The festival is an immersive professional and artistic development experience for emerging artists who qualify by audition. Students work closely with senior faculty through small-group collaboration, one-on-one coaching, and structured sessions focused on performance excellence, leadership, and career readiness.
These musicians give back their talents to the Pagosa community by performing a range of concerts in various local settings. MLMF provides breathtaking concerts featuring students, guests, and prolific guest artists.
Mountain Light Music Festival Fellow have gone onto careers in top arts organizations and institutions in the nation, including the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony and Dallas Opera Orchestra.
Fellow Program highlights:
These musicians give back their talents to the Pagosa community by performing a range of concerts in various local settings. MLMF provides breathtaking concerts featuring students, guests, and prolific guest artists.
Mountain Light Music Festival Fellow have gone onto careers in top arts organizations and institutions in the nation, including the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony and Dallas Opera Orchestra.
Fellow Program highlights:
- Tuition-free
- Professional training
- Masterclasses and private instruction
- Nonprofit experience
- Executive Arts Leadership Program course credit/internship
- Creative collaboration
- Deepened creative purpose, and understanding vocation