Screening and Panel – EMERGE: An NJ Symphony Concert Film Trilogy

Express Newark’s Community Media Center, in partnership with New Jersey Symphony and The Newark Museum of Art, presents:

EMERGE: An NJ Symphony Concert Film Trilogy, Directed by Yuri Alves

The screening of the performance will be followed by a panel discussion with Yuri Alves, director, Igor Alves, producer, and New Jersey Symphony Concertmaster Eric Wyrick.

About Emerge

The Emmy® award-winning EMERGE concert film trilogy expands the universe of orchestral music through a mix of live stage performance, stunning visuals, mesmerizing dance sequences and format-bending elements on and off stage.

Music Director Xian Zhang leads the New Jersey Symphony on the NJPAC main stage to conduct a striking, diverse selection of orchestral works, showcased in a uniquely intimate, immersive style by filmmaker Yuri Alves, who complements the live performances with mesmerizing visuals of life captured around Newark during the pandemic.

Produced by DreamPlay Films. Streaming on PBS.

The film trilogy won a Mid-Atlantic Emmy® Award for Arts – Long Form Content (single program).

Host or Publisher The Newark Museum of Art