Mannes produces institutes each summer that focus on different topics and feature world-renowned faculty and performers. Each institute has a different format, employing master classes, performances, lectures, ensembles, and coursework.
For more information, visit each program's website:
- The Beethoven Institute
The Mannes Beethoven Institute explores Beethoven's sonatas, piano trios, and string quartets in a week of intensive study. A distinguished faculty offers students a mixture of private lessons, master classes, lectures, and public concerts. Participants perform public concerts at the conclusion of the session.
- IFCP—Institute and Festival for Contemporary Performance
Directed by Marc Ponthus, the IFCP brings together a diversity of approach, talent, and experience for a week and a half of workshops, master classes, lectures, symposium, and daily concerts featuring some of the most significant performers, composers, and thinkers working today in contemporary music.
- ASIS—Mannes Summer Institute of Art Song in Spanish
Through its collaboration with Project Canción Española, Mannes College offers the first course of its kind at a major conservatory to promote the art song in Spanish as a standard element of the art song genre. Designed for singers, pianists, and guitarists, the course offers students a choice of studying duo or solo repertoire. Under the direction of Nan-Maro Babakhanian, the course includes master classes and coachings with masters of the repertoire, along with basic courses in Flamenco rhythm and movement.
- Mannes Institute for Advanced Studies in Music Theory
The Mannes Institute for Advanced Studies in Music Theory is an intensive series of high-level participatory workshops, plenary sessions, and roundtable discussions focused on a different topic each year under the guidance of a rotating faculty of experts drawn from the international music community.
- New York Guitar Seminar at Mannes
The New York Guitar Seminar is a gathering of students, faculty, and guest artists interested in immersing themselves in classical guitar. Activities of the seminar include mater classes, improvisation, composition and arranging classes, pedagogy forums, career development workshops, and performances.
- IKI—International Keyboard Institute and Festival
The International Keyboard Institute, founded by Mannes alumnus and faculty member Jerome Rose, features world-renowned pianists in performance, master classes, and symposia. The IKI is open to pianists of all ages and backgrounds.
