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. 

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). 

For the latest information, please visit the main Summer Program Auditions page.

Please take a moment to look at the list of programs who have already confirmed their participation.

High School Programs

• 2021 High School Vocal Performance Intensive $
• AAMS International Summer Institute 
• ArtsBridge Summer ArtSong $
• Austria Summer Music Festival
  Boston University Tanglewood Institute $
• German Vocal Arts Institute GVAI 
• La Musica Lirica  
• Spotlight on Opera (high school program only if online) $
• The Singer’s Theatre Senior Intensive 
• Trentino Music Festival
  

Adult Programs 

• AAMS International Summer Institute 
• AIMS $
• ArtsBridge Summer ArtSong $
• Austria Summer Music Festival 
• Bay View Music Festival 
• Canadian Operatic Arts Academy and Academia Europea Dell'Opera 
• CoOPERAtive Program 
• Dramatic Voices Program Berlin 
• Druid City Opera Workshop 
• FIO ITALIA 
• Florida VOICE Project (Sherrill Milnes VOICE Programs) $
• German Vocal Arts Institute GVAI 
• International Performing Arts Institute (IPAI) 
• La Musica Lirica 
• London Summer Music Theatre Academy 
• Lunigiana International Music Festival $
• Music Across the Pond 
• Music in the Marche $
• Music Theatre Academy at Laurier 
• Opera Lucca $
• Opera Seme 
• Opera Viva! $
• Red River Lyric Opera $
• Savannah VOICE Festival Apprentice Program (Sherrill Milnes VOICE Programs) $
• Sherrill Milnes VOICE Studio $
• Source Song Festival 
• Spotlight on Opera $ 
• The Patti and Allan Herbert Summer Music Program at Salzburg 
• The Singer’s Theatre Senior Intensive 
• Vienna Summer Music Festival $
• Vienna: Language of Lieder $

$ Additional application fee

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