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I wish I knew what our double bassist daughter is going to be doing this summer. Trying to figure it out! We are considering a move to CA (from SC) for her to go to either Idyllwild, Colburn Community School or UNCSA. There are no good bass instructors here in SC and she wants to move to a place where she can get that.

Regarding the summer - she was accepted to Brevard (she went there last year) - but my concern is that it’s just classical for 6.5 week. She also plays and loves jazz. Are there any music camps where she could do both? I know that Idyllwild has a 2 week jazz camp and then a 2 week symphony camp. Does anyone know if this is to the same level as Brevard? And then there the Stanford Jazz Institute. And Peabody Bass Works for a week. Trying to figure it all out without breaking the bank! Any thoughts would be appreciated.

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@tripletmama Look at UNT - Bradetich master classes and Lynn Seaton Jazz workshops. In the past they’ve been held during different weeks, but this year it looks like they will be consecutive weeks.

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D will be (most happily) attending Oberlin in Italy this summer, having been invited after her on campus Oberlin audition.

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Another new summer program, two tracks - one in established repertoire and the other in New Music - Longy’s Divergent Studio. There are two performance options and a Divergent Composition Workshop - Neave Trio and loadbang in residence.
June 11-18, 2017
http://longy.edu/academics/summer-programs/longy-divergent-studio/

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Music Festival Master List Part 1 (2017)

Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music
Location: Nelson, NH
Open to: strings, piano, clarinet, oboe,
Ages: 12-92

Atlantic Music Festival
Location: Colby College, Waterville, Maine
Open to: all instruments, voice, composition, conducting, piano
Ages:

Aspen Music Festival
Location: Aspen, CO
Open to: All instruments, all voice types, piano, composition, conducting
Ages: 10-37

Boston GuitarFest
Location: Boston, MA
Open to: Guitar
Ages: 16-21 (Academy), 21up (Institute) , 6-16(Young Workshop)

Boston University Tanglewood Institute
Location: Lenox, MA
Open to: All instruments, all voice types, piano, composition
Ages: 10-13 (Junior Strings), 14-19 (Young Artists)

Bowdoin International Music Festival
Location: Bowdoin, ME
Open to: All instruments, piano
Ages: 13-30

Brevard Music Center
Location: Brevard, NC
Open to: All instruments, all voice types, piano, composition
Ages: 14-18 (high School Program), 18-29 (College Program)

Brian Lewis Young Artists Program
Location: Ottawa, Kansus
Open to: violin
Ages: up to 18

Camp MSM
Location: Manhattan School of Music, NY
Open to: Instrumentalists and vocalists
Ages: 8-17

Carl Flesch Akademie
Location: Baden-Baden, Germany
Open to: strings
Ages: College, grad students, professionals

Center Stage Strings
Location: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Open to: strings
Ages: 13-24

Chautauqua Institution
Location: Chautaugua, NY
Open to: all instruments, conducting, piano, voice
Agess: 18 and up

CIM Summer Programs
Location: Cleveland, OH
Open to: strings, piano, composers and sound engineering
Ages: 10-19

College Conservatory of Music Summer Program
Location: University of Cincinnati
Open to all instruments
Ages: adult, college, high school, youth and teen

College Light Opera Company
Location: Cape Cod
Open to: voice and small orchestra
Ages: Undergrad and grad students

Colorado College Summer Music Festival
Location: Colorado Springs, CO
Open to: all instruments, piano, percussion
Ages: pre-professional students

Cortona Sessions for New Music
Location:
Open to: strings, wind, piano, percussion, voice; competition; 20th and 21st c. “new music”
Ages: 18 and up

Credo Flute
Location: Elmhurst, IL
Open to: flutists
Ages:14 and up

Credo Oberlin
Location: Oberlin Conservatory of Music
Open to: strings piano
Ages: 13-23

Credo Orchestral Program
Location: Chicago, IL
Open to: all instruments
Ages:

Credo New England
Location: Gordon College, MA
Open to: all instruments percussion
Ages: 12-18

Crested Butte Music Festival
Location: Crested Butte, CO
Open to: Vocalists
Age:

Curtis Young Artist Program
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Open to: orchestral, harp, flute, voice
Ages: 14-22

Des Moines Opera
Location: Des Moines, IA
Open to: voice and orchestral
Ages: late undergrad through professional

