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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 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 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 …

counter)induction's new release, Against Method, was featured in The New York Times arts section Things to do this Weekend section. "Whether taking on Singleton’s crisp, songful cries or his denser hazes, this … 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Scott L. Miller is bringing works from his recent album, Raba, to New York city at the end of September. This includes a virtual reality performance by Ensemble U: of the title piece at Spectrum in Brooklyn on … Read More …

On September 7, 2018, the composer Dalia Raudonikytė With passed away after a protracted fight with cancer. Dalia was a native of Lithuania where she studied at the Lithuanian Academy of Music, leaving to continue … 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 …

Scott L. Miller celebrates the release of his CD Raba with an event in the St. Paul venue, Studio Z, on March 10 at 7:30pm. Guitarist Dan Lippel will be performing Miller's works for guitar and electronics from the … 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 …

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 …

Soprano Tony Arnold and Pianist Jacob Greenberg's performance of Messiaen's exotic song cycle Harawi is being featured on WXQR's Q2 as Album of the Week. In a review of the recording, Seth Colter Wells hails the … Read More …

The Bright and Hollow Sky, the beautiful recording of Nathan Davis' music performed by ICE was just listed as #5 on Steve Smith's Top Ten Classical Recordings of 2011 for Time Out NYC. The recording is a beautiful … Read More …