College summer festival waitlist question

Momofadult
Sun, 10 Mar 2019 12:53:04 +0000

Which festival? Understandable if you don’t want to disclose for privacy purposes, but different festivals, different operations.

Some festivals try to balance participation by gender, age and home base of the participants. They publish this info and want to show a variety of backgrounds. This makes for "fluidity"as the festival prefers to replace anyone declining with a waitlist candidate showing similar demographics. Another instance, if the festival applicants request studio placements for private study, waitlist candidates may have to be matched with openings in a particular studio.

I’m familiar only with the bigger summer classical festivals and string student placements. No experience with voice or jazz or composition summer opportunities.