The New York Dance & Arts Innovations Presents the 21st Chopin & Friends Festival New Vision Concert

New York Dance & Arts Innovations (NYDAI) presents the New Vision concert, as part of the 21st Chopin & Friends Festival between Nov. 8- 26, 2019. The festival showcases innovative artists who emulate Chopin in uniting the traditional and the modern, the young and the mature, the national and the universal, in all the art forms. NYDAI is the founding sponsor of this popular fall celebration. New Visions of Moniuszko "Words in music" concert will be presented at the Polish Consulate General in New York City at 7pm on Nov. 21, 2019.

This year is the 160th anniversary of the national Polish opera romantic composer - Stanis?aw Moniuszko. The New Vision concert's subject focuses on modern music dialogues with some of the themes used in Moniuszko's music: love, daily life, faith, and any national or folklore syndrome. Joined by the Four Corners Ensemble and guest artists Justyna Giermola, Helen Haas, Marina Renée Hogue, Ziwei Ma, and members from the Argus Quartet, Clara Kim and Giancarlo Latta, the program consists of music by the composers-in-residence, Jakub Polaczyk, Reza Vali, and Shuying Li, as well as the two winning compositions awarded in the 2nd International New Vision Composition Competition: Tomas Peire Serrate's "Five Haiku" and Charles Peck's "Splinter." In addition, Moniuszko’s piano work and aria from his opera will be presented.

Read on for more information about the program: Jakub Polaczyk's new work written for the Moniuszko anniversary and Four Corners Ensemble "Fragments from Home" will be premiered at the concert. It is a piece inspired by the subject of Home Books by Moniuszko but in a new short compilation of the meaning of word - home by a few poets. Reza Vali's "Love Songs" for violin, viola, cello, and piano consists of three short songs entitled Armenian Love Song, In Memory of a Lost Beloved, and Love Drunk. All three songs are based on Persian folk music. Finally, short opera "Who Married Star Husbands” (music by Shuying Li, libretto by Kenzie Allen) will have its NYC premiere by the Four Corners Ensemble with soprano Marina Renée Hogue mezzo-soprano Helen Haas under the baton of Ziwei Ma. "Who Married Star Husbands" is a short operetta based on a Mik'maq indigenous legend of two sisters who find themselves in the world above the sky while wishing on stars. This retelling examines the bonds between siblings, the tenuous nature of relationships and marriage, and what it means to truly shine. "The river breaks and we on its banks must choose a path. Where we go could be years of ecstasy, we could be a legend of the best desire.” More details about the Chopin & Friends Festival can be found at: http://www.nydai.org/nydaiwp/festival-2019/