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Lessonface and The MET Orchestra Musicians Launch 2026-27 Free Masterclass Series
Lessonface has announced a new season of masterclasses with The MET Orchestra Musicians for 2026–27. The series will feature three free, live online masterclasses with members of The MET Orchestra, including Principal Harp Hannah Cope, Principal Oboe John Upton and Assistant Concertmaster Bruno Eicher.
The masterclasses give musicians and classical music enthusiasts around the world an opportunity to learn directly from professional musicians of The MET Orchestra. Each live session will feature performances, interactive coaching of up-and-coming musicians, and a Q&A, offering audiences insight into the artistry, technique and experience of performing at the highest levels of the profession.
Since the program launched in August 2020, Lessonface has hosted 38 free online masterclasses featuring more than 50 MET Orchestra musicians, with more than 100 performers receiving individual coaching. Participants have joined from across the United States and Puerto Rico, as well as Canada and 10 countries across Latin America, Europe and Asia.
The 2025–26 season featured masterclasses with Associate Principal Second Violin Sylvia Danburg Volpe, Third Horn Javier Gándara and Principal Cello Rafael Figueroa, exploring repertoire from Cassadó, Piatti and Dvořák to orchestral excerpts by Berlioz, Brahms, Mendelssohn and Strauss. Videos of all previous masterclasses are available to watch free of charge on the Lessonface website.
WQXR and Carnegie Hall have announced the lineup for the 2026–27 season of Carnegie Hall Live, the broadcast series that brings performances from the legendary New York venue to audiences nationwide and around the world. Now in its 16th season, the series airs live on WQXR-FM and streams at WQXR.org and CarnegieHall.org, with broadcasts also distributed to public radio stations across the country.
The season opened on October 9 with the Berliner Philharmoniker, conducted by Kirill Petrenko, joined by pianist Víkingur Ólafsson in a program of Brahms and Strauss — part of the orchestra’s four-concert Carnegie Hall residency that launched the Hall’s 2026–27 season.
Among the season’s highlights, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s performs an all-Berlioz program on November 5, 2026, led by Louis Langrée and starring tenor Benjamin Bernheim in a rare New York appearance, pairing Les nuits d’été with the Symphonie fantastique. On January 19, 2027, Franz Welser-Möst conducts The Cleveland Orchestra and the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus in Beethoven’s Missa solemnis, with soloists Golda Schultz, Taylor Raven, Julian Prégardien, and Anthony Robin Schneider.
The series also carries performances by the Vienna Philharmonic and The Philadelphia Orchestra as part of Carnegie Hall’s season-long Mahler symphony cycle led by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, alongside chamber music programs spotlighting Beethoven and Brahms.
Carnegie Hall Live is hosted by WNYC and WQXR’s John Schaefer, with guest hosts Elliott Forrest and Paul Cavalconte. The series is produced by WQXR in partnership with Carnegie Hall and American Public Media. For the full broadcast schedule, visit carnegiehall.org.
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