BRUNSWICK – The Bowdoin International Music Festival has received funding from the ASCAP Foundation to provide a full tuition fellowship to a talented young American composer for the 2008 season.

The ASCAP Foundation Young Composer Fellow will study under the festival’s composition faculty, led by composer Samuel Adler; compose original works; and have one new work premiered during the festival’s Artists of Tomorrow concert series or in the 2008 Charles E. Gamper Festival of Contemporary Music.

ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) is the only U.S. performing rights organization created and controlled by composers, songwriters and music publishers.

The ASCAP Foundation, established in 1975, is a publicly supported charitable organization dedicated to supporting American music creators and encouraging their development through music education and talent development programs.

All American applicants to the Bowdoin Festival’s composition program are eligible for the fellowship. For more information about the program, the concert series or the festival, visit www.bowdoinfestival.org.