
MATA Festival 2025 Transports Listeners with a Beautifully Curated Cosmic Program
The annual Music at the Anthology (MATA) Festival connects courageous composers and listeners through daring works from the global compositional community. Since Lisa Bielawa, Eleonor Sandresky, and Philip Glass founded the festival in 1996, the New York City staple has evolved to not only offer composers a flexible platform but also attract an audience bold enough to trade sonic risk for the reward of fresh perspective. ... In addition to familiar faces from contemporary music, the audience included people who teach meditation, nanny, consult, and support BIPOC authors with no affiliation to music other than an experimental spirit. MATA succeeds as a place for compositional experimentation and fresh camaraderie among those open to expansive experiences.