highSCORE Festival is today's leading Italian Contemporary Music Festival offering masterclasses. Set every summer in historical Pavia (Northern Italy), it is an invaluable venue for emerging composers and performers 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.