Summer Academy | 28 June to 6 July, 2025

A harmonious continuation of the Summer Academy with a musical season

Guest of honor 2025: Valentin Erben
Member of the Alban Berg Quartet

When he was awarded the "Premier Prix du Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique" in Paris in 1967, his teacher, André Navarra, predicted somewhat skeptically: "You will play too much chamber music in your life."
Years later, when he heard him with the Alban Berg Quartet, he declared Valentin Erben - this time with admiration - as a "virtuoso of chamber music."
Günter Pichler, the first violinist of the Alban Berg Quartet, calls him the "angel of the string quartet."

Biography

Musicians selected for the 2024 edition!

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Teaser Academy 2024 | Duration: 3mn

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Résumé 2024

Selected talents 2024

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Full comprehensive support

All admitted participants receive a full comprehensive support covering all costs of their participation, that includes Tuition, Housing, and daily Lunches.
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Intensive Individual Work

At least 4 individual lessons with distinguished faculty

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Chamber Music

Ensembles featuring faculty and students playing together

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Concerts in different locations

The Société de Lecture, Museum Barbier-Mueller, ...

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100% Full Scholarship

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Testimonials

The first word that comes to my mind to describe the Geneva International String Academy is exceptional. Everything involved was exceptional: not only the quality of the lessons, the great time during the rehearsals together with the professors or the daily concerts in outstanding places, but also the amazing organization, the staying with the host families (in my case, a real pleasure!), and the food provided.

After one week, I can say with perspective that from all those years of summer courses and masterclass, for me the Geneva International String Academy has been a highlight and I only have deep feelings of gratitude for everything. So, a BIG thank you to all of you. Hopefully if you raise the age limit next year I would love to be with you again!

At first I want to thank all the academy staff for the huge preparation works. I am really impressed by the quality level of GISA. I really appreciate that you care about the hosting and the practice rooms. Having enough practicing possibility was always a problematic point in all academies I attended. I really can not say anything negative about GISA, I am sure we all enjoyed it. I enjoyed also the tight schedule.

I wanted to thank you for everything that you did for me/us it was such a wonderful experience to be part of such an amazing academy! The concerts, chamber music, lessons were all so amazing and were so much fun!

Ces 10 jours ont été mémorables, très équilibrés, et la mentalité vraiment très agréable, c’est pour moi tellement important, et c’est pour cela que je serai, qu’on serait (je pense pouvoir parler au nom de mes collègues et amies) vraiment ravi d’y reparticiper.

Thank you very much! I really enjoyed the academy and learned a lot, thank you for the opportunity to participate in it!