Call for Composers: Application Closed

Thank you for visiting! The 2026 Composers application has closed. Please consider joining our e-mail list to be the first to get notified about our 2027 Composers Application. The application window opens every year in January.

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Off the Dock Chamber Festival aims to provide a professional platform for emerging performing artists based on the East Coast. Our focus is on artists either currently participating in training or recently out of conservatory.

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Become a featured composer at the Off the Dock Chamber Festival for our Annual Composer's Concert!

 

The theme of our 2026 Composers' concert is 'Musical Landscapes: Music presenting, creating and/or articulating unique sound worlds inspired by or paired with the paintings of John Barrow, housed at John D. Barrow Art Gallery in Skaneateles, NY.'

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Proposals may be made either to compose a new work or to match an existing work to the style and sensiblities of the artist.​