Multi-GRAMMY-winning Kronos Quartet, which “has broken the boundaries of what string quartets can do” (The New York Times), joins The Next Festival of Emerging Artists for a special celebration of Terry Riley’s 90th birthday and a program featuring world premieres by some of today’s most adventurous voices. Join us as Founding Artistic Director Peter Askim leads a string orchestra of gifted early-career string players in Riley’s The Sands (composed for Kronos) and the world premieres of Jungyoon Wie’s Starlings, inti figgis-vizueta’s music by yourself for string orchestra, and Askim’s own new work, Songs My Mother Taught Me. The program also includes GRAMMY-winning composer Pascal Le Boeuf’s kinetic Transition Behavior and Serenade for Strings by Jan Radzyknski.