Summer Music Festival
"I feel very privileged to have been working with the Colorado College Summer Music Festival since 2002. It has become one of the premier training programs for young orchestral musicians."
Scott Yoo, Festival Orchestra Conductor
June 9-29, 2014
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Applications will be accepted after the Feb. 15 with a $70 application fee payment.
Applications for DOUBLE BASS, BASSOON, CLARINET, HORN, OBOE, PERCUSSION, PIANO and VIOLA are closed.
Susan Grace, music director
Virginia Barron, associate director
Scott Yoo, conductor
The Colorado College Summer Music Festival is an intensive three-week program for 47 advanced student musicians.
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- Full tuition, room and board scholarships for all accepted students.
- Violin, viola, cello, bass, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, timpani/percussion, and piano applications accepted.
- Students must be 16 years old by June 1, 2014 to apply.
- Chamber Music and Orchestra
- World-class faculty
- Small faculty-student ratio
- Private instruction, master classes
- Classes in improvisation, mental toughness training
- Numerous performance opportunities on and off campus
- Faculty/student concerts
- Concerto readings and competition
- Lively and appreciative audiences
- Mountain hiking, Garden of the Gods
- Nestled at the foot of Pikes Peak
Watch Elgar's Variations of an Original Theme ("Enigma"), Op. 36 performed June 23, 2013 by the 2013 Summer Music Fesitval Orchestra.