EDUCATION AND ENGAGEMENT
Collage New Music's educational initiatives and regional partnerships extend its mission of bringing the many voices of contemporary music into dialogue — with students, with composers at the start of their careers, and with audiences across Boston.
Learn more about Collage’s initiatives and partnerships below:
Collage Fellows Program
Since 2014, Collage has hosted an annual fellowship for an emerging composer in the Boston region. Beginning in 2026–27 the program expands into a two-year residency with overlapping fellows: a first year of preparation — rehearsals, mentorship, and a reading session with Collage's musicians — followed by a second year bringing the commissioned premiere and a public-facing role in Collage's interviews and digital content. The 2026–27 fellows are Ali Can Puskulcu and Amber Vistein.
Collage Composers Colloquium
A day-long annual gathering that brings composers from across the greater Boston region together for workshops and talks, offering the chance to meet, share ideas, and receive observations on their own music from renowned guest composers. Mentor composers have included Yu-Hui Chang, Niloufar Nourbakhsh, Juri Seo, Wang Lu, Alexandra du Bois, John Harbison, Peter Child, and Eric Nathan. Amy Williams, Kay Rhie, Curtis Stewart, and Pablo Santiago Chin join in 2027.
Student Internship
Collage's internship program brings a college-level student into the working life of the organization, with hands-on experience in concert production, publicity, and arts administration alongside the General Manager and Artistic Director.
Longy School of Music
Collage has served as Artistic Partner at the Longy School of Music since 2024, performing concerts, giving guest composer and performer masterclasses, leading student composition reading sessions, and playing side by side with students and faculty.
Project STEP
Collage's guest composers lead composition masterclasses for high school students from historically underrepresented communities in Project STEP's program. Anthony Cheung led the first of these in the 2025-26 season.
Shelter Music Boston
In April 2026, Collage performed selections from its Mosaics of Home program in partnership with Shelter Music Boston at a Boston homeless shelter, including a number of its newly commissioned suite What is Home? Audience members were invited to share reflections on the work.
Goethe-Institut Boston
Collage co-presents an annual concert with the Goethe-Institut Boston exploring the influence of the German language in music. In March 2025, Anna Handler conducted "Between Words and Worlds," featuring music by Jörg Widmann and Olga Neuwirth; in March 2026, Handler led the world premiere of Eric Nathan's Missing Words, inspired by the invented German words in Ben Schott's Schottenfreude: New German Words for the Human Condition.
Korean Cultural Society of Boston
Collage has partnered with the Korean Cultural Society of Boston in the annual commissioning of new works, so far featuring Texu Kim, Juri Seo, and Eun Young Lee, and in sponsoring Juri Seo's participation in the Collage Composers Colloquium. Collage values the KCSB's support in bringing Korean-American contemporary music to its audiences.