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Music selected by and performed by Mostly Modern Festival faculty and participants. Open to faculty, staff, and institute participants only.
Conducting Seminar with Ruth Reinhardt. Open to festival participants only.
Guest lecture with Bill Holab, of Bill Holab Music. Bill will discuss a range of topics, including music publishing, copyright, music notation, and other relevant topics.
Kathy Lord is a professional musician, published songwriter, vocalist, recording artist, and co-founder of Music That Heals.
Guitar masterclass with Oren Fader. Open to guitar institute participants only.
Opening Week Celebration Party. Open to faculty, staff, institute participants, and VIP Season Pass holders only.
Joseph Rebman: Bridging the Gap, Writing for Harp and Idiomatic Part Composition
Joseph Rebman: Bridging the Gap, Writing for Harp and Idiomatic Part Composition
Composer Claude Baker discusses his latest works. Open to composition institute participants only.
Masterclass & Seminar with Bassoonist and Co-Artistic Director of the International Contemporary Ensemble, Rebekah Heller.
Piano seminar with Blair McMillen. The Perfect Job, The Perfect Interview.
American Modern Orchestra Reading Session with MMF composer participants, conducted by MMF conducting participants and mentored by MMF conducting and composition faculty. This event is open to the entire MMF community.
Saxophone masterclass with Christoper Creviston.
Why knowing what your net worth is will help you evolve your musical career? Presented by Eugene Marlow.
This lecture is open to all participants and staff.
Piano masterclass with Blair McMillen. Open to piano institute participants only.
Composer and MMF Artistic Director Robert Paterson discusses his latest works and his career as a composer. Open to Institute participants only.
Piano seminar with Blair McMillen: Going Marketing - Negotiating the Music Biz.
Music selected by and performed by Mostly Modern Festival faculty and participants. Open to faculty, staff, and Institute participants only.
Conducting Seminar with David Amado. Open to festival participants only.
Music selected by and performed by Mostly Modern Festival faculty and participants. Open to faculty, staff, and institute participants only.
Masterclass with the Euclid Quartet. Open to Institute participants only.
Lindsey Goodman, The Performer's Electroacoustic Primer. Open to Institute participants and faculty only.
Composer Keith Fitch discusses his latest works. Open to composition institute participants only.
With over 29,000 Finale Forum posts to his credit, the mysterious and legendary “Zuill” has helped more composers with their Finale notation questions than perhaps any other single individual in the entire world. Zuill will talk about his life and career, and his involvement with the Finale software program. This lecture will be moderated by Robert Paterson, MMF’s Artistic Director.
Piano masterclass with Geoffrey Burleson. Open to piano institute participants only.
Masterclass with the Akropolis Reed Quintet.
Conducting Seminar with Ward Stare. Open to festival participants only.
Piano seminar with Geoffrey Burleson: Swiftly Decoding the Score: Learning Contemporary Piano Music Quickly, Efficiently and Thoroughly
Piano seminar with Geoffrey Burleson: Improvisation Workshop: Approaches, Styles, and the Composition-Improvisation Continuum
Guitar masterclass with Oren Fader.
Closing Night Celebration Party at the Surrey Inn at Skidmore College. Open to faculty, staff, institute participants, and VIP Season Pass holders only.
Piano seminar with Anthony de Mare: Creative Entrepreneurial Programming in Today's Concert World.
Piano masterclass with Anthony de Mare. Open to piano institute participants only.
Masterclass with Atlantic Brass Quintet. Open to Institute participants only.
Piano seminar with Anthony de Mare: Extended Piano Techniques and the Speaking/Singing Pianist Genre.
Composer and Composition Program Coordinator Stephen Cabell discusses his latest works. Open to Institute participants only.
Masterclass with Blythe Gaissert, Mezzo - Soprano. This masterclass will cover vocal repertoire for the vocal participants.
Led by Robert Paterson and Stephen Cabell, this seminar will review MMF's Music Preparation Guidelines for Composers and review best practices for score and part preparation.
American Modern Orchestra Reading Session with MMF composer participants, conducted by MMF conducting participants and mentored by MMF conducting and composition faculty. This event is open to the entire MMF community.
Ekphrastic Music of Anne LeBaron: From Concert Theater to Microtonal Opera and Beyond.
Professional development seminar with Tiffany Soricelli, founder of Virtuoso: Advising for Artists.
Saxophone masterclass with Christoper Creviston.
Keve Wilson and Dave Eggar join together in a conversation geared to empower musicians with career realities, discuss entrepreneurial skills and provide answers to your questions.
Welcome celebration after opening orientation at Arthur Zankel Music Center. Open to faculty, staff, and institute participants only.
Closing Night Celebration at the Tang Museum of Art.
Conducting Seminar with Alan Pierson. Open to conducting participants only.
MMF composer participants present their works. Each participant is given up to 15 minutes to present a short work or movement, discuss his or her work, and answer questions. Moderated by MMF Composition Faculty. Open to all MMF students and faculty.
Masterclass with Grammy-nominated wind quintet Imani Winds.
Professional development seminar with Deirdre Chadwick, Executive Director, Creative, Classical Music, New York, for BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc.).
Conducting Seminar with Kent Tritle. Open to conducting participants only.
MMF composer participants present their works. Each participant is given up to 15 minutes to present a short work or movement, discuss his or her work, and answer questions. Moderated by MMF Composition Faculty. Open to all MMF students and faculty.
Screening of Secret Music, a documentary film about Pulitzer prize winning composer and MMF 2018 Composition Faculty member, David Del Tredici. Screening includes a talk-back session with Del Tredici and director Daniel Beliavsky. This event is open to the entire MMF community.
Professional development seminar with Cia Toscanini, Vice President, Concert Music, ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers).
Composer Hannah Lash discusses her latest works.
MMF composer participants present their works. Each participant is given up to 15 minutes to present a short work or movement, discuss his or her work, and answer questions. Moderated by MMF Composition Faculty. Open to all MMF students and faculty.
Guest Lecture: Daniel Spreadbury, Product Marketing Manager from Steinberg's Dorico music notation program, will discuss recent developments and possibilities that come with this next-generation scoring application.
MMF composer participants present their works. Each participant is given up to 15 minutes to present a short work or movement, discuss his or her work, and answer questions. Moderated by MMF Composition Faculty. Open to all MMF students and faculty.
Music selected by and performed by Mostly Modern Festival faculty and participants.
American Modern Orchestra Reading Session with MMF composer participants, conducted by MMF conducting participants and mentored by MMF conducting and composition faculty. This event is open to the entire MMF community.
David Del Tredici, composer, discusses his latest works.
Opening Week Celebration Party.
