The Concert Season

2024–2025 Season at Hirshhorn Museum & St. Mark’s

  • A Portrait of Pinchas: Memorial Concert for Paul Schoenfield

    at 2:30pm on Sunday September 152024

    St. Mark’s Episcopal Church on Capitol Hill – a heartfelt tribute to the late composer

    Read the printed program now for this concert.

    Carolina Reveille
    Three Bagatelles
    The Return from Sextet
    Elegy, Rag and Boogie
    Tango and Tin Pan Alley
    Trio for Clarinet, Violin and Piano
  • Above and Beyond

    at 5pm on Saturday November 162024

    Hirshhorn Museum’s Ring Auditorium – Smithsonian/NASA Chandra Observatory anniversary celebration. Art and music that relates to things overhead, from atmospheric avifauna to the distant reaches of outer space. Click here to get your free general seating ticket(s) from the Hirshhorn when they become available.

    Trevor Weston
    A.N.S. (A New Sound)
    Jordan Kuspa
    Sounds from Outer Space
    Juhi Bansal
    Trail of Stars
    Donald Crockett
    Celestial Mechanics
    Sophie Kastner
    Where Parallel Lines Converge (U.S. premiere)
    Lisa Bielawa
    Fictional Migrations
    Joseph Schwantner
    Sparrows
  • Igor and Coco

    at 5pm on Saturday February 12025

    Hirshhorn Museum’s Ring Auditorium – a program designed around a new Scott Wheeler work based on the words of Coco Chanel, noting the feminist icon’s ties to Picasso and Stravinsky and including the piano four-hands version of that composer’s revolutionary Rite of Spring.

    Lili Boulanger
    D’un matin de printemps
    Igor Stravinsky
    Le sacre du primtempts
    Mikhail Johnson
    Ton Yo Han Mek Fashon
    Scott Wheeler
    A Woman of Her Time: Coco Chanel Sings (world premiere)
  • Art becomes Music becomes Art

    at 5pm on Saturday March 82025

    Hirshhorn Museum’s Ring Auditorium – music inspired by specific artists in the Hirshhorn collection including Georgia O’Keeffe, Jackson Pollack, Jospeh Cornell and others, with an early 20th Century masterpiece by a composer equally esteemed as a painter: Arnold Schoenberg.

    Helen Grime
    Aviary Sketches
    Sarah Gibson
    You Are Still Here
    Jennifer Higdon
    American Canvas
    Bobby G
    Intuitive Geometry
    Lisa Bielawa
    Gargoyles
    Schoenberg
    Chamber Symphony
  • Child’s Play

    at 5pm on Saturday April 122025

    Hirshhorn Museum’s Ring Auditorium – a program about music and art intent on recapturing childhood’s vision of the world, including a world premiere by composer Jon Deak, and featuring works by young composers from our “Mighty Young Composers” initiative.

    Berio
    Sequenza
    Juri Seo
    Toy Store
    Nina C. Young
    Tet-a-tete
    Jon Deak
    Greta the Fearless (world premiere)