Maestra Music Showcase
2026 Flonzaley Resident Artists
Event Details
Saturday, August 1, 2026
7:00 PM
The Sembrich - Indoors
4800 Lake Shore Drive
Bolton Landing, NY, 12814 (map)
Admission: $40
The Sembrich’s 2026 Flonzaley Residency brings six artists from Maestra Music, an organization that provides support, visibility, and community to underrepresented artists, including women and gender-expansive musicians, who work in the musical theatre. In this special showcase, the resident artists share new works and works-in-progress, developed through supportive mentorship and inspired collaboration.
Founded in 2017 by composer, lyricist, and music director Georgia Stitt, Maestra emerged in response to the lack of visibility for women musicians in musical theatre and quickly grew into a vital national and international network. Named as a feminine counterpart to “Maestro,” the organization connects and amplifies underrepresented music-makers through mentorship, advocacy, and a robust global directory now numbering thousands of members. Today, Maestra’s expanding community and initiatives continue to drive meaningful change toward equity and inclusion across the theatre industry.
This Program is Presented in Partnership with
About the Flonzaley Residency at The Sembrich
The Flonzaley Residency affords a talented individual or group of musicians a week-long residency at The Sembrich with the opportunity to use the studio freely to rehearse and perform. The residency was established in tribute to the Flonzaley Quartet, founded by arts patron and Sembrich colleague Edward de Coppet in 1903. Mr. de Coppet opened his Swiss estate to the artists each summer and established the quartet on the principle that its members would never accept outside engagements or take on students. The musicians devoted themselves solely to the purpose of perfecting their art. It was with that lofty goal in mind that The Sembrich invited the Hyperion String Quartet as our first-ever quartet-in-residence in 2010. During their residency, the quartet rehearsed and presented memorable performances of numerous works, from Mozart and Shostakovich to Tan Dun and Giuseppe Verdi, among many others. Other groups awarded the residency include the Brooklyn Art Song Society, the Villalobos Brothers, WindSync and the Utzturu Strings from Romania.