Next Generation Festival

The next generation of classical musicians is right here in our region.

Come and hear them perform on one of the world’s great stages

Next Generation Festival 2025

presented by WMHT and the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall

Sunday March 23, 3pm

PROGRAM:

MOZART choral favorite Regina Coeli and a new Marist University commission by ERIC WILLIAM BARNUM, The Long View

Piano trios by MOZART and MENDELSSOHN

Saxophone arrangements by 21st century CHRISTOPHER ADLER and J S BACH

Selections from the Spanish and Italian Baroque by MARTIN Y COLL, VICENTE BASET and ANDREA FALCNONIERI complete with harpsichord

BORODIN spectacular the POLOVTISAN DANCES for orchestra to end

Music history is the story of premieres—Beethoven’s concerto debut in Vienna, Rhapsody in Blue, The Rite of Spring. And nowhere is it more exciting than when the next generation takes the stage: students, making their debuts in the hall renowned for some of the greatest acoustics in the world. Combine that with the enormous wealth of music programs here in the Capital Region, Mid-Hudson & Berkshires, and you have a festival of music as only the young can bring it: from piano trios to the Polovtsian Dances, from Renaissance folias to mass saxophones, from an orchestra to a harpsichord to a choir, they bring their energy and excellence to a program that spans centuries and a debut that will only ever happen this once. Be there to enjoy and support them! Students from Bard College, SUNY Schenectady, UAlbany, UMass Amherst, Marist College and RPI, curated and hosted by your WMHT-FM hosts live on stage and recorded for broadcast on both WMHT TV and radio.

Next Generation Festival 2025
presented by WMHT and the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall
Sunday March 23, 3pm