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Shakespeare vs. Mozart
A Library Debate
7:00 pm
Free Event
Bruno Walter Auditorium, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Who is the greater genius, Shakespeare or Mozart? The experts face off.
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Exhibition: Mozart Forever
Fifty Years of the Mostly Mozart Festival
Open during library hours
A special exhibition celebrating the festival’s history and place in the New York cultural landscape.
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Emanuel Ax’s Listening Party
6:00 pm
Free Event
Bruno Walter Auditorium, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Get to know one of the music world’s most thoughtful and admired artists through the recordings he loves.
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Film: In Search of Mozart
Filmed and directed by Phil Grabsky
6:00 pm
Free Event
David Rubenstein Atrium
This acclaimed documentary reconstructs the composer’s life through interviews and performances with more than 70 leading Mozart interpreters.
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Meet the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra
Panel discussion and performance
6:00 pm
Free Event
David Rubenstein Atrium
Join members of the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra for a lively discussion followed by a performance.
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Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra
Free preview concert
7:30 pm
Free Event
Damrosch Park
The 50th Anniversary kicks off with violin sensation Simone Porter and Mozart’s unparalleled “Jupiter” Symphony.
Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra
The Illuminated Heart
Selections from Mozart’s Operas
July 25 at 8:00 pm
July 26 at 7:30 pm
David Geffen Hall
Visionary director Netia Jones and a luminous cast transform Mozart’s most beloved arias and ensembles into an enchanting operatic fantasy.
International Contemporary Ensemble: Free Micro-Concert
ICE and students from P.S. 316 perform music by Jeff Snyder
1:00 pm
Free Event
Hearst Plaza
ICE and students from P.S. 316 perform music by Jeff Snyder.
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International Contemporary Ensemble: Free Micro-Concert
ICE performs music by Rama Gottfried
6:30 pm
Free Event
Hearst Plaza
ICE performs music by Rama Gottfried.
International Contemporary Ensemble: Free Micro-Concert
Young Composers Concert 1 with Claire Chase, flute and piccolo
1:00 pm
Free Event
Hearst Plaza
ICE performs music by Rand Steiger and young composers.
International Contemporary Ensemble: Free Micro-Concert
ICE performs music by Okkyung Lee, Tyshawn Sorey, and Rebecka Sofia Ahvenniemi
6:30 pm
Free Event
Hearst Plaza
ICE performs music by Okkyung Lee, Tyshawn Sorey, and Rebecka Sofia Ahvenniemi
Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra
Bach and Mozart
July 28 at 7:30 pm
July 29 at 7:30 pm
July 30 at 7:30 pm
Alice Tully Hall
Pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, conductor Louis Langrée, and the Festival Orchestra illuminate the genius of Bach and Mozart.
International Contemporary Ensemble: Free Micro-Concert
ICE performs music by Mikel Kuehn
1:00 pm
Free Event
Hearst Plaza
ICE performs music by Mikel Kuehn.
International Contemporary Ensemble: Free Micro-Concert
Violinist Jennifer Curtis performs music by Pauchi Sasaki
6:30 pm
Free Event
Hearst Plaza
ICE performs music by Pauchi Sasaki.
International Contemporary Ensemble: Free Micro-Concert
ICE performs music by Ken Ueno
6:30 pm
Free Event
Hearst Plaza
ICE performs music by Ken Ueno.
International Contemporary Ensemble: Free Micro-Concert
Cellist Katinka Kleijn performs music by Monte Weber
6:30 pm
Free Event
Hearst Plaza
Cellist Katinka Kleijn performs music by Monte Weber.
Emerson String Quartet and Emanuel Ax, piano
7:30 pm
Alice Tully Hall
The beloved Emersons join with pianist Emanuel Ax for an unprecedented
joint appearance at Mostly Mozart.
Emerson String Quartet and Emanuel Ax, piano
A Little Night Music
10:00 pm
Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse
The beloved Emersons and Emanuel Ax share an intimate late-night program of Schubert, Mozart, and Beethoven.
Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra
Mozart’s 40th Symphony
August 2 at 7:30 pm
August 3 at 7:30 pm
David Geffen Hall
An explosive evening of Haydn and Mozart with conductor Thierry Fischer and pianist Martin Helmchen, both in their Mostly Mozart debuts.
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Paul Lewis, piano
A Little Night Music
10:00 pm
Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse
Known for poetic
displays of “pianistic depth” (Guardian, U.K.), Paul Lewis’s late-night recitals
have become Mostly Mozart legends.
International Contemporary Ensemble: Free Micro-Concert
Composer Nathan Davis performs a world premiere
1:00 pm
Free Event
Hearst Plaza
Composer Nathan Davis performs a new work for dulcimer.
International Contemporary Ensemble: Free Micro-Concert
Tenor Peter Tantsits performs music by Anna Thorvaldsdottir and Gerald Barry
6:30 pm
Free Event
Hearst Plaza
Tenor Peter Tantsits performs music by Anna Thorvaldsdottir and Gerald Barry.
