The MCML’s mandate is twofold: to foster healthy relationships and build bridges between young student and/or emerging composers and performers by putting them in close collaborative relationships, encouraging dialogue, creation, and experimentation; and to provide these emerging artists with valuable professional development experiences in the form of open rehearsals, workshops, and public performance opportunities.

Collaboration

We aim to foster a sense of shared authorship and mutual creative respect between composers and performers. We believe that embracing stylistic or idealistic incongruities can lead to the development of new vocabularies, working methods and approaches to music making.

Experimentation

Our lab is a place to get out of your comfort zone! We encourage participants to boldly go places in their artistic practice that they have never gone before.

Open Environment

We celebrate differences in values and artistic approaches, and we do not value one aesthetic over another. We create a space where artists feel free to share their unique practice.

Community

We aim to connect artists of various disciplines from within and outside of Montréal, creating lasting friendships and future partnerships.

Accessibility

We believe that money should not be a barrier to participation in our event. We aim to keep our participant fee low, provide meals during the event and facilitate opportunities for participants living in Montréal to host visiting participants.

Bilingual

We live and work in a community of both Francophones and Anglophones. Therefore, our event is bilingual and participants are always free to communicate in either French or English.