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All ECI events are being presented free to public as a gift from Hidden Valley to our community! Experience the exciting future of classical music with a week of seminars, open rehearsals and concerts!
Saturday June 27
11:00 am - 12:30 pm Open Rehearsal (Theatre)
1:30 pm - 5:00 pm Open Rehearsal (Theatre)
Sunday June 28
10:00 - 11:00 am Seminar with Sarah Kirkland Snider (Dance Studio) Composition Faculty - Co-Artistic Director of New Amsterdam Records
Monday June 29
10:00 - 11:00 am Seminar with Alistair Coleman (Dance Studio) Composition Faculty - 2023-25 Composer-in-Residence of Young Concert Artists
Tuesday June 30
7:00 - 8:30 pm Cindy's "Charm School" of Community Building (Waddell Center building) Violin & Program Director
Thursday July 2
10:00 - 11:00 am Seminar with Amy Beth Kristen (Dance Studio) Composition Faculty - Juilliard School and the Curtis Institute of Music
2:00 - 3:00 pm Seminar with Sarah Kirkland Snider: Professional Development (Dance Studio) Composition Faculty - Co-Artistic Director of New Amsterdam Records
Friday July 3
10:00 - 11:30 am Seminar with Steven Mackey (Waddell Center building) Composition Faculty - Princeton University and the Curtis Institute of Music
Free to attend, open seating
Saturday July 4 at 7:00 pm - Concert I (Theatre)
program pairs with AntonÍn Dvorák: Terzetto in C, Op. 74
featuring emerging composers: Vivian Le, Toussaint Santicola Jones, Ealaph Tabbaa, Yangfan Xu, Sylvia Wood
Sunday July 5 at 3:00 pm - Concert II (Theatre)
program pairs with Johannes Brahms: Clarinet Trio in A Minor, Op. 11
featuring emerging composers: Cashel Day-Lewis, Catherine Fields, Yuri Lee, Alex Robertson, Mitchell Jett Spencer
Reception with composers and faculty after Concert II ~ 5:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Music Performance Faculty: Tien-Hsin Cindy Wu (violin & program director), Eunice Kim (violin), David Samuel (viola), Mihai Marcia (cello), Henry Kramer (piano), and Graeme Steele Johnson (clarinet)
Meet the 2026 Emerging Composers!
Meet the 2026 Faculty!
The Emerging Composers Intensive (ECI) at Hidden Valley Music Seminars brings together 10 composers or a festival of creative collaboration. Guided by renowned composition and performance faculty, each participant develops a new chamber work which are professionally rehearsed, performed, and recorded in scenic Carmel Valley, CA.