The Course will be a workshop with daily sessions.

At the start of the Course, active students must present an original composition (already written, or sketched in outline) for a chamber ensemble with a maximum of six instruments, including: string quartet, flute (also flute in G), clarinet (or bass clarinet). As work during the Course proceeds, the piece will be rehearsed by musicians “in residence”: the Quartetto Prometeo, including flutist Matteo Cesari and clarinetist Paolo Ravaglia. If possible, the composition will be performed at the final concert.

The collaboration of the soloists “in residence” will give rise to lessons and analysis aimed at developing necessary knowledge of the classical and modern repertoire.

It is possible to attend the course as an auditor.

The candidate must present the following materials with the online application form:

1. The scores of one or two of their recent compositions
2. A transcription for string quartet of the VII and VIII Variations of the “Eight Variations on an original theme” D. 813 by Franz Schubert. The parts to be transcribed, from an original work for four-hands piano, will be sent to candidates by email.

Scores for these pieces must be received by the student Secretary’s Office of the Accademia Chigiana, together with the application form, and payment of the entrance-examination fee by May 15th.

The Accademia Chigiana will communicate to all candidates the result of the selection made by the examining commission.