The NEXT Festival of Emerging Artists celebrates its 10th Anniversary with a preview of their New York City performance, including five World Premieres for string orchestra.
The program features works by Guest Artist and guitarist/composer Yvette Young, 2022 Pulitzer Finalist Leilehua Lanzilotti, composer/violinist Che Buford, saxophonist/composer Matthew Evan Taylor, and NEXT Fest founder Peter Askim.
PROGRAM
Yvette Young 3 Pieces for Strings, Guitar, Electric Guitar, and String Orchestra (World Premiere)
part i: love and hold nothing back
part ii: run steadfast towards the unknown
part iii: embrace your power
Leilehua Lanzilotti Photos from Helen for String Orchestra (World Premiere)
part i: shear-gravity
part ii: strive for the summer
Commissioned with the generous support of Elizabeth and Justus Sclichting
Che Buford inner palpability for String Orchestra (World Premiere)
Peter Askim Into Cerulean Skies for String Orchestra (World Premiere)
Matthew Evan Taylor okussa: for Damascus for String Orchestra (World Premiere)
Pay as you wish event (suggested donation $15). All proceeds from this event will go to the Crellin Park Summer Camp fund.
May 25–June 3 The 2023 Next Festival of Emerging Artists
A 10-day residency for string players: lessons, coaching, open rehearsals, and free community performances and workshops. The final concert to benefit the Town of Chatham Crellin Summer Camp.
THE NEXT FESTIVAL OF EMERGING ARTISTS
Founded in 2013 by composer, conductor, and bassist Peter Askim, The NEXT Festival of Emerging Artists is committed to advancing contemporary concert music through performance, audience engagement, and the nurturing of emerging artists with a passion for 21st century music.
In recent years, the Next Festival has featured some of the most prominent figures in new music today: guest artists including Tony Arnold, Matt Haimovitz, Jennifer Koh, Nadia Sirota, Richard Thompson, Jeffrey Zeigler, Miranda Cuckson, and the string quartet ETHEL; and composers including Aaron Jay Kernis, Derek Bermel, Lisa Bielawa, Liisa Hirsch, Pierre Jalbert, Phil Kline, Jessica Meyer, and Aleksandra Vrebalov; as well as choreographer Christopher D’Amboise. The Festival’s concerts have drawn capacity audiences and have been featured on WQXR/Q2’s New York Now, and in 2018 the Festival was featured for the first time at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Festival was awarded the Ernst Bacon Memorial Award in the Performance of American Music and was also recognized by the Vytaytas Marijosius Memorial Award in Orchestral Programming.
The Festival provides young performers and composers (ages 20-30) an immersion into 21st century music. Initially a one-week intensive, the Next Festival is now a multi-week experience consisting of performances, individual lessons, coaching, masterclasses, and more. Twenty participating string players will grace PS21’s open-air Pavilion stage alongside the guest composers and performers.
YVETTE YOUNG
Born in 1991, Yvette Young is the front-woman for the alternative math rock band Covet. Young began her career by posting videos of herself playing music in 2009, and after graduating from the University of California, Los Angeles with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, has found boundless success through her band Covet, and through her solo musical endeavors, gaining over 400,000 followers on Instagram and signing on as a Yamaha Artist.
Young’s musical journey started at a young age, and has developed monumentally from her childhood as a disciplined classical pianist, to headlining festivals with her band Covet. As Young experimented with guitar at a young age, she learned to play it on her own terms, learning primarily by ear and crafting her own unconventional chords shapes and patterns. Her creative and artistic vision is greatly informed by her personal struggles as a child and young adult, after regaining control over her life after being hospitalized for an eating disorder. Through this recovery process, she was able to rediscover both art as a means of healing and self-expression.
SUN. MAY 28, 3–5 PM Open Orchestra rehearsal and coaching with Curtis Stewart, Artistic Director American Composers Orchestra, PUBLIQuartet.
FRI. JUNE 2, 1–4 PM Open dress rehearsal at PS21’s Pavilion Theater
JUNE 2 A post-concert composer talkback with composers Matthew Evan Taylor, Leilehua Lanzilotti, Yvette Young, and Peter Askim will follow the performance.
Presented with support from the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, The Alice M. Ditson Fund, American Composers Orchestra, The Amphion Foundation, BMI Foundation, The Heineman Foundation, The Williamson Foundation
