| Dear Concerts from the Library of Congress Patron, In the event of a temporary shutdown of the federal government on October 1, 2025, due to a lapse in funding, all Library of Congress buildings will be closed to the public until further notice. Researchers/users will continue to have access to our regular, self-serve online systems, though on-and off-site reference services will not be available until funding is restored. Concerts from the Library of Congress events will be impacted, depending on the duration of the temporary shutdown. Staff will not have access to office email, voicemail messages or social media accounts during this time. For updates, please monitor the news media, check www.loc.gov, or call 202-707-5000. Rest assured that once operations resume, we will provide updates accordingly. In the meantime, check out our digital collections and on demand videos of past performances. Watch  Anthony Braxton has played a key role in contemporary and avant-garde music as a composer, multi-instrumentalist, music theorist, teacher and visionary. Inspired by Jazz, European art music, and music of global cultures, Braxton labels his output Creative Music. The Library of Congress celebrates the acquisition of his collection with a concert featuring an array of stellar collaborators. This event was presented in cooperation with the Tri-Centric Foundation. Event Date: March 18, 2025 |  Opening the 2024-2025 season was a sparkling September mini festival celebrating an iconic figure in American music. Henry Mancini's unforgettable scores for the cinema, television and recordings earned twenty Grammy awards, four Oscars and commissions from the New York Philharmonic and Boston Symphony Orchestra - and a place in the hearts of generations of fans. Scott Flavin conducted the Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra in a spectacular evening of memorable scores and clips from classic movies, including favorites like "Breakfast at Tiffany's," "Victor/Victoria" and "The Pink Panther." Event Date: September 28, 2024 |  Consone Quartet with Kristian Bezuidenhuit, fortepiano Friday, October 17, 2025, 8:00 p.m.
Thomas Jefferson Building - Coolidge Auditorium
10 First Street SE. Washington DC 20540 Reserve Tickets Here
The Consone Quartet and fortepianist Kristian Bezuidenhout present an evening of Haydn and Mozart, featuring an early piano concerto by Mozart and an arrangement of his quintet for piano and winds.
Pre-concert Conversation with the Artists @ 6:30 p.m. |  AMS Lecture: "Musical Representations of the West During the Silent Film Era: Max Winkler's Score for The Yaqui (1916)." Tuesday, October 21, 2025, 7:00 p.m.
James Madison Building - Mumford Room (LM649)
101 Independence Avenue SE,
Washington, DC, 20540
Reserve Tickets Here Mariana Whitmer speaks at the Library as part of the long-running series of American Musicological Society lectures hosted by the Music Division. Whitmer's talk will use the scenario cue sheets created by Max Winkler to discuss the musical representation of "the West" in silent films. |  Founder's Day: Simone Dinnerstein, piano, Jennifer Johnson Cano, voice, Katherine Needleman, oboe, and Baroklyn Wednesday, October 29, 2025, 8:00 p.m.
Thomas Jefferson Building - Coolidge Auditorium
10 First Street SE. Washington DC 20540
Reserve Tickets Here
Simone Dinnerstein, Jennifer Johnson Cano, Katherine Needleman and the Baroklyn ensemble perform an evening of chamber works by J.S. Bach to open a special Founder's Day 2025 celebration marking the Library's illustrious century-long history as a concert presenter. | Pre-concert conversation at 6:30 p.m. in the Whittall Pavilion with Nicholas A. Brown-Cáceres and David Plylar, PhD, of the Music Divison on their new book "Let the People Hear It: Concerts from the Library of Congress at 100." | |  |  Live! At the Library: Founder's Day Tambuco Thursday, October 30, 2025, 8:00 p.m.
Thomas Jefferson Building - Coolidge Auditorium
10 First Street SE. Washington DC 20540
Reserve Tickets Here
The celebrated Grammy-nominated Mexican contemporary classical percussion ensemble Tambuco returns to the Library of Congress for the annual Founder's Day concert with dynamic repertoire by Latin American composers, featuring music that ranges from delicately intricate to powerfully expansive.
Pre-concert Conversation with the Artists @ 6:30 p.m. |  Valerie Coleman: "Reverie" Tuesday, November 4, 2025, 8:00 p.m.
Thomas Jefferson Building - Coolidge Auditorium
10 First Street SE. Washington DC 20540
Reserve Tickets Here "Reverie" honors a cultural exchange with a program pairing the music of Valerie Coleman with works by Ravel, Debussy and Poulenc. Pre-concert Conversation with the Artists @ 6:30 p.m. |  Live! At the Library: "The Disappearance of Miss Scott" (Filmscreening) Thursday, November 6, 2025, 5:00 p.m.
James Madison Building -Pickford Theater (LM 302)
101 Independence Avenue SE.
Washington, DC 20540
Reserve Tickets Here
"The Disappearance of Miss Scott" chronicles Hazel Scott's meteoric rise as a jazz talent and major Hollywood star. The first Black woman to have her own television show, she was also an influential civil rights pioneer before being blacklisted during the Red Scare of the 1950's. Produced by 4th Act Actual for the PBS American Masters series, this rich documentary tells the story of Hazel Scott's extraordinary life fully for the first time. The screening will be introduced by Scott's son, Adam Clayton Powell III. |  Live! At the Library: Ekep Nkwelle Thursday, November 6, 2025, 8:00 p.m.
