Join us for our 6th Season Finale with Andrew Crust and the Mostly Modern Orchestra! Our season finale features Hovhaness, Boulanger, Paterson, Morlock and more! Learn all about Maestro Crust, music director of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra.

Join us as we celebrate American composers and America’s first female conductor of a major orchestra, Maestro JoAnn Falletta of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. Native-Buffalo, New Yorker, and Artistic Director of Mostly Modern (and now Saratoga Springs resident), Robert Paterson, brings us a performance of the first part of his colorful Journey of a Dragonfly.

World premiere of Celestial Harmonics, featuring Mostly Modern Orchestra, David Amado, conductor. Other works by Alban Berg, Stephen Cabell, and Samuel Barber.

Join us for our annual Mostly Modern Mixer, which takes place on Victoria Paterson’s Birthday! Friends, fans, alumni, and faculty unite for this once-a-year ‘happening’ in New York City. The program will feature selections from Robert Paterson’s New York Stories—utterly unique experiences of New Yorkers, set to music—not to be missed!

Residency at Avaloch Farm Music Institute with writer and librettist David Cote to work on In Real Life, an evening-length show that combines and reworks In Real Life I, In Real Life II, and Extraordinary into a new theatrical work.

Performance of Pegasus for flute and harp, Lindsey Goodman, flute, and Joseph Rebman, harp. This concert is free and open to the public.

Performance of Pegasus for flute and harp, Lindsey Goodman, flute, and Joseph Rebman, harp on this Concerts @ St. John's series in Charleston, West Virginia. This concert is free and open to the public.

Join us in celebrating the incredible life of Western New York artist Eleanor Cohen (married name, Eleanor Paterson) (1940-2024) at Saratoga Arts. The Neave Trio will perform Ellie’s favorite composers, as she requested: Robert Paterson, Igor Stravinsky, and Peter Tchaikovsky. Music, tributes, food, and sangria (her favorite!) will be provided. Her art will be displayed at Saratoga Arts for all to enjoy.

Performance of I See You (orchestral version ) at the Lunigiana International Music Festival in Fivizzano, Tuscany, Italy, Richard Fu, conductor.

Winner of the 2023 Concert Artist Guild Elmaleh Competition, the Dior Quartet performs String Quartet. No. 1 by Robert Paterson on this Bravo! Vail Music Festival series.

Performance of two works at the Lunigiana International Music Festival in Fivizzano, Tuscany, Italy, from July 18-28. These performances will take place while teaching composition, giving seminars, and directing the Contemporary Music Ensemble and Contemporary Music Program with Victoria Paterson. Up to eight composers from around the world who have new or recent works performed by the Contemporary Music Ensemble will be selected to take part in this program.

Join us for our 5th season Finale as we celebrate American composers and America’s first female conductor of a major orchestra, Maestro JoAnn Falletta of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. Native-Buffalo, New Yorker, and Artistic Director of Mostly Modern (and now Saratoga Springs resident), Robert Paterson, brings us a performance of the first part of his colorful Journey of a Dragonfly.

Performance of Ouvir Estrelas for soprano and piano, along with a spectacular line-up of 20th & 21st-century arias, art songs, and song cycles. Ten top vocalists from across the United States & abroad will be showcasing their talents, from the avant-garde to post-modern romance.

World Premiere of New York Stories for two singers and chamber ensemble at Mostly Modern Festival, featuring librettos by New York City-based librettists and scenes inspired by the Five Boroughs. Librettists include Mark Campbell, David Cote, Margot Connolly, Briana Elyse Hunter, John de los Santos, and Sokunthary Svay.

Join us for our first orchestral concert of the season with Mostly Modern Orchestra, Ankush Kumar Bahl, Maestro from the Omaha Symphony. A broad palette of musical styles define us, entirely ‘mostly modern.’ Not to be missed!

Performance of Relative Theory, along with brand-new works and premieres featuring the beloved American Modern Ensemble.

World premiere Celestial Harmonics, featuring Mostly Modern Orchestra, David Amado, conductor. Other works include classical standards and Elliot Carters’s bracingly American Clarinet Concerto, featuring one of the two winners of our annual MMF Concerto Competition.

Robert Paterson’s Pegasus for flute and harp, and a spectacular line-up of arias and song cycles. Ten top vocalists from across the United States & abroad will be showcasing their talents for Saratoga Springs.

Performance of The Thin Ice of Your Fragile Mind on this evening of brand-new works and premieres featuring the beloved American Modern Ensemble.

New York Premiere of Joy Ride for solo piano by Amir Farid at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall on Farid’s Carnegie Hall debut concert.

Preview performance of the piano/vocal version of Robert Paterson’s New York Stories with American Modern Ensemble, featuring librettos and lyrics by New York City-based writers, including Mark Campbell, David Cote, Margot Connolly, Briana Elyse Hunter, John De Los Santos, and Sokunthary Svay.

Preview performance of the piano/vocal version of Robert Paterson’s New York Stories with American Modern Ensemble, featuring librettos and lyrics by New York City-based writers, including Mark Campbell, David Cote, Margot Connolly, Briana Elyse Hunter, John De Los Santos, and Sokunthary Svay.

Preview performance of the piano/vocal version of Robert Paterson’s New York Stories with American Modern Ensemble, featuring librettos and lyrics by New York City-based writers, including Mark Campbell, David Cote, Margot Connolly, Briana Elyse Hunter, John De Los Santos, and Sokunthary Svay.

World premiere of Kama for SATB choir and handpan performed by Paterson, commissioned by Ember Choral Arts, Dr. Deborah Simpkin King, Founding Artistic Director, as Ember's first Composer in Residence.

World premiere of Kama for SATB choir and handpan performed by Paterson, commissioned by Ember Choral Arts, Dr. Deborah Simpkin King, Founding Artistic Director, as Ember's first Composer in Residence.

Winner of the 2023 Concert Artist Guild Elmaleh Competition, the Dior Quartet performs String Quartet No. 3 by Robert Paterson on this Death of Classical series, a.k.a. Ghosts of Gotham, presented by Crypt.

Mostly Modern Festival | The Netherlands Season Finale features the European premiere of Triple Concerto., new works by young composers from the Muziek School Zeeland, and new work(s) by participant composers at the festival.

Winner of the 2023 Concert Artist Guild Elmaleh Competition, the Dior Quartet performs the European premiere of String Quartet No. 1 by Robert Paterson, MMF’s Artistic Director, and world premieres by Dutch composers and composers from across the globe.