Study at Norfolk
Summer in Norfolk
Join the ranks of Norfolk alumni
9 Fischoff Competition Prize-Winning Groups
5 of the 13 Banff International String Quartet Competition’s First-Prize-Winning Quartets
Join other up-and-coming chamber musicians at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival Yale Summer School of Music. The Festival begins each summer with a week-long New Music Workshop followed by a six-week Chamber Music Session for individual instrumentalists and ensembles, and ends with a week-long Chamber Choir and Choral Conducting Workshop. Participants receive a fellowship covering the full cost of tuition, housing, and meals.
Fellows receive daily coachings from Festival artists and perform weekly in Emerging Artist Series concerts and alongside internationally acclaimed artists in the Festival Artist Series. All performances are presented in the acoustically superb Music Shed and are professionally recorded and livestreamed.
2026 Sessions + Application Deadlines
SESSION DATES
New Music Workshop: June 25 – July 4, 2026
Chamber Music Session: July 5 – August 16, 2026
Chamber Choir and Choral Conducting Workshop: August 16 – 23, 2026
APPLICATION DEADLINES
New Music Workshop: January 3, 2026
Chamber Music Session: January 3, 2026
Chamber Choir and Choral Conducting Workshop: March 12, 2026
Study at Norfolk
"Norfolk fostered a space in which my musical ideas were valued and respected. I grew enormously from Norfolk’s emphasis on the rehearsal process, as well as the opportunities to perform alongside faculty members." Miranda Werner, violin (NCMF '23)
Chamber Music Session
New Music Workshop
Chamber Choir and Choral Conducting Workshop
Paul Novak: Composition, Collaboration, and Conversation
A Final Farewell to the Emerson String Quartet
