Founder
Marc Gelfo
Accelerating Music Learning @modacity, pro French hornist. Passionate about health, tech, bizdev, sales & growth, creative problem solving, teamwork.
Accelerating Music Learning @modacity, pro French hornist. Passionate about health, tech, bizdev, sales & growth, creative problem solving, teamwork.
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Experience
Founder/CEO
Practice Better. Learn Faster.
Modacity helps musicians achieve their goals more efficiently through smart organization, quantified learning, and social feedback.
Modacity helps musicians achieve their goals more efficiently through smart organization, quantified learning, and social feedback.
Extra/Sub Horn
Performed more than 30 weeks as an extra musician with San Francisco Symphony, including two world tours, recordings, and other high profile performances.
French hornist
Full-time symphonic performance.
Recording, touring, multiple shows per week.
Shared music director with New York Philharmonic.
Elected to & served on artistic... more committee.
Recording, touring, multiple shows per week.
Shared music director with New York Philharmonic.
Elected to & served on artistic... more committee.
Principal Horn
Performed operas and symphonic concerts as principal horn, including Mahler #5 at Kravis Center.
Learning & Cognition Coach
Joint venture, created mastery training events in Hong Kong, Vietnam, and Amsterdam. Group & individual coaching. Streamed expert interviews worldwide for Enhanced Learning... more & Consciousness Conference.
Adjunct Professor of Music
Motivated & guided students to achieve musical excellence as soloists and ensemble players, focusing on fundamentals, artistry, and efficient practice.
Product Management
Creative Marketing Programmed custom web-based concert & booking management Social Media system for Northwestern's 4 venues. AREAS OF EXPERTISE Hong Kong Philharmonic
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Become a better musician through better practice
The more time you spend managing your learning, the less time you have to play your instrument. Modacity handles organization, time tracking, notes, and more… · More with guided deliberate practice, recording, and "ask expert'.
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Most meaningful achievement: radically upgrading my coaching clients' lives and careers.
Other stand-outs:
Applied cognitive science degree to classical music and won an orchestra job in 2 years.
Toured the world with San Francisco Symphony.
Graduated top of cohort leaderboard at Founder Institute.
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Q&A
What's the most useful business-related book you've ever read?
Brendan Burchard's High Performance Habits
Co-opetition,
What's your favorite non-business book?
Every book is a business book; creative mappings are yours to make.
If money were not an issue, what would you be doing right now?
The same thing I'm doing but with more team, better tech, nicer office, healthier food, and a yoga+fitness concierge.
What's the most creative thing you've ever done?
Painted a Shostakovich Symphony