The 92nd Street Y, New York (92NY), one of New York’s leading cultural venues, presents Bell-Isserlis-Denk Trio & Friends – Fauré I on Wednesday, July 9, 2025 at 7:30pm ET andFauré II on Saturday, July 12, 2025 at 7:30 pm EDT on the Geffen Stage at Kaufmann Concert Hall and streaming online. July 9 concert tickets start at $50 and July 12 concert tickets start at $40 for in-person and $30 for online streaming. Tickets are available at https://www.92ny.org/event/bell-isserlis-denk-trio-and-friends-faure-i & https://www.92ny.org/event/bell-isserlis-denk-trio-and-friends-faure-ii. Online streaming is also available for 72 hours following the performance.

The chamber music dream team of Joshua Bell, Steven Isserlis, and Jeremy Denk gives their first NYC performances in six years, performing two evenings of gorgeous music by Gabriel Fauré.

The concerts follow the trio’s rapturous performances of this music in sold-out concerts at London’s Wigmore Hall in November and the Aspen Music Festival last summer, and feature some of the most luminous chamber music to be experienced.

Bell and Denk open the first program with one of Fauré’s best-loved chamber works, the elegant and passionate A-Major Violin Sonata, with the artists performing in multiple configurations: trio, duo, solo, quartet, and culminating in the D-Minor Piano Quintet – a Fauré gem, and a treat for anyone who loves Brahms – in which they’re joined by acclaimed Fauré interpreters violinist Irène Duval and violist Blythe Teh Engstroem.

The second program features Bell, Duval, Teh Engstroem, and Isserlis performing Faure’s only string quartet and final work, the ethereal E-Minor String Quartet. The evening culminates with the sublime C-Minor Piano Quintet, performed by all.

JOSHUA BELL, violin
STEVEN ISSERLIS, cello
JEREMY DENK, piano

IRÈNE DUVAL, violin
BLYTHE TEH ENGSTROEM, viola

July 9, 2025 Program – All-Fauré
Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Major, Op. 13
Barcarolle No. 5 in F-sharp Minor, Op. 66
Piano Trio in D Minor, Op. 120
Sicilienne, Op. 78
Berceuse, Op. 16
Piano Quintet No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 89

July 12, 2025 Program – All-Fauré
Violin Sonata No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 108
Nocturne No. 13 in B Minor, Op. 119
String Quartet in E Minor, Op. 121
Romance, Op. 69
Élégie, Op. 24
Piano Quintet No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 115