Welcome to the National Orchestral Institute and Festival’s podcast series. Throughout this year’s edition of NOI we will be sitting down with visiting artists, administrators, composers, and participants in the festival for brief question and answer sessions to get their take on the state of music in 2016.

Today I sat down with Richard Scerbo, the director of NOI+F. After four weeks of work, he took the chance to reflect on what this year's festival has been, what he hopes to see in the future, and how his work outside of NOI impacts his time at the festival.

Find out more about Scerbo at: http://www.richardscerbo.com/

The NOI+F website can be found here: http://theclarice.umd.edu/series/2016-national-orchestral-institute-and-festival

The schedule and more information about the Clarice can be found here: theclarice.umd.edu/