~ THE NATION’S LARGEST SERIES OF UNIQUE CHAMBER MUSIC PERFORMANCES ~
The largest and most diverse series of free chamber music concerts in the nation, with performances by early music virtuosi presenting great repertoire from the 5th to the 19th Centuries.
Thursdays, 1:15 PM ET
All concerts are free. No tickets or reservations are necessary.
Concerts are in person at St. Malachy’s Church, 239 West 49th Street, Manhattan (map), AND live streamed.
The 2026–2027 Season Roster
September 17
Dan McCarthy
Violas! A Rose by any other Name
September 24
Euterpe Quartet
The Art of the Quintet
October 1
Teatro Nuovo
Bel Canto Notturno
October 8
Cynthia Roberts and Patricia Garcia Gil
Women and English Sociability ~ Sonatas for Keyboard with Violin Accompaniment
October 15
ALBA Consort
Songs of the Ancient Mariners
October 22
The New York Baroque Dance Company
Curious, Comic and Sublime
October 29
Edson Scheid
J. S. Bach ~ The Complete Sonatas and Partitas for Unaccompanied Violin (Part 3)
November 5
French Hens
Goldberg with Guts
November 12
Mexamorphosis
Mexamorphosis “Chamber”
November 19
Demestvo
Guillaume de Machaut’s La Messe de Nostre Dame
December 3
Andrew Flory
Giant of the Baroque
December 10
Concordian Dawn
Veni Redemptor Gentium
December 17
Passiones Animae
The Theater of Affects
January 7
Quodlibet Winds
Potpourri ~ A Sampler of Parisian Salon Music
January 14
Filament & A Golden Wire
Of Another Temper ~ Four Seasons with Virginia Woolf
January 21
ByrdSong
Chi desia di saper, che cosa è amore
January 28
Ensemble Meliora
O Clarissima Mater ~ A celebration of women in music from the 11th to 18th centuries
February 4
Ryan Cheng and friends
People, Places and Other Faces
February 11
Aquitaine
Twists and Turns ~ The Stories Tunings Tell
February 18
Quintet von Ditters
Before the Schubert Cello Quintet
February 25
Duo Pontaccio
SOME Roads lead to Rome
March 4
Sophie Negoïta & Darío Tamayo
Venus ~ Airs de cour, Arias, and Songs from the Early Baroque
March 11
Brooklyn Baroque
Concerto in the Chamber
March 18
Silentwoods Collective
South of Rome ~ Violoncello Napoletano
March 25
Paul Max Tipton & Enrico Lagasca
Amore in catene
April 1
The Lost Mode
Kaleidoscope ~ Diminutions & Resonance
April 8
Music of the Regiment
Liberté, Égalité, Sublimité
April 15
Voices of Music
Program TBA
April 22
Nicholas Kleinman & Friends
Der Kontrabaß aus Wien
April 29
Dryden Ensemble
The Most Faithful Companion ~ 17th-century Lute ensembles by Purcell, Muffat, and Radolt
May 6
Dr. Stephen Fraser
J.S. Bach ~ Before & After
May 13
Shunske Sato and Shuann Chai
Violin Sonatas by Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert
May 20
Opera Essentia
Excerpts from the new Distillation of Handel’s Amadigi (1715)
May 27
SaSa
De lautenspeelster
June 3
Abendmusik
Adeiu mes amours ~ Petrucci’s Odhecaton ~ Canti A (1501)
June 10
Magdalena
The Women of Magdala
June 17
BALAM Dance Theatre
A Baroque Extravaganza ~ Period Choreography and Music from Five Nations
June 24
Eurasia Consort
Music of Paradise
Thursdays, 1:15–2:00 PM ET
All concerts are free.
No tickets or reservations are necessary.
The twenty-ninth season of Midtown Concerts will run from September 17, 2026 until June 24, 2027, except Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, and New Year’s Eve.
Concerts are in person at St. Malachy’s Church, 239 West 49th Street, Manhattan (map), AND live streamed.
Watch live on YouTube
Watch past concerts on-demand here
The Midtown Concerts series provides exceptional and interactive musical experiences for our patrons. These FREE weekly concerts nurture artists at all stages of their careers and contribute to New York’s vibrant early music community. GEMS provides performance opportunities for hundreds of artists and serves thousands of live and online audience members annually. Our programs feature historically informed performances of music from the Medieval to Romantic eras on period instruments and early vocal techniques. Ensembles are chosen annually by a panel of early music specialists from the New York metropolitan area.