Virtual Summer Festival: The Next Festival of Emerging Artists 2020

Virtual Summer Festival: The Next Festival of Emerging Artists 2020

The Next Festival of Emerging Artists 2020 Goes Online with Free Events Open to All, June 9 – July 2

Participants Include: Ashley Bathgate, Derek Bermel, Fred Child, Anthony Davis, Rob Deemer, Vijay Iyer, Wang Jie, JACK Quartet, Aaron Jay Kernis, Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti, Jessica Meyer, Joshua Roman, S. Ama Wray

Festival faculty & guest artists Wang Jie, Lisa Bielawa, S. Ama Wray, Vijay Iyer, James Dargan, Ashley Baccus-Clark
Festival faculty & guest artists Wang Jie, Lisa Bielawa, S. Ama Wray, Vijay Iyer, James Dargan, Ashley Baccus-Clark

Adapting to address the needs of a greater community of artists, The Next Festival of Emerging Artists 2020 is a four-week series of workshops, mini-courses, and collaborative projects taking place online June 9 – July 2, with most of the festival events, featuring over 20 guest artists and speakers, accessible online and open to the public. This year’s festival’s student participants – young musicians, composers, and choreographers – have had their tuition waived.

A unique contemporary music festival founded in 2013 by composer, conductor, and bassist Peter Askim, The Next Festival of Emerging Artists normally takes place over two weeks in May and June at Music Mountain in Connecticut as well as at National Sawdust and NYU Center for Ballet and the Arts in New York City, with 35 young musicians, composers, and choreographers taking part in lessons and chamber music coaching, rehearsals, masterclasses, and talks – culminating in performances and recordings of new works. In addition to offering a wide slate of talks and workshops, this year’s festivalwill culminate in performances by the festival musicians of new works created by remote collaboration.

Open to the Public (through Eventbrite registration via www.next-fest.org and Facebook Events.) Most of these events will be recorded and archived within 48 hours for viewing through the Next Festival website and YouTube channel.

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The Next Festival of Emerging Artists with Miranda Cuckson

The Next Festival of Emerging Artists with Miranda Cuckson

Submitted by Jennifer Wada

Violinist Miranda Cuckson
Violinist Miranda Cuckson ; Photo credit John Rogers, Spectrum

The Next Festival of Emerging Artists has been described as holding a “unique place in the vastly diversifying field of new music.” Led by the festival’s founder and artistic director, Peter Askim, the young musicians of Next Festival 2019 are joined by violinist and contemporary music star Miranda Cuckson for a program including the U.S. premiere of Toshio Hosokawa’s “Hika” (2015) for violin and string orchestra, and Toru Takemitsu’s “Nostalghia” (1987) for violin and string orchestra; as well as three works for string orchestra alone: Aaron Jay Kernis’s “Sarabanda in Memoriam” (2004), Reena Esmail’s “Teen Murti” (2018); and the world premiere of a work by Peter Askim. www.next-fest.org
National Sawdust
Date: Sunday, June 2, 2019, at 7:00 pm
Tickets: $25 in advance, $29 at the door
Venue: https://nationalsawdust.org/event/the-next-festival-of-emerging-artists/