Fuse: Music Residency 2027 (Banff Centre)

Application Deadline: November 12, 2026
Program Dates: April 19 to May 8, 2027
For more information and to apply.

Supported by accomplished mentors and an environment that encourages experimentation and creative risk-taking, musicians are encouraged to create, research, and develop new approaches to their practice in Banff Centre’s unrivalled mountain environment.  

This program is open to classically trained instrumentalists, including woodwind, brass, string, and percussion musicians, as well as singers and composers.

Description

Learn, experiment and play alongside our exceptional faculty of internationally recognized artists, including Aga Khan Master Musicians, Nadar, Architek Percussion, Jane Mitchell (Aurora Orchestra), Jessie Maryon Davies, and Krystina Marcoux, and Keir GoGwilt, Conor Hanick, Miranda Cuckson of American Modern Opera Company (AMOC).

Fuse provides a space expand your artistic vision, enhance creative confidence, and advance your practice and career through:  

• Small group interdisciplinary collaborations and workshops, led by internationally renowned faculty.
• One on one mentorship.
• A safe and failure-friendly environment that encourages you to take creative risks, tell stories with new ways, and explore new forms expressions.
• Learning from mentors who have developed significant interdisciplinary projects, alongside elevated musical expression.
• Hands-on workshops exploring unique performance technologies, collaboration, storytelling, movement, and much more.
• 24-hour access to studio space for individual and collaborative work.
• Opportunities to share works in progress, creative processes, and projects with the public and peers.
• Outdoor group activities with faculty and peers.
• Engaging with other artistic disciplines at concerts & program events.

Requirements

Fuse is for classically trained musicians with a desire to collaborate, create and explore interdisciplinary techniques and processes that can expand their artistic practice.

Previous interdisciplinary experience is not required—only an openness to exploration and an excitement to explore new modes of expression.