The Composers Conference nurtures the creation, performance, and appreciation of music, serving as a catalyst for conscientious creativity through shared wisdom, expertise, and diverse artistry.
The 2021 Composers Conference will take place at Brandeis University July 30-August 7, 2021. Applications for the Chamber Music Workshop will open in March 2021. Stay tuned for further details about our 2021 events. We invite you to peruse our 2020 Virtual Conference events found on our CONCERTS and EVENTS page.
The Composers Conference Statement on Anti-Racism
Founded over 75 years ago, the Composers Conference has sought through learning and adapting, to serve as an inclusive, collaborative environment that promotes the exploration, invention and performance of music at the highest levels. We remain committed to creating an anti-racist culture where Black voices and visions can be seen, heard, and nurtured.
The Composers Conference knows and believes Black lives matter. We will fight against the inequality and injustice towards all Black people. We believe in the power of music to create a more compassionate, ethical, and equitable world.
-Kurt Rohde, Artistic Director
Artistic Director Kurt Rohde’s welcome message from the 2020 Conference
Conference Programs
Through an inclusive, collaborative environment, the Composers Conference offers a unique opportunity for exceptional emerging composers, professional musicians, amateur chamber players, and conservatory-level musicians to come together as colleagues, audience, teachers and students in an atmosphere of fertile creativity and concentrated, high-level music making each summer at Brandeis University. The Composers Conference is a musical utopia that fosters, teaches, cultivates, shares, creates, and performs the best contemporary music with the highest artistic standards. The result allows for exploration and invention with integrity and honesty.
Kurt Rohde, Artistic Director Linda Catlin Smith and Amadeus Regucera, Guest Composers 2021 Our Fromm Foundation Composer Fellows are selected to participate in intensive seminars, rehearsals, workshops and public colloquia...
Instrumentalists, singers, and pre-formed ensembles are encouraged to apply to the Contemporary Performance Institute at the Composers Conference. Accepted students gather together in the summer for an intense two-week period...
For more than 70 years, the Chamber Music Workshop (CMW) has provided amateur musicians with the opportunity to expand their knowledge of chamber music by collaborating with friends old and...
