The Next Festival of Emerging Artists will return for its 14th season from May 29 through June 12, presenting performances and programming across New York at venues including PS21: Center for Contemporary Performance in Chatham, National Sawdust in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood and Gibney Dance in Lower Manhattan.
This season focuses on women immigrant composers aligning the programming with the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
Now more than a decade old, the festival has established itself as one which collaborates with young musicians and composers from all over the globe. The framework always remains the same, involving concerts, seminars, and collaborations. However, the emphasis changes from year to year depending upon the artists.
As the guest artist for 2026, cellist and composer Andrea Casarrubios will be performing her new work titled “The Book of Signatures,” a double concerto that features a solo cello along with percussion and string orchestra.
Also included on the program is the world premiere of a work by Adeliia Faizullina as well as string orchestra versions of pieces by Wang Lu and Niloufar Nourbakhsh. The U.S. premiere of an adaptation of Aleksandra Vrebalov’s Ur Song will be performed, along with works based on Impressions by Clarice Assad.
The performances will take place on June 5th in Chatham and June 6th in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, with Peter Askim, the Artistic Director, heading a team of festival musicians.
The second week finds the action moving to Gibney Dance, where there is a more collaborative environment with the participants. Composer Aaron Jay Kernis and choreographer Sidra Bell guide a workshop on creating a new piece integrating music and dance, which has an open performance planned for June 11.
The festival was established in 2013 by Peter Askim. Since then it has been instrumental in helping more than 250 new artists with their work.
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