Applications are open until August 2 via the website femusc.com.br. There are 350 spots available for the 2027 edition
Registration is now open for the 22nd edition of the Santa Catarina International Music Festival (FEMUSC), considered the largest classical music festival-school in Latin America. Interested candidates can apply until August 2, exclusively through the festival’s website (click here).
Starting with this edition, the entire process will be handled via FEMUSC’s new system, developed specifically to meet the festival’s needs. Launched this week, the platform consolidates registration, schedule management, repertoire tracking, announcements, and other features into a single environment, making the experience more streamlined, integrated, and efficient for students, faculty, and the organizing team.
In total, 350 spots are available across the programs that define FEMUSC’s pedagogical identity: the Advanced and Intermediate Orchestral Programs, the Opera and Vocal Program, the String Quartet Program, and the Orchestral Conducting Program. The festival’s structure—combining intensive training and artistic practice alongside nationally and internationally acclaimed professors and musicians—is one of its key distinguishing features.
The 2027 edition will be dedicated to Ludwig van Beethoven, honoring the 250th anniversary of his death. Major works scheduled for the program include Symphony No. 9, the Violin Concerto, and Piano Concerto No. 2. The featured opera for this edition will be Georges Bizet’s Carmen.
The festival’s faculty will comprise more than 50 Brazilian and international instructors. Notable figures include the Ariana Quartet (String Quartet Program); Guenko Guenchev (Opera and Vocal Program); Ksenia Dubrovskaya, Ole Böhn, Minna Chung, and Gordon Hunt (Advanced and Intermediate Orchestral Programs); and Ligia Amadio (Orchestral Conducting Program), among other prominent names in classical music.
For Mariana Werninghaus de Carvalho, President of the FEMUSC Board, the registration period marks the beginning of a new journey for hundreds of young musicians.
“Each edition of FEMUSC begins long before the first concert. It starts when a student decides to register, believing that music can transform their path. Opening registration means renewing our commitment to excellence in training, cultural exchange, and the opportunities the festival offers musicians from diverse backgrounds and nationalities.”
FEMUSC’s artistic director and conductor, Alex Klein, highlights that plurality is one of the festival’s defining characteristics.
“FEMUSC is a pluralistic festival. We bring together students from different countries, cultures, backgrounds, and levels of training in an environment where everyone learns from one another. This human and musical diversity is one of the festival’s greatest assets. While offering artistic training of the highest caliber, we create a space for interaction, knowledge exchange, and collective growth, preparing musicians for the challenges of an increasingly global career.”
The 22nd edition of FEMUSC reaffirms the festival’s commitment to training outstanding musicians, fostering encounters between diverse cultures, schools of thought, and generations within an environment of learning, exchange, and artistic practice that establishes Jaraguá do Sul as an international reference point for classical music.
Photo: Diego Redel