Thomas Jefferson Building - Coolidge Auditorium
10 First Street SE. Washington DC 20540
Reserve Tickets Here
Rising jazz star Ekep Nkwelle, a graduate of Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Howard University and Juilliard, captivates audiences with her vocal exuberance, versatility and charisma.
|  Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano
Sir George Benjamin, piano Friday, November 14, 2025, 8:00 p.m.
Thomas Jefferson Building - Coolidge Auditorium
10 First Street SE. Washington DC 20540 Reserve Tickets Here
Renowned pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard performs music with deep personal connections in a recital of works by eminent British composer Sir George Benjamin, Aimard's mentor Pierre Boulez and Russian and modernist Nikolai Obukhov. The composer joins Aimard for the U.S. premiere of Benjamin's Divisions for piano, four hands, a co-commission from the Pierre Boulez-Saal, the Library of Congress and Wigmore Hall.
Pre-concert Lecture @ 6:30 p.m.
"Le Tombeau de Boulez: Revolution and Remembrance"
David Plylar, PhD, Music Division |  Grossman Ensemble
Stefan Asbury, conductor Saturday, November 15, 2025, 8:00 p.m.
Thomas Jefferson Building - Coolidge Auditorium
10 First Street SE. Washington DC 20540
Reserve Tickets Here Chicago's Grossman Ensemble, led by Stefan Asbury, performs works by Sir George Benjamin, Augusta Read Thomas, Sean Shepherd, and Morton Feldman. Pre-concert Conversation with the Artists @ 6:30 p.m. |  Les Arts Florissants, with Théotime Langlois de Swarte, Friday, November 21, 2025, 8:00 p.m.
Thomas Jefferson Building - Coolidge Auditorium
10 First Street SE. Washington DC 20540
Reserve Tickets Here Star violinist Théotime Langlois de Swarte leads the acclaimed French Baroque ensemble Les Arts Florissants in an exhilarating concert celebrating the 300th anniversary of Antonio Vivaldi's "Le Quattro Stagioni" (The Four Seasons). Pre-concert Conversation with the Artists @ 6:30 p.m. |  Saturday, November 22, 2025, 2:00 p.m.
Thomas Jefferson Building - Coolidge Auditorium
10 First Street SE. Washington DC 20540
Reserve Tickets Here Beatrice Berrut performs the music of Liszt, Saint-Saëns, Mahler and Dukas in a heavy-hitting recital that showcases works from the Library's collections. Pre-concert Conversation with the Artist @ 12:30 p.m. |  SistaStrings
Chauntee Ross, voice & violin
Monique Ross, voice & cello Wednesday, December 3, 2025, 8:00 p.m.
Thomas Jefferson Building - Coolidge Auditorium
10 First Street SE. Washington DC 20540 Reserve Tickets Here
SistaStrings returns to the Library, following their acclaimed Gershwin Prize appearance in 2024, to offer a powerful, emotionally charged program that blends classical, soulful and contemporary sounds. The Ross sisters will also perform the world premiere of a Library of Congress commission composed by Larissa Maestro. Tickets available Wed., October 1 at 10 a.m. |  Raven Chacon Ensemble Saturday, December 6, 2025, 8:00 p.m.
Thomas Jefferson Building - Coolidge Auditorium
10 First Street SE. Washington DC 20540 Reserve Tickets Here
Winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Music and a MacArthur Fellowship, Diné composer and sound artist Raven Chacon is known for poetic works that summon a sense of landscape, space and spirit. Experience an evocative, unique sound world when Chacon brings colleagues to perform in an evening of his recent chamber and conceptual compositions, including a new commission from the Library's Strickland Fund. Pre-concert Conversation with the Artists @ 6:30 p.m. Tickets available Wed., October 1 at 10 a.m. |  Live! At the Library: Stradivari Anniversary Concert I
Isidore String Quartet Thursday, December 18, 2025, 8:00 p.m.
Thomas Jefferson Building - Coolidge Auditorium
10 First Street SE. Washington DC 20540 Reserve Tickets Here
The Isidore String Quartet is joined by violist Misha Amory and cellist Nina Lee for an evening of music by Bach, Brahms and Beethoven. It is a rare chance to hear six Stradivari instruments used together in performance, including the recently acquired "Fulton, ex Baird, Tuscan-Medici" 1690 Stradivari viola. Pre-concert Conversation with the Artists @ 6:30 p.m. Tickets available Wed., October 1 at 10 a.m. |  Live! At the Library: Stradivari Anniversary Concert II
Isidore String Quartet Friday, December 19, 2025, 8:00 p.m.
Thomas Jefferson Building - Coolidge Auditorium
10 First Street SE. Washington DC 20540 Reserve Tickets Here
The Isidore String Quartet is joined by violist Misha Amory and cellist Nina Lee for an evening of music by Bach, Brahms and Beethoven. It is a rare chance to hear six Stradivari instruments used together in performance, including the recently acquired "Fulton, ex Baird, Tuscan-Medici" 1690 Stradivari viola. Pre-concert Conversation with the Artists @ 6:30 p.m. Tickets available Wed., October 1 at 10 a.m. | Library of Congress Acquires Manuscripts and Papers of Award-Winning Composer and Lyricist Stephen Sondheim  Read more in the September-October 2025 Library of Congress Magazine |
Comments