The orchestra’s Conducting Freeman Fellowship program, overseen by music director Mei-Ann Chen and part of its larger Project Inclusion, brings two conducting fellows and two auditors to the city for five long weekends through the year “to work with Chen and to be mentored by conductors, board leaders, and orchestra managers … with the goal of mastering a variety of on-podium and off-podium skills that the Sinfonietta identifies as necessary for an orchestra leader to succeed in the 21st century.” – Symphony Magazine