Double Bass Summer Festivals

[Inuyasha]

So, what are the best summer festivals? Which festivals are totally free? Which are the best for orchestral players?

 

[FrostyBubba3455]

i believe it was aristotle who said, "if you have to ask, you will never know."

 

[CTakacs]

The best summer festivals/camps vary depending on what you're looking for. There's Eastern Music Festival, Brevard, Aspen, Music Academy of the West, Roundtop, Texas Music Festival, Tanglewood (BUTI for highschoolers), Banff, Yellow Barn, Wabass, SIMF, Pacific, Verbier, Schleischwig-Holstien (sp), National Orchestra Institute, National Repertoiry Orchestra, Karr Kamp, Chataqua, Domaine Forget. Those are ones I can think of off the top of my head, and they are all of completely different calliber, so you'll definetly want to do some research. There are also plenty of others that I'm sure I'm forgetting.

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What imput (how competitive compared to others, overall experience, etc.) does anybody have on Music Acadamy of the West, Eastern Music Festival, Texas Music Festival, and the Norfolk New Music Workshop at Yale?

 

[Dr_Atomic]

I can't speak from experience because I haven't gone to the festivals you're mentioning, but I reckon that Music Academy is pretty hard to get into, as well as Norfolk because I think there are quite a lot of Yale students who want to attend - EMF and TMF are less competitive than the others you mentioned, but still are good festivals.