July 5 – August 9, 2020
2020 APPLICANTS PLEASE NOTE: You will receive the results of your audition by no later than March 1st. If this causes difficulties for you, please contact Ellen Hwangbo right away at (802) 387-3108.
Seth Knopp, Artistic Director
David and Janet Wells, Founders
Yellow Barn's core program is a five-week intensive summer chamber music program for outstanding students and young professionals. Participants explore chamber music repertoire with an internationally renowned faculty, rehearsing and performing together in 20 concerts at the Big Barn, Yellow Barn's intimate concert hall in Putney, Vermont. Repertoire ranges from the Baroque period to the present day, and often affords participants the opportunity of working with visiting composers. Participants are housed, share their meals, and have access to rehearsal and practice studios on Yellow Barn's summer campus at The Greenwood School.
Activities for pre-formed ensembles will be tailored to the needs of each group invited to participate. Performance opportunities for the ensemble, and the involvement of its individual members in projects outside the ensemble, will be determined accordingly. Ensembles should be full-time groups who have been playing together for a minimum of one year, and who have the shared desire to establish themselves as a lasting entity. All instrumental combinations are considered.
Yellow Barn alumni have founded and joined major chamber ensembles, are members of the world's finest orchestras, and are respected educators in the music world. Yellow Barn alumni ensembles include eighth blackbird, So Percussion, Due East, and the Ariel, Chiara, Jupiter, and Parker Quartets.
This program is open to 36 musicians in the early stages of their professional careers. Most participants in this program are currently enrolled in, or have graduated from conservatory, or graduate school.
For more information about Yellow Barn's unique program, please read our educational philosophy.
Please note: If you are 20 years old or younger, please visit the page for our Young Artists Program.
APPLICATION INFORMATION
Materials must be received by the following dates:
Live auditions (strongly recommended):
Applications for European auditions: January 13, 2020—New deadline
Applications for U.S. auditions: January 15, 2020
Videotaped auditions (only if a live audition is not possible): January 31, 2020
Video auditions must be recorded after October 1, 2019. Earlier recordings will not be accepted.
Late and walk-in applications will be accommodated where possible.
Important note to former participants:
Former participants who audition and are invited to return for a 2nd summer at Yellow Barn, are automatically welcomed back for a 3rd summer, provided that it is consecutive to their 2nd summer. Participants wishing to do this should notify Melody Lin at Yellow Barn by the application deadline.
Participants who have taken one or more summers off after their 2nd summer and wish to return for a 3rd summer, must submit a request for a 3rd summer with Melody Lin by the application deadline.
After 3 summers of participation at Yellow Barn, alumni may request to return for additional summers. Participants wishing to request additional summers should notify Melody Lin by the application deadline.
2020 FACULTY
Violin
Curtis Macomber
Nicholas Mann
Anthony Marwood
Donald Weilerstein
Viola
Kim Kashkashian*
Maria Lambros
Katherine Murdock
Roger Tapping
Cello
Natasha Brofsky
Jean-Michel Fonteneau
Bonnie Hampton
Michael Kannen
Laurence Lesser*
John Myerscough
Piano
Peter Frankl
Gilbert Kalish
Seth Knopp
Dénes Várjon
Vivian Hornik Weilerstein
Winds
Mark Hill, oboe
Caleb Hudson, trumpet
Alan Kay, clarinet
Stephen Stirling, horn
Percussion
Eduardo Leandro
Voice
William Sharp, baritone
Lucy Shelton, soprano
Composition
Stephen Coxe
James MacMillan
Body Awareness
Aliza Stewart, Feldenkrais
Sarah West, bodywork therapist
*Guest Faculty
For more information, please contact:
Melody Lin, Admissions Coordinator
(802) 387-3108
melody@yellowbarn.org
Yellow Barn does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, or veteran status in the administration of its educational policies, admission policies, employment policies, scholarship and loan programs, or other Yellow Barn-sponsored activities.