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Trailblazing contemporary arts program for string players, composers and choreographers. Led by Artistic Director @peteraskim.

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🎧🏆🔊So happy to finally get around to sharing the wonderfully-mastered recording of the new string orchestra version of my quartet Crepitus and Cavitations, the latter of which I am very honored to announce was awarded the top prize in the 4th annual @musicon_nyc composition competition this week. This magically intimate and subtle recording of the reorchestration was captured at the @powerstationatberkleenyc by @next_fest string orchestra fellows and @peteraskim last June! Thank you to @mayflowerartcenter as well for hosting this wonderful festival and competition last week in the city, and to @jaylin.vinson @jonahcohen.music and Aaron Jay Kernis for their help in the studio with the recording process. Full recording up on my YouTube channel now!

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Whispers of a familiar tune waft through your car’s radio, distorted by static. As you near a local radio tower, the signal grows clearer and stronger. The song bursts forth at last.

A moment from my piece “Interstate Signals,” recorded brilliantly by the 2026 @next_fest fellows and @peteraskim.

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Congratulations to @adie.baban! FANHS-MNY's 2026 Distinguished Young Professional Awardee! 🏆🎻

This award honors a leader under 30 who has empowered our community and uplifted the next generation, and Adeline embodies that in every way. She's the Executive Director and co-founder of the Westside Chamber Players, a young artist-led chamber orchestra that has brought over 60 free programs to the NY metro area since 2022 and made its Carnegie Hall debut this past April.

A celebrated violinist, Adeline has served as Concertmaster with the GRAMMY Award-winning New York Youth Symphony, Manhattan Symphony Orchestra, and Mannes Orchestra, and champions contemporary music that diversifies the classical canon, including Filipino folk song transcriptions by Gilopez Kabayao. She's performed at the Kennedy Center, The Tonight Show, Radio City Music Hall, and the Philippine and Argentine Embassies. 🇵🇭

Congratulations, Adeline, we're so proud to celebrate you! 👏✨
Please join us to celebrate Adeline and all of our 2026 honorees!
📍 Queens Museum, Queens, NY 🗓️ Saturday, September 19 • 12:30 PM - 3 PM 🎟️ Link in bio for tickets

#FANHSMNY #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth #DistinguishedYoungProfessional #WestsideChamberPlayers #FilipinaExcellence

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✨✨✨ Surprise!! I promised everyone 3 Pieces for Strings and Guitar would be out this summer and voila!
Thank you to everyone who contributed to the GoFundMe to make it possible to fly out and compensate all the string players. We couldn’t have done ANY of this without public support and faith. Thank you to @uaudio and @fabdupont at @fluxstudiosnyc for help recording and mixing and guiding us all through this whole process. This was a massive endeavor - thank you to @next_fest for putting this all together and allowing me to write a piece like this and explore new ways to bridge my classical background with my love for rock and modern day soundtrack.
To all the string players: you guys did so amazing in such a time crunch and worked so incredibly hard. I hope you can hear this and be proud. It was privilege for me to get to work alongside you all and wish you the brightest futures 🖤
More behind the scenes and a livestream coming up soon! Stay tuned 🙏🏼

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It’s great to be able to keep making music with Next Fest alums, long after the Festival is over! Keep your friends close and your alums closer!

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The beginning of a very beautiful friendship…

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Thank you to @next_fest and @peteraskim for bringing me and my incomparable cousin @cj4400 together for the start of a very special collaboration! We are so pleased and honored to have been awarded the Queens College Residency by @cdi_dance, allowing us to continue developing this work together over the next year. Stay tuned for news about workshops, premieres, and presentations!

Thank you also to our team of extraordinarily adventurous and unusually trusting dancers and musicians! @laura_aviola @unansweredcorners @maya.c.johnson 🎻🩰

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NEXT-FEST GRATITUDE POST☀️

I had a wonderful time as a composition fellow with @next_fest @peteraskim ‼️Truly an amazing week of music making, meeting and reconnect with friends, and getting lost in the NYC subways!

