Calling the cool kids!

Conductors, composers, performers, music educators!

June 14 - 20, 2026, in collaboration with “A Heretic’s Guide to Musicianship”, we are returning to the great Avaloch Farm Music Institute for year three of our professional development education retreat! Detailed information is available at this link!

https://www.avalochfarmmusic.org/pittsburgh-new-music-ensemble

Together, we will dig deep into the art of interpretation, learn more about how to study and make decisions, and focus on improving our rehearsal efficiency and developing as musical leaders! Avaloch is an incredible place to do some GREAT work together. They provide full room and board, including 3 meals a day provided by Avaloch’s incredible professional chefs! For our 2026 retreat, Avaloch has had to slightly raise costs by $20 per person per day, so room and board will be $1200 per person for the week. On our end, as a result, we are not going to raise our prices and will keep our tuition the same $850 as it was last year. This allows us to avoid a double increase in a single year! As always, we want as many musicians as possible to be able to participate!

We are now taking deposits to hold your space, and we can only accept 30 participants for this incredible and unique opportunity! The remainder of the balance for tuition, and the room and board fees will be due by May 1 . For all of those of you who will be returning to us this year, please note that we are arriving on Sunday this year, and departing on Saturday — backing the whole thing up within the week by one day!

Arrive anytime on Sunday, June 14 (dinner provided around 6 p.m. ) depart anytime on Saturday, June 20 (breakfast provided around 8 am).

To hold your space for our retreat please click here on the link below submit your non-refundable $500 deposit. Select the appropriate amount, and also make a note in the available field that you are making the payment toward the Herertic’s Guide retreat! (Please note that if paying by credit card or through paypal, you will automatically be charged a 3% fee to cover credit card costs.) If you would like to avoid this fee you are welcome to mail us a check directly and you can email Kevin at kevinnoe@icloud.com to let us know and grab the address!