Academy

Schlern Festival offers to its participants an intensive three-week program in disciplines including violin, viola, cello, piano, voice and conducting. Students study with world famous artists, perform with them side-by-side and meet them in a non-formal atmosphere. All these help students to significantly raise their professional level and further their careers.

Each student receives six private lessons along with chamber music coaching. Students participate in master classes given by guest artists and our festival’s faculty. Guest artists of the Schlern Festival 2012 include Eduard Kunz, named among 10 tomorrow’s great pianists by the BBC Music Magazin, and star violinist Sergey Khachatryan.

Students attending the festival as conductors study with Alexander Treger,  former Concertmaster of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Music Director/Conductor of the American Youth Symphony Orchestra and Zvi Carmeli, chief conductor of the Universität der Künste, Julius Stern Institute Chamber Orchestra, Berlin. Instrumentalists and singers can take conducting classes in addition to their discipline for an additional fee (see Tuition).

The festival is held in the spirit of “making music together”. During the festival, over 30 concerts are presented in the Academy and in historic halls of the south Tyrol to full capacity audiences. The festival encourages students to collaborate in a variety of settings such as solo performance, chamber music and accompanying and to take advantage of gaining performance experience important for young musicians. Therefore, students are expected to arrive at the Festival with their entire repertoire well prepared to be able to start chamber music rehearsals on the second day. Concerts begin on July 7, 2012.

Students need to include their solo repertoire and chamber music preferences in the Performance Repertoire Form, which must be submitted online by April 15, 2012. Your preferences will be considered; however, the admission committee will make the final decision. A personal repertoire list and chamber music/accompaniment assignments will be emailed by May 15, 2012.

A student may exchange lessons with another faculty member and their assigned Professor, by mutual agreement with another student. Each student is required to attend all rehearsals, lessons, master classes and performances according to his/her personal schedule, given to each participant on the first day of the festival.

Cello students can rent instruments for the period of the Festival for a reasonable price. If you would like to rent a cello, please email us at info@sempermusic.org by April 15, 2012.

A Certificate of Schlern International Music Festival will be issued to participants who successfully completed the program. The certificate will include the names of artists the student studied with in private lessons, chamber music and master classes.