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Festivals
Strategize where to spend the summer. In addition to helping you hone your craft and work with experts, festivals can help you develop a specialty (new music, baroque, chamber, etc), build musical networks, and open up new markets (abroad and within the US).
So, make a career coaching appointment to articulate your goals, and then use the resources at your fingertips—faculty knowledge, colleagues inside and outside MSU, and resources such as the following links—to find the right experience for you.
An extensive festival list maintained by Peabody’s Music Entrepreneurship center.
A list of well-respected music festivals, put together by David Cutler, Associate Professor of Music Entrepreneurship at the University of South Carolina.
Running Start List of Festivals
Click on a festival name to be redirected to their host site.
Updated on 10/12/2022 for Summer 2023.
Festival Name |
Program Type |
Deadline |
| American Bach Soloists Academy | Early Music Performance: period strings, woodwinds, voice | Feb. 28, 2024 |
| American Institute of Musical Studies (AIMS-Graz) | Voice, Piano, Orchestra |
Mar. 10, 2024 – Video |
| Aria International Summer Music Academy | Violin, Cello, Flute, Clarinet. | Apr. 3, 2024 |
| Aspen Music Festival | Orchestral/Instrumental, Solo/Collaborative Piano, Opera Coaching, Voice, Aspen Conducting Academy, Composition Studies, Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, Classical Guitar, Chamber Music Studies |
Sep. 17, 2023: Nov. 1, 2023: Nov. 12, 2023: Jan. 5, 2024: |
| Atlantic Music Festival | Composition, Conducting, Orchestral/Instrumental, Opera, Piano |
Nov. 30, 2023 |
| Bang on a Can | New Music Ensemble/Chamber Music | Jan. 11, 2024 |
| Berkshire Choral Festival | Vocalists, Choral Conductors, Accompanists | Dec. 1, 2023 |
| Blossom Music Festival | Chamber Music, Orchestral/Instrumental | Feb. 1, 2024 |
| Bowdoin Festival | Collaborative Piano, Composition, Instrumental | Jan. 15, 2024 |
| Brevard Music Center | Orchestral/Instrumental, Piano, Jazz, Composition, Saxophone, Classical Guitar, Low Brass Seminar, Flute Seminar, Opera |
Jan. 28, 2024: |
| Britten-Pears School | Instrumental, Vocal, Composition | Rolling |
| Centrum Summer Workshops | Blues, Jazz, Choir, Chamber Music | Rolling |
| Chautauqua Institution | Orchestral/Instrumental, Piano, Theatre, Voice, Conducting |
Nov. 1, 2023: |
| Clazz International Music Festival | Classical, Jazz, Instrumental, Chamber Music | Jan. 21, 2024 |
| Colorado College Summer Music Festival | Orchestral/Instrumental, Chamber Music | Feb. 15, 2024 |
| Cortona Sessions for New Music | Composition, New Music | Jan. 5, 2024 |
| Credo Music Festival | Orchestral, Chamber |
Feb. 15, 2024 |
| Disneyland All American College Band | Jazz, Brass, Winds, Percussion | Rolling |
| Domaine Forget | Strings, Brass, Winds, Percussion, Vocal, Piano, Collaborative Piano, Guitar, Chamber Music |
Brass, Woodwinds, Saxophone, Strings, Keyboards, Conducting, Chamber, Orchestra, Voice: |
| Eastern Music Festival | Orchestral/Instrumental, Conducting, Piano, Classical Guitar, String Fellowships, Percussion Fellowships | Feb. 20, 2024 |
| Hot Springs Music Festival | Winds, Percussion, Harp, Strings, Piano, Conducting | TBA |
| International Contemporary Ensemble | Ensemble Evolution: new music workshop |
Opening in March, 2024 |
| The Kennedy Center |
Pre-Professional Artist Training: |
