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Richard Festinger in residence at the Edward MacDowell Colony, September-October, 2004.		Resident Fellow at the Bogliasco Foundation Centro Studii Ligure per Arte e Lettere, October-November 2004.			Richard Festinger In residence at Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, December, 2004.
Resident Fellow at the Aaron Copland House, April-May, 2005.
	Richard Festinger Guest of the French Ministère des Affaires Étrangers at the Couvent des Récollets, January-February, 2005.
			May, 2005: Richard Festinger receives the Academy Award in Music from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Richard Festinger in residence at the Rockefeller Conference and Study Center in Bellagio, March, 2005.
				Richard Festinger’s new composition Laws of Motion premiered by the Empyrean Ensemble, January 23, 2005 at the Mondavi Arts Center, University of California, Davis.
	Richard Festinger’s new composition Hidden Spring premiered by the Cygnus Ensemble, December 7, 2004, at Sarah Lawrence College.
				A Machine for Interpreting Dreams receives premiere performance at the Hoff-Bartelson Music School’s annual New Music Festival, May 1, 2005.