Well-Being Concert

A Well-Being Concert was performed by vocalist Sarah Elizabeth Charles and pianist Jarrett Cherner, with special guest harpist Brandee Younger. This special concert experience, presented as part of UNGA Healing Arts Week 2024, was a communal expression of self-care and mindfulness, animated by evidence that music helps people heal and thrive. An acclaimed composer and singer, Charles is a recent audience favorite in Carnegie Hall’s Well-Being concerts. In Cherner, she finds an ideal musical partner whose emotionally rich piano playing beautifully complements her multilayered vocals. The duo’s superb debut project—Tone—touches on themes embedded in “being kind to and loving oneself”—and then sharing that loving-kindness outward into the world. Younger, a boundary-stretching harpist who has worked with cultural icons including Common, Lauryn Hill, and John Legend, joins the duo for this soul-nourishing concert.

After the concert, attendees visited the Healing Arts Week reception to celebrate the arts and health community in NYC. This reception, including cocktails and hors d’oeuvres, was hosted in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Terrace Room and iconic rooftop Weill Terrace.

This event was by private invitation only.