~ 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.
Midtown Concerts • Edson Scheid
J. S. Bach ~ The Complete Sonatas and Partitas for Unaccompanied Violin (Part 3)
Midtown Concerts • Passiones Animae
The Theater of Affects ~ A Narrative in Musical Gesture
Midtown Concerts • Quodlibet Winds
Potpourri ~ A Sampler of Parisian Salon Music
Midtown Concerts • Filament & A Golden Wire
Of Another Temper ~ Four Seasons with Virginia Woolf
Midtown Concerts • ByrdSong
Chi desia di saper, che cosa è amore
Midtown Concerts • Ensemble Meliora
O Clarissima Mater ~ A celebration of women in music from the 11th to 18th centuries
Midtown Concerts • Ryan Cheng & Friends
People, Places and Other Faces
Midtown Concerts • Aquitaine
Twists and Turns ~ The Stories Tunings Tell
Midtown Concerts • Quintet von Ditters
Before the Schubert Cello Quintet
Midtown Concerts • Duo Pontaccio
SOME Roads lead to Rome
Midtown Concerts • Sophie Negoïta & Darío Tamayo
Venus ~ Airs de cour, Arias, and Songs from the Early Baroque
Midtown Concerts • Brooklyn Baroque
Concerto in the Chamber
Midtown Concerts • Silentwoods Collective
South of Rome ~ Violoncello Napoletano
Midtown Concerts • Paul Max Tipton & Enrico Lagasca
Amore in catene
Midtown Concerts • The Lost Mode
Kaleidoscope ~ Diminutions & Resonance
Midtown Concerts • L'Esquisse
French Portraits
Midtown Concerts • Picture This! Live stream
Program TBD
Midtown Concerts • Nicholas Kleinman & Friends
Der Kontrabaß aus Wien
Midtown Concerts • Dryden Ensemble
The Most Faithful Companion ~ 17th-century Lute ensembles by Purcell, Muffat, and Radolt
Midtown Concerts • Dr. Stephen Fraser
J.S. Bach ~ Before & After
Midtown Concerts • Shunske Sato & Shuann Chai
Violin Sonatas by Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert
Midtown Concerts • Opera Essentia
Excerpts from “Rage, Sorceress,” a Distillation of Handel's Amadigi (1715)
Midtown Concerts • SaSa
De luitspeelster
Midtown Concerts • Abendmusik
Adeiu mes amours ~ Petrucci's Odhecaton ~ Canti A (1501)
Midtown Concerts • Magdalena
The Women of Magdala
Midtown Concerts • BALAM Dance Theatre
A Baroque Extravaganza ~ Period Choreography and Music from Five Nations
Midtown Concerts • Eurasia Consort
Music of Paradise
Midtown Concerts • The New York Baroque Dance Company
Curious, Comic, and Sublime
Midtown Concerts • Edson Scheid
J. S. Bach ~ The Complete Sonatas and Partitas for Unaccompanied Violin (Part 3)
Midtown Concerts • Passiones Animae
The Theater of Affects ~ A Narrative in Musical Gesture
Midtown Concerts • Quodlibet Winds
Potpourri ~ A Sampler of Parisian Salon Music
Midtown Concerts • Filament & A Golden Wire
Of Another Temper ~ Four Seasons with Virginia Woolf
Midtown Concerts • Ensemble Meliora
O Clarissima Mater ~ A celebration of women in music from the 11th to 18th centuries
Midtown Concerts • Sophie Negoïta & Darío Tamayo
Venus ~ Airs de cour, Arias, and Songs from the Early Baroque
Midtown Concerts • Silentwoods Collective
South of Rome ~ Violoncello Napoletano
Midtown Concerts • Dryden Ensemble
The Most Faithful Companion ~ 17th-century Lute ensembles by Purcell, Muffat, and Radolt
Midtown Concerts • Shunske Sato & Shuann Chai
Violin Sonatas by Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert
Midtown Concerts • Opera Essentia
Excerpts from “Rage, Sorceress,” a Distillation of Handel's Amadigi (1715)
Midtown Concerts • Abendmusik
Adeiu mes amours ~ Petrucci's Odhecaton ~ Canti A (1501)
Midtown Concerts • BALAM Dance Theatre
A Baroque Extravaganza ~ Period Choreography and Music from Five Nations
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.