New Voices Festival: Confessions

The second New Voices Festival explores our most deeply felt emotions. Works by 13 composers, three of them world-premieres, demonstrate the power of song to lay bare our innermost feelings.

New Voices Festival: Confessions III

New Voices Festival: Confessions III

Friday, June 3, 2022 7:30PM
Digital Release: Monday, June 20, 2022

An evening-length “cornucopia of song” from Daron Hagen, one of today’s most important American composers. A work at once epic and intimate- a landmark in 21st-century American art song.

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New Voices Festival: Confessions II

New Voices Festival: Confessions II

Friday, May 6, 2022 7:30PM
Digital Release: Monday, May 23, 2022

This program of vocal chamber music includes the world premiere of Lembit Beecher’s After the Fires, based on interviews with his own family and their community. Also on the program, David Ludgwig’s epic cycle about North Carolina’s Bleeding Pines and works for strings and voice by Marcos Balter, Amy Beth Kirsten, Jessica Meyer, Jesse Montgomery and Jane Sheldon.

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New Voices Festival: Confessions I

New Voices Festival: Confessions I

Friday, April 1, 2022 7:30PM
Digital Release: Monday, April 18

Eve Beglarian’s Closer to the Heart explores “a certain kind of female unhappiness” through the poetry of Anne Sexton, Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, and excerpts from her own mother’s journals. Reinaldo Moya’s new work on poetry by Ruben Dario explores our darkest emotions. Seering works by some of today’s best young composers round out this program.

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