SUMMER 2025
Early application deadline – Monday, March 24, 2025 *
Early auditions – Sunday, March 30, 2025
Early admission decisions announced – Friday, April 4, 2025

Final application deadline – Monday, April 21, 2025
Final auditions – Saturday, April 26, 2025
Final admission decisions announced – Friday, May 2, 2025

* CIMF is offering rolling admission this year. Applicants who audition on the earlier date of March 30 (or by video sent by March 30) will receive their admissions decisions by April 4. We encourage applicants to apply and audition early.

Deadline to confirm participation in CIMF Summer 2025 – May 15, 2025
Tuition due for all participants – May 26, 2025
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Applications received after April 21, 2025 will be waitlisted. Waitlist applicants will be contacted after May 15 with regard to status.

REFER A FRIEND AND SAVE ON TUITION! If a musician applying to the CIMF Summer 2025 program refers a friend, another musician at from school or a private teacher’s studio, a neighbor, or even a sibling and that that student applies to CIMF, the referring musician, will receive $50 off summer tuition.
NOTE: Please ask the person you are referring to list your name on the application where we ask “Who referred you to the CIMF program?” and you are welcome to let us know that you referred them as well.

• SUBMIT AN APPLICATION!
  All CIMF youth applicants submit one single application regardless of which summer program they are applying for – Chamber Music Intensive (CMI) or Chamber & Orchestra Performance Program (COPP). CIMF programs are open to participants ages 21 and under.
  
  NOTE: ALL participants in the CMI program who play orchestral instruments (strings, winds, brass, percussion) are required to participate in the COPP program the following week, unless they cannot participate in the second week in order to attend college orientation/first week of college during the week of COPP. College-age musicians participating in the CMI week are required to participate in the CIMF Orchestra during COPP, but not the entire program unless they so choose.
  
  Applicants applying via video and composition applicants do NOT need to submit audition materials when they submit their application, but all materials must be submitted prior to either the early or final audition date.
  
  Applicant fee is $20 and charged upon submission of the online application.
  
  (WCYO Alumni – Orchestra ONLY application click HERE)
  
  
• REVIEW THE AUDITION REQUIREMENTS
  – Click HERE to review the audition requirements or scroll down and see below.
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• AUDITION LIVE OR VIA VIDEO SUBMISSION
  – Live auditions are strongly recommended, but video recordings are also acceptable. Live auditions, which will take place on Sunday, March 30 and Saturday, April 26, 2025.
  – Participants may submit a video audition in place of a live audition if unavailable on March 30 and April 26. Videos must be submitted by either the early audition date of March 30 for early admission decision or by the final audition date of April 26 for admission decision by May 2. Videos should be submitted either as email attachments or via Google Drive or another data sharing service such as Dropbox. Please upload a video of yourself performing two contrasting works and the scales and arpeggios listed below under AUDITION REQUIREMENTS and put them in a folder titled “Your Name – CIMF 2025”. Share the link to the folder with cimf@wctyo.org.
  – Note that upon acceptance, decisions regarding seating placement in the CIMF Orchestra, invitation to perform with CIMF Chamber Orchestra, placement in chamber groups, and possible invitation to perform with CIMF Artist-Faculty on a CIMF Artist Concert are all based on participants’ performance in their CIMF auditions. 
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• SUPPORTING MATERIALS (if applicable)
  – Applicants may ask private teachers or music professionals to submit letters of recommendation on their behalf to cimf@wctyo.org no later than the early application deadline of March 24 or the final application deadline of April 21.
  – Composers must submit supporting representative materials (more information below) not later than the final application deadline of April 21.
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• AUDITION REQUIREMENTS
  Note: Live auditions may also include a sight-reading component
  
  Woodwinds, Brass, Harp & Strings:
  – Any two contrasting solo works – one of these works may be replaced by two orchestral excerpts of your choosing.
  – Any two major scales and arpeggios selected by the applicant, at least two octaves
  
  Piano:
  – At least two contrasting solo works
  – Any two major and any two minor scales and arpeggios selected by the applicant, at least three octaves
  
  Percussion:
  – Any two contrasting solo works – one of these should be on a mallet instrument and the other should be on snare drum or timpani
  – Any two major and any two minor scales and arpeggios selected by the participant, at least three octaves
  
  Composition:
  – PDF scores and MP3 recordings (MIDI is acceptable) of 1-3 works composed since January 1, 2023. It is strongly recommended that at least one of these be a chamber work that could be performed at CIMF
  – Complete list of all compositions including names of pieces, instrumentation, dates of completion, and any details of performances
  – All materials should be sent to cimf@wctyo.org by April 21st
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• SCHOLARSHIPS / FINANCIALS ASSISTANCE
  CIMF offers financial assistance to accepted participants based on need. Accepted participants who require financial assistance in order to attend CIMF should complete the financial aid form and send it to cimf@wctyo.org. We are firm in our belief that cost should not be a barrier to participating in CIMF. Click HERE for the financial assistance form.