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Welcome celebration after opening orientation at Arthur Zankel Music Center. Open to faculty, staff, and institute participants only.
Saxophone masterclass with Christoper Creviston.
Ekphrastic Music of Anne LeBaron: From Concert Theater to Microtonal Opera and Beyond.
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.
Piano seminar with Anthony de Mare: Creative Entrepreneurial Programming in Today's Concert World.
Music selected by and performed by Mostly Modern Festival faculty and participants. Open to faculty, staff, and institute participants only.
Composer and Composition Program Coordinator Stephen Cabell discusses his latest works. Open to Institute participants only.
Piano seminar with Anthony de Mare: Extended Piano Techniques and the Speaking/Singing Pianist Genre.
Masterclass with Atlantic Brass Quintet. Open to Institute participants only.
Piano masterclass with Anthony de Mare. Open to piano institute participants only.
Conducting Seminar with Ruth Reinhardt. Open to festival participants only.
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.
Professional development seminar with Tiffany Soricelli, founder of Virtuoso: Advising for Artists.
Music selected by and performed by Mostly Modern Festival faculty and participants. Open to faculty, staff, and institute participants only.
Composer Claude Baker discusses his latest works. Open to composition institute participants only.
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.
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.
Composer Keith Fitch discusses his latest works. Open to composition institute participants only.
Piano seminar with Geoffrey Burleson: Swiftly Decoding the Score: Learning Contemporary Piano Music Quickly, Efficiently and Thoroughly
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.
Masterclass with the Euclid Quartet. Open to Institute participants only.
Piano seminar with Geoffrey Burleson: Improvisation Workshop: Approaches, Styles, and the Composition-Improvisation Continuum
Guitar masterclass with Oren Fader.
Closing Night Celebration at the Tang Museum of Art. Open to faculty, staff, institute participants, and VIP Season Pass holders 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.
Composer and MMF Artistic Director Robert Paterson discusses his latest works and his career as a composer.
Conducting Seminar with Christopher Rountree. Open to conducting participants only.
Composer Robert Beaser discusses his latest works.
Masterclass with Atlantic Brass Quintet
Music selected by and performed by Mostly Modern Festival faculty and participants.
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.
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.
Composer and Composition Program Coordinator Stephen Cabell discusses his latest works.
Masterclass with the Euclid Quartet.
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.
