The Composers Conference provides a real service to young composers combining an admirable mix of professional performers and amateur listeners. Housed at Wellesley College for two weeks each summer, the CC encourages the composition and performance of new music by supporting young composers and allowing audiences of all ages and backgrounds the opportunity to interact directly with the composers.

Now in its 61st season, 10 emerging composer Fellows are selected each summer to study with two senior guest composers and Pulitzer-prize winner Mario Davidovsky. Over the two-week period, each Fellow’s piece receives a public performance and a professional recording, directed by Maestro Efrain Guigui. Performing staff of 25 virtuoso instrumentalists and vocalists represent such music groups as Orpheus, Speculum Musiscae and Collage New Music, and guest composers in the past have included names such as Milton Babbitt, Elliot Carter, George Crumb, Donald Martino and many others. If the growth and proliferation of contemporary music makes your heart sing, this organization is for you.