SPLICE Festival

Dates: March 5–7, 2026

Organization: Colby Music

Venue: Gordon Center for Creative and Performing Arts, Colby College

Free

Coming to Colby from March 5 to March 7, 2026, SPLICE Festival VII is a three-day festival that blends engaging live performances with new technologies. Composers, performers, and composer/performers gather for a weekend of concerts and presentations covering topics such as aesthetics, technology, and issues of performance practice, with the goal of inspiring, educating, and sharing information amongst the attendees and the students at the host institution. SPLICE Festival is designed to foster community and to create bonds between performers and composers dedicated to music that involves dynamic, live performance with technology.

SPLICE Festival will include five concerts, along with presentations and hands-on workshop sessions. Concerts will feature performances selected from submitted works and a curated concert by the SPLICE Ensemble in partnership with the Portland Ballet.

Presentations and workshops are open to Colby College students, festival attendees, and the general community of Waterville. This event is made possible through a collaboration between Colby Arts and Colby’s Department of Music, Department of Performance, Theater, and Dance, and Lyons Arts Lab.

For more information about the festival, visit this website: https://splicemusic.org/about/events