Each month, the YoungArts Community Spotlight highlights upcoming events, projects and press from YoungArts past winners, guest artists and panelists.
In The News
- Michael Arden (2001 Theater, Voice, Writing & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts) will direct The Interestings, a new musical adapted from Meg Wolitzer’s 2013 bestseller featuring a score by Sara Bareilles, set for a world premiere in Berkeley Rep’s 2026-2027 season
- Daveed Baptiste (2016 Photography, Visual Arts) collaborated with Gap and Harlem’s Fashion Row on an exclusive denim collection, now available on gap.com
- Oliviana Marie (2021 Voice) featured in Point by Pointe Magazine by the Dance Data Project
- Nyla Martin (2024, 2025 Voice) is competing in American Idol and was featured in The Charlotte Observer
- Jason Moran (1993 Jazz) selected for the inaugural Gordon Parks Foundation Fellowship in Music
- Caleb Teicher (2011 Dance) named Works & Process first Artist Curator in Residence
Kudos
- Alice Blumenfeld (2008 Dance & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts) received her third Individual Excellence Award in Choreography from the Ohio Arts Council
- JT Church (2024 Dance) will be joining Jolin Tsai’s tour for six months in China
- Queen Esther (1983 Theater) released new alt-Americana album, Blackbirding
- Rosie Granito (2018, 2020 Dance) joining the North American Tour of Broadway’s The Great Gatsby
- Nadege Green (2005 Writing) is the Spring 2026 Archivist in Residence at the Hemispheric Institute at NYU developing a project titled Called to Dance: Haitian Dance, Migration, and Memory in Miami
- Sasha Lazarus (2016, 2017 Dance) is a fifth-season main company member with Giordano Dance Chicago, America’s original Jazz dance company
Shoutout to everyone who won an award or performed at the GRAMMYs earlier this month! 🎵
- Jon Batiste (2005 Jazz) won the GRAMMY award for Best Americana Album for “Big Money”
- Jason Charos (2017, 2018 Jazz), David Mason (2017, 2018, 2019 Jazz) and Evan Sherman (2011 Jazz) were band members on “Portrait” by Samara Joy, which won the GRAMMY for Best Jazz Vocal Album
- Sofia Gomez (2022, 2023 Voice) and Lindsay Liebro (2022 Voice) performed at the first-ever GRAMMY U Soundstage Music Festival
- Remy LeBoeuf (2004 Jazz) won the GRAMMY award for Best Instrumental Composition for “First Snow”
- Brandon Lee (2001 Jazz) performed in Christian McBride’s Big Band’s “Without Further Ado Vol. 1,” which won the GRAMMY for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
- Jacob Rassi (2024 Dance) performed with Sabrina Carpenter
On the Calendar
- Bill Charlap (1984 Jazz) and Brandon Goldberg (2022, 2023, 2024 Jazz) are performing together in a special two piano jazz encounter presented by Miami International Piano Festival in Miami, FL on March 22
- Corinne Botz (1995 Photography & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts) launching new photography book, Milk Factory (Saint Lucy Books), at Baxter ST in New York, NY on March 7
- Amanda Krische (2012 Dance & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts) presents Double Blade, an interdisciplinary dance-theather work, at Danspace Project in New York, NY on February 27 and 28
- Timothy Hyunsoo Lee’s (2008 Visual Arts) solo exhibition gwisin baljaguk (ghost prints) on view at Boston City Hall Galleries in Boston, MA through May 8
- Llewellyn Sánchez-Werner (2015 Classical Music) and Derek Wang (2016 Classical Music) performing at The Met in New York, NY on two historically significant pianos from The Met collection on March 6, in a concert hosted in partnership with YoungArts
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