Information Courses | Música en Compostela

LXVIII Edition

University and International Courses of
"Música en Compostela"
Santiago de Compostela, 2–15 August 2026

Student admission requirements:

The University and International Courses of "Music in Compostela" focus exclusively on the study and performance of Spanish music. Musicians of any nationality with a high and recognized technical level are eligible to attend.

Students categories: scholarship recipients, non-scholarship recipients, listeners, and masterclasses, ranging from last courses of intermediate level to advanced and master's level.

SCHOLARSHIP STUDENTS

Registration Fee for Scholarship Students: 640 €
Organ & Harpsichord (1 week): 395 €

All students who are beneficiaries of a "Música en Compostela" scholarship must pay the registration fee for scholarship students.

There will be two types of scholarships:
Full Scholarship: Covers meals and accommodation.
Accommodation Scholarship: Provides free accommodation, but students must pay 350€ for meals (breakfast, lunch, and dinner) during the 2 weeks of the course.

University Residence of the U.S.C., with a single room and internet access throughout the course period.

(Those candidates who are not scholarship recipients can still participate in the course as active students.)

ACTIVE STUDENTS

Registration Fee for Active Students: 640 €
Organ & Harpsichord (1 week): 395 €

Anyone who has been admitted but is not a scholarship recipient can still participate in the course as an active student, under the same academic and participatory conditions as scholarship students, except without the meal and accommodation scholarship.

LISTENER STUDENTS

Registration fee for Listener Students: €350

COMPETITION - Guitar

Guitar competition "Savarez": 1.000€ (Prize)

Guitar students who wish to participate can register for the guitar contest held during the course.
Participants will perform a piece or movement by a Spanish composer and a compulsory piece for guitar commissioned by Música en Compostela. The jury will evaluate, in addition to the performance of the two pieces, the student's academic progress during the course.

The jury will consist of the head of the guitar department, the invited composer, and a member of the teaching staff or collaborator designated by the course director.

The world premiere will take place during one of the student concerts.

Invited composer 2026: Tomás Marco (1942-)

Sponsored by: Savarez
https://www.savarez.com

PRIZES

"Andrés Segovia" Prize - Guitar
"Enrique Santiago" Prize - Viola
"José Miguel Ruiz de Morales" Prize - Musicology
"Felix Hazen García" Prize - Piano
"Ramón Salgado" Prize - Chamber music
"Ana María Sánchez" Prize - Voice
"Antón García Abril" Prize - Composition
"Agustín León Ara" Prize - Violin
"Carlos Romero de Lecea" Prize - Cello
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"Savarez" Prize - Guitar competition

Montserrat Caballé, voice (1962) and David Russell, guitar (1975) are some of our distinguished scholarship recipients and awardees.
Renowned composers such as Carmelo Bernaola and Cristóbal Halffter, along with conductors like Jesús López Cobos and Christopher Hogwood, have been our students.

Documents to be summited:

DOCUMENTS TO BE SUMMITED

⋅ Registration form duty completed

⋅ "Curriculum Vitae"

⋅ Photocopy of the identity card or passport

⋅ Passport-size photo

⋅ All supporting documents relating to the applicant’s musical training

⋅ Parental consent (in case the applicant is a minor)

All those applicants that, unless proper justification, fail to send all the documents required to participate in the call procedure, will not be considered as candidates for the scholarship.

SUBMISSION OF APPLICATIONS

All admission applications must be sent to the General Secretariat of "Musica en Compostela", via e-mail.

Deadline for submission of applications:

from February 1st to June 30th, 2026

The registration fee will be paid within the term stated, after the applicant is admitted as an active, listener or masterclass student.

IMPORTANT REMARKS

Once the period for the submission of applications is finished, and the documentation provided by all candidates is reviewed at the Teaching Body meeting, chaired by the Course Director, the scholarships of "Musica en Compostela" will be awarded to the students who have provided evidence of their high and recognized technical level.

All students who have submitted their documentation will be informed of the outcome of their application via e-mail in mid-June. They will also receive specific instructions about the pieces that they should bring and prepare for the Course.

All the students, wheter they are active, listener, scholarship or masterclass ones, will be able to attend to just one of the courses. Any exception should be solved by the Course Managing Board.

INPORTANT INFORMATION:

A) Guitar students who wish to take part in the guitar competition to be held during the course.

B) In order to obtain the scholarship, it will be especially valuable for the students of the instrumental chairs to send a video-link with the performance of a piece of classical music, which does not have to be of Spanish classical music.

C) All concerts, lectures and non-teaching activities are compulsory for all students on the course.

RESIGNATIONS AND ABSCENCES

The students who have been awarded a grant and want to resign from the program, must notify so in writing and justify the reasons for his resignation, before 15 days of the start of the course. In the event of failure to submit the resignation within the term stated, the student would not be eligible for a new scholarship in the next edition of the Course.

The students who were granted a scholarship, and not attend the Course without having submitted the resignation, cannot opt for a new grant in the following two editions of the Course.

Students with repeated resignations or unjustified non-appearances, will be definitely rejected as candidates for the grants.

Students who wish to attend the Course and are excluded from the call for any of the reasons mentioned above, will be able to attend only as Listener Students, with all the expenses being borne by them.