The 2026-2027 Season
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.
Djékady
Co-led by Malian balafon maestro Balla Kouyaté and Grammy-winning cellist Mike Block — both Silk Road Ensemble veterans — Djékady puts West African tradition and American music into an exhilarating, genre-defying conversation.
Quartets on the Mainstage
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 — a preview of what may be one of Noe Music's most exciting new chapters.
The Dolphins Quartet: a Well-Being Concert
The Juilliard-trained Dolphins Quartet brings their adventurous, community-minded spirit to Noe Music's Well-Being Concert series — an evening of chamber music designed to connect, to heal, and to remind us why we gather, hosted by Meena Bhasin
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 and one half of the Anderson Roe piano duo, Elizabeth Joy Roe brings her extraordinary artistry — and her mission to connect through music's essential humanity — to Noe Music's Well-Being Concert series for this cozy evening
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.
Trio Gaia
This multiple prize-winning Trio Gaia makes their Noe Music 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 across the 2022–23 season.
Diana Gameros: a Well-Being concert
Bay Area singer, guitarist, and storyteller Diana Gameros — Lullaby Project lead artist, YBCA honoree, and longtime Noe Music collaborator — brings her bilingual, border-crossing music to the Well-Being Concert series in an evening of warmth, beauty, and belonging.
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.