2026–2027 Season at the Hirshhorn Museum
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An Unsecret Garden
October 3-42026
Hirshhorn Museum’s Ring Auditorium
- Arnold Schoenberg
- The Book of Hanging Gardens for mezzo soprano and piano
- Helen Grime
- Aviary Sketches for string trio after Joseph Cornell
- Caroline Shaw
- Plan and Elevation for string quartet
- Peteris Vasks
- Landscape with Birds for solo flute
- Mikhail Johnson
- Wach Ya Haydn for solo piano
- Paul Novak
- Entwining for clarinet, violin, cello and piano
-
Time Stands Still
at 5pm December 52026
NOTE CHANGE OF LOCATION TO: Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building
- John Dowland
- Time Stands Still for soprano, alto, tenor and bass (performed from a balcony)
- Balinese Gamelan
- Tabuh Pat Jagul (performed from the west transept)
- Magister Perotin
- Viderunt Omnes for 4 voices (performed from the east transept)
- Juri Seo
- America the Beautiful for solo piano (on stage at the crossing)
- Steve Reich
- Music for 18 Musicians for violin, cello, 2 clarinets, 4 voices, 4 pianos, 3 marimbas, 2 xylophones and vibraphone
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Light Sounding
February 6-72027
Hirshhorn Museum’s Ring Auditorium
- Gemma Peacocke
- Lumen for electronics with video projection by Xuan
- Bobby Ge
- Pupil of Light for soprano, flute, clarinet, 2 percussion, piano, violin and cello
- Juri Seo
- Lux, Lumen, Splendor! for piano four hands
- Matthew Shultheis
- World Premiere for flute, piano and viola or cello
- Kaija Saariaho
- Changing Light (mezzo-soprano and viola or cello)
- Stephen Hartke
- The King of the Sun for violin, viola, cello and piano (5 tableaux after Miro)
-
eARTh Songs
April 10-112027
Hirshhorn Museum’s Sculpture Garden
- Mikhail Johnson
- World Premiere for flute, clarinet, piano, violin and cello
- Juri Seo
- Two Rhapsodies of Spring for solo cello
- Paul Novak
- Garden Song for string quartet
- Georghe Costinescu
- Nine Portraits from the Wild for soprano and piano
- Wang Jie
- World Premiere settings of Luo Qinam poetry for soprano, violin and piano
- Ana Sokolovic
- Cinq locomotives et quelques animaux for flute, clarinet, bassoon, horn, percussion, violin, viola, and cello