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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.