NATS is finding ways to assist singers in finding and auditioning for summer programs and young artist programs. Plans are currently underway for the first National NATS Summer Program Auditions (SPA), a unified summer program audition opportunity. This virtual event will allow singers to submit their application and video auditions in one place to be considered for multiple programs! Interested students will pay one $20 fee to submit to their participating programs of choice. 

All participating singers will also be 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 our participating summer programs or young artist programs. 

A final list of participating programs will be available mid-October, 2020. Applications can be submitted as early as December 1, 2020. Programs will begin looking at materials by mid-January. So, no more applications will be taken after February 1, 2021. NATS teachers and singers with questions should contact Serena Hill LaRoche (shilllaroche@mozart.sc.edu). Information about registering for the National NATS Summer Program Auditions will be coming to you soon! 

Please take a moment to look at the list of programs who have already been invited to participate, and let us know if you are involved in a summer program that would like to participate. 

• AAMS International Summer Institute
• AIMS in Graz
• Austria Summer Music Festival
• Bassi Brugnatelli International Conducting and Singing Symposium
• Bel Canto Institute
• Boston Conservatory - Opera Intensive in Valencia
• Chicago Summer Opera
• Colorado Vocal Institute
• CoOPERAtive Program at Westminster
• Druid City Opera Workshop
• Festival of International Opera of the Americas
• FIO Italia
• Florida VOICE Project
• The Frost School of Music Program at Salzburg
• GLOW Lyric Theatre
• Harrower Summer Opera Workshop
• International Music Festival of the Adriatic
• International Performing Arts Institute IPAI
• London Summer Music Theatre Academy
• Lunigiana International Music Festival
• Miami Summer Music Festival
• Music Anatolia College Summer Festival (Greece)
• Opera Festival di Roma
• Opera in the Ozarks
• Opera Lucca
• Opera NEO
• Opera Programs Berlin
• Opera Viva!
• Orvieto musica
• Savannah Choral and Voice Institute
• Savannah VOICE Festival
• Seagle Music Colony
• Si Parla, Si Canta
• SongFest
• Spotlight on Opera 
• Taos Opera Institute
• Spotlight on Opera
• Varna International Music Academy
• Vienna Summer Music Festival 

Elizabeth Johnson Knight, co-coordinator, National NATS Summer Program Auditions

Contact for program representatives

ejknight@uga.edu 

Serena Hill LaRoche, co-coordinator, National NATS Summer Program Auditions

Contact for NATS teachers and singers

shilllaroche@mozart.sc.edu