Meet our SSF MNScholar Participants 2025
Attend daily presentations at 10:00 a.m. in the Meisel Room at Westminster Presbyterian Church.
2025 Festival Faculty
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 scholars in the MNScholar Program Receive:
50 minute presentation to a community and audience of approximately 40 music professionals and educators
Archival recording of your presentation, and access to recordings of the other MNScholar presentations
One-on-one Feedback from Arlene Shrut on stage presence and presentation techniques
Access to in-person festival masterclasses, performances, and lectures throughout the week with a Festival Pass
Instant network of fellow art song advocates to pursue further research and collaboration
“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.”