Wildflower Composers (formerly the Young Women Composers Camp) aims to amplify the voices of gender-marginalized composers and work toward a more equitable future for contemporary music. We serve composers who identify as part of the gender-marginalized community, which includes cis-women, trans-women, trans-men, and those who are nonbinary or gender-nonconforming. The annual Wildflower Composers
Festival takes place at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA, and is open to composers nation-wide between the ages of 13 and 19. During the two-week program, our composers engage in coursework with core instructors, workshops with performers, and private composition lessons. Each student composes a new work for the festival, which is premiered and professionally recorded at our final concert. The festival is intended for composers between the ages of 13 and 19 who have not yet started college.
