After Wolfe's retirement, conductor and composer Robert D. Levin became the festival's director.
In 2016 Jeffrey Kahane was appointed the festival's Music Director.
Likewise, former festival students are now on the faculty at most of the major conservatories and music schools throughout the United States.
[2] Each year the festival hires roughly 40 guest artists to not only provide training to the students at the festival but also to perform in a series of public concerts at the Sarasota Opera House and the Beatrice Friedman Symphony Center throughout the month of June.
Former students at the festival who have since become faculty artists include violist Robert Vernon, violinist Ani Kavafian, oboist Allan Vogel, bassoonist Nancy Goeres, and cellist Timothy Eddy, among others.