The 2016 Chelsea Music Festival returned for its 7th season to celebrate “Gravity 350” in honor of Newton's encounter with gravity in 1666. From June 10-18, 2016 in New York City, world-leading musicians and exciting newcomers in the performing, culinary and visual arts gathered to create events that give audiences a chance to hear | taste | see.

There was something for everyone -- over two dozen events, including evening concerts with music ranging from Classical to Jazz, to Late Night events, daytime Open-Air events and Saturday morning Family Events took place in a wide range of venues throughout the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. The Festival presented world and New York premieres by composers Michael Gandolfi, Nicolas Namoradze, Edmund Finnis, J.P. Redmond, jazz virtuoso and composer Aaron Diehl, and Grammy-nominated keyboardist Scott Healy with his band.

Hailed by The Chicago Tribune as “the most promising discovery that [Wynton] Marsalis has made since Eric Reed,” renowned jazz pianist and composer Aaron Diehl will lead his Trio and Festival musicians in the celebratory Festival Finale.