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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 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 …

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 …

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 …

Miller Theatre at Columbia University is honoring Du Yun with one of their prestigious Portrait Concerts, happening on November 15th at 8pm. The concert will be featuring two works from her recent album, "Dinosaur … 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 …

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 …

Third Coast Percussion plays the Chicago premiere Augusta Read Thomas' Resounding Earth, an evocative work exploring the sound world of bells written for them and released on their CD/DVD set on New Focus earlier this … 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 …

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 …

In promotion of her new solo flute record, Density, Claire Chase is performing the album in its entirety in shows in New York (10/3 The Kitchen), Philadelphia (10/9 Bowerbird), and Washington D.C. (10/12 Atlas … Read More …

Third Coast Percussion, ensemble in residence at University of Notre Dame, releases the premiere recording of Augusta Read Thomas' reverent exploration of bells, Resounding Earth. They will be performing this work on … Read More …