YoungArts MasterClass upcoming Premieres and Encore Presentations on HBO

Season two of YoungArts MasterClass will continue on HBO2 on May 21, beginning at 6:30PM EST, with encore presentations of three episodes featuring master teachers Patti LuPone, Bobby McFerrin, and John Guare. On May 22, beginning at 6:30PM EST, HBO2 will premiere three back-to-back episodes featuring James Rosenquist, Bruce Weber, and Kathleen Turner working with select YoungArts Winners from across the nation.  Find the full list of season two episodes, including trailers, here.
 

Grammy Award-winning vocalist and YoungArts Master Teacher Bobby McFerrin works with YoungArts winners

The Emmy-nominated HBO series YoungArts MasterClass chronicles the work of renowned artists sharing their art and life experiences in master classes with YoungArts Winners.  Each edition of the program highlights the importance of mentorship, which resonates in the arts and beyond, allowing this new generation of young artists to meet and work with legends, like Renée Fleming, in the fields they aspire to pursue.

YoungArts MasterClass is produced and directed by Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon, a filmmaking team, whose documentaries have garnered an Academy Award in 2010 and four previous Academy Award nominations, many Emmys and the Dupont-Columbia Award for Independent Programming.  Their documentaries have been broadcast nationally on PBS, MTV, National Geographic and HBO, and screened at festivals around the world including the New York Film Festival, Sundance, New Directors/New Films, London, Berlin, Montreal and St. Petersburg. 

In last season’s first presentation of HBO YoungArts MasterClass, the mentors included tenor Plácido Domingo, actress/director Liv Ullmann, architect Frank Gehry, choreographer Bill T. Jones, conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, artist Olafur Eliasson, playwright Edward Albee, choreographer Jacques D’Amboise, and artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel. Watch full episodes of Season One, here.

In conjunction with Columbia University’s Teachers College, YoungArts also has developed a Study Guide based on its YoungArts MasterClass series which is distributed free to schools nationwide to help increase arts education and awareness. Learn more

 
Grammy Award-winning soprano and YoungArts Master Teacher Renée Fleming works with YoungArts winners