How to apply to attend CRMSS Pacific 2025
Upload supporting material
How to apply
The application deadline for CRMSS Pacific 2025 is Thursday, May 1st 2025.
Applications are open now for singers and you're welcome to apply now, even though the deadline is in the future. If you apply in advance, we will contact you now and help you through the process, even long before the application deadline. We won't make our final decisions about who will attend CRMSS Pacific 2025 until early May 2025, but we will keep in touch in the meantime.
Click on the "CRMSS Pacific 2025 Application Form" button above and our online application form will open in a new browser tab. You can then give us all the information we need and submit your application, all online.
If you have attended any CRMSS course in the past, please use the application form above. As we already know a bit about you, the form will not ask you some of the questions.
For Instrumentalists:
Our programme of events and courses for you hasn't yet been confirmed and we're working on that! As soon as we have more information for you, it will be posted 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.
The "Upload supporting material" button above takes you to our CRMSS Supporting Material upload page, where you can directly upload your recordings and letters of reference. Your referees (teachers, conductors, etc) may upload supporting material themselves, on your behalf, using this same page (crmss.org/upload). They can also email us directly by using info@crmss.org, either attaching material to an email or writing a letter of reference in the body of an email.
Cost
For Singers
The course fees for singers to participate in our CRMSS 2024 courses are:
Full Price
$650
Student Rate
$450
We pride ourselves on keeping the fee absolutely as low as possible while offering a world-class experience.
The fee for singers covers more than 50 hours of ensemble and individual coaching over the course of 8 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 applicants who are singers 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 as a singer has been successful. We aim to send out our acceptance letters a few weeks after the course's application deadline, Thursday, May 1st 2025. The remainder of the fee is due a few weeks before the course begins and the precise date will be give to you by email.
Once fees are paid, CRMSS reserves the right to limit any refund, taking into account the individual circumstances of a participant's cancellation.
For Instrumentalists
As our instrumental offering at CRMSS Pacific 2025 has yet to be planned, we don't have information about our course fees. Please check back here once we've announced our instrumental activities.
More information can be found on the CRMSS Pacific 2025 course description page.