The Frick Collection Sets 2015-16 Concert Series

This fall, The Frick Collection presents its seventy-seventh season of classical music concerts. Debuting in 1938-just three years after the museum opened to the public-the concert series is one of the most celebrated in New York and over the years has delighted tens of thousands of visitors with a wide range of world-class performances by soloists, chamber music groups, and early music ensembles. Throughout its distinguished history, the concert program has been recognized for the special niche it fills in the highly competitive and rich world of music performance in New York.

The Frick has been host to major soloists and ensembles such as legendary instrumentalists Gregor Piatigorsky, Artur Schnabel, Joseph Szigeti, and Wanda Landowska; vocalists Kiri Te Kanawa, Peter Pears, Kathleen Battle, and Elisabeth Söderström; and the Budapest, Amadeus, Tokyo, and Guarneri quartets. In recent years, it has become prestigious for European musicians to make their New York debuts at the Frick. Notable examples include Ian Bostridge, Matthias Goerne, Felicity Lott, Wolfgang Holzmair, Gerald Finley, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Pieter Wispelwey, Julian Rachlin, Kate Royal, Yevgeny Sudbin, Charles Owens, Ruby Hughes, Leonard Elschenbroich, the Jacques Thibaud Trio, the Carmina Quartet, the Auryn Quartet and Fretwork. The Frick has also become an important venue for performers on period instruments, such as Jordi Savall with Hespèrion XX, Richard Egarr, Andrew Manze, and Quatuor Mosaïques.

The 2015-2016 series showcases exceptional musical talent from around the world. Among the highlights are a record number of New York debuts and several performances by noted artists who will be playing at the Frick for the first time. Debuts include German/French cellist Nicholas Alstaedt (named BBC new Generation Artist 2010-12); award winning Canadian baroque ensemble Pallade Musica; Austrian pianist Ingolf Wunder; the internationally recognized pianists Philippe Cassard and Cédric Pescia; and acclaimed string quartet Quatuor Danel. The season also includes mezzo-soprano Anne Sophie von Otter, accompanied by theorbo and harpsichord; pianist Imogen Cooper; harpsichordist Andreas Staier (International Classical Music Award's Artist of the Year 2014); the Minetti Quartett; and the Flanders Recorder Quartet.

The Frick concert series also has a long history of reaching audiences far beyond those present for performances. Since 1939, the concerts have been rebroadcast on the Municipal Broadcasting System, American Public Radio, and WNYC Radio. In July and early August, on a series of Monday nights at 10 p.m., programs from the 2014-2015 season aired on WQXR/National Public Radio (105.9). These concerts and performances from recent years are available on the station's Web site, www.wqxr.org/frick, for up to two years. In addition, since 2009, four concerts annually have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in the United Kingdom. For complete program information, visit www.frick.org/programs/concerts.

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