Praised for his “unmistakable virtuosity,” University of Miami professor Svet Stoyanov is a driving force in modern percussion (The New York Times). He joins NWS Percussion Fellows in a transfixing program that is uniquely Miami. Michael Tilson Thomas—NWS’s Co-Founder and Artistic Director Laureate—evokes the sands of the tropics with a marimba-filled feature that draws on his own influences: Schubert, Beethoven and James Brown. Emmy Award-winning master of composition Garth Neustadter awakens sensibilities with his Seaborne, an urgent account of our endangered oceans that comes to life with by filmmaker Kjell Van Sice.