highSCORE Festival is today’s leading Italian Contemporary Music Festival offering masterclasses, one of the “ten summer festivals to get the contemporary music blood pumping” (Composition: Today). Set every summer in historical Pavia (Northern Italy), it is an invaluable venue for emerging composers wanting to produce and promote their work, inspire audiences with their music, secure future commissions and job opportunities, and join other musicians to create a vibrant artistic community. Musicians work closely with a renowned faculty, talented visiting artists and special guests from around the world for two intense weeks of masterclasses, lectures, workshops and concerts. Performances during the festival are presented at cultural and historical sites throughout Pavia. Such venues include the famous church of St. Peter in the Golden Sky where St. Augustine and Boetius are buried. The "F. Vittadini" Conservatory of Pavia, with its 20 plus large, well-equipped rooms with Vertical and Grand Pianos, is the core of the highSCORE Festival. Accommodation is in shared rooms at the CampUs Residence dormitory. Each apartment is equipped with kitchen, bathroom, and wireless connection. The compound also includes a study room, a launderette, and a bicycle parking area. Newly built are a fitness center, a beauty SPA, covered and open air pools, and a cafeteria. The festival is produced by Merry-Go-Sound.