How to apply to attend CRMSS Ontario 2025

Lutenists - Click here!

CRMSS Ontario 2025 runs from Saturday, May 24th to Sunday, June 1st and takes place in London, Ontario. Read more about the course here.

How to apply

The application deadline is Saturday, February 1st 2025.

Applications for singers to attend CRMSS Ontario 2025 are now closed.

We may be able to accept a late application, but as the course approaches this gets less and less likely. Get in touch with us if you'd like to explore any options that may be available.

Below is information about the application process, which you can read for your reference. If you're interested in applying to come to CRMSS Ontario 2026, please contact us.

If you are a lutenist, click here.

Supporting Material

If you have attended a CRMSS course before, you do not need to submit supporting material with your application.

For singers new to CRMSS, who are submitting supporting material, we need:

• two recordings of you singing
• two letters of reference

The recordings do not need to be professionally made and don't require accompaniment. You may submit video or audio files, and there is an option to give us a link to material that may already be online. You can also upload material you make anywhere online and share it with us.

You can submit small media files directly to us (smaller than 50Mb) through our upload page by using the 'Upload supporting material' button above. For bigger files, please get in touch with us directly.

If you already have a recording of yourself that you like please do submit that. You don't need to make a new recording just for this application.

The two letters of reference should come from a conductor, singing teacher, or other musician in your life who knows you and who can give us an idea of your ability and experience. They should contain information about your sight-reading ability and your familiarity and experience with performing Renaissance music, and making ensemble music more generally. Your referees can submit their letters of reference to us directly or they can give them to you and you can send them to us.

Cost

The course fees for CRMSS Ontario 2024 are:

For singers:

For lutenists:

We pride ourselves on keeping the fee absolutely as low as possible while offering a world-class experience.

For singers, the fee covers more than 50 hours of ensemble and individual coaching over the course of 9 days, participation in lectures and panel discussions led by our resident musicologist tutors, attendance and participation in masterclasses, private recitals, church services, and public concerts, and much more.

Participants at all our CRMSS courses are welcome to keep the scores they use, many of which will be newly edited specifically for each course.

Deposit

We ask successful singer applicants to secure their place on a course by providing a deposit, a portion of the entire course fee. This will be counted against the total course fee, the remainder of which will be due later.

The deposit of $200 is due as soon as you receive confirmation from us that your application has been successful. We aim to send out our acceptance letters a few weeks after the application deadline. The remainder of the fee is due a few weeks before the course begins.

Lutenists do not need to pay a deposit and instead will be asked to pay their full fees a few weeks before CRMSS Ontario 2025 begins.

Refunds

Once fees are paid, CRMSS reserves the right to limit any refund, taking into account the individual circumstances of a participant's cancellation.

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More information can be found on the CRMSS Ontario 2025 course description page.