![Jesse Budel](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59cc2f25e9bfdf97d3fb57f8/1506630387267-LBRRCTZ44JO96ZMCO8NY/zJesse.jpg)
Jesse Budel
"The new-found connections with the other CITW composers, NPS staff and Alaskan Arts identities too have left a sense of global community interested in collective stewardship and celebration of the natural world. These relationships continue on through social media and planned future arts engagements."
![Christian Dubeau](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59cc2f25e9bfdf97d3fb57f8/1506630239136-FONJ3WAQ7OUY23J2VP7U/zChristian2.jpg)
Christian Dubeau
"I don't know of any other summer program that so successfully combines music composition/performance, history, geology, botany, spectacular landscapes, collaboration with incredible people, and making new friends all into one nifty 2.5 week package. This is an incredible trip that I highly recommend!"
![Corinna Hogan](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59cc2f25e9bfdf97d3fb57f8/1506630331101-3N7ZLYCWZ31ZIB5Q57AU/zCorinna.jpg)
Corinna Hogan
"I signed up for this trip with a certain set of expectations; it shattered all of them. Even though I had previously lived in Alaska for three years, I saw it in an entirely new light. This experience was intense and immersive and exceptionally awe-inspiring. I felt a renewed love for composing my feelings, discovered a new love for hiking, and received an unexpected love from the people. My God, the people. Of all things, I did not expect to join a little family - but I did."
![Aaron Keyt](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59cc2f25e9bfdf97d3fb57f8/1506630219667-LAPPL9FFIEC93Z05X8LP/zAaron.jpg)
Aaron Keyt
![Brent Lawrence](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59cc2f25e9bfdf97d3fb57f8/1506630263146-CACP6LWFFTBYZQZO2NWM/zBrent.jpg)
Brent Lawrence
"Composing In The Wilderness is a life changing event no matter who you are. For some, it’s a springboard to a nature-inspired course in their career. To others, it’s a welcomed disturbance in their regular artistic process. All in all, the inconceivable beauty of the Alaskan backcountry is only rivaled by the genuine kindness of the people you meet there."
![Libby Meyer](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59cc2f25e9bfdf97d3fb57f8/1506630514954-KREJLU9KLZA3CEEUMX9V/zLibby.jpg)
Libby Meyer
![Christina Rusnak](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59cc2f25e9bfdf97d3fb57f8/1506630304346-0BJZ69IMQA9DZ8YMD7IM/zChristina.jpg)
Christina Rusnak
"At Composing in the Wilderness, I am my truest self, both as a composer and as a person."
![Dawn Sonntag](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59cc2f25e9bfdf97d3fb57f8/1506630353597-XW64BJYKJAEZ1DHNKVOF/zDawn.jpg)
Dawn Sonntag
![Jennifer Wright](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59cc2f25e9bfdf97d3fb57f8/1506630356395-YVK603HNPJZQD2N7O3D9/zJennifer.jpg)
Jennifer Wright
"There’s no doubt that Composing in the Wilderness is one of the best damn things I ever did. It proved to me in a big way that art, like a truly-lived life, is not for sissies; it might just wrench your soul right out of you to make it, but the hole it leaves will fill right up with wonder if you let it."
![Jesse Budel](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59cc2f25e9bfdf97d3fb57f8/1506630387267-LBRRCTZ44JO96ZMCO8NY/zJesse.jpg)
![Christian Dubeau](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59cc2f25e9bfdf97d3fb57f8/1506630239136-FONJ3WAQ7OUY23J2VP7U/zChristian2.jpg)
![Corinna Hogan](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59cc2f25e9bfdf97d3fb57f8/1506630331101-3N7ZLYCWZ31ZIB5Q57AU/zCorinna.jpg)
![Aaron Keyt](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59cc2f25e9bfdf97d3fb57f8/1506630219667-LAPPL9FFIEC93Z05X8LP/zAaron.jpg)
![Brent Lawrence](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59cc2f25e9bfdf97d3fb57f8/1506630263146-CACP6LWFFTBYZQZO2NWM/zBrent.jpg)
![Libby Meyer](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59cc2f25e9bfdf97d3fb57f8/1506630514954-KREJLU9KLZA3CEEUMX9V/zLibby.jpg)
![Christina Rusnak](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59cc2f25e9bfdf97d3fb57f8/1506630304346-0BJZ69IMQA9DZ8YMD7IM/zChristina.jpg)
![Dawn Sonntag](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59cc2f25e9bfdf97d3fb57f8/1506630353597-XW64BJYKJAEZ1DHNKVOF/zDawn.jpg)
![Jennifer Wright](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59cc2f25e9bfdf97d3fb57f8/1506630356395-YVK603HNPJZQD2N7O3D9/zJennifer.jpg)