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GRANT PARK MUSIC FESTIVAL
SUMMER STRING AND VOCAL FELLOWSHIPS
gpmf.org
CHICAGO, IL
The Grant Park Music Festival's String and Vocal Fellowships aim to guide early career musicians toward successful professional careers in music. Come be a part of the nation’s longest running free outdoor summer classical music series!
We have so many great things in store for this summer's string and vocal fellows including concerts and master classes with world renowned classical and pops artists, a high-profile recital series featuring solo opera arias and chamber works, an opportunity to work with today's best composers in world premiere performances and performing for 10,000+ people in downtown Chicago with the Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus!
VOCAL FELLOWSHIP DETAILS
June 3 - June 29, 2024
- ELIGIBLE MUSICIANS: Grant Park Music Festival Fellowships are designed to support the development of outstanding early-career string players (violin, viola, cello) and vocalists who are attending or have graduated from a college, university or conservatory level music program and are from populations historically underrepresented in American symphony orchestras, including but not limited to underrepresented racial, ethnic, socioeconomic and geographic groups.
- AVAILABLE: Soprano, Alto/Mezzo, Tenor, Baritone/Bass
- FELLOWSHIP STIPEND: Minimum of $1,000 per week (approx $4,000 total)
- Vocal Video Application Deadline: Friday, January 26, 2024
- Live Audition for Finalists: February 20, 2024 *applicants traveling over 50 miles are eligible for travel support
- Required repertoire to be announced November 15, 2024
STRING FELLOWSHIP DETAILS
June 10 - August 3, 2024
- ELIGIBLE MUSICIANS: Grant Park Music Festival Fellowships are designed to support the development of outstanding early-career string players (violin, viola, cello) and vocalists who are attending or have graduated from a college, university or conservatory level music program and are from populations historically underrepresented in American symphony orchestras, including but not limited to underrepresented racial, ethnic, socioeconomic and geographic groups.
- AVAILABLE: Violin (2), Viola, Cello
- FELLOWSHIP STIPEND: Minimum of $1,000 per week (approx $8,000 total)
- String Video Application Deadline: Friday, February 16, 2024
- Live Audition for Finalists: March 15, 2024 *applicants traveling over 50 miles are eligible for travel support
- Repertoire will be listed on fellowship detail pages (choose your instrument from the drop-down menu on the upper left side of this page)
For more information on the Grant Park Music Festival and the Orchestral String and Vocal Fellowships, please visit our website: www.gpmf.org or e-mail Hilary Mercer hilary.mercer@gpmf.org
SEE YOU IN CHICAGO!