Summer Academy | 28 June to 6 July, 2025
Applications for the 2025 summer Academy are open until March 3, 2025 @23:59 CET
The Geneva International String Academy is a summer music academy that fosters encounters and knowledge-sharing between internationally renowned musicians and professors and promising young artists.
For one summer, outside the academic framework of conservatories, rigorously selected young violinists, violists, and cellists from around the world come to enhance their training in the heart of Geneva’s Old Town. They benefit from masterclasses, practice chamber music alongside the Academy’s professors, and perform in concerts. They build a network of artistic and personal connections that can open new professional horizons.
Thanks to the generous contributions of its partners, the Geneva International String Academy continues to provide full coverage of participation costs for every selected young musician. This support includes musical training and masterclasses, accommodation, meals, and instrument maintenance facilitated by the presence of a luthier. As a result, participants are chosen solely based on their exceptional talent and desire to join the Academy, without financial circumstances limiting their engagement.
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."
6 concerts, from October 13 to April 13 mars 2025
A harmonious continuation of the Summer Academy with a musical season
Résumé 2024
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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Geneva Old City
Learning in cultural centers of rare exception
Masterclasses, chamber music rehearsals and public concerts will be held in the inspiring salons of the Société de Lecture, the Barbier-Mueller Museum, and the Conservatoire Populaire de Musique. All sites are ideally located in the beautiful old city of Geneva.
The Société de Lecture
The Société de Lecture, created in 1818, is nowadays considered one of the most dynamic cultural places in Geneva
Musée Barbier-Mueller
Practicing and Rehearsals
