This form is for REGISTRATION of conference attendees, not applications for conference presentation/lecture-performance opportunities. 

We invite prospective applicants to deliver a paper or a lecture-performance. More information for applicants (student and professional) can be found below. If you are interested in applying for a presentation or lecture-performance opportunity, please return to https://www.soundboxventures.org/scfp2025-conference and click on the applications link.

REGISTRATION:

By purchasing this registration ticket, you will receive access to ALL conference events (at least 15 scheduled) at a discounted price, including keynote presentations, panel discussions, lectures, socials, masterclasses, and concerts. After registering, you will be directed to book your discounted hotel stay at the Marriott Sarasota Aloft Hotel, one of the venues for the conference, priced at $159 per night.

Please note that you may choose to purchase tickets to each individual conference event, which are individually priced on the Soundbox website's Events page and will be released by the end of March.

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE:

The Suncoast Composer Fellowship Program (SCFP) Conference (May 19–21, 2025) is a forum for the stewardship and innovation of classical music practices through exchange between the field’s diverse artistic and academic practitioners. This year’s conference focuses on Music and Storytelling.

The SCFP Conference will bring together students and professionals in various disciplines–performers and composers, academics and researchers, curators and presenters–in Sarasota, FL to address challenging questions around the preservation, creation, and promotion of encounters with classical music. 

Panel discussions and keynote lectures from performer and curator Annie Dutoit-Argerich, historian Jane Gottlieb, producer Tyler Kline, and faculty directors Max Tan and Sean Friar will anchor wider presentations of applicant modules. Topics examined will include (but are not limited to):

• The creation and examination of musical texts (through composition, performance, sociocultural and historical research/analysis, etc.)

• The creation, maintenance, and function of a canon of texts (composer/contemporary music advocacy, curation, creation of performance forums, etc.)

• Analysis of classical music’s role in broader cultural and societal landscapes (cultivation of audiences, mission, etc.)