Domaine Forget Academy
Location: Quebec
Open to: All instruments, guitar, all voice types, dance
Age: 16up

Eastern Music Festival
Location: Greensboro, NC
Open to: All instruments, all voice types, piano, composition
Ages:

Fontainebleau Schools Summer Session
Location: Fontainebleau, France
Open to: violin, viola, cello, composition, piano
Ages: 18-31

Frost Young Musicians’ Camp
Location: University of Miami
Open to: classical, jazz, rock instruments, piano, voice
Ages: 7-18

Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival
Location: Burlington, VT
Open to: strings, piano
Ages: 13-30

Greenwood Music Camp
Location: Cummington, MA
Open to: strings
Ages: 10-13(Junior), 13-18 (Senior)

Heifetz International Music Institute
Location: Staunnton, VA
Open to: strings
Ages: 13-25

Hot Springs Music Festival
Location: Hot Springs National Park, AR
Open to: All instruments, singers, recording engineers, conductors, composers
Ages:

IdyllwildArts Summer Program
Location: Idyllwild, CA
Open to: all instruments, jazz, piano, harp
Ages: middle school and high school students only

Indiana University String Academy
Location: Bloomington, IU
Open to: String players
Ages: 12-18

Indiana University Piano Academy
Location: Bloomington, IU
Open to: Piano
Ages: Grades 7-12

Institute & Festival for Contemporary Performance
Location: Mannes College,
Open to: all instruments, voice
Ages: gifted students, young professionals

InterHarmony International Music Festival
Location: Italy and Germany
Open to: strings, piano
Ages:

Interlochen Arts Camp
Location: Interlochen, MI
Open to: All instruments, all voice types, piano
Ages: Grades 3-12

International Institute for Young Musicians
Location: Lawrence, Kansas City
Open to: piano
Ages: under 18

International Orchestra Institute Attergau
Location: Vienna
Open to: All instruments
Ages: 18-28

International Flute Symposium
Location: Morgantwon, WV
Open to: flutists
Ages: 12-adult

International Musicians Seminar Prussia Cove
Location: England
Open to: strings, piano
Ages:

Jeunesse Musicales World Orchestra
Location: (Touring)
Open to: All instruments
Ages:

John Perry Academy of Music Summer Festival
Location: Northridge, CA
Open to: piano
Ages: young – college

Juilliard Summer Percussion Seminar
Location: New York, NY
Open to: Percussionists
Ages: 15-have not graduated from High School

Juilliard String Quartet Seminar
Location: New York, NY
Open to: pre-professional string quartets
Ages:

Kinhaven Music School
Location: Weston, VT
Open to: all instruments
Ages: Grades 4-8 (junior), High-school (Senior) ,18-28 (Young Artists)

Kneisel Hall Chamber Music School
Location: Blue Hill, ME
Open to: All instruments, piano
Ages: 9-19 (Maine Students), 18up (Young Artists)

Longy’s Divergent Studio
Location: Bard College
Open to: composer, violin, cello, piano, trumpet, clarinet, trombone, voice
Ages:

Lucerne Festival Academy
Location: Lucerne, Switzerland
Open to: All instruments, conducting
Age:

Marrowstone Music Festival
Location: Bellingham, WA
Open to: All instruments
Ages: 14-25

Marlboro Music Festival
Location: Marlboro, VT
Open to: All instruments, piano
Ages: 18 and up

Manchester Music Festival
Location: Manchester, VT
Open to: All instruments, piano
Ages: 18-26

Meadowmount School of Music
Location: Westport, NY
Open to: strings, piano
Ages: 8-30

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Music Festival Master List Part 2 (2017)

Mendocino Music Festival
Location: Mendocino, CA
Open to: String players
Ages: 18-26

Montecito International Music Festival
Location: La Sierra University, CA
Open to: all instruments, piano, voice
Ages: 13 and up

Morningside Music Bridge
Location:
Open to: strings, piano, clarinet
Ages: 12-18

Music Academy of the West
Location: Santa Barbara, CA
Open to: All instruments, all voice types, piano, conducting
Ages: 18-34 (academy) 11-17 (Merit Youth Outreach Program)

Music Festival at Walnut Hills
Location: Boston, MA
Open to: all instruments
Ages: 14 and up

Music@Menlo
Location: Artherton, CA
Open to: strings, piano
Ages: 18-29 (International Program) , 9-18 (Young Performers Program)

