The Next Festival 2026 Featuring Tommy Mesa
About This Event
The Next Festival 2026 at National Sawdust presents Tommy Mesa as part of a New York City series that moves between concert and curated event. The bill includes Andrea Casarrubios, whose rock/pop work favors structure and clean ensemble balance over spectacle, placing Mesa’s appearance within a program attentive to tight arrangements and cross-genre framing.
About The Next Festival 2026
The Next Festival 2026 arrives at National Sawdust as a live classical program framed around composers and performers shaping the near future of the field. Featured sets spotlight Andrea Casarrubios and cellist Tommy Mesa, placing contemporary voices in dialogue with the hall’s close-listening acoustics. In New York, where new-music premieres often define a season’s memory, the festival reads as a record of what institutions choose to commission, program, and platform now. One clear takeaway is its documentary value: it shows how today’s “new” becomes repertoire in real time.
About the Artists
The Next Festival 2026 Featuring Andrea Casarrubios
The Next Festival 2026 Featuring Andrea Casarrubios appears at National Sawdust as part of a New York City performance series that moves between concert and curated event. Working in a rock/pop frame, the project sits alongside lineups that have included Britton & The Sting, Lola Kirke with Odetta, Black Belt Eagle Scout and Mato Wayuhi with Ailani, and Huang Ruo’s “A DUST IN TIME” (NY premiere).
The Next Festival 2026 Featuring Tommy Mesa
The Next Festival 2026 Featuring Tommy Mesa appears at National Sawdust as part of the festival’s New York City series that shifts between concert and curated event. Mesa, a classical cellist, is presented on a bill that also includes composer Andrea Casarrubios, placing his playing in dialogue with contemporary ensemble writing.
Tommy Mesa
Cuban-American cellist Dr. Tommy Mesa has established himself as one of the most charismatic, innovative, and engaging performers of his generation.