ABOUT

Mary Madigan serves up 20+ years of leadership and strategic planning experience to artists and institutions wanting a professional and well-connected partner. Madigan New Music’s clients have included composer Michael Gordon, composer John Luther Adams, Universal Music Publishing Classical, Yarn/Wire, New Century Chamber Orchestra, and other distinguished artists.

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Mary Madigan has led the advancement of music performance, artists, and post-classical repertoire from positions at Boosey & Hawkes, Meet The Composer, Concert Artists Guild, The New School, the Vermont Mozart Festival, and her own business Madigan New Music. She is a colleague of many of new music’s creators, performers, and presenters throughout North America and Europe.

Mary’s attendance of the performing arts traverses genres and continents from the Bang On A Can Marathon, to the Settembre Musica festival in Turin; from the experimental theater of Elevator Repair Service, to Luciano Chessa’s avant-garde dan bao performance at an old Hollywood film house; from the Opéra de Lyon for the premiere of Pascal Dusapin’s Faustus, the Last Night, to Nick Cave’s The Let Go at the Park Avenue Armory.

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The MATA Festival, Opera America, New Music Gathering, and The Aaron Copland Fund hosted Mary to serve on discussion and grant panels, and she led a public conversation with composer/clarinetist Kinan Azmeh at The Watermill Center on Eastern Long Island.

Madigan serves on the boards of Mantra Percussion and Gamelan Dharma Swara, for whom she led a successful fundraising campaign to acquire a new set of instruments from Bali, Indonesia.

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Madigan is one of 25 international arts leaders selected for the Association of Performing Arts Presenters (APAP) Leadership Fellows Program (2018-2020).

Mary holds graduate certificates from Wesleyan University’s Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance and from the University of Pennsylvania/National Arts Strategies’s Executive Program in Arts & Culture Strategy.

Mary Madigan is a former trumpeter and choral singer now performing in a Balinese gamelan, playing tennis, enjoying the coast of Lake Champlain and the arts and culture offerings of New York City.