The Next Festival of Emerging Artists
June 9 – July 2, 2020

What an incredible four weeks of The Next Festival of Emerging Artists 2020! THANK YOU to everyone involved. We are so excited, grateful, inspired and amazed by everything and everyone who has been a part of this incredible project.

The Next Festival of Emerging Artists 2020 has been a four-week event of workshops, mini-courses, and collaborative projects taking place online for the festival’s students – young musicians, composers, and choreographers. To answer the needs of a greater community of artists, most festival events were accessible online and open to the public and are archived here.

Watch Festival Workshops  |  Press Release

We greatly appreciate the generosity of donors and of grant from the The ASCAP Foundation Bart Howard Fund and the Williamson Foundation. We strive to be a resource for our entire community of artist, students and audiences. Please help us support our innovative programming with a tax-deductible contribution.

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Thank you to our 2020 Festival guest artists/speakers:

Ashley Bathgate
Angela Myles Beeching
Derek Bermel
Beyond Talent Consulting
Lisa Bielawa
James Budinich
Fred Child
Ash Baccus-Clark
Crushing Classical Podcast
James Dargan
Anthony Davis
Rob Deemer
The Embodiology Research Group
Flutronix
Tracy Friedlander
Dobbs (aka Richard Hartshorne)
Megan Ihnen
Institute for Composer Diversity
Vijay Iyer
JACK Quartet
Nathalie Joachim
Aaron Jay Kernis
Jennifer Koh
Gabrielle Lamb
Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti
Ludi Leiva
Allison Loggins-Hull
Elaine Grogan Luttrull
Jessica Meyer
Minerva Financial Arts
Yuka Nagashima
The Productive Musician
Todd Reynolds
Joshua Roman
Nahre Sol
Richard Thompson
Kelly Hall-Tompkins Violinist
Klasien Van de Zandschulp
Wang Jie
Sarah Whitney
S. Ama Wray

Behind The Scenes Documentary

Composer/Choreographer Workshop

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With Gracious Support From

The ASCAP Foundation Bart Howard Fund   •   The Amphion Foundation   •   The Williamson Foundation