New Voices Festival 2024: Departures I

First Unitarian Church of Brooklyn • 119 Pierrepont St. Brooklyn, NY 11201

Thursday, March 28, 2024 7:30PM

Pre-Concert Lecture (7:00PM) Iain Bell
Digital Release Monday, April 22, 2024

Digital Subscribers: Free Admission
Individual Tickets: $35 General Admission*

Departures opens with a program featuring three of today’s best interpreters of song presenting new works- many written specifically for them, including BASS commissions by Iain Bell and Huang Ruo.

Iain Bell: Somerton Moor (World Premiere, BASS Commission)
Kai-Young Chan: Hard it is to Meet and Part
Kamala Sankaram: The Far Shore
Shawn E. Okpebholo: 2 Black Churches
Russell Platt: After Apple Picking (World Premiere)
Huang Ruo: Song of Everlasting Regret (BASS commission)
Raymond Yiu: Bright Fear

Paul Appleby tenor
Fleur Barron mezzo soprano
Joshua Conyers baritone
Mike Brofman, Myra Huang piano

Purchase Individual Tickets

Subscribe to the Digital Concert Hall

*Individual tickets are “Pay What You Choose” with a minimum of $10 and a suggested general admission price of $35. Please note: All tickets purchased at the suggested price or higher include a month-long pass to the digital concert hall. Digital concert hall subscribers are automatically RSVP’d to in person concerts (excluding the Dichter Project) and do not need to purchase individual tickets.

other series concerts
New Voices Festival 2024: Departures II

New Voices Festival 2024: Departures II

Thursday, May 2, 2024 7:30PM

 

Each work on this program explores the meaning of loss.  Katherine Balch’s poignant reimagining of Schumann’s Dichterliebe,  Iranian-born Aida Shirazi’s new reflection on identity, and new works by Matthew Ricketts and Charlotte Bray.

 

read more
New Voices Festival 2024: Departures III

New Voices Festival 2024: Departures III

Thursday, June 6, 2024 7:30PM

Lembit Beecher’s masterful Looking at Spring is a poignant reflection on aging.  New works by Daniel Felsenfeld and Jessica Meyer exploring themes of loneliness and Pandemic-era songs by Caroline Shaw and Alex Weiser round out the program.

 

read more