Collage New Music and the Longy School of Music Present
2025-26 Collage Composers Colloquium (CCC)
Saturday April 25, 2026, 10am-5pm
Longy School of Music of Bard College
27 Garden St. Cambridge, MA
FEATURING MENTOR COMPOSERS
Angélica Negrón, Yu-Hui Chang and Niloufar Nourbakhsh
*NOTE: To attend and pay the registration fee, please click “Register to Attend” above; you will be asked to pay for a $15 registration ticket to attend. Please do not make a $15 donation to Collage via PayPal separately – Thank you!
Join Collage New Music on April 25, 2026 for an event-filled day that brings together composers in the greater Boston region for workshops and talks. The day provides opportunities for composers to meet and share ideas with each other, and benefit from observations on their own music by guest composers Angélica Negrón, Yu-Hui Chang and Niloufar Nourbakhsh.
Participants may submit a recent work to be considered for workshop/critique sessions with Angélica Negrón, Yu-Hui Chang and Niloufar Nourbakhsh. From the applications, several composers’ works will be chosen for discussion. All registered participants will receive admission to the CCC, pizza lunch, and a ticket for the following day’s pre-concert talk and season finale concert.
To apply to participate as a composer to have your work critiqued in the masterclasses submit an application by March 15, 2026 at this link.
Schedule
10:00-12:00 Workshop Session 1 with Yu-Hui Chang and Niloufar Nourbakhsh
12:00-1:00. Lunch
1:00-2:00 Yu-Hui Chang and Angélica Negrón speak on their music
2:00-2:30 Break/Snacks
2:30-4:30 Workshop Session 2 with Angélica Negrón
ELIGIBILITY
The Colloquium is open to composers of any age and educational background.
REGISTRATION PROCEDURES
All submissions should be submitted electronically via the application form below.
To have your score considered for the composition masterclass, you must apply by March 15, 2026.
Please include the following:
Full score in PDF format. (Works should be no more than 12 minutes in length)
A recording of a performance of the composition (MP3 or WAV format). Excerpts of the works chosen will be played and discussed at the masterclass. MIDI/computer realization recordings are allowed.
Your contact information, including name, institutional affiliation, address, email, and a brief bio.
Each registered participant who submits a composition will be notified as to whether their work will be discussed at the workshop.
All registered participants will be part of the seminar discussion.
Any composer who applies/registers is guaranteed acceptance to the Colloquium, but only a select number will be invited to present their music at the workshop sessions (they will be notified by April 1). You do not need to apply to the Colloquium in order to attend the day as a non-presenting participant.
Admission to the Colloquium is with a $15 Participant fee, payable online. See more information below.
Fees
There is no fee to apply!
The fee to attend the colloquium is $15 admission for all participants (free admission for the Longy community).
What you get with a participant fee:
Attend the entire day of the Collage Composers Colloquium (April 25)
Free pizza lunch with other participants (April 25)
Free tickets for Collage’s Season Finale Concert (Sunday, April 26; Pre-Concert talk at 2:00pm, Concert at 3:00pm)
Free Post-Concert reception (April 26)
For more information or questions, please email info@collagenewmusic.org.