INDIVIDUAL TUITION: $1,800
This tuition is the same if you are an instrumentalist, composer, or ensemble. At this time, we are not able to offer a discounted tuition rate for pre-formed ensembles.
Scholarships are available and furnished on the basis of financial need. Please see below.
The costs of housing, meals, building maintenance, staff, faculty, and production, in addition to costs incurred by the Interlochen Center for the Arts which are passed on to Akropolis, prohibit us from making ACMI a tuition-free program right now, but we are working to build the long term support necessary to provide increasing scholarship support to make that happen in the future.
Tuition Includes
Attending ACMI
Spending 9 days (including travel days) living and learning with Akropolis in beautiful Northern Michigan
Lessons and coachings with Akropolis
Multiple performance opportunities both in traditional recital hall venues and non-traditional community spaces
The opportunity for individual instrumentalists to give the world-premiere performance of a new work created by one of the ACMI composers
Composers receive a live premiere of their newly composed work
Ensembles receive a dedicated studio recording session with Akropolis producing
Composers receive the opportunity to write a new reed quintet work for Akropolis
High quality recordings of all live performances
Career and entrepreneurial consultations with Akropolis
Spending a week living and learning with Akropolis in beautiful Northern Michigan!
Room and Board
Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are provided daily in the Interlochen Stone Cafeteria. Interlochen’s cafeterias offer a variety of stations which include hot entrees, soup options, salad and deli bars, and a wok station. Individuals with food allergies and other dietary needs can enjoy a wide variety of clearly-labeled menu items that are gluten free, vegetarian, or vegan. Interlochen’s main dining center is Stone Cafeteria, located at the heart of campus. Two other cafeterias, Lochaven and Pinecrest, are open in the summer to accommodate Arts Camp students. In addition, our campus community and guests can enjoy snacks, ice cream, and specialty coffee drinks from the Melody Freeze Cafe.
Participants will be housed in the Dow House Residence Hall, which includes individual private rooms and bathrooms for each participant.
Interlochen's seven residence halls provide comfortable, convenient living spaces for Arts Academy students and summer faculty and staff. Each residence hall room sleeps two and is equipped with twin-sized beds, desks, dressers, and wardrobes. Some dormitories offer private restrooms, while others are connected to the neighboring room through a shared central bathroom. Other residence hall amenities include common areas, laundry facilities, and private practice rooms. Residence Life staff monitor the buildings year-round to enforce rules, provide support, and promote community.
Tuition does not include your travel to and from Interlochen, MI. Interlochen is located 22 minutes from the Traverse City Airport, and free shuttles are provided to and from this airport for all participants.
Payment of Tuition if You’re Accepted
Upon acceptance to the Festival, your tuition is due on May 1, 2026.
If the participant cancels after this payment is made, their tuition is non-refundable.
ACMI and/or Interlochen reserve the right to dismiss any applicant from the festival at any time, with no refund, for reasons including but not limited to disorderly conduct, breaking ACMI's rules, breaking local, state or federal laws, or for not adhering to Interlochen’s rules and regulations.
Payment plans can be designed with the help of Interlochen. Tuition must be paid in full prior to the festival, but creative measures can be designed if necessary. Tuition will be paid electronically or by check to Interlochen.
Scholarships
To make ACMI accessible to applicants with financial need, Akropolis applies scholarships to the tuition of participants based on a scholarship application. You may indicate if you wish to receive this scholarship application by checking the box within the full ACMI application. After your ACMI application is submitted, you will receive the scholarship application via email, and we request that you submit it by February 5th, 2026.
Scholarships will be determined after receiving all applications and reviewing the need of all applicants accepted to the festival. Participants will be accepted without regard to their financial need. Then, among the accepted applicants, any scholarship applications will be reviewed.
For pre-formed ensembles, each individual will be considered for a scholarship separately, on their own, and any members of a pre-formed ensemble interested in a scholarship should apply individually for a scholarship. The person completing the ACMI application on behalf of the ensemble can indicate in the application if any members of the ensemble would like to apply for a scholarship.
No refunds are given after May 1st. No refunds are made for participants arriving late, leaving early, or canceling. The application fee is non-refundable for applicants who are not accepted. For accepted applicants the application fee is applied to your tuition payment.