GUSTAVO DUDAMEL AND THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC SPRING GALA AND CONCERT WITH EVGENY KISSIN

Honoring Barbara Tober and the Memory of Donald Tober

April 28, 2026

Wu Tsai Theater, David Geffen Hall

Gustavo Dudamel by Jason Bell; Evgeny Kissin by Johann Sebastian Hänel / Deutsche Grammophon

The New York Philharmonic will hold its annual Spring Gala and Concert on Tuesday, April 28, 2026, at the Wu Tsai Theater, David Geffen Hall, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel — who becomes the Orchestra’s Oscar L. Tang and H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang Music & Artistic Director in September. Evgeny Kissin, reuniting with the Philharmonic for the first time since October 2015, will be the soloist in Scriabin’s Piano Concerto. 

The program also features the Overture and Dance of the Persian Slaves from Musorgsky’s Khovanshchina and the 1919 version of Stravinsky’s The Firebird Suite. 

This year’s Spring Gala honors philanthropist Barbara Tober and the memory of Donald Tober, whose support has helped shape the cultural landscape of New York City and beyond.

GUSTAVO DUDAMEL CONDUCTS THE SPRING GALA WITH EVGENY KISSIN

Wu Tsai Theater, David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center

Tuesday, April 28, 2026, 7:00 p.m.

Gustavo Dudamel, conductor

Evgeny Kissin, piano

PROGRAM

MUSORGSKY Overture and Dance of the Persian Slaves, from Khovanshchina

SCRIABIN Piano Concerto

STRAVINSKY The Firebird Suite (1919 version)

The Gala evening will include a cocktail reception at 5:30 p.m. on the Leon and Norma Hess Grand Promenade and Leni and Peter May Terrace; the concert, which begins at 7:00 p.m.; and a seated dinner, attended by the musicians, immediately following the performance, on the Hess Grand Promenade. Gala dress will be garden party formal or creative black tie. The Honorary Gala Chair is Elizabeth Segerstrom, and the Gala Co-Chairs are Marisa Chearavanont, LaVon Kellner, Judy Glickman Lauder, Leni and Peter May, James L. and Margo M. Nederlander, Daisy M. Soros, and Oscar L. Tang and H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang.

Tickets to New York Philharmonic performances may be purchased online at nyphil.org or by calling (212) 875-5656, 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Monday through Friday; 1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Saturday; and noon to 5:00 p.m. Sunday. Tickets may also be purchased at the Welcome Center at David Geffen Hall. The Welcome Center opens at 10:00 a.m. Monday through Saturday, and at noon on Sunday. On performance evenings, the Welcome Center closes one-half hour after performance time; other evenings it closes at 6:00 p.m.

For more information about the entire Gala evening, please visit nyphil.org/springgala, call the Office of Special Events at (646) 870-4054, or email events@nyphil.org.

*예브게니 키신, 카네기홀 데뷔 25주년 인터뷰/ An Interview with Evgeny Kissin, 2015

https://www.nyculturebeat.com/?mid=Music2&document_srl=3458680

*카라얀은 왜 그의 연주에 눈물을 흘렸나? 피아니스트 예브게니 키신

https://www.nyculturebeat.com/?mid=Music2&document_srl=3338017