Master's Student, University College Dublin

Composing in the Wilderness has been the best experience of my life. The Alaskan landscape is stunning and the composers I met are now some of my closest friends. This was the most connected to nature, other composers, and myself I have ever felt. This trip was rejuvenating artistically and emotionally, and I would do it again in a heartbeat. If you have any interest in exploring nature and writing music, it does not get better than CitW.

Composer and Cellist. PhD Candidate, Victoria University of Wellington

Composing in the Wilderness gave me the courage to fully reconnect with a part of myself—an inquisitive, adventurous, and almost mystical part, that experiences the world around me with a ceaselessly childlike wonder. Once that part of you has been reclaimed, you will never dare to abandon it again.

freelance opera singer and composer