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Jeffrey Gavett & Ekmeles We Live The Opposite Daring
Beth Willer & Lorelai Ensemble Meyer: I Long And … Read More …
New Focus titles were highlighting in several 2023 best of the year lists:
Alex Ross's Notable Classical Recordings 2023 list in The New Yorker
- Claire Chase: Density 2036,” Parts VI, VII, VIII: works of Olga … 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 releases on 2022 Grammy Ballot:
Jennifer Grim (Best Classical Instrumental Solo, Best Contemporary Composition [David Sanford Offertory], Best Engineered … Read More …
Several New Focus releases are on the first round ballot for the 2021 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 …
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 …
Contemporary vocal ensemble Ekmeles ("brilliant young ensemble... defining a fresh and virtuosic American sound" [The New Yorker]) celebrates the release of their debut album, "A Howl, That Was Also a Prayer" at The … Read More …
Composer Zosha Di Castri celebrates the release of her debut recording Tachitipo with a release event at Tenri Cultural Institute on Sunday November 17th at 6pm. The event will feature performances by pianist Julia Den … Read More …
Here are our titles on the first-round ballot for Grammy voting for 2019. First round voting ends on October 10th, so if you're a voting member (or even if not!) we deeply appreciate your consideration of all these … 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 …
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 …
Spectrum will host a CD release event on 4.25 at 8:30pm celebrating the release of "...through which the past shines...", officially coming out on 5.4. The album is a culmination of a 15 year collaboration between … 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 …
Several New Focus titles were included in Best of 2017 lists in various publications -- here's a roundup:
The New Yorker:
Scott Wollschleger: Soft … Read More …
Composer Scott Wollschleger celebrates the release of his recording Soft Aberration with an event at the Metropolis Ensemble space at 1 Rivington Street 2nd Floor in New York on October 20th at 7:15pm. The Mivos Quartet … 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 …
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 …
New Focus was selected as one of the top ten labels of 2015 by Toronto based music site, textura. textura has been a great supporter of New Focus releases all year, reviewing several of our releases, including Reiko … Read More …
Phyllis Chen's new recording of adventurous works for toy piano, Little Things, will have a cd release event at Constellation in Chicago on the Frequency Series, curated by Peter Margasak, on October 13 at … Read More …
