Related News
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 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 …
The Crossing: Carols After a Plague has been nominated for a 2024 Best Choral Performance … 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 …
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 …
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 …
The Crossing: Rising w/ The CrossingNew York Times: 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2020
Spektral Quartet: Experiments in LivingThe New Yorker: Notable Performances and Recordings of 2020A Closer Listen: The Year’s … 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 …
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 …
We're very honored that the website textura has included us on their list of "Ten Favourite Labels 2018", alongside fellow new music labels like New Amsterdam and Innova.
Check out the link below to see all the other … 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 …
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 …
Time Out Chicago, Rhapsody, the New Yorker, and NPR all mentioned New Focus releases in their Best of 2013 lists. Three New Focus releases were included in Time Out's listing citing Tony Arnold and Jacob Greenberg's … Read More …
Song Cycle, a recording of a set of Schubert lieder transcribed for soprano and guitar and solo guitar and performed by Tony Arnold and Daniel Lippel, has recently been reviewed in Classical Voice of North Carolina and … Read More …
