Join BlackBox with a World Premiere by Douglas Boyce, along with Ning Yu & Heather Stubbins.

The Corcoran Music Festival is an annual gathering of music performers, scholars, faculty members, students, and the community at George Washington University. Starting on Friday, November 7 in the Salon Dore of the Flagg Building will be Ning Yu & Heather Stebbins, followed on Saturday, November 8 by the ensemble BlackBox, performing a world premiere written by Douglas Boyce.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2025 - SPIRALS
7:30 pm in the Salon Dore of the Flagg Building
Ning Yu & Heather Stebbins get things started in the magnificent Salon Dore!

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2025 - NAUFRAGIUM
7:30 pm on the Bridge of the Flagg Building
The ocean's vastness has long inspired contemplation of human existence, mortality, and our place in an uncertain world. This evening's concert performed by ensemble BlackBox features Heather Stebbin's "... and drift," which contrasts sea power with wetland murmurs while invoking Beckett through hybridized performance and processed marsh sounds, and the world Premiere of Douglas Boyce's "Ovid in Tomis," setting Derek Mahon's poem about exile on the Black Sea to explore art's fragility in the Anthropocene. Also featured are works by Annie Nikunen and Baldwin Giang.

The festival is free and open to the public.