The New York Philharmonic, America’s oldest operating symphony orchestra, will welcome the University of Michigan Chamber Choir and the chorus EXIGENCE, both directed by Professor Eugene Rogers, to the stage of the Wu Tsai Theater in David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center. In a January 2026 concert series, they will perform America (A Prophecy) by conductor and composer Thomas Adès.
Details were shared in an announcement of the orchestra’s 2025-26 season:
Thomas Adès reunites with the New York Philharmonic as both composer and conductor, January 22–24, 2026. The concerts include his America (A Prophecy), featuring the University of Michigan Chamber Choir (NY Phil debut) and the chorus EXIGENCE (NY Phil debut) — part of the Sphinx Organization — both directed by Eugene Rogers. The work (one of six Messages of the Millennium, commissioned and premiered by the NY Phil in 1999) examines the history of colonialism through the lens of the Spanish conquest of the Maya in the Yucatán peninsula. The program also includes Saariaho’s Oltra mar (another of the Messages of the Millennium), Rautavaara’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with Yuja Wang as soloist, and Ives’s Orchestral Set No. 2.
For more concert information and ticketing, visit the New York Philharmonic Events Calendar.