Summer Program Auditions
Apply to your dream summer and young artists programs all at once!
NATS is finding ways to assist singers in locating and auditioning for summer programs and young artist programs. National NATS Summer Program Auditions (SPA) is a unified summer program audition opportunity that allows singers to submit their application and video auditions in one place to be considered for multiple programs! Interested students pay a one-time $25 fee* to submit to up to 5 participating programs of their choice. (*Some programs require additional fees. See listings.)
All participating singers also are automatically considered for one of several “Dillard Scholar Awards” in memory and honor of our late NATS president Jane Dillard. These awards are intended as scholarship monies toward costs associated with attendance at one of the participating summer programs or young artist programs.
Applications are open November 1 through December 31, 2023. Programs will have access to student materials beginning January 15, 2024. NATS teachers and singers with questions should contact . Information about registering for the National NATS Summer Program Auditions is available in the links below.
Program Enrollment
Does your school or summer program want to be part of the NATS Summer Program Auditions lineup? Learn more about the program benefits. Each year, October 15 is the annual deadline to confirm your organization’s participation in the following year's NATS Summer Program Auditions.
High School Programs
High School Programs (alphabetical):
- AAMS Emerging Young Artist Workshop
- AAMS International Summer Music Institute, Todi, Italy
- Austria Summer Music Festival
- Berkshire High Peaks Festival
- BIIMA- Breno Italy International Music Academy
- Boston University Tanglewood Institute $
- Colorado Vocal Institute
- FIO ITALIA
- La Musica Lirica
- Neil Semer Vocal Institute (NSVI) $
- Opera Lucca $
- Schmidt Vocal Institute
- Summer Choral Institute at Fredonia
- Varna International Music Academy
- Walnut Hill School for the Arts - Summer Voice Intensive
$ Additional application fee
Adult Programs (alphabetical):
- AAMS Emerging Young Artist Workshop
- AAMS International Summer Music Institute, Todi, Italy
- AIMS, American Institute of Musical Studies $
- Austria Summer Music Festival
- Bach-Millennium Music $
- Bay View Music Festival
- Berkshire High Peaks Festival
- Berlin Opera Academy $
- BIIMA- Breno Italy International Music Academy
- Collaborative Piano Institute Vocal Academy
- Dramatic Voices Program Berlin $
- Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival: Opera & Musical Theatre Intensive Program
- FIO ITALIA
- Florence Summer Opera Program: Celebrating Puccini
- International Music Festival of the Adriatic
- International Performing Arts Institute
- La Musica Lirica
- Lanzarote Opera Festival & Academy
- London Summer Music Theatre Academy
- Music Across the Pond
- Music in the Marche
- Musica Proibita Summer Opera Program 2024
- Neil Semer Vocal Institute (NSVI) $
- Opera in Concert in Italy
- Opera Lucca $
- Opera Seme
- Opera Studio
- Opera Viva! $
- Orvieto Musica
- Patti and Allan Herbert Frost School of Music Program at Salzburg
- Soo Opera Apprenticeship
- Spotlight on Opera $
- Taos Opera Institute
- The CoOPERAtive Program at Westminster Choir College
- Varna International Music Academy
- Vienna Summer Music Festival
$ Additional application fee.
