ALL NEW Summer course 2021!!!!

“Thank you to all the wonderful musicians and teachers at the International Academy of Musical Excellence in Graz for such an inspiring week of the most honest and supportive music making. Thank you Hartmut Ometzberger, Diana Cummings for all your wisdom and encouragement.”
— Matthew Crisp, Participant 2017, 2018

“The Simplicity of Playing the Violin” by Herbert Whone

In 2021 we are going to host a unique summer course near the beautiful city of Graz, Austria. It is in a stunning location and all the details for 2021 will be published soon. Please contact us via email if you would like further information. This one-week intensive violin and chamber music course will be held for the fourth time and and violinists have come from all over Europe as well as Asia since 2017 to take part in this unique week.

 
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“Thank you SO much for such an opportunity with great company and excellent lovely teachers. I enjoyed every single moment in this sommercourse! Hope to see everyone again soon and have a great rest of the summer holiday”
— Kuome Tatsuno, Participant 2017 and 2018
 

Faculty:

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HARTMUT OMETZBERGER is recognized as one of the leading Austrian violinists of his generation. He enjoys a varied career as a soloist, chamber musician, orchestral leader and teacher. His performances have been described as “an exceptional joy” and “a musical revelation.” It is his extraordinary musicality together with the incredible depth of his sound which distinguishes him from other virtuoso violinists of today. As Emanuel Hurwitz said, “[Hartmut Ometzberger] is a violinist of extraordinary musical talent. At this time of technical perfection, he is one of the few violinists who truly has something to say.”

Mr. Ometzberger has performed in many prestigious concert halls all over Europe, including the Concertgebouw, Bösendorfersaal, Hofburg in Vienna, Schloss Schwetzingen, Prinzregententheater, Gasteig, Grote Kerk in Den Haag, Carrolus Borromeus Kerk in Antwerpen. He’s regularly invited to teach masterclasses in Europe, Great Britain and the United States. 

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DIANA CUMMINGS is one of the best known and most distinguished violinists in Great Britain, Diana was born in London, where she studied at the Royal Academy of Music, subsequently she studied in Rome and in New York, and was a prize winner in the International Violin Competition "Nicolo Paganini.

Her career has developed over a very wide spectrum of musical activities. As a chamber musician she is the leader of the Cummings String Trio and the English String Quartet and is artist in residence of the London Festival of Chamber Music. Diana is also a recitalist and concerto soloist with a very wide and varied repertoire, and is in continuous demand as orchestral leader, guest leading many of the major symphony orchestras. In all these capacities she has made many recordings and CDs, has broadcast frequently and toured extensively throughout Great Britain, Europe and the USA.

Diana is a violin professor at The Royal Academy of Music in London and at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London.