Summer Opportunities for Composers
Large Institutes | New Music Workshops | Juried Artist Residencies | Music Technology-Related Festivals
Festivals Abroad
Large Institutes (Composition & Performance)
Atlantic Music Festival (Waterville, ME)
Aspen Music Festival and School (Aspen, CO)
Brevard Music Festival (Brevard, NC)
Bowdoin International Music Festival (Brunswick, ME)
Domaine Forget (Québec)
Tanglewood Music Center (Lenox, MA)
New Music Workshops
Bang on a Can Summer Festival (North Adams, MA)
Del Mar International Composers Symposium (Del Mar, CA)
Eighth Blackbird Creative Lab (Ojai, CA)
June in Buffalo (Buffalo, NY)
Lake George Music Festival (Queensbury, NY)
Mizzou New Music Initiative (Columbia, MO)
New Music on the Point (Leicester, VT)
Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposium (Eugene, OR)
Composers Conference (formerly at Wellesley College, now at Brandeis)
Norfolk Chamber Music Festival - New Music Workshop (Norfolk, CT)
Nief Norf Summer Festival
Orchestral Reading Sessions and Performance Opportunities
American Composers Orchestra - EarShot Reading Sessions (various orchestras nationally)
Cabrillo Festival Composer/Conductor Workshop (Santa Cruz, CA)
Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute (Minneapolis, MN)
New England Philharmonic (Boston, MA)
New Jersey Symphony Edward T. Cone Composition Institute (Princeton, NJ)
Juried Artist Residencies (USA and Canada)
• This list is bound to remain forever incomplete. There are vast quantities of artist residencies (fully funded, semi-funded, and pay-for-your-stay).
• ResArtis is the best dedicated resource for researching artist residency opportunities in the United States and abroad.
Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity
Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts
Copland House
Djerassi Resident Artist Program
Hambidge
Kimmel Nelson Harding Center
MacDowell Colony
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
Willapa Bay AiR
Yaddo
Music Tech-Related Festivals
CCRMA Summer Workshops
Berkeley Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (Berkeley, CA) - occasional workshops
SPLICE Institute
Festivals Abroad
Accademia Chigiana (Siena, Italy)
Britten-Pears Young Artist Program (Suffolk, England)
Cortona Sessions for New Music (Cortona, Italy)
Darmstadt International Music Institute (Darmstadt, Germany)
Dartington International Summer School & Festival (Dartington, England)
highSCORE Festival (Pavia, Italy)
IRCAM Cursus (Paris)
UPBEAT International Summer Music School (Milna, Croatia)