International Contemporary Ensemble: Free Micro-Concert
ICE performs music by young composers from the Walden School
1:00 pm
Free Event
Hearst Plaza
ICE performs music by young composers.
International Contemporary Ensemble: Free Micro-Concert
ICE plays music by Suzanne Farrin and Doug Balliett
6:30 pm
Hearst Plaza
ICE plays music by Suzanne Farrin and Doug Balliett.
International Contemporary Ensemble: Free Micro-Concert
ICE performs music by Ashley Fure
6:30 pm
Free Event
Hearst Plaza
ICE performs music by Ashley Fure.
Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra
Clarinet Concerto
August 5 at 7:30 pm
August 6 at 7:30 pm
David Geffen Hall
Peerless clarinetist Martin Fröst plays Mozart’s ravishing Clarinet Concerto, and Paavo Järvi conducts Beethoven’s radiant Fourth Symphony.
Mahan Esfahani, harpsichord
A Little Night Music
10:00 pm
Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse
In his festival debut, the charismatic harpsichord champion brings his revelatory vision to music by and inspired by Bach.
International Contemporary Ensemble: Free Micro-Concert
ICE performs music by Eli Keszler
6:30 pm
Free Event
Hearst Plaza
ICE performs music by Eli Keszler.
Martin Fröst, clarinet
Roland Pöntinen, piano
A Little Night Music
10:00 pm
Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse
With “a virtuosity and a
musicianship unsurpassed by any clarinetist” (New York Times), Martin Fröst delights
in dances at this after-hours performance.
Panel Discussion: Mozart’s Operatic Poets
3:00 pm
Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse
Scholars and experts explore Mozart’s collaborations with his librettists.
International Contemporary Ensemble: Free Micro-Concert
Young Composers Concert 3
6:30 pm
Hearst Plaza
ICE performs music by Natacha Diels, Wojtek Blecharz, and young composers.
Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra
“Jupiter” Symphony
August 9 at 7:30 pm
August 10 at 7:30 pm
David Geffen Hall
Renowned Mozartean Richard Goode performs Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 12 in A major, then Louis Langrée leads the “Jupiter” Symphony.
Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra
An Evening of Piano Concertos
August 12 at 7:30 pm
August 13 at 7:30 pm
David Geffen Hall
Esteemed Mozart interpreter Jeffrey Kahane leads a piano-packed evening.
the public domain
5:00 pm
One thousand volunteer singers will lend their voices to this epic world premiere by Pulitzer Prize–winning composer David Lang.
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Inon Barnatan, piano
A Little Night Music
10:00 pm
Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse
A time-traveling musical tale from a “player of uncommon sensitivity” (New Yorker).
Così fan tutte
7:30 pm
Alice Tully Hall
Louis Langrée leads a staged concert of Mozart’s fiancée-swapping farce with a spirited cast and the peerless Freiburg Baroque Orchestra.
Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra
Joshua Bell Plays Mozart
August 16 at 7:30 pm
August 17 at 7:30 pm
David Geffen Hall
Superstar violinist Joshua Bell brings his “impeccable fiddling” (Gramophone) to Mozart’s spellbinding Violin Concerto No. 4.
A New York Public Library/Mostly Mozart Trivia Concert
Hosted by the International Contemporary Ensemble
9:00 pm
Free Event
David Rubenstein Atrium
The city’s most imaginative, arts-focused trivia night.
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Idomeneo
7:30 pm
Alice Tully Hall
Tenor Jeremy Ovenden is the titular king, torn between love and sacrifice, in this staged concert of Mozart’s masterpiece.
Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra
C-minor Mass and Requiem
August 19 at 7:30 pm
August 20 at 7:30 pm
David Geffen Hall
An ecstatic evening reaches full force with two choral masterworks.
Seven Responses
Part 1
3:00 pm
Merkin Concert Hall
Musical responses to Buxtehude’s choral meditation Membra Jesu Nostri from David T. Little, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Hans Thomalla, and Pulitzer Prize winner Caroline Shaw.
Seven Responses
Part 2
7:00 pm
Merkin Concert Hall
Musical responses to Buxtehude’s choral meditation Membra Jesu Nostri from Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, Santa Ratniece, and Pulitzer Prize winner Lewis Spratlan.
International Contemporary Ensemble
Improvisations
A Little Night Music
10:00 pm
Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse
Master improvisers Cory Smythe and Craig Taborn anchor a genre-surfing program bridging the worlds of classic and modern jazz.
International Contemporary Ensemble: Five Premiere Concertos
7:30 pm
Merkin Concert Hall
Five concerto premieres tailor-made to highlight ICE’s exceptional soloists.
International Contemporary Ensemble
Josephine Baker: A Personal Portrait
A Little Night Music
10:00 pm
Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse
The iconic singer’s artistic and activist legacy lives on in this 21st-century creation starring soprano Julia Bullock.
Mark Morris Dance Group: Mozart Dances
August 24 at 7:30 pm
August 25 at 7:30 pm
August 26 at 7:30 pm
August 27 at 7:30 pm
David H. Koch Theater
A not-to-be-missed revival of “one of Mr. Morris’s grandest achievements” (New York Times).
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