FAVORITE FESTIVALS

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Efrem Briskin,  Artistic Director
 Piero Gaddi,  Administrative Director
Massimiliano Mainolfi,  Program Director

The International Academy of Music in cooperation with the Music School of Castelnuovo di Garfagnana and with the City of Castelnuovo di Garfagnana will conduct its 2022 Season in this medieval town surrounded by the magnificent hills of the Alpi Apuane in the picturesque Tuscany region of Italy.

Our intensive 11 day schedule focuses on close student-faculty collaboration through individual study and chamber music, and will take place from June 27 - July 8, 2022.

Students will have ample opportunity to perform solo and chamber music works in some of Tuscany's beautiful medieval stone castles and churches.

Our program includes individual lessons, master classes, and chamber music coachings.

David Krieger,  Executive Director

Efrem Briskin,  Artistic Director

Adam Kent,  Director of Cultural Outreach                                 

Michael Briskin,  Registrar

Ricardo Porres Ortega,  Coordinator in BurgosBeni Krieger,  Counselor

Burgos International Music Festival, in collaboration with the City of Burgos and representatives of Summit Music Festival, is launching its twelfth season in Spain between the dates of July 8 - July 19, 2022.  

The program is geared for intermediate and advanced students in piano, strings and winds, who seek the highest level of professional training in individual and ensemble performance. Students will have ample opportunity to perform their solo work as well as chamber music.

VOCE is a prestigious competition for vocalists, strings, winds/brass, and chamber music at the Regional and State levels. In 1971, cellist Gretchen Kuehny Geber and pianist Eleonor Dalton of MTAC’s San Fernando West Valley Branch created VOCE as a means of providing solo and chamber ensemble opportunities for students. The group was named for Vocalists, Orchestral Instrumentalists, and Chamber Ensembles.

We believe in continuing our work by investing in the next generation of musicians. Towards this aim, every year the La Jolla Symphony & Chorus hosts its Young Artists Competition. Founded by Clifford Graves in 1960, the competition is one of the oldest of its kind and open to singers, ages 18-30, and instrumentalists, ages 14 to 26, from San Diego County and Baja California. The competition provides these talented young artists an opportunity to earn prestige, perform as soloists with the La Jolla Symphony & Chorus, serve as role models to their peers, and earn $8000 in cash prizes. Many Young Artists Competition winners go on to join our ensemble and to prestigious professional careers in music.

For over 35 years, the Irving M. Klein International String Competition has attracted some of the world’s finest young string players to San Francisco each June to compete for cash and performance prizes totaling over $30,000. The Klein Competition has achieved international recognition as one of the most prestigious classical music competitions, recognized for the high caliber of the contestants, its unique, nurturing environment, and its commitment to the commissioning of new works.

Past Klein prize winners comprise a who’s who of the classical music artistic community. They include notable soloists and educators Alyssa Park (1989), Jennifer Koh (1993), Vadim Gluzman (1993), Alban Gerhardt (1989), Caroline Campbell (2002), David Requiro (2006), Tessa Lark (2008) and Nikki Chooi (2009); and principal chairs in many of the finest U.S. orchestras, including the Philadelphia and Cleveland Orchestras, San Francisco Symphony, Seattle Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, and the Boston Symphony.