Collage New Music’s Julie I. Rohwein Fellows Program

Since 2014, Collage New Music has hosted an annual Collage Fellows program aimed at providing a student composer in the Boston region the opportunities to hone their craft of composition, develop skills in community engagement and receive behind-the-scenes administrative experience with how a contemporary music ensemble is run.

Each Collage Fellow receives a commission for a new work for Collage’s full sextet instrumentation to be premiered the following season. In addition, Fellow assists Collage's General Manager throughout the season in promoting the activities of Collage, including but not limited to interviewing composers who are being performed, creating articles on a subject of interest, and assisting during concerts.

The program is a terrific opportunity for composers to both get artistic exposure with Collage and also see firsthand how a new music organization operates. We look for a Fellow who is not only an inventive composer but also an engaging communicator and a conscientious colleague.

The fellows program has historically be nomination only, but beginning in the 2025-26 season, the program has been opened up to application. For more information about applying for the 2025-26 Fellowship, visit this page.

CNM 2025-26 FELLOW, GASTON GOSSELIN

Gaston Gosselin (b. 1999) is an American composer whose music is a playful yet thoughtful exploration of outward joy and inner reflection. His work has been commissioned and performed by groups such as the Eureka Ensemble, South Florida Youth Symphony, Lès Art Nouveau Chalumeaux, as well as the University of Cincinnati Cello Society for the 2023 Ascent International Chamber Music Festival. Gaston's compositions have been recognized by the Emil and Ruth Beyer Composition Award from the National Federation of Music Clubs, the Molly Garrett & June Fooshee Collegiate Grant from the Music Club of Hollywood Florida, and Mu Phi Epsilon from whom he received the Ruth Dean Morris Scholarship, the Original Composition Award in Divisions I, II, and III, and as a finalist for the Morton Gould ASCAP Awards. He has been a fellow with notable festivals such as the Mostly Modern Festival (USA), Mostly Modern Festival (Netherlands), Lake George Music Festival, Iceberg Institute, and Cortona Sessions for New Music. Gaston resides in Boston, MA, where he works as the Executive Director of Beacon Ensemble. He holds a BM in Music Composition from the University of North Texas, where he studied with Sungji Hong, Kirstin Soriano, and Bruce Broughton.

Gastons’s new work for Collage premieres on November 2, 2025.

PAST FELLOWS:

Jingmian Gong, 2024-25

Len Tetta, 2023-24
Lingbo Ma, 2022-23
Brian Sears, 2020-21
Benjamin Park, 2019-20
Joseph Sowa, 2018-19
Yi Yiing Chen, 2017-18
Talia Amar, 2016-17
Katherine Balch, 2015-16
Stephanie Anne Boyd, 2014-15