The Beaux Arts Trio gives three concerts as part of a three-year Beethoven cycle that includes all of the composer's piano trios, violin sonatas, and cello sonatas; the Guarneri Quartet, which has performed at the museum each year since 1965, performs six concerts devoted to Mozart in celebration of the 250th anniversary of his birth.

Other highlights include a vocal series with countertenor Bejun Mehta, tenor Rolando Villaz‹n, mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe, and baritone John Relyeas; a duo recital by pianist Emanuel Ax and clarinetist Richard Stoltzman; and two concerts of Bach cantatas by the chamber orchestra Orpheus.