APAP Career Center

The Grant Park Music Festival (the Festival) in Chicago, Illinois seeks a part-time Fellowship Manager. For more than ten years, the Festival has offered a Fellowship program that provides training opportunities aimed at guiding early career musicians toward successful careers in the orchestral field. Each year, four string players and four vocalists from communities traditionally underrepresented in the orchestral field are selected by the Festival via highly competitive national auditions to rehearse and perform with the Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus and receive one-on-one mentoring from seasoned professionals. Fellows serve as an integral part of the Festival’s concert programming, performing in parks and community centers around the city as