Gstaad Academy

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At the Gstaad Academy, the Menuhin Festival offers several master courses addressed to young professionals with opportunities of high-profile performance.

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At the Gstaad Academy, the Gstaad Menuhin Festival offers the complete range of master courses (Baroque, Conducting, Piano, String, Vocal) addressed to young professionals, as well as all the 'play@' courses which are aimed at amateur players of all ages. Professional students can choose from a selection of customised master courses with opportunities of high-profile performance, while enjoying the platform of a leading international music festival which not only offers master courses but stages top-quality concerts on a daily basis.
Ambitious amateurs can count on an altogether joyful experience of practical music-making as well as experiencing spectacular concert performances.
The courses are directed by highly regarded musicians who have taken time off from their professional commitments for the sake of passing on their knowledge.
People's experiences at the Menuhin Festival are also unique in being coloured by the magical environment of Switzerland's Saanenland countryside, one of the most beautiful Alpine foothill regions to be found anywhere in the world.
We would like the Gstaad Academy to remain linked in spirit to the founder of the Gstaad Festival, Yehudi Menuhin, whose friends and guests at Gstaad for 40 years included not only established artists like Benjamin Britten, Peter Pears and Maurice Gendron but also Menuhin's own students and young musicians of exceptionally promising talent.