Watch Fast Forward: Music's Next Generation

Get to know a whole new generation of performers! Young musicians from Kaufman Music Center’s Special Music School, a NYC public school that teaches music as a core subject; Lucy Moses School, Manhattan’s largest community arts school; and our Face the Music teen new music program explore a broad range of repertoire.

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Special Music School 7th & 8th graders perform Liszt, Chopin, Saint-Saëns, Dvořák and R. Schumann.



Henry Schneider Concert: Lucy Moses School students perform Bach, Ravel, Schubert, Corigliano, Gaubert, Handel and Chopin.

ComposerFest: Special Music School and Lucy Moses School perform Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Adolphus Hailstork, Scott Joplin, Aldo López-Gavilan, Tania León, Jorge López Marin, Florence Price and William Grant Still.

ChamberFest: Ensembles from Special Music School High School perform music by Mendelssohn, Rachmaninoff, Ravel and Florence Price.

Face the Music ensembles perform music by member-composers, Caroline Davis, Niloufar Nourbakhsh and Prattyush Banerjee.

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