Other festival concerts occurred at such venues as: Jay K. Hoffman, William W. Lockwood Jr., Schuyler G. Chapin and George F. Schutz jointly founded the initial version of the festival in 1966.
[1] As advised by the then-president of Lincoln Center, William Schuman, the festival assisted in providing summer employment for freelance classical musicians in New York City.
[5][6] In December 2002, Louis Langrée was named the festival's next music director,[7] and formally took up the post in the summer of 2003.
[10] Langrée concluded his tenure as music director of the Mostly Mozart Festival at the close of the summer of 2023.
[13] In May 2023, Lincoln Center announced the appointment of Jonathon Heyward as the next music director of the orchestra affiliated with the Mostly Mozart Festival, which was scheduled to undergo a name change from 2024 onwards.