Join the Crescendo Circle
2026-2027 Season
Keyboard Masters
Tony Siqi Yun
Sunday, November 8, 2026 | 4 PM
Tony Siqi Yun is an internationally acclaimed Canadian pianist and Gold Medalist of the inaugural China International Music Competition (2019). Praised as a “poet of the keyboard” (Pianist Magazine), he has performed with major orchestras including the Philadelphia Orchestra, Toronto Symphony, and Baltimore Symphony, and has appeared at Carnegie Hall and leading venues across North America and Europe. A 2024 graduate of The Juilliard School, Yun is rapidly gaining recognition as one of the most compelling pianists of his generation.
Jonathan Biss
Thursday, January 21, 2027 | 7 PM
Pianist Jonathan Biss is recognized globally for his “impeccable taste and a formidable technique” (The New Yorker) and has appeared as a soloist with some of the world's foremost orchestras, including the Los Angeles and New York Philharmonics, the Boston Symphony, the Royal Concertgebouw, the London Symphony and more. Biss is also the author of Unquiet: My Life with Beethoven, in which he examines music and his own life 's journey through the lens of Beethoven's last piano sonatas. He has served as the Co-Artistic Director of the Marlboro Music School and Festival alongside pianist Mitsuko Uchida since 2018.
Emanuel Ax
Friday, March 12, 2027 | 7 PM
Ax made his New York debut in the Young Concert Artists Series, and in 1974 won the first Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition in Tel Aviv. In 1975 he won the Michaels Award of Young Concert Artists, followed by the Avery Fisher Prize and was recently named the 2026 Musical America Artist of theYear. Ax has been a Sony Classical exclusive recording artist since 1987. He launched a multi-year project with violinist Leonidas Kavakos and cellist Yo-Yo Ma to record all the Beethoven Trios and Symphonies of which the first four discs have been released. Ax is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and holds honorary doctorates of music from Skidmore College, New England Conservatory of Music, Yale University, and Columbia University.