The Next Festival with Yvette Young & Curtis Stewart
$29 ($15 student/senior – call box office at (212) 501-3330)
- Yvette Young, electric guitar
- Curtis Stewart, violin
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor — 24 Negro Melodies, Op. 59 (selections; arr. Curtis Stewart)
Various — Selected works (announced from stage)
From the searing drive of Yvette Young's electric guitar to the genre-smashing virtuosity of Curtis Stewart’s violin, The Next Festival of Emerging Artists presents an evening highlighting works premiered in their 10th Anniversary Season. Led by Founder and Artistic Director Peter Askim, the orchestra is joined by 2023 Guest Artists Young (Covet) and Stewart (Artistic Director of American Composers Orchestra, PUBLIQuartet) in an evening celebrating the Festival's trademark innovation and energy.
Young's 3 Pieces for Strings and Guitar, her first work for orchestra, combines her signature virtuosity and emotional vulnerability with her childhood background as a classical musician.
Stewart's uniquely personal re-imagining of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's 24 Negro Melodies recomposes works derived from Coleridge-Taylor's settings of African diasporic folk music. Using performance practices of the Blues to reflect on the legacy of the American slave, Stewart traces a lineage through to present-day America.
About Yvette Young, electric guitar
About Curtis Stewart, violin
Curtis Stewart is a multi Grammy-nominated violinist/composer who enjoys bouncing between MTV specials with Wyclef Jean and sold out shows at Madison Square Garden with Stevie Wonder to stints at the Kennedy Center with the Jimmy Heath Big Band and runs at the Guggenheim, MoMA, and Whitney Museums in NYC. Curtis has performed as a classical soloist at Lincoln Center, with the New York Philharmonic Bandwagon, as well as held chamber music residencies at Carnegie Hall, the MET Museum, and National Sawdust. His work realizes a vision to find personal and powerful connections between styles, cultures, and music.
Curtis is Artistic Director of the American Composers Orchestra, faculty at The Juilliard School, director of Contemporary Music at the Perlman Music Program, has been commissioned to write works for the Royal Conservatory of music, The Virginia Symphony, WQXR in New York, Newport Classical Festival La Jolla Festival,The Eastman Cello Institute, The Knights, New York Festival of Song, PUBLIQuartet, and Carnegie Hall: Play/USA.
https://curtisjstewart.com/