Applicants can apply to either the Performance or Workshop Programs:

Performance Program Artists receive:

• Lessons with all guest composers

• Masterclasses with all guest composers

• Workshop with Kate Soper on composing for stage.

• Workshop with Julia Werntz on composing with microtones.

• Workshops on instrumental techniques by the Ecce ensemble members.

• Masterclass / Workshops with Melinda Wagner, David Sanford and Michael Djupstrom.

• Rehearsals of your work coached by Stratis Minakakis and Michael Djupstrom.

• A recorded performance of a work on an Etchings Festival concert.

• A recorded reading session of a work-in-progress by the Ecce Ensemble.

Workshop Artists receive:

• Lessons with all guest composers

• Masterclasses with all guest composers

• Workshop with Kate Soper on composing for stage.

• Workshop with Julia Werntz on composing with microtones.

• Workshops on instrumental techniques by the Ecce ensemble members.

• Masterclass / Workshops with Melinda Wagner, David Sanford and Michael Djupstrom.

• A recorded reading session of a work-in-progress by the Ecce Ensemble

All artists are responsible for their own travel and accommodations (Etchings provides optional group-rate hotel packages at local Northampton hotels if participants are interested).

All events will take place at Bombyx and other venues in Northampton and Florence, MA.

Thanks to donors to the festival, we are able to offer a discounted tuition to all fellows.
The actual value of tuition is $2200. Fellows attending this year will pay:

• Performance Artists Tuition: $1150

• Workshop Artists Tuition: $550

  Application guidelines:

All applications are submitted via email to: eccearts@gmail.com

Applications will be accepted until March 15th, 11:59EST, 2026.

Notifications of acceptance will be made during the week of March 29th, 2026.

Select on your application form whether you are applying to the festival’s Performance or Workshop program (or if either one would suit you).

In addition to your application form, include the following in your email application:

• Short bio or a CV.

• Two scores representing your best work for any instrumentation (PDF)

• Recordings of these works (optional) (MP3)

• In lieu of uploading scores and/or MP3s along with your application, you may provide links to your scores and recordings but these links must remain active until April 15th. Please no links to downloads.

  ·       Application Form

  ·       Email to: eccearts@gmail.com. Subject line: Etchings 2026 Application.

  Note for applications to the performance program:
  Consider applying with at least one work for the festival’s instrumentation:
  Flute (alto/picc), clarinet (bass clarinet), 2 violins, 2 cellos, percussion and piano.

  Once selected, festival directors will collaborate with fellows on the instrumentation of their work to be performed. Composers may choose to compose a new work, revise an existing work, or have an older work performed.

  Final deadline for all works to be programmed this summer is June 21st, 2026.