Alma Quartet

Alma Quartet. (Image: Daniel Arévalo)

Music of the Americas: Spring 2026 Concerts

See the schedule for online and in-person concerts in Spring 2026, featuring pop, early, contemporary, and guitar music. 

The 2025–2026 season of the MetLife Foundation Music of the Americas Concert Series continues live in New York City and online. 

Concerts include the U.S. debuts of the Alma String Quartet from Havana and Uruguayan singer-songwriter Ana Prada; new music concerts by Ensemble Contrechamps, Quasar Saxophone Quartet, Quinteto Latino, and Crossing Borders Music; a recital by Nathan Meltzer that celebrates Claude Vivier on his birthday; early music group Piffaro with music from colonial Mexico; a new collaboration with the New York Guitar Seminar; and the premieres of the commissions to the winners of Americas Society's first Composition Competition. 


Early registration is now open to all events for Americas Society members. Tickets for the general public will be available a month before each concert. AS members also get to sit early in reserved seating at concerts, along with other benefits. Learn more about AS membership


En Casa and Recuerdos also continue. Stay tuned by following Music of the Americas on InstagramYouTube, and Facebook!

Alma String Quartet

February 5, 7 pm

The Cuban quartet makes its Music of the Americas debut with a program featuring music by Leo Brouwer.

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Ensemble Contrechamps

March 4, 7 pm

The Swiss ensemble gives the U.S. premieres of works by composers from Canada and Colombia.

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Quinteto Latino

March 19, 7 pm

The California-based wind quintet makes its live Music of the Americas debut with a program of music from Brazil and the United States.

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Nathan Meltzer

April 14, 7 pm

The violinist plays music spanning 80 years of music from the Americas, including music by Claude Vivier and Eleanor Alberga.

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Piffaro: Eagle and Empire

May 12, 7 pm

The early music group is back with a program of music from colonial Mexico. 

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Crossing Borders Music

May 18, 7 pm

The Chicago-based string quartet celebrates Haitian music.  

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Ana Prada

May 29, 7 pm

The Uruguayan singer-songwriter makes her Music of the Americas debut.

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Quasar Saxophone Quartet

June 5, 7 pm

The Montreal-based saxophone quartet makes its Music of the Americas debut with music from Canada and Mexico. 

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Guitar Competition Premieres

June 10, 7 pm

Dan Lippel and Mak Grgić premiere music by Carolina Barenbaum and Diego Tedesco. 

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Funders

The MetLife Foundation Music of the Americas Concert Series is made possible by the generous support of Presenting Sponsor MetLife Foundation.

MetLife Foundation

The 2025–2026 series is also supported, in part, by the Howard Gilman Foundation, Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University.

Howard Gilman Foundation NYC DCA New York Council on the Arts

   Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation

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