Friday, June 2
10:00 - 15:00
The Hanns Eisler School of Music

Start your weekend early with a day designated to highlight the various technologies available to the modern performance librarian. Explore the exhibit area and speak directly with industry experts, see product demonstrations, and learn tips and tricks from other tech-savvy librarians at this pre-conference event specifically curated for the tech-curious among us!

Exhibitors: please see below for exhibit table rates and advertisement opportunities. Registration to attend the tech fair can be made via the conference registration form.

□ One table: 

□ Two tables: 

>> First-time advertisers will receive a 15% discount! 

□ 1/4 page: $500/€465 (98x145mm)

□ 1/2 page: $750/€700 (210x145mm or 98x297mm)
□ full page: $1,000/€925 (210x297mm)

Sponsorship Opportunities
□ Diamond: $4,000/€3,725

□ Platinum: $3,000/€2,790

□ Gold: $2,000/€1,860

□ Silver: $1,000/€930

□ Bronze: $500/€465

If you would like to register to attend any sessions or the banquet, or purchase Saturday evening concert tickets or a Monday afternoon tour, you must also fill out a Non-Member Registration form. For sponsorships that include a registration, please complete a registration form – one for each attendee. All purchases and registrations must be made by April 21, 2023. 

Payment can be made in USD online via PayPal, or by check or money order made out to “MOLA”, sent to: 

Amy Tackitt, MOLA Administrator

1949 Asheville Drive

Charlottesville, VA 22911

USA

Gabriel Fauré | Pelléas et Mélisande, Orchestral Suite, op. 80

Richard Wagner | Wesendonck Lieder (orch. by Felix Mottl and Richard Wagner)

César Franck | Symphony in D minor

MOLA has reserved tickets for the Saturday evening concert as follows: 

You may purchase tickets as part of your registration process. If you would like to purchase tickets for a concert other than Saturday evening, you may do so directly through the Berlin Philharmonic's website.

Anticipated Breakout Session Topics: Advocacy and Awareness for Performance Librarians; Planning for Tours; Bowings for Non-Strings Players: The Ins and Outs of Those Weird Markings; Crash Course for Beginners, Public Speaking, Copyright Q&A; The State of Auditions; Bruckner; Ex-Patriate Librarians Perspectives; Understanding Wind Transpositions and Notation Conventions; Roundtables

Additional Conference Offerings
One-on-one sessions with Michel Léonard (Photoshop and Illustrator) and Joshua Luty (Dorico and Photoshop) are available by appointment. To schedule, please contact Michel at mleonard@osm.ca and Joshua at jluty@houstongrandopera.org. If you have a laptop, please bring it with you to your session.

Blocks of rooms are available at the below hotel locations - plan ahead as they will fill quickly and be released for public booking 4 weeks prior to the conference.

Scandic Berlin Potsdamer Platz
139€-199€/night during the conference weekend 
*includes breakfast*
Gabriele-Tergit-Promenade 19 (1.1km from Philharmonie)
70 rooms blocked at this location - to book, select one of the following:

Mandala Hotel
259€/night
*includes breakfast*
Potsdamer Str. 3 (550m from Philharmonie)
Telefonisch: +49 (30) 590 05 1221

30 rooms blocked at this location - call or email (reservations@themandala.de) to book and refer to the "MOLA" block

Grand Hyatt Berlin
285€/night
*includes breakfast*
Marlene-Dietrich-Platz 2 (500m from Philharmonie)
Telefonisch: +49 (6131) 796 4940
20 rooms blocked at this location - to book, visit http://grandhyattberlin.de and use Group Code "G-Mol3"

For a cheaper, but very nice option, we also recommend:
Motel One Berlin Potstdamer Platz
from 89€/night (a local event this weekend may show higher prices)
Leipziger Platz 12 (1km from Philharmonie)

From the Main Train Station (Hauptbahnhof):
The easiest way is to take the bus no 41 or 85, they stop at Potsdamer Platz/Voßstrasse (about 6 Minutes)

 

Or you can take different regional trains (RE3, RE5 or RE8. It is one station, takes 2 minutes. The trip costs 3 Euro, bus or train, you can buy tickets from the bus driver. For the train you can buy tickets in automats in the station. 

 

Trains, regional and/or local (S-Bahn) Price: Euro 3,80. Tickets should be purchased in the station (Automats) You can pay with credit cards or cash.

 

You will have to change trains at least once during the trip from airport to Potsdamer Platz. The first train from the airport should preferably go from BER to Friedrichstrasse. From there you can go downstairs and take all S-Bahn-trains to Potsdamer Platz, 2 Stops. The trip from the airport to Potsdamer Platz takes about 50 Minutes.

From May 11-23, 2023 the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, its chief conductor Andris Nelsons and the City of Leipzig are presenting the 2nd International Mahler-Festival. Originally scheduled for 2021, the Festival has been postponed until 2023 due to the Covid-19 pandemic (as has the 41st MOLA Conference).  The festival features all of Mahler’s symphonies as well as his orchestra Lieder and his completion of Weber’s opera “Die drei Pinthos”. The festival will supplemented by lectures, exhibitions and tours to Mahler’s places in Leipzig. 

All concerts will be performed by major orchestras and conductors. As Breitkopf & Härtel is one of the main sponsors, exclusively supporting the concert of the Dresden Staatskapelle with Mahler’s symphony no. 3 conducted by Christian Thielemann, we have been granted a sponsors’ package by the Gewandhaus Orchestra. MOLA, as our most important customer group, was the first we’ve been thinking of inviting to the concert. Therefore, we are very happy to invite 30 guests (on a first-come, first-served basis) to the concert on May 25, joining us for a lovely day in Leipzig, the cradle of music publishing and the home and working place to so many well-known famous composers.

The day would not only include the concert but also a sightseeing tour to Leipzig’s highlights (as St. Thomas’ church with the grave of Johann Sebastian Bach, the Mendelssohn Haus, Schumann Haus etc.). It would also be possible to get a tour through the Gewandhaus. The hightlight however, would be of course the concert at 8 pm. Prior to the concert there would be a reception for all attendees as well as Breitkopf’s other guests of honor and (depending on the conductor’s mood) a meet and greet with Christian Thielemann. 

The whole day would be accompanied by some of Breitkopf’s staff members, including the publishing director Nick Pfefferkorn and our editors for orchestral music Mr. Christian Rudolf Riedel and Mrs. Alexandra Krämer, all three familiar to you from several previous MOLA conferences. The Leipzig city tour would be accompanied by Nick Pfefferkorn, who happens to be a Leipzig local.

Leipzig is only an hour and twenty minutes train ride away from Berlin, connected by an hourly high speed train service (ICE train). Travel arrangements would require at least on additional night in Leipzig (from May 25 to 26) to enjoy the day, the concert and the (presumably) after-show drinks.

If case you have any questions or need help for possible travel arrangements, recommendations, please contact Mr. Nick Pfefferkorn (Publishing Director of Breitkopf & Härtel). Those interested should reserve their spot by completing THIS FORM  which will be open through March or until filled.