The 2026-2027 Season
Quartets on the Mainstage
Gabriella Smith's Carrot Revolution, Schnittke's polystylistic Third Quartet, and Beethoven's Op. 130 with Grosse Fuge—featuring Alexi Kenney, Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, & Oliver Herbert, Co-Artistic Director Owen Dalby brings together a world-class quartet for an afternoon of chamber music at its most thrilling.
The Dolphins Quartet: a Well-Being Concert
Join us as the Juilliard-trained Dolphins Quartet bring their signature warmth and community-minded spirit to an evening designed around the healing power of live music . — a listening experience designed to connect mind, body, and soul.
Noe Music Kids: The Dolphins Quartet
The Dolphins Quartet turns chamber music into a playground, mixing classical favorites with brand-new tunes — and inviting kids to help compose a piece live, right in the room.
Jeremy Denk, piano
MacArthur Fellow and Avery Fisher Prize winner Jeremy Denk is celebrated for “performances of vast imagination, beauty, profundity, and wit” — and this program delivers: Bach, the incandescent Études of Unsuk Chin, a rediscovered gem by Hélène de Montgeroult, and Beethoven's final two sonatas in a single, revelatory afternoon.
Elizabeth Joy Roe: a Well-Being Concert
New York Times “brilliant” pianist Elizabeth Joy Roe brings her extraordinary artistry — and her mission to connect through music's essential humanity — to Noe Music's Well-Being Concert in a program inspired by the winter solstice.
Noe Music Kids: The Westerlies
Get up close with the boom, blast, and buzz of brass as The Westerlies turn jazz, folk, and chamber music into a joyful, foot-stomping show for kids.
The Westerlies with Vuyo Sotashe
The Westerlies return to Noe Music for a world première adaptation of Maria Schneider's Grammy-winning Winter Morning Walks, joined by South African vocalist Vuyo Sotashe — a singular chamber jazz ensemble bringing their intricately calibrated, uncommonly intimate sound back to the Noe Music stage.
yeemz: a Well-Being concert
Singer-songwriter and cellist yeemz (Yi-Mei Templeman of Trio Gaia) brings her intimate, indie-folk artistry to the Well-Being Concert series — an evening of original songs, solo cello, and the rare magic of one musician in complete creative command.
Noe Music Kids: Trio Gaia
Multiple prize-winning Trio Gaia — piano, violin, and cello — team up for a playful, interactive concert that turns chamber music into a story kids can see and hear up close. Interactive performances tailored to young ears that the whole family will love.
Trio Gaia
This multiple prize-winning Trio Gaia makes their San Francisco debut with Between Worlds — a program of Stravinsky, Casarrubios, An-Lun Huang, and Dvořák that asks what we carry with us when we leave home, and what we find when we arrive.
Complete Brahms Sonatas for Violin & Piano
Owen Dalby and longtime collaborator Stephen Prutsman bring all three Brahms violin sonatas together in a single afternoon — the next chapter in a duo partnership that gave Noe Music the complete Beethoven sonatas in the 2022–23 season.
Diana Gameros + Magic Magic String Quartet: a Well-Being concert
Diana Gameros is one of the Bay Area's most beloved and distinctive musical voices — a Mexican singer, guitarist, pianist, composer, and storyteller who creates music, in the words of those who know her work best, "at the borderlands between cultures, languages, and genres."
For the Well-Being Concert series, Diana presents “Volver a La Luz” (Return to the Light) a deeply personal album about moving through grief towards hope. With Diana’s extraordinary talent and capacity to make an audience feel both seen and held, this evening is sure to nourish the soul.
Noe Music Kids: Diana Gameros
Diana Gameros brings bilingual folk songs, gentle guitar, and family storytelling to life in a warm, interactive concert for curious young ears.
Karen Ouzounian & Lembit Beecher: Mayrig
Mayrig (“mother” in Armenian) is an immersive 60-minute show for cello, electronics, piano, and voice — created by Silkroad Ensemble cellist Karen Ouzounian and composer Lembit Beecher from three generations of family voices, Armenian folk song, and new music teeming with passion, celebration, resilience, and the deep beauty of lives fully lived.
Ringdown: a Well-Being concert
Pulitzer Prize-winner Caroline Shaw and percussionist-songwriter Danni Lee Parpan bring their “electronic cinematic pop duo” Ringdown to the Well-Being Concert series — intimate, emotionally fearless, and entirely their own — hosted by Meena Bhasin.
Reverberations: Decoda & Ringdown
Noe Music presents a special preview of Reverberations — a genre-bending collaboration between chamber collective Decoda (co-founded by Owen Dalby and Meena Bhasin) and composer-performers Ringdown (Caroline Shaw and Danni Lee Parpan) — a work-in-progress performance ahead of its official Carnegie Hall world première in May 2027.
Steven Osborne, piano
Scottish pianist Steven Osborne OBE — described as having “that special ability to make music that you thought you knew inside out seem fresh and totally alive” — closes the season with “Reflections on the Waltz”, moving from Schumann, Satie, and Ravel to Beethoven's towering Diabelli Variations in an afternoon of extraordinary range and depth.
Noe Music in the Square: The Hot Club of San Francisco
San Francisco's finest Manouche jazz musicians bring the shimmer and swing of 1930s Paris to our neighborhood piazza—grab a drink, grab a slice, and dance if you feel like it. Free, no tickets required
From Mali to America
Malian kora master Yacouba Sissoko, percussionist Idrissa Koné, and Grammy-winning cellist Mike Block — Silkroad Ensemble veteran and fearless cross-cultural collaborator — put West African tradition and American music into an irresistible, genre-defying conversation.
Noe Music Kids: From Mali to America
Kora, cello, talking drum, and calabash come together as three master musicians trace music's journey from Mali to America — an interactive, joyful concert the whole family will feel in their feet.
Noe Music in the Square: Yacouba Sissoko, Mike Block & Idrissa Koné
Kora virtuoso Yacouba Sissoko, cellist Mike Block, and percussionist Idrissa Koné bring the ancient griot traditions of Mali into exhilarating conversation with American folk and jazz—live, free, and in the heart of Noe Valley. Free, no tickets required
Janice Carissa, piano
Making her San Francisco recital debut, Gilmore Young Artist Janice Carissa plays with “the multicolored highlights of a mature pianist” — bringing Bach, Philip Glass, Rzewski, and Prokofiev's towering Eighth Sonata to Noe Music in a wide-ranging, carefully crafted afternoon.
Noe Music in the Square: Cello Quartets from around the World
Noe Music favorites Robert Howard, Angela Lee, Yeeun Heo join newcomer Chase Park for an evening that revels in the deep, magnificent sonority of four cellos playing together—music from Sudan, India, East and Southern Africa, Hungary, and beyond. Free, no tickets required.
Noe Music in the Square: Mozart Divertimento
Mozart's most irresistible chamber work, performed by Noe Music's Artistic Directors Owen Dalby and Meena Bhasin alongside San Francisco Symphony associate principal cellist Anne Richardson—with pizza, drinks, and a beautiful Friday evening in the town square.
Free, no tickets required