The Next Festival of Emerging Artists with Miranda Cuckson

The Next Festival of Emerging Artists with Miranda Cuckson

Submitted by Jennifer Wada

Violinist Miranda Cuckson
Violinist Miranda Cuckson ; Photo credit John Rogers, Spectrum

The Next Festival of Emerging Artists has been described as holding a “unique place in the vastly diversifying field of new music.” Led by the festival’s founder and artistic director, Peter Askim, the young musicians of Next Festival 2019 are joined by violinist and contemporary music star Miranda Cuckson for a program including the U.S. premiere of Toshio Hosokawa’s “Hika” (2015) for violin and string orchestra, and Toru Takemitsu’s “Nostalghia” (1987) for violin and string orchestra; as well as three works for string orchestra alone: Aaron Jay Kernis’s “Sarabanda in Memoriam” (2004), Reena Esmail’s “Teen Murti” (2018); and the world premiere of a work by Peter Askim. www.next-fest.org
National Sawdust
Date: Sunday, June 2, 2019, at 7:00 pm
Tickets: $25 in advance, $29 at the door
Venue: https://nationalsawdust.org/event/the-next-festival-of-emerging-artists/