Musiktheater Bavaria,
Location: Oberaudorf, Germany
Open to: voice
Ages:

National Arts Centre-Young Artists Program
Location: Ottawa, CANADA
Open to: All instruments, voice
Ages:

National Orchestral Institute
Location: College Park, MD
Open to: All instruments
Ages: Undergraduate to 26 (Senior Level), 12up (pre-college level)

National Repertory Orchestra
Location: Breckinridge, CO
Open to: All instruments
Ages:

National Symphony Summer Music Institute
Location: Washington, D.C.
Open to: All instruments
Ages: 15-20

NEC Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice
Location: Boston, MA
Open to: Voice, Piano, Pre-Formed Ensembles, Percussion
Ages:

NEC Jazz Lab
Location: Boston, MA
Open to:
Ages: 14-18

New England Music Camp
Location: Sidney, Maine
Open to: strings, orchestra, band, jazz ensembles, chamber groups, piano, guitar
Ages: 12-17

Norfolk Chamber Music Festival (Yale Summer Program)
Location: Norfolk, CT
Open to: All instruments, piano, composition
Ages:

NYU Steinhardt MPAP Summer Programs
Location: NYC, NY
Open to: all Instruments, voice, jazz, music business, music technology, music education, music therapy
Ages: high school

Opera North: Young Artists Program
Location: Lebannon, NH
Open to: All voice types
Ages:

Orford d’Arts Centre
Location: Canton d’Orford, Quebec
Open to: All instruments
Ages:

Pacific Music Festival
Location: Sapporo, Japan
Open to: All instruments, string quartets
Ages: 18-29

Pianofest in the Hamptons
Location: East Hampton, NY
Open to: piano
Ages:

Point Counterpoint
Location: Leicester, VT
Open to: strings, piano
Ages: 8-18

Pokorny Low Brass Seminar
Location: University of Redlands
Open to: tuba, trombone
Ages: professional symphony musicians, free-lancers, graduate undergraduate students, high school students

Portland Summer Ensembles
Location: Portland, OR
Open to: strings, piano, woodwinds, horn
Ages: young musicians of all ages

Ravinia Festival: Steans Institute
Location: Highland Park, IL
Open to: jazz program, piano, strings, theater
Ages: 17-30

Round Top Festival Institute
Location: Round Top, TX
Open to: All instruments
Ages: under 21

Sarasota Festival
Location: Sarasota, FL
Open to: All instruments, piano
Ages: 18 and up

Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival
Location: Lubeck, Germany
Open to: All instruments
Ages: under 26

Seiji Ozawa International Academy Switzerland
Location: Geneve, Switzerland
Open to: violin, viola cello
Ages: under 25 (violin) under 27 (viola) under26 (cello)

SongFest
Location: Colburn School, CA
Open to: Singers and collaborative pianists
Ages:

So Percussion Summer Institute
Location: Princeton University
Open to: percussionists, composers
Ages: college

Sound Encounters
Location: Ottawa, Kansas
Open to: strings
Ages: All age to high school (Undergraduate Division) College (Collegiate Division)

SoundSCAPE
Location: Italian Alps
Open to: strings, piano, flute, percussion; chamber, sinfonietta, performance of peer composers’ works, 20th/21st century “new music” including Grisey, Ligeti, Knusse
Ages:

Spoleto USA
Location: Charleston, SC
Open to: All instruments
Ages:

Starling-DeLay Symposium on Violin Studies
Location: New York, NY (Juilliard)
Open to: Violin
Ages:

Summer@ Eastman
Location: Rochester, NY
Open to: All instruments
Age: pre-college students

Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute
Location: Canada
Open to: All instruments, all vocalists, conductors
Ages:

Tanglewood Music Center
Location: Lenox, MA
Open to: All instruments, all voice types, piano, composition
Ages:

Taos School of Music-Chamber Music Festival
Location: Taos, New Mexico
Open to: strings, piano
Ages: 18-29

Texas Music Festival
Location: Houston, TX
Open to: All instruments
Ages: 18-30 (Orchestra), Junior high up (Voice, Flute, Piano and Jazz)

The Castleman Quartet Program
Location: Fredonia, NY
Open to: strings, piano
Ages:

The Perlman Music Program
Location: Shelter Island, NY
Open to: Strings
Ages: 12-18 (Summer Music School), 18up (Chamber Music Workshop)

