The Next Festival of Emerging Artists — May 29-June 11, 2022
The Next Festival of Emerging Artists provides young performers and composers (ages 20-30) an immersion into 21st century music.
Next Festival is a multi-week experience comprising performances, individual lessons, coaching, masterclasses, and more with 20 participating string players selected to begin at the historic Music Mountain in Falls Village, Connecticut, creating their own programs of study and performing there and in New York City at Roulette. The Festival also includes workshops and recordings of student compositions, and multi-disciplinary collaboration and improvisation with choreographers and dancers.
Our 2022 festival features well-renowned guest artists, masterclasses, workshops and in-person and virtual collaborations, including composer/vocalist Pamela Z, composer/violist Jessica Meyer, hornist Jeff Scott (Imani Winds, Oberlin Conservatory), composer/pianist Liliya Ugay, dancer/choreographer Darshan Singh Bhuller, social media/marketing consultant Jamie Benson, Peter Askim (Next Festival’s Artistic Director), Alecia Lawyer (ROCO, oboist), and more!
Apply to be a 2022 Next Festival of Emerging Artists’ Fellow
Application Deadline: March 1, 2022, 5 PM ET
Behind The Scenes Documentary
Composer/Choreographer Workshop
![TOMORROW, Saturday, October 23rd at 2:15p ET join @american.composers.orchestra and @Groupmuse Foundation for a hybrid in-person and virtual concert, featuring works by Ray Lustig and Trevor New (Executive Producer and Sound Designer of our very own 2021 Composer/Choreographer Workshop!) that experiment with latency and technology, and three interactive works – from Pauline Oliveros, Chris Kallmyer, and Raquel Acevedo Klein – in which all sounds become music.
Audiences and performers alike will be dispersed and networked together in real time – American Composers Orchestra will perform at the DiMenna Center conducted by our Artistic Director Peter Askim, the @BergamotQuartet (Next Fest Fellows and Quartet-in-Residence for our 2019 season) will perform at the Murray Hill Groupmuse location, @LigetiQuartet and Alexandra Quartet from the United Kingdom, and seven soloists will participate from locations around the world.
Join us in-person at DiMenna Center [$25 ticket] or a Private Home in Murray Hill [$25 ticket], or tune-in online for the virtual event [$5 Reservation at the link in bio]](https://next-fest.org/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png)
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With Gracious Support From
The ASCAP Foundation Irving Caesar Fund • The Amphion Foundation • The Williamson Foundation • The Heineman Foundation