Conducting Institute
Conducting Institute
Applications for MMF’s 2025 Season are Now Open!
JUNE 27 - JULY 10, 2025
Conducting Institute
with Mark Gibson
Repertoire:
Mozart | Symphony No. 36 (“Linz”)
Farrenc | Symphony No. 3
Beethoven | Symphony No. 2
The MMF Conducting Institute is an intensive program for aspiring conductors who wish to gain experience in the symphonic and operatic fields. Conducting Institute participants receive daily conducting classes, orchestral readings, and an orchestral concert. Accepted conductors have the option to join the MMF Conducting Institute as either a full participant or as an auditor.
MMF is pleased to have numerous alumni of our conducting institute who have gone on to win assistant conductor auditions in major symphony orchestras such as the San Francisco Symphony, Colorado Symphony, and Buffalo Philharmonic to name a few.
Performances
All Conducting Institute participants have the opportunity to perform in the orchestral symphony concert. Participants will share the program, each conducting one movement from a symphony, concerto, or one overture. MMF will professionally video record the performance and distribute to participants for personal use after the completion of the festival.
Podium Time
Participants are guaranteed a minimum of two hours of cumulative orchestra podium time,
Tradewind Apartments
Tradewinds Apartment Hotel is directly across the street from Miami Music Festival’s rehearsal spaces and less than a 5 minute walk to the beach. Tradewinds Hotel features 160 luxurious boutique studios, one and two-bedroom apartment suites for MMF festival students and staff.
Apartments are fully furnished and include:
Free Wifi
Swimming Pool
Full Kitchen
Beach Towels
On-site laundry facilities
2024 Faculty
*2025 Faculty TBA
2025 Tuition and Fees
Conducting Institute $3,000.00
Registration Fee $250.00
Application Fee $35.00
Housing Fees
Quad, 4 people per apartment, 2 people per room: $518.00
Double, 2 people per apartment, 1 person per room: $1,036.00
Entire Apartment: $2,072.00
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HOW TO APPLY
Please complete our online application and submit a video recording. Conducting Applications can only apply via a video application and are not required to audition live.
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS
Videos must face the conductor and should include at least two contrasting works and not exceed 15 minutes. Please ensure videos are not set to private.
Videos should include applicants conducting a full orchestra or chamber ensemble. Applicants may also submit videos with piano, but an ensemble of at least six musicians is preferred.
APPLICATION DEADLINE
Video Application Deadline: March 1, 2025
NOTICE OF NONDISCRIMINATION POLICY AS TO STUDENTS
The Miami Music Institute admits students of any race, color, creed, sex, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, family responsibility, national origin, ancestry, handicap, or religion to all the rights, privileges, programs and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the Institute. It does not discriminate in the administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship programs or any other Institute-administered programs