APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS
COMPOSITION

THIS PROGRAM IS FULL FOR SUMMER 2008.  WE ARE NO LONGER ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS.

However, please click here to read about our first ever student composition competition.

• A completed application form AND a photocopy of the completed form (so you're sending us 2 copies of the application). NO STAPLES PLEASE.
• A $50 nonrefundable application fee if postmarked on or before January 31, 2008. If postmarked after January 31, 2008, please include a $75 non-refundable application fee. All fees should be made payable to the Bowdoin International Music Festival, Inc. in U.S. Dollars.
• A letter of recommendation. This requirement is waived for 2006, 2007 Festival alumni whose teachers are returning and for applicants who wish to have their current teacher as their festival teacher.
• Two scores labeled with your name.
• A recording of those two scores (cassette tape or CD only.  No video tapes or mini disks). All recordings and accompanying cases must be clearly labeled with your name and "composition". Scores and recordings will be returned only to those applicants to the composition program who provide a self-addressed, stamped envelope.