Friday | June 13 2025 | 8 pm
$20 senior and student tickets are available. Call the box office at 212 501 3330.
The legendary Kronos Quartet joins The Next Festival of Emerging Artists for a celebration of Terry Riley’s 90th birthday, part of a program featuring world premieres by some of today’s most adventurous contemporary voices.
Founder and Artistic Director Peter Askim leads a string orchestra of talented early-career string players in Terry 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 his 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 Radzynski.
The Next Festival is dedicated to the nurturing of emerging artists with a passion for 21st-century music. Learn more at www.next-fest.org.
The Next Festival of Emerging Artists
Peter Askim, Artistic Director and Conductor
Kronos Quartet, Guest Artists
TERRY RILEY – The Sands for String Quartet and String Orchestra
JUNGYOON WIE – Starlings for String Quartet and String Orchestra (World Premiere)
PETER ASKIM – Songs My Mother Taught Me (World Premiere)
INTI FIGGIS-VIZUETA – music by yourself for string orchestra (World Premiere)
PASCAL LE BOEUF – Transition Behavior
JAN RADZYNSKI – Serenade for Strings