CACTUS PEAR MUSIC FESTIVAL

YOUNG ARTIST PROGRAM  |  SPECIAL EVENTS INTERNSHIP

The Bexar County 2024 Intern Program: Saturday, April 1, 2024 Deadline

Bexar County Commissioners Court established an arts internship program for local nonprofit arts organizations to provide one paid internship to an undergraduate student to assist with seasonal or special projects. Generation NEXT of the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts (Generation Next) will facilitate the program. The program will be open to currently enrolled undergraduate college students who are Bexar County residents attending a college or university in Bexar County or outside of the county,
as long as the student is a resident of Bexar County and able to show proof of the same.
Students who have already earned a bachelor’s degree or higher are not eligible.

The program will be for ten weeks beginning on June 3, 2024, and ending on August 9th, 2024.

Purpose:   To give undergraduate students meaningful on-the-job training and experience working with a nonprofit arts organization and to foster future leaders and advocates for the arts sector in Bexar County. Selected students will develop a closer understanding of how the arts benefit their community along with real-world applications of business skills that can be applied to their careers. Arts organizations will receive assistance from motivated students on seasonal or special projects.

Intern programs must be ready to start on June 3rd and end on or after August 9th, 2024, but not before.

Interns must work at least a 40-hour week, but no more. This can include weeknights and weekends as may be required by the organization’s schedule, specific hours in a week worked can be flexible as long as the intern fulfills a 40-hour commitment. Selected organizations will be solely responsible for recruiting, interviewing, hiring, and training the interns.

Applications must be received by April 1st.



The 21st Young Artist Program [YAP] Season
Cultivating Young Artists: CPMF is Looking for 2025 Candidates

Application deadline is Monday, March 31, 2025
— to watch impressive performances by former Young Artists, 
go to our YAP Showcase on Vimeo. Click here. —

As our mission statement declares, Cactus Pear is committed to significantly contributing to the musical education of South Texas young people, not only during the summer festival but throughout the year. Exposing young people to this inspiring musical art form and the intimacy of listening to chamber music—or in making it themselves—has been a primary objective of the CPMF board and its founder since the beginning. We truly believe in passing the torch.

 One of our flagship programs is our Young Artist Program [YAP] Fellowship under the direction of Education Director
Craig Sorgi and Artistic Director Jeffrey Sykes. CPMF has impacted the lives of over 120 young adults since 2004.

Listen to former 2005 YAP Fellow Colin Sorgi's 2008 composition "Huapango" performed by the 2008 YAP ensemble.