Summer Music Festival/Job Resources for College Trumpeters to Perform

Summer music festivals are a wonderful opportunity to perform challenging repertoire, hone your musical skills, meet new colleagues, learn from different teachers, and perform with exciting conductors. This list is intended to be used as a centralized resource for college trumpet students to find these festivals and job opportunities. While the links below do not endorse any specific festival or employer, I hope you will find this resource page helpful in your research. If you know of a festival you would like to see added to this list, please contact me!

Aspen Music Festival: Aspen, Colorado

Atlantic Music Festival: Waterville, Maine

Brevard Music Center Institute: Brevard, North Carolina

Chautauqua Institution: Chautauqua, New York

Colorado College Summer Music Festival: Colorado Springs, Colorado

Eastern Music Festival:  Greensboro, North Carolina

Festival Napa Valley:  Napa, California

FOOSA-Fresno Summer Orchestra Academy: Fresno, California

Lake George Music Festival:  Queensbury, New York

Marrowstone Music Festival: Bellingham, Washington

Miami Beach Classical Music Festival: Miami, Florida

Mostly Modern Festival: Saratoga Springs, New York

Music Academy of the West: Summer School and Festival:  Santa Barbara, California

National Music Festival:  Chestertown, Maryland

National Symphony Orchestra Summer Music Institute: Washington, D.C.

National Repertory Orchestra:  Breckenridge, Colorado

The Philadelphia International Music Festival  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The Pierre Monteux School:  Hancock, Maine

Round Top Music Festival Institute:  Round Top, Texas

Sewanee Summer Music Festival:  Sewannee, Tennessee

Spoleto Festival USA: Charleston, South Carolina

Taneycomo Festival Orchestra: Branson, Missouri

Tanglewood Music Center: Lenox, Massachusetts

Texas Music Festival:  Houston, Texas

Brass/Trumpet Specific Programs

Apex Trumpet Symposium (online)

Atlantic Brass Quintet Summer Seminar: Amherst, Massachusetts

Brass Institutes of America: Wichita, Kansas

Chosen Vale:  Hanover, New Hampshire

Orvieto Musica TrumpetFest!: Orvieto, Italy

Raphael Mendez Brass Institute:  Denver, Colorado

University of Kentucky Summer Trumpet Institute: Lexington, Kentucky

International Music Festivals

American Institute of Music Studies (AIMS): Graz, Austria

Domaine Forget International Music Festival: Quebec, Canada

Lucerne Festival Academy: Lucerne, Switzerland

Music Academy Forte: Brussels, Belgium

Pärnu Music Festival, Pärnu, Estonia

Pacific Music Festival:  Sapporo, Japan

Prisma Festival and Academy: British Columbia, Canada

Jazz Study

Mason Jazz Camp: Fairfax, VA

Skidmore Jazz Institute: Saratoga Springs, NY

Berklee Summer Programs: Boston, MA

UMass Jazz in July: Amherst, MA

Additional Employment Resources

Musical Chairs: Trumpet Courses

Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp Summer Jobs

Interlochen Arts Academy Summer Jobs

Carnival Entertainment (Cruise Ship)

Princess Cruises Entertainment (Cruise Ship)

Walt Disney Company Entertainment Careers

Busch Gardens: Williamsburg, VA