TORONTO SUMMER MUSIC ACADEMY
July 20 - August 16, 2009
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The Toronto Summer Music Academy launches its third season from July 20 to August 16, 2009 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada at the Edward Johnson Building (Faculty of Music) at the University of Toronto.
The Academy has been conceived to provide exceptionally gifted young musicians with an opportunity to study with an international faculty of the highest quality and reputation, learning from their experience and musicianship. With limited enrollment, study is intense and enriching and provides students with a chance to interact with the faculty and other emerging professionals.
The Toronto Summer Music Academy program takes place at the Edward Johnson Building on the University of Toronto campus, chosen for its excellent teaching and performance facilities. MacMillan Theatre is a fully equipped opera house; Walter Hall is one of Toronto’s major chamber music halls, and the Faculty of Music library is the largest in Canada.
The 2009 Toronto Summer Music Festival runs concurrently with the Academy program and features over thirty Canadian and international artists in more than twenty concerts, an opera production, workshops, lectures, and twice-weekly Emerging Artist concerts. The theme of the 2009 Toronto Summer Music Festival is ETERNAL STARS, a celebratory commemoration marking the anniversaries of the many great star composers such as Purcell, Händel, Haydn, Mendelssohn and Martinu.
2009 Academy Programs
Master Classes for Instrumentalists
A series of intensive master classes with our internationally acclaimed faculty targeted at solo musicians and pre-formed ensembles at the threshold of their career in music performance.
String Quartet Workshop
Two weeks of intensive coaching for exceptionally promising string quartets.
Opera
An opera program including voice master classes under the direction of Agnes Grossmann and Edith Wiens.
Composition Workshop
A workshop designed for talented young composers with demonstrated originality and skill in their creation of string quartets.
Chamber Music Workshop for Advanced Amateurs / Semi-Professional Musicians
A one-week intensive workshop for serious, experienced amateur ensembles providing coaching by our highly acclaimed faculty to advance skills in music interpretation, ensemble and performance skills.
2009 Academy Faculty
Academy Facilities
Rehearsals, classes and coaching take place in the Edward Johnson Building, home of the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto. Individual practice rooms and several rehearsal spaces with pianos are available to Toronto Summer Music Academy students.
The Edward Johnson Building houses: a music library which is the main research music collection in Canada and includes a vast collection of sound recordings in the Sniderman Recording Archives; the MacMillan Theatre, which is a fully equipped opera house; and Walter Hall, which is one of the city's major chamber music halls. It is located on the main campus of the University of Toronto in midtown Toronto, on the subway line, and close to the city's libraries, concert halls, galleries, museums and theatres.