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Composition Intensive for Developing Composers

at New England Music Camp

July 28 - August 11, 2025

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The 2025 Snow Pond Composition Intensive invites talented young composers between the ages of 14 and 20 years to partake in a 2-week long program that offers innovative opportunities to hone fundamental composition skills in a creative, collaborative environment fostered by renown composition faculty. 

 

The Composition Intensive draws from the expertise of chamber music, jazz, and musical theater faculty to provide participants with a broad and diverse range of musical experiences.

 

Composers in the early stages of their creative journeys will be able to:

- Receive feedback from chamber music and composition faculty during rehearsals of their own worksComp4

- Explore different approaches to conveying your musical ideas such as choice-base composition (CBC), group improvisation, and Soundpainting

- Collaborate creatively with participants of the Chamber Music Intensive towards the creation of short chamber works

- Cultivate awareness of different sound environments through listening sessions.

- Attend music composition workshops and seminars lead by renowned faculty:

           - Writing idiomatically for strings, woodwinds, brass, and percussion

           - Score preparation and presentation

           - Composing in the style of The American Song Book  

 

The program culminates with a public performance of the creative collaborations and a professional recording by the Snow Pond faculty ensemble of the compositions created especially for the Composition Intensive. 

 

Click HERE for Daily Schedule

 

Comp2Cost: 

  • $4,000 ($3,600 base tuition + $400 recording)

*If a student wants to do both NEMC core camp & the Composition Intensive their cost would be as follows:

  • $9,600 ($1000 savings)

*Financial Aid is available! 

  

Admission and Audition Process:

  1. Beginning October 1, complete Online Application HERE including:
    • Two or three original scores (PDFs) and accompanying recordings (MIDI acceptable, submitted as an MP3 or weblink)
    • A short video explaining what excites the camper most about this particular program and how it can make a difference for them at this point in their studies (2 minutes max), and
    • A one-page description of previous musical experiences (previous experience as a performer, pieces composed (at least 2), teachers, performances of works, camps/festivals).
    • $75 non-refundable application fee
  2. All materials will be sent to faculty for review.
  3. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis. Please note, the $500 deposit will be due upon admission to the program.

  

Eligibility:Comp3

  • High School students age 14-20 with composition experience.

     

  • Students should have their own scores and recordings/MIDI of at least two (2) previous works

 

2025 Faculty:

 

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Ricardo Lorenz

Program Coordinator

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Keaton Garrett

Program Assistant

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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