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Professional development seminar with Deirdre Chadwick, Executive Director, Creative, Classical Music, New York, for BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc.).
Second Week Celebration Party at the Surrey-Williamson Inn at Skidmore College. Open to faculty, staff, institute participants, and VIP Season Pass holders only.
Dovas Lieutvninkas, trumpet, focuses on how to connect with one's audiences during concerts and/or recitals to make them feel more comfortable and willing to engage in repertoire that can be seen as more "challenging" to the listener. Open to all institute participants.
Composer and MMF Artistic Director Robert Paterson discusses his latest works and his career as a composer. Open to Institute participants only.
Participants of the Mostly Modern Festival present an evening of chamber works.
Professional development seminar with Cia Toscanini, Vice President, Concert Music, ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers).
Guest Lecturer, date and time subject to change.
Led by Peggy Kampmeier, this class will go through various extended techniques for piano. While designed for pianists and composers, this class is open to all institute participants.
Composer Jonathan Newman discusses his latest works and his career as a composer. Open to institute participants only.
Flutist Lindsey Goodman presents “Flute Forward", a modern perspective on writing for flute, discussing notation, extended techniques, and practical tips. This useful guided tour of the 21st-century flutist’s tool kit includes repertoire examples and resources which will assist composers and flutists in collaborating on their next projects.
Masterclass and Q & A Session with Andrew Crust.
2:00-3:30pm — Masterclass (open to Conducting Program participants only)
3:30-4:00pm — Q & A Session (open to all festival participants)
Masterclass with Benjamin Bowman, concertmaster of the Metropolitan Opera.
Participants of the Mostly Modern Festival present an evening of chamber works.
Q&A Session with Benjamin Bowman, concertmaster of the Metropolitan Opera.
Closing Week Celebration Party. Open to faculty, staff, institute participants, and VIP Season Pass holders only.
Masterclass and Q & A Session with JoAnn Falletta.
2:00-3:30pm — Masterclass (open to Conducting Program participants only)
3:30-4:00pm — Q & A Session (open to all festival participants)
Masterclass and Q&A session with Caroline Gilbert, principal viola of the Buffalo Philharmonic.
Professional development seminar with Tiffany Soricelli, founder of Virtuoso Advising for Artists. Open to institute participants only.
Participants of the Mostly Modern Festival present an evening of chamber works.
Masterclass and Q&A session with Cenovia Cummins, former concertmaster of the New York Pops.
Masterclass and Q&A session with Guy Yehuda, clarinet faculty at Michigan State University.
Composer and Composition Coordinator Stephen Cabell discusses his latest works and his career as a composer. Open to Institute participants only.
Piano seminar with Geoffrey Burleson: Improvisation Workshop: Approaches, Styles, and the Composition-Improvisation Continuum
Meet Victoria Paterson, General Director; and Robert Paterson, Artistic Director in a conversation covering their careers as working Musicians, and as a composer and personnel contractor leading to the foundation of the Mostly Modern Festival.
Learn the ins and outs of performing on Broadway, conductor cams, click tracks, vamps, and much more with Keve Wilson and Victoria Paterson!
Session on extended techniques followed by improv, led by Dovas Leituvninkas, trumpet.
Class with William Safford on contrabassoon. Designed for bassoonists and composers, but open to participants.
Composers are paired with a singer to create a brief art song for them, then workshopped in a reading session with feedback from our composition and voice faculty.
Composer Jennifer Bellor discusses her latest works and her career as a composer. Open to Institute participants only.
Led by Percussion faculty member Matt Ward and MMF Artistic Director Robert Paterson.
Class about Jim Mastrianni, his career, and recording. First hour will be in ELM, second hour will likely be a trip to Jim's home studio, just down Broadway from Skidmore.
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.
Opening Week Celebration Party at the Patersons house! Open to faculty, staff, institute participants, and VIP Season Pass holders only.
Joseph Rebman: Bridging the Gap, Writing for Harp and Idiomatic Part Composition
Masterclass and Q & A Session with David Amado.
2:00-3:30pm — Masterclass (open to Conducting Program participants only)
3:30-4:00pm — Q & A Session (open to all festival participants)
Seminar by percussion faculty Micheal Barnes: In "Catfish," Applebaum creates form through different rhythmic techniques, primarily liquidation, grouping dissonance, indeterminate accelerating phase canons, and expanding canons, but consistently thwarts the construction of meter. This theory presentation will explore these metric and rhythmic techniques in this piece and teh overall effect they have on the listener's experience.
Piano seminar with Geoffrey Burleson: Improvisation Workshop: Approaches, Styles, and the Composition-Improvisation Continuum
Masterclass and Q&A session with Jacqui Danilow, double bass at the Metropolitan Opera.
Panel Discussion with week 1 brass faculty, led by Hana Beloglavec
Mostly Modern Orchestra Reading Session with MMF composer participants, conducted by MMF conducting participants and mentored by MMF faculty. This event is open to the entire MMF community.
Concerto Competition auditions get underway with MMF instrumental and vocal participants. Schedule TBD.
Composer Keith Fitch discussed his latest works and his career as a composer. Open to institute participants only.
Victoria Paterson interviews fellow FAB5 members: Andrew Griffin (viola), Laura Metcalf (cello), and Chuck Palmer (percussion).
Mostly Modern Orchestra Reading Session with MMF composer participants, conducted by MMF conducting participants and mentored by MMF faculty. This event is open to the entire MMF community.
Led by Robert Paterson and Stephen Cabell, this seminar will serve as a brief composer introduction and we will also review MMF's Music Preparation Guidelines for Composers and review best practices for score and part preparation.
