This summer play with the professionals
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Summer Festival July 31 - August 5, 2024
A fantastic opportunity to play masterworks of the repertoire side by side with internationally acclaimed musicians!
The Summer Festival returns July 31 to August 5 to St John's College School in Cambridge. Open to violinists, violists, cellists and pianists both as a day course for locals and as a resident course for out-of-towners, the highlight is playing in chamber ensembles side-by-side with professionals. Each participant plays in two ensembles as well as chamber orchestra, receives individual lessons, and attends musicianship and special classes.
Seniors: advanced junior conservatoire, senior conservatoire, university and international students aged roughly 16 to over 25 years.
Juniors: near grade 8 level and up aged roughly up to 15 years.
Cost for a day participant is £529 and includes lunch each day as well as a punting tour of Cambridge.
Cost for a resident participant is £759 and includes 6 nights of accommodation and all meals, as well as a punting tour of Cambridge.
Our policy is not to refuse participants for financial reasons. In addition to the option of paying in three installments, there are financial aid and bursaries available for deserving participants.
What people say about our Summer Festival
“The Chamber Music Festival was an action-packed course which placed aspiring young musicians side by side with excellent professionals. It was a vibrant and exciting experience which I would recommend to any young musician, and has inspired me to pursue my love of the violin and composition at university. I would go so far as to say it was life-changing!” - Lily
“Playing side by side with professionals is one of the best ways you can learn as a musician, because there's just so many things that you can pick up in the moment playing with them that you could never really learn from them just telling you. It was quite inspirational actually.” - Josh
“Such a lovely course! It was great to be immersed in such gorgeous repertoire, with the opportunity to play alongside the fantastic coaches. Thank you for the wonderful experience.” - Anneka.
Senior repertoire |
Dvorak String Sextet Orchestra |
Junior repertoire |
Elgar Enigma Variations (arranged for string sextet) Orchestra |
Senior schedule | |
8:30-9:30 | Lessons |
9:40-10:40 | Chamber ensemble 1 |
11:00-12:00 | Musicianship |
12:00-12:45 | Lunch |
12:45-13:30 | Special classes |
13:40-14:40 | Chamber ensemble 2 |
15:00-16:00 | Chamber orchestra |
16:10-17:10 | Lessons/reading ensembles |
Junior schedule | |
8:30-9:30 | Lessons |
9:40-10:40 | Musicianship |
11:00-12:00 | Chamber ensemble 1 |
12:00-12:45 | Lunch |
12:45-13:30 | Special classes |
13:40-14:40 | Chamber orchestra |
15:00-16:00 | Chamber ensemble 2 |
16:10-17:10 | Lessons/reading ensembles |