New York Festival of Song Presents:
NYFOS: Next Series
About the festival
In its 7th season, this “invaluable contemporary-music series” (The New Yorker) moves to a new venue: Brooklyn’s much buzzed about National Sawdust. With an emphasis on spontaneity, novelty, and collaboration, NYFOS Next offers today’s song composers an opportunity to curate a program of their work alongside that of their peers, students, and mentors.
NYFOS Next: Gabriela Lena Frank & Friends
November 2, 2016 - 7:00pm A native Californian of mixed Peruvian, Chinese, Lithuanian, and Jewish descent, Gabriela Lena Frank explores her multicultural heritage ardently through her compositions. Her pieces refract her studies of Latin American folklore, incorporating poetry, mythology, and native musical styles into a western classical framework uniquely her own.
NYFOS Next: Christopher Cerrone & Friends
December 8, 2016 - 7:00pm Hailed as "a rising star" by The New Yorker and winner of the 2015 Samual Barber Rome Prize, Christopher Cerrone is a Brooklyn-based composer whose compositional voice is characterized by profoundly expressive lyricism, ringing clarity, and deep literary fluency. His opera Invisible Cities, based on Italo Calvino's classic novel was praised by The Los Angeles Times as "a delicate and beautiful opera...[which] could be, and should be, done anywhere."
NYFOS Next, the "invaluable contemporary-music series" (The New Yorker), offers today's song composers an opportunity to curate a program of their work alongside that of their peers, students, and mentors.
NYFOS Next, the "invaluable contemporary-music series" (The New Yorker), offers today's song composers an opportunity to curate a program of their work alongside that of their peers, students, and mentors.
NYFOS Next: Kyle and Lauren Worsham Jarrow & Friends
Wednesday, May 10th, 2017
A powerhouse husband-and-wife duo: Obie award-winning writer and musician Kyle Jarrow, and Tony-nominated and Drama Desk Award-winning actress and singer Lauren Worsham. Together, they lead the rock band Sky-Pony, whose rock fairy tale The Wildness was hailed by The New York Times as “defiantly exultant” and nominated for a Lortel Award for Outstanding Musical.
