Meet SSF MNSong Participants 2025
2025 Festival Faculty
Plus Online Content Featuring
Photo by Steven Garcia, August 2022 in Westminster Hall
““I couldn’t have been happier with my experience with MNSong. The workshops and presentations were consistently helpful, and the opportunity to work with Libby Larsen was a highlight of my career to date... I left feeling inspired to create more songs!”
What Composers in the MNSong Program Receive:
Workshop includes:
Song-cycle premiere performance in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and professional recording in August 2026
Workshop, experimental situation with industry professionals
Collaboration and coaching, of your submitted work by local professionals (2025)
Two individual composition lessons the first year with Libby Larsen and continuing mentorship checkpoints between festival appearances
Masterclass with Arlene Shrut on how to present your music and lectures on text-setting by Libby Larsen
Access to in-person festival masterclasses with MNDuo Faculty
Access to Online Resources, including:
A panel discussion on writing for the voice, featuring Libby Larsen, David Evan Thomas, Will Liverman & Susanne Mentzer
A panel discussion on writing for the piano, featuring Libby Larsen, David Evan Thomas, Lydia Brown, and Warren Jones
A lecture on writing about songs from David Evan Thomas
“The passion that each member of this festival (the coordinators, guest artists, duos, composers, and audience!) brings to their art is so raw, so vital, so unconditional, and so...human. The effect of creativity, at such a high concentration, in one short week, makes me want to...go out and create something from nothing.”