“Planning for this season has been an ambitious and thrilling exercise in hope,” Kent says. “As we navigate through what is possible and advisable, my colleagues and I know that we will have to be flexible as never before, but our determination to make music before an audience has never been keener.”

Kent has planned a full season – at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, with Musica Sacra and the Oratorio Society of New York, and at the Manhattan School of Music. It begins with an organ recital, his first in two years at the Cathedral (September 28). It includes his two annual performances of Handel’s Messiah at Carnegie Hall (somewhat abridged), with the Oratorio Society of New York (December 20) and Musica Sacra (December 21); a program with Musica Sacra featuring Viktor Kalabis’s Canticum canticorum (marking the Czech composer’s centennial), the Te Deum of Arvo Pärt, and the world premiere of a commissioned work by Wang Jie (March 22); and Mendelssohn’s Elijah with the Oratorio Society (May 9).

He leads the Cathedral Choir of St. John the Divine in the Requiem mass of the Classical-era, Afro-Brazilian composer José Maurício Nunes Garcia and the local premiere of the Stabat Mater of Alissa Firsova (April 5); Garcia’s Stabat Mater with the Manhattan School of Music Symphony and Symphonic Chorus (November 22); a program of music by Britten, Pärt, and Gabrieli for chorus and organ with the Oratorio Society of New York at St. John the Divine (November 9); and Honegger’s King David with the forces of the Manhattan School of Music (March 30).

Have a scroll through the season below, and click the links to buy your tickets now, or, if they are not yet on sale, soon (many concerts at the Manhattan School of Music will be livestreamed, so check those event pages for details). Let the season begin!