The Next Festival of Emerging Artists

The Next Festival of Emerging Artists is a two-week immersive experience for the modern string player, composer, and choreographer. It provides a comprehensive approach to entrepreneurial career-building, contemporary music performance, and intensive, personalized artistic development.

Founded in 2013 and led by composer, conductor, and bassist Peter Askim, Next Festival has featured some of the most prominent figures in new music today: including Tony Arnold, Matt Haimovitz, Jennifer Koh, Nadia Sirota, Richard Thompson, Jeffrey Zeigler, and the string quartet ETHEL; and composers including Aaron Jay Kernis, Derek Bermel, Lisa Bielawa, Liisa Hirsch, Pierre Jalbert, Phil Kline, Jessica Meyer, and Aleksandra Vrebalov; as well as choreographer Christopher D’Amboise.

Made possible in part by a grant from The ASCAP Foundation, Bart Howard Fund, Aaron Copland Fund for Music, The Amphion Foundation, The Heineman Foundation, and the Williamson Foundation, as well as donors like you.