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Fees and Application

Submitting Your Application

The application process is fast and easy. The Institute accepts a single application for more than one conducting program so be sure to indicate your program preference on the form. You are just three quick steps from completing your application.

  1.  Fill out the application form.
  2. Provide two contrasting video clips.
  3. Submit the $30 application fee.

Just click the link below to begin. (Video clips are optional for Prelude Academy novice and music educator track applicants.)

If, for any reason, you are unable to complete the online application, please use the email form on the “Contact” page to request an offline application.

Review of Program Fees

The Embodied Conducting Institute remains committed to offering the most comprehensive training for conductors and soloists at the most affordable price. Competing workshops and courses that offer less instruction, less podium time and no performance opportunities remain substantially more costly than the Institute because our faculty and staff are determined to keep student costs as low as possible.

Advanced Conducting Academy

Conductor Pascal Germain-Berardi, 2019 Advanced Conducting Academy

The Advanced Academy tuition is $3,295 US. Conductors receive approximately 150 minutes of podium time with full orchestra, 60 minutes with piano sextet, two general rehearsals and two concert performances plus 30 minutes of video review with faculty, all lectures, seminars and classes and 15 nights with breakfast in a semi-private hotel room. See the Advanced Conducting Academy page for details.

Prelude Conducting Academy

Condutcor Shawn Bennett, 2019 Prelude Conducting Academy

The Prelude Academy tuition is $1,795. Conductors receive 150 minutes of podium time during daily instructional conducting sessions with string quintet and piano, 30 minutes of video review plus all seminars and masterclasses, closing concerts that include all participating conductors and 10 nights with breakfast in a semi-private hotel room. See the Prelude Conducting Academy page for details.

Mastering Concertos Masterclass

Conductor Sean Bresemann, 2019 Mastering Concertos

Tuition for conductors is $2,895. Soloist tuition with $900 scholarship is $1,995 US. All participants receive six 20-minute sessions with orchestra, six 15-minute sessions with piano, one 20 to 25-minute general rehearsal and one concert performance. The fee also covers all coaching, seminars and classes plus 11 nights with breakfast in a private hotel room. Conductors see the Conducting Masterclass page for details; violinists and pianists see the Soloists page.

Institute Student Comments

  • 2018 Prelude Academy conductor

    Maestro Gambetta is incredibly insightful and kind. I knew he always wanted me to give it my best, and he immediately helped me smooth out some of my bad habits.

  • 2018 Advanced Conducting Academy conductor

    Personally, I had never seen such a professional organization and made by people as cultured and kind as the entire Institute and Philharmonic administrative teams.

  • 2019 Mastering Concertos conductor

    I loved my time in Vidin, and I would like to try to attend another Embodied Conducting Institute program in the future.