Im so inspired by my fellow composers @jonahcohen.music and @maya.mirojohnson! So grateful to share a concert program with them!

so grateful to my choreographer @themorgangregory for creating art with me!

So inspired! And of course, Knicks in Five 🏀⛹🏽‍♂️

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🌤️Thu’s Summer Thoughts

Storytelling has always been a big reason why I play the cello and why I decided to become a musician. In honor of the first experience joining a new music festival (shoutout to @next_fest) and the start of my summer folklore, here are a few things I have learned from playing and performing new music in the last five years:

✨Openness
Every new score feels like learning a new language. It asks me to let go of assumptions, listen differently, and stay curious. I found this one particularly hard to achieve since I have always been very single-minded in pursuing what I believe is right. New music has challenged that part of me in the best possible way!
✨ Boldness
New music invites experimentation. There are techniques that aren’t often taught or seen in classical music and because of that, I was forced to step out of my comfort zone, encouraged to make artistic choices, and ultimately discovered my own voice.
✨ Comfort with Imperfection
Bringing a new work to life is full of trial and error. You try ideas that don’t work, revise them, and try again. I’ve learned this process through dozens of collaborations with living composers and over time, have come to accept that it is part of the art. It humbled me.
✨ Joy
Like any other music, the joy is what keeps me coming back to it. I’m still very much rooted in my classical training and the traditional repertoire, but why not explore something new? Something different?

How about you? What’s your take on this genre?

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Let the summer folklore begin 😋

Thank you @next_fest and @peteraskim for making my new music fest debut possible and @musicfsu for funding my travel to NY. Great memories with great people for sure!

Featured performance venues: @nationalsawdust @ps21chatham and @powerstationatberkleenyc
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#contemporary #music #commission #chatham #nyc

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6/21- For Love Seemed Easy at First- by the absolutely incredible @niloufar.nourbakhsh performed at @nationalsawdust
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this entire program was one of the most fulfilling I’ve performed in quite a while- I’m grateful to @next_fest and @peteraskim for the opportunity, care, and understanding put into navigating this program and this festival. Also grateful to new friends and colleagues- whose kindness, musicianship, and presence has been inspiring and motivating.

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WORLD PREMIERE of Andrea Casarrubios’s Double concerto for cello and percussion with @next_fest and @peteraskim and @garrettarney.percussion

Review:
“The final work on this program was the premiere of her three-movement concerto for cello and percussion, titled “The Book of Signatures,” and was an appropriate capstone for the program. It was commissioned by Carl and Claudia Shuster to commemorate their 50th anniversary. Cello soloist Tommy Mesa played a virtuoso part probably originally intended for the composer herself, who could not be present. Mesa’s soaring, romantically committed performance provided abundant impulse and passion, including some very high-position playing. A real novelty was the addition of a solo percussionist whose part became increasingly important. The underlying image of the work is that of a signature, which the composer describes as “the intimacy of an autograph book … that preserve[s] encounters across a lifetime. At a time when the handwritten self is vanishing, … the act of writing by hand takes on new poignancy.” This observation is literally enacted in the music of the third section, “Pages,” through the use of paper and a rubbing device that create the sounds of writing and turning pages. As a visual addition, the “writing” gestures of the percussionist are choreographed (or perhaps I should say “calligraphed”) in the score. (Askim told me afterwards that Garrett Arney wasn’t actually writing letters, but that his gestures were prescribed.) Earlier in the movement, the high-lying cello tones were augmented with those of a bowed vibraphone. Contrast is offered by the first movement, “Voice,” as the cello establishes its lyrical persona, and by the second movement, “Screen,” which evokes our online existence as commandeered and driven by digital technology.”

Full Article:
https://theberkshireedge.com/concert-review-the-next-festival-offers-an-expansive-view-of-american-music/

@dininarts @andrea_casarrubios @ps21chatham

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