Music Academy Summer Courses in France
Zodiac Summer Music Academy & Festival:
The Zodiac Music Academy & Festival is an intense summer musical training and performing academy in the heart of the French Alps. We invite teenaged music students and young professionals to spend two weeks of intense musical training and performing in one of the most stunningly beautiful corners of the world: the South of France, Côte d'Azur region (French Riviera). As part of this 2-week intensive summer music immersion camp, students can also take French language classes.
- Personalized Music Course
This personalized course offers young musicians the opportunity to explore the French school of music-making via masterclasses with renowned French guest artists, perform for European audiences and be inspired by an international faculty, all in an informal setting.
- Internationally-Renowned Faculty
Tucked away in the heights of the French Alps, the Festival makes its home in a historic mountain town of Valdeblore, and boasts an internationally-renowned faculty, acclaimed guest artists and ample performing opportunities throughout the region.
- Specialized Chamber Music Coaching
Students will be assigned to a chamber music ensemble, which will meet and rehearse daily. Each ensemble, will receive four, one-hour coachings from the Zodiac Trio and the attending faculty.
The Zodiac Music Academy & Festival is designed to provide intense musical training and performance opportunity, while exposing young musicians to French culture and its way of music-making. Course features include:
- Private Instruction (four 1-hour, individual lessons with the professor of their choice)
- Chamber Music Coaching
- Masterclasses
- Specialized Classes / Clinics / Seminars
- Solo Performance
- Activities & Excursions
- Accommodation & Boarding
- French Language Instruction
All this in an in-formal and highly personal setting, where students and professors share meals, perform together and become inspired by one another. We hope you will join us for this musical and deeply human experience.
The Academy makes its home in a small medieval town of Valdeblore. Nestled in the heights of the French Alps, Valdeblore provides an ideal setting for artistic reflection and in-depth training, while still being part of the culturally bustling region of Côte d'Azur.
This unique geographical location combines the beauty and tranquility of the alps with the culturaly-rich French Riviera and its legendary coastline.
With its feet in the Mediterranean and its head in the Alps, the region has an extensive palette of colorful landscapes.
Provence, the Midi, these are magical names in a luminous landscape that inspired Van Gogh and Cézanne, and changed the course of modern painting. The region offers a rich culture and one of a kind geographical setting, ideal for an inspirational musical retreat.
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