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Best Opera John Aylward: Oblivion Kate Soper: The Hunt Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance Jeffrey Gavett & Ekmeles We Live The Opposite Daring Beth Willer & Lorelai Ensemble Meyer: I Long And … Read More …

New Focus releases on 2022 Grammy Ballot:Best Engineered Album/ClassicalEngineer, Ryan Streber - Eric Richards/loadbang/Ekmeles: The Consent Of Sound And Meaning - The Music Of Eric Richards Best Opera Recording Reiko … Read More …

New Focus joins with the whole contemporary music community in mourning the passing of virtuoso saxophonist, wonderful colleague, and friend to many Ryan Muncy. Ryan was saxophonist and member of the International … Read More …

New Focus has been featured recently in some great contexts: Vanessa Ague wrote a label profile for Bandcamp … Read More …

Several New Focus releases are on the first round ballot for the 2020 Grammy awards. The relevant albums/tracks are all currently streamable on their New Focus album pages, please take a listen and if you are a voting … Read More …

Many of the artists with recordings in the New Focus catalog are hard hit by the current crisis. As a small way to try and help, New Focus waived our label share of all sales coming through our Bandcamp page, from March … Read More …

We're always honored to see our albums make it onto year-end best of lists, and we'll compile all of them on this page as they come in. Sequenza21 - Best Instrumental and Recital CDs of 2018: Jacob Greenberg's "Hanging … Read More …

Congratulations to Du Yun and Missy Mazzoli on both being nominated for a Grammy in the category of Best Contemporary Classical Composition! Du Yun is nominated for Air Glow, performed by International Contemporary … Read More …

Several New Focus releases are listed under various categories on the 2018 Grammy's ballot. Voting for the first round is open now, and goes until October 31st. If you are a voting member, thank you for considering … Read More …

As part of the sixth annual Resonant Bodies Festival, soprano Lucy Dhegrae, founder and director of this ambitious festival focused on the human voice, will be performing Waterlines by Christopher Trapani, alongside … Read More …

Josh Modney and his fellow members of the Wet Ink Ensemble are having a dual album release show at the Dimenna Center on September 15th, highlighting both Modney's new 3 CD release, Engage, on New Focus and Wet Ink: 20, … Read More …

The New York Times included mentions of three recent releases in a summer music round up, Jacob Greenberg's "Hanging Gardens" featuring music by Debussy, Webern, Berg, and Schoenberg's rarely heard "The Book of Hanging … Read More …

Innovative ensemble loadbang celebrates the release of their newest album, "old fires catch old buildings", with a release event at Areté in Brooklyn on May 30 at 7:30 pm. The recording features works written for the … Read More …

A music video for a track from violinist Olivia De Prato's "Streya", Missy Mazzoli's Vespers for Violin was featured on on Deceptive Cadence, a program on NPR Classical, with a review from Tom Huizenga. "The music is … Read More …

OLIVIA DE PRATO: STREYA ALBUM RELEASE CONCERTOlivia De Prato (co-founder and first violinist of the Mivos Quartet) performs works from her debut solo album, "Streya" This concert celebrates the March 2, 2018 release of … Read More …

Longleash with special guest Nils Vigeland at (le) poisson rouge 4:00 pm doors | 5:00 pm show | all ages table seating: $20 advance, $25 day of show | standing room: $15 advance, $20 day of show More Info: … Read More …

From the first releases on the label, a core element of New Focus' mission has been to feature composers, particularly American composers who were deeply invested in building on a lineage of contemporary composition in … Read More …

The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) recently released two wonderful recordings on its TUNDRA imprint of New Focus, Ryan Muncy's survey of contemporary saxophone music, "ism", featuring his wonderful recording … Read More …

George Grella of the Brooklyn Rail featured New Focus among several excellent labels in an article published on October 4, 2016, entitled, "Trust in the Labels." Here are his words about New Focus: "A star-power new … Read More …