The National Music Festival
Location: Washington College, Maryland
Open to: orchestral instruments, conducting, arts administration, concert production, piano repair, recording engineering and music library
Ages: 18up

The Walden School-Young Musicians Program
Location: Dublin, New Hampshire
Open to:
Ages: 9-18

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chamber Music Institute
Location: Lincoln, NE
Open to: strings, woodwind, brass, piano
Ages: college or recent college graduate

Verbier Festival Orchestra
Location: Switzerland
Open to: All instruments
Ages: 15-18 (Junior Orchestra), 18-28 (Orchestra)

Verbier Academy
Location: Switzerland
Open to: Most instruments, piano
Ages:

WABASS Institute
Location: Wabash, IN
Open to: Double bass
Ages: 14 and up

Warsaw Piano Workshop
Location: Warsaw Poland
Open to: piano
Ages:

WNO Opera Institute at American University
Location: Washington DC
Open to: voice
Ages: 15-18

Yellow Barn Music School
Location: Putney, VT
Open to: All instruments, piano, composition
Ages: Most participants in this program are currently enrolled in, or have graduated from conservatory, or graduate school.

Yellow Barn Music School Young Artists
Location: Putney, VT
Open to: All instruments, piano, composition
Ages: 13-20

Youth Orchestra of the Americas
Location: (Touring)
Open to: All instruments
Ages: 18-30

Zermatt Music Festival & Academy
Location: Zermatt, Switzerland
Open to: All instruments
Ages:

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Anyone hear back from Eastern Music Festival yet? I was notified that I had placed on the wait list (bass trombone) and was wondering if anyone else got acceptance/wait list letters.

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This is an amazing list and resource, thanks! A few little additions: NEC’s SICPP is for composers as well, as is Bowdoin, maybe others. In Europe composers can apply to European-American Musical Alliance, Etchings, Composit, Manifeste, Darmstadt, some of which may be more for college age than high schoolers however. Sonoma State, June in Buffalo, and others in the US. Walden is a composition program for creative kids and musicians, as well as experienced composers. Somewhere there is a list for composition alone, on the Walden site I believe.

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Encore for Strings has been back up since 2016. They have an intensive chamber music session in June, and a Summer Academy in July. The Intensive Strings is at Gilmore Academy in Gates Mills, OH. The Summer Academy is held at CIM. Ages 11-23? I think? Strings only.

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Interesting! I did not realized they had revived ENCORE. Just looked at the website and it looks very different from the old one, different faculty, different everything.

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@glassharmonica I think it is a good thing. It was revived by someone who actually went to the original version. My son is going this summer. I know my son’s current viola teacher went to the one that was at Western Reserve years ago.

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My daughter went to the old program when she was 12 and 13–she made a lot of lifelong friends and contacts there.

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S is headed to the Sewanee Music Festival in TN for four weeks on a full tuition scholarship, and then the 2017 Alessi Seminar in Eugene, Oregon in August. Busy but exciting summer ahead for him!

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D off to Tanglewood BUTI for Horn workshop and Winds… beyond excited

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4 great weeks at the Sewanee music festival in the books, 2017 Alessi Seminar kicked off yesterday in Eugene, Oregon (selected as a Fellow). This is the one he’s been anticipating all summer as it has propelled many to the professional level…he is beyond stoked! Hope all other musicians and parents had an awesome summer season.

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I just learned about a new summer festival at Banff: http://www.resonantbodiesfestival.org/banff/
(R)EVOLUTION RESONANT BODIES JULY 30-AUGUST 4, 2018
RBF teams up with Banff Centre and summer program co-artistic directors Claire Chase and Steve Schick for (R)evolution Resonant Bodies. It offers participants the opportunity to perform, create, collaborate, and experiment with their voices in an environment that encourages creativity and exploration. Led by a faculty of world-renowned artists, participants will explore the voice in its many forms, engaging vocal practices that span centuries and world traditions.
(R)evolution seeks passionate, adventurous individuals who identify as vocalists, instrumentalists, and/or composers. Those who are interested in stretching themselves beyond their current realm (as just a vocalist, instrumentalist, or composer) are especially welcomed, as are those who already identify as a composer-vocalist, instrumentalist-composer, vocal-instrumentalist, and so on. Voices from classical and non-classical training backgrounds are welcome; all participants will explore notated and non-notated practices.

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