Lincoln Center Education Hosts NEXT STAGE ARTS Education Panel Today

Lincoln Center Education, the education cornerstone of Lincoln Center and a global leader in arts education and advocacy, announced updates to the Next Stage event today, May 30, 2014 focused on music, and in partnership with the New York Philharmonic.

Violinist Midori, originally announced as moderator, with regret has withdrawn to attend to a minor but time sensitive health issue. Her replacement as moderator will be Dr. Aaron A. Flagg, Professor of Music, Dean of the Hartt School and Senior Advisor to the President on External Relations at the University of Hartford. Joining Dr. Flagg will be three panelists: Sarah Johnson (Director, Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall), Angélica Negrón (composer and New York Philharmonic Teaching Artist), and Paola Prestini (composer and Creative Director of Original Music Workshop).

Lincoln Center Education's Next Stage series was launched earlier this year, and features candid conversations on the intersection of arts and education in the careers of leading theater, dance, music, and visual artists. Earlier events this year focused on theater (with director Jack O'Brien) and dance (with moderator Virginia Johnson). The final event in this year's series will take place on June 10 and focus on visual art, moderated by Andrew Goldstein, Editor-in-Chief of Artspace. Events of the Next Stage discussion will be hosted and presented by Lincoln Center Education, in partnership with other leading New York City arts organizations.

All events in the series will take place at 6:00 p.m. in the Clark Studio Theater, located on the 7th floor of the Samuel B. and David Rose Building at Lincoln Center, 65th Street and Amsterdam Avenue.

Tickets for Lincoln Center Education's Next Stage series are $10 and available for purchase at lincolncenter.org/nextstage, 212-721-6500, and at the Avery Fisher Hall Box Office, Broadway and 65th Street. Free tickets are available for students of The Juilliard School, subject to availability.

Lincoln Center Education (LCE) is a global leader in arts education and advocacy and the education cornerstone of Lincoln Center, the world's largest performing arts complex. LCE is committed to enriching the lives of students, educators, and lifelong learners by providing opportunities for engagement with the highest-quality arts on the stage, in the classroom, via digital platforms, and within the community. Founded in 1975 as the Lincoln Center Institute, LCE has nearly four decades of unparalleled school and community partnerships, professional development workshops, consulting services, and its very own repertory. LCE has reached more than 20 million students, teachers, school administrators, parents, community members, teaching artists, pre-service teachers, university professors, and artists in New York City, across the nation and around the world.