Jan. 7, 2024: |
| Killington Music Festival | Strings, Brass, Winds, Piano, Chamber Music | March 1, 2024 |
| Madison Early Music Festival | Early music performance workshop: strings, winds, brass, voice, dance. | Rolling |
| Marrowstone Music Festival | Orchestral/Instrumental, Chamber Music, Piano | Feb. 1, 2024 |
| Meadowmount School of Music | Chamber Music, Strings, Piano | Jan. 20, 2024 |
| Monteux School | Conducting, Orchestral/Instrumental | Jan. 1, 2024 |
| Mostly Modern | Instrumental, Conducting, Voice, Composition, Piano |
Dec. 15, 2023: |
| Music Academy of the West | Voice, Vocal Piano, Collaborative Piano, Solo Piano, Orchestral/Instrumental |
Oct .15, 2023: |
| Music at Menlo | Strings and Pianos | Jan. 15, 2024 |
| National Orchestral Institute |
Orchestral/Instrumental, Composition, Conducting |
Jan 10, 2024: Feb. 6, 2023: Feb. 6, 2024: |
| National Repertory Orchestra | Orchestral/Instrumental, Conducting | Jan. 26, 2024 |
| Nief Norf | Contemporary Music | Feb. 15, 2024 |
| Norfolk Chamber Music Festival | Chamber Music, New Music, Choral Conducting, Chorus | Jan. 4, 2024: New Music Workshop, Chamber Music Session Mar. 14, 2024: Choir, Choral Conducting |
| NYU Summer Programs | Instrumental, Composition, Music Technology, Music Education, Music Business, Conducting |
Applications open in January, 2024 |
| Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute | Early Music Performance: period keyboards, strings, winds, brass, voice | Apr. 5, 2024 |
| Opera in the Ozarks | Opera, Opera Orchestra |
Jan. 28, 2024 |
| Oregon Bach Festival | Berwick Academy for early music performance: period strings, woodwinds, brass, keyboards, voice | Jan. 31, 2024 (At 415Hz or 430Hz) |
| Pacific Music Festival | Orchestral/Instrumental | Jan. 17, 2024 |
| PRISMA | Orchestral/Instrumental | Feb. 28, 2024 |
| Ravinia Steans Music Institute | Piano and Strings, Jazz |
Sept. 30, 2023: Jan. 31, 2024: |
| Rocky Ridge Young Artist Seminar | Orchestral/Instrumental, Piano | Mar. 15, 2024: |
| Round Top International Music Festival | Orchestral/Instrumental | Feb. 5, 2024 |
| San Francisco Early Music Society | Early Music Workshops | Rolling |
| Sarasota Music Festival | Chamber Music |
Feb. 15, 2024 |
| Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival | Orchestral/Instrumental | Nov. 30, 2023 |
| Scotia Festival of Music | Orchestral/Instrumental, Chamber Music | Feb. 15, 2024 |
| Sewanee Summer Music Festival | Orchestral/Instrumental, Chamber Music, Conducting, Composition, Piano | Jan. 18, 2024: Opera Mar. 22, 2024: Instrumental, Composition |
| Stanford Jazz Workshop | Jazz, Combos, Vocal Jazz | Apr. 15, 2024 |
| Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute | Early Music Workshop | Mar. 1, 2024 |
| Taneycomo Festival Orchestra | Orchestral/Instrumental | Mar. 1, 2024 |
| Tanglewood Music Center | Orchestral/Instrumental, Conducting, Voice, Piano, Vocal Piano, Composition |
Oct. 15, 2023: |
| Texas Music Festival | Orchestral/Instrumental, Bel Canto Studies |
Feb. 13, 2024: |
| Vancouver Symphony Orchestral Institute | Orchestral/Instrumental | Joint program with PRISMA, Summer 2024. |
| Verbier Festival | Orchestral/Instrumental |
Nov. 3, 2023: Jan. 18, 2024: |
| Yellow Barn Music School and Festival | Chamber Music, Strings, Piano, Winds, Harp, Voice, Percussion, Composition |
Jan. 24, 2024: |
| Youth Orchestra of the Americas | Orchestral/Instrumental |
Nov. 1, 2023: |
