The University of Montpellier (France) / CNRS. While Metropolitan Opera management chose not...

Pedro Diaz, oboist and English hornist of the MET orchestra, shares highlights from the MET Orchestra Musicians’ performance on the grounds of Lincoln Center as part of a food drive to benefit the Food Bank of New York. Please enjoy these excerpts from works by Mozart, Dvorak, and Poulenc.

Joseph Anderer, recently retired Principal Horn of the MET Orchestra, shares some hilarious moments he has witnessed over the course of his career in a conversation with MET violinist Julia Choi. For the full length interview and a look into the lives of other MET Orchestra Musicians, be sure to check out Julia’s new podcast,...

It’s time to meet another MET Musician! Principal Trumpet Billy Hunter has some fascinating stories to tell, such as playing a concert with Desmond Tutu and meeting Dr. Cornel West. Billy has been a member of many orchestras including the New World Symphony, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Grant Park Orchestra, and he recently accepted an offer...

We continue our partnership with the Renaissance School of the Arts in East Harlem.

It’s MET Musician Monday! Time to meet our Associate Principal Viola, Craig Mumm. Find out how he’s improving his accordion game and learn more about his incredibly musical family! Here’s a snippet: “My grandfather was a band leader during World War I – field artillery band. My grandmother toured the country in the roaring twenties...