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Summer Music Course
Brescia, Italy
13th-19th July 2025
A SUMMER
PROGRAMME
The Brescia Summer Music Course is a joint project between The Thinking Musician and Laboratorio Musicale Note Di Talento. This is a programme of exploration, discovery and achievement for advanced violinists and string chamber ensembles.
Who is it for?
Talented conservatoire-level violin students and young professionals, and preformed string chamber groups who strive to bring their technical skills to the highest level, who are searching for the musical understanding that will deliver artistic individuality and who are exploring the secret of creative and spontaneous performance.
Individual lessons with a team of internationally renowned professors
Public Masterclasses
Performances
Sign-up duo and chamber music coaching
Technical “Surgery”
Competition and Audition preparation
Lectures and Seminars
Certificate of Participation
Each morning is dedicated to individual and group lessons and duo coaching sessions with the piano. The day starts with a group warm-up session for all. During the afternoons are more lessons as well as seminars and presentations, workshops and open masterclasses. Ensemble music making and public performances take place in the evenings. There will be a gala concert on the final evening of the course.
THE TEACHERS
Ksenia
Milas
Violin
Ksenia Milas is a Russian violinist who has been living in Italy for over 15 years. She maintains an active concert schedule, performing solo recitals and concertos all over the world. From 2010 to 2023, she has taught at the International Academy of Imola (Honorary Director the Maestro Vladimir Ashkenazi). Through her passion for teaching, she seeks to pass on the secrets of the violinistic techniques to her numerous students. In 2021 she…
Oleksandr
Semchuk
Violin
Oleksandr Semchuk began studying violin at 4 years of age with Maestro I. Pylatiuk. When only eight years old he started his career performing his first concert as a soloist with an orchestra. Among his teachers are such world-renowned violinists as Bohodar Kotorovych, Yehudi Menuhin, Tibor Varga, Viktor Tretyakov, and Alberto Lysy. At an early age, he won the prestigious and much coveted All-Soviet-Union Competition “Youth Assembly of…
Mark
Messenger
Violin
Anglo-Armenian violinist, Mark Messenger, has had a broad and varied career resulting in a global reputation as soloist, chamber musician, conductor, teacher, jury member, speaker and consultant.
His love of music and the human connection it offers has meant he has shared the concert platform with many remarkable musicians. For over four decades he performed on some of the most prestigious concert platforms in the world…
ACCOMMODATION
Accommodation is not provided by the course. Local accommodation is available.
TRAVEL
By plane:
The nearest airports to Brescia are Verona Airport (VRN), which is 51 km away and
Milan Bergamo Airport (BGY) (53 km). Other nearby airports include Milan Linate Airport (LIN) (86 km), and Milan Malpensa Airport (MXP) (120 km).
By train:
Brescia is on several train lines and is easily reached by train from Milan, Desenzano del Garda (on Lake Garda), Cremona (to the south), Lake Iseo, and Val Camonica (to the north). A local bus connects the station to the city centre.
Buses also connect to other nearby cities and towns.
By car:
Brescia can be reached through motorways A4 Milan-Venice (E64), A35 Brescia –
Bergamo – Milan, and A21 Turin – Piacenza – Cremona – Brescia (E70). It is therefore in a strategic position at the heart of the main national intersections and European corridors which connect eastern and western Europe and northern and southern Italy.
By bus:
There are buses that connect Brescia to other nearby cities and towns.
Antonello
Farulli
Viola
A student of Piero Farulli, viola of the legendary Italian Quartet, and later of Mazumi Tanamura and Nobuko Imai, Antonello Farulli is one of the most active Italian violists both in playing and teaching. A member of the Youth Orchestra of the Eurpoean Union, and later solo viola player of Solisti Veneti, Farulli's concert activity has taken him to into the most important concert halls in the world. He has also developed with passion his role as a mentor to some of the most successful…
Maria
Tarasewicz
Piano - Duo Coach
Maria Tarasewicz has gained an international reputation as a chamber musician, duo partner and a pedagogue. She is committed to working with and developing younger artists, and invitations not only as a performer but also as a teacher and accompanist have taken her to Norway, Belgium, France, Italy, Jersey, San Marino, Poland, China and many UK festivals and masterclasses. In the recent years Maria has developed a unique coaching programme for…
ABOUT NOTE DI TALENTO
Note di Talento is a unique musical centre, set in the historic Italian city of Brescia at the foothills of the Alps, where the most talented and individual string players come to explore and develop their playing and nurture their artistic originality. The Note di Talento musical laboratory is an international hub which attracts exceptional students and great pedagogues.
The Note di Talento musical laboratory o`ers bespoke short projects which can be taken separately but can also be combined to create long programmes which can work independently or alongside existing conservatoire and university courses. It also is a focussed centre of artistic
education and development. In addition to the advertised activities, students, young professionals and chamber ensembles can propose their own area of specialism and interest for detailed exploration and guidance from the pedagogic team.
Courses comprise regular intensive instrumental studies with one (or two, by special arrangement) Note di Talento professors. These courses focus on the development of technical skills, knowledge of repertoire and include many of the units listed above. Mentoring is given to young professionals at the start of their careers, and performance opportunities are offered as part of the programmes. All longer courses require admission via competitive audition.
The highly selective Italy Concert Academy (ICA) programme is the culminating course offered by Note di Talento, aimed attalented young artists who possess the ambition and ability to pursue an international career.
FEES & APPLICATIONS
The course fee is €950.
This includes:
7 days full participation in course (all activities included).
For an additional fee, an organised sight-seeing trip can be arranged.
• There are some scholarships of up to 50% available to EU students.
• For any student who requires a Schengen visa, Note di Talento can provide a formal letter of
invitation for your visa application.
Application deadline is 1st June 2025. To apply, please download the application form and send it to info@noteditalento.org
Or print and post it to: Via Sant’Emiliano 2/a, 25127 Brescia, Italia
There is an inscription fee of €200; refundable if your application is unsuccessful.
(Notification of successful scholarship applicants will be sent before 1st July)
BANK DETAILS:
Crédit Agricole Italia agenzia 43, Milano, Italia
IBAN: IT71Y0623001633000015606589
SWIFT: CRPPIT2PXXX
Tax ID code: IT97892390150
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