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.
June 14-July 4, 2020
Seth Knopp and Mimi Hwang, Artistic Directors
For outstanding musicians ages 13-20
Strings, Woodwinds, Piano, Percussion, and Composition
2020 Young Artists Program Application
Yellow Barn’s Young Artists Program brings together 32 outstanding young instrumentalists and composers from across the United States and abroad for a rigorous and exciting three-week chamber music program that includes intensive study and four public performances. The challenging and supportive learning environment defines a daily schedule that offers coaching sessions, private lessons, public performances, masterclasses, theory workshops, rehearsal and practice time, and the opportunity to enjoy Yellow Barn's beautiful campus. Composers are completely integrated into the program, working with faculty and collaborating with instrumentalists to bring their work to life in performance. Participants live, share their meals, and work in rehearsal and practice studios on Yellow Barn's campus at The Greenwood School.
Young Artists Program alumni, and some college-age participants, attend major conservatories and colleges, including the Juilliard and Eastman Schools of Music, New England Conservatory, the Curtis, Cleveland, and Peabody Institutes, Harvard, Rice, and Yale Universities, and Bard College, among others.
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.
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
Application Fee: $60 (non-refundable and due with application)
Tuition, Room, and Board: $2,750
Scholarship assistance is available based on financial need. Applications for financial aid will be accepted after admission decisions have been announced.
- Any movement from one of Johann Sebastian Bach's Cello Suites, Violin Sonatas, or Partitas
- Keyboard Percussion:
George Hamilton: Green Xylophone Rags
Keiko Abe: Michi; Variations on Japanese Children's Songs; Wind in the Bamboo Grove; or another Abe work of your choice
Akira Miyoshi: Conversation
Ross Edwards: Marimba Dances (at least one of the 3 movements)
Eric Sammut: Four Rotations (at least two of the 4 movements)
Paul Smadbeck: Rhythm Song
(or equivalent)
- Snare drum or multi-percussion:
Jacques Délécluse: Douze Etudes (at least two of the etudes)
Anthony Cirone: Portraits in Rhythm (at least two of the etudes)
Rick Tagawa: Inspirations Diabolique
Iannis Xenakis: Rebonds a or Rebonds b
Frederic Rzewski: To the Earth
Dave Hollinden: Cold Pressed
(or equivalent)
2020 Faculty
Anna Elashvili, violin
Eunae Koh, violin
Ayano Ninomiya, violin
Marka Gustavsson, viola
Misha Amory, viola*
Natasha Brofsky, cello
Jean-Michel Fonteneau, cello
Mimi Hwang, cello
Pedro Borges, piano
Seth Knopp, piano
Gilbert Kalish, piano*
Terry Sweeney, percussion
Ji Hye Jung, percussion*
Eduardo Leandro, percussion*
Stephen Coxe, composition
Nathan Davis, composition*
Christopher Theofanidis, composition*
The Other Mozart ^
Sylvia Milo, actress ^
*Guest faculty
^Guest artist
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.