2026 - 2027
Flagler Museum
Music Series
Flagler Museum
Music Series
5:30 PM | PRE-CONCERT RECEPTION
6:00 PM | CONCERT FOLLOWED BY A CHAMPAGNE TOAST WITH MUSICIANS
FREE FOR MUSEUM MEMBERS AT THE VISIONARY AND FLAGLER CIRCLE LEVEL
$95 PER TICKET
COMPLIMENTARY VALET PARKING INCLUDED
The 2026 – 2027 season reimagines the Flagler Museum Music Series as not simply a concert program, but an integrated cultural initiative that complements and amplifies the Museum’s exhibitions, lectures, collections, and broader programming. The series positions Whitehall as a living cultural environment, using music to connect audiences with the house’s evolving social, artistic, and cultural history from 1902 to the present.
The Flagler name has long been associated with great music. Henry and Mary Lily Flagler regularly hosted musical performances in Whitehall’s Music Room, home to a 1,249-pipe J.H. & C.S. Odell & Co. organ.
Whitehall has lived many lives—as private residence, hotel, social gathering place, and Museum. The series draws on this layered history, using music to explore more than a century of American cultural life. Programs are rooted in the house itself, shaped by its architecture, collections, instruments, exhibitions, and stories, with an emphasis on experiences that are site-specific, emotionally resonant, intellectually engaging, and socially meaningful.
Israeli Chamber Project
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2026
5:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Whitehall as a Hotel: Cosmopolitan Palm Beach
Presented in the Palm Court, the opening program explores Whitehall’s history as a hotel and social environment through music tied to migration, cosmopolitanism, Jewish cultural memory, and cultural exchange.
The program brings together Prokofiev, Copland, Gershwin, Korngold, and Moshe Zorman. Zorman’s Raisins and Almonds was commissioned and premiered by the Israeli Chamber Project, adding a contemporary dimension to the evening.
Emi Ferguson & Peter Dugan
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2026
5:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Something Borrowed
In dialogue with America Takes the Stage: From the White City to Whitehall
Presented in Whitehall’s Music Room, the performance will showcase a historic Steinway originally commissioned for Henry Flagler’s Hotel Royal Poinciana. One of a pair of twin instruments, the piano is being restored specifically for this concert, returning an important piece of Flagler’s musical legacy to active use. The program will feature flutist Emi Ferguson and pianist Peter Dugan.
This program explores cultural exchange between France and the United States surrounding the 1889 Paris Exposition and the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, directly amplifying the fall exhibition through music.
The Cleveland Orchestra
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2027
5:30 PM – 8:00 PM
From Cleveland to Palm Beach: An Evening of Music and History
The Cleveland Orchestra and the Flagler Museum come together for a special evening celebrating the connections between Cleveland, Palm Beach, and two transformative eras in American history.
Henry Flagler’s Cleveland roots date to the founding of Standard Oil alongside John D. Rockefeller during the Gilded Age. A generation later, the civic and cultural ambition of the Progressive Era gave rise to The Cleveland Orchestra, founded in 1918.
More than a century later, these histories meet again through music. Set against the Gilded Age grandeur of Whitehall, the Blossom String Quartet, featuring members of The Cleveland Orchestra, will present an intimate chamber music program inspired by these remarkable eras of creativity, ambition, and transformation.
Kiron Atom Tellian
TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 2027
5:30 PM – 8:00 PM
A Site-Specific Journey Through Whitehall
Conceived specifically for Whitehall, this immersive piano recital uses the architecture of the house as part of the musical experience.
The evening begins in the Drawing Room on Whitehall’s 1902 Steinway with Mozart, Beethoven, and Brahms. The audience then moves through the house to the Ballroom and the 1908 Steinway, where the program shifts with Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit and Scriabin’s Sonata No. 3. The transition between rooms becomes part of the performance itself.
Greg Zelek & Alvaro Bermudez
TUESDAY, APRIL 13, 2027
5:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Activating Whitehall’s Original Odell Organ
The season concludes by returning attention to one of Whitehall’s most extraordinary original musical instruments: the Odell organ in the Music Room.
The program activates an instrument created for the house while exploring an atmospheric musical language inspired by Parisian musical culture. Its French character provides a natural complement to the 2027 Spring Exhibition, Gilded Age Jewelry: The Making of Modern Luxury, and its exploration of the great French maisons, craftsmanship, taste, and modern luxury. The performance will feature pianist Greg Zelek and organist Alvaro Bermudez.
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