Video by Pang Pongsirirushakun ‘25.
Summer Music Festival
2026 Application Season
FUTURE FELLOWS:
APPLY STARTING NOV. 15
- Returning fellows eligible for Young Artist Program with Festival Mozaic
- Festival Orchestra, conducted by Scott Yoo
- Chamber music ensembles
- Concerto readings
- Small faculty-to-fellow ratio
- Perform alongside Faculty Artists
- Full scholarships for all accepted Fellows
- And much more! Application deadline: Feb. 15
Recent SMF News
Young Artist Program launches Fellows to bigger stages
Kroth named new SMF associate director
CC Summer Music Festival releases 2025 concert schedule
Featured on PBS
Now Hear This Season 3, episode 3 “Aaron Copland: Dean of American Music” takes place in Colorado Springs on the CC campus and with the faculty and students of the CC Summer Music Festival.
Drawing from his Jewish roots, modernism and American folk music, Pulitzer-, Grammy- and Oscar-winning composer Aaron Copland created a distinctive American sound in both his classical compositions and film scores. Like Copland did for much of his career, host Scott Yoo and fellow musicians spend time working with students at a music festival in Colorado to strengthen their auditioning skills and better understand Copland’s music. To discover Copland’s inspiration, Yoo travels to New York to explore the Jewish music Copland was raised with as well as modernist music through performances by Cantor Daniel Mutlu, violinist Steven Copes, cellist Mark Kosower, festival music director and pianist Susan Grace and more. Later, Yoo becomes the student and learns from pianist and Copland enthusiast John Novacek about how the composer developed his signature sound, now so familiar to us all.
Go to PBS to stream the entire episode.
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