Bergens festival for experimental music Borealis has launched a new round of its mentor programme, Borealis Ung Komponist, and they are currently accepting applications.

Four emerging music creators will be selected. The programme has no upper age limit, and the participants of this year’s mentor programme will be remunerated.

Participants will with receive support from 3 mentors and will collaborate closely with a dedicated ensemble to write a piece of music approx. 15 minutes that will be performed at the festival in 2023.

This year’s mentor programme runs over the course of 7 months and includes 4 workshops with a duration of 3-4 days each, all happening in Bergen between August/September 2022–March 2023. The mentor programme aims to gather music creators with different musical preferences, experiences, backgrounds, methods and practices. You don’t have to work exclusively with notated music, the programme is open to other ways of communicating musical ideas, for example graphic scores.

See link below for further details.