The course intends to offer young composers the opportunity to work on their own composition by coming into contact with the poetic and aesthetic world of antique instruments and their sound.

The students and teachers of the Chigiana-Mozarteum Baroque Program will collaborate during daily and in-depth work together, with the possibility of exploring the most interesting aspects of antique instruments.

This collaboration between students and teachers is the basis of the work and is a fundamental feature of the course.

Lessons in analysis will complete the course program.
It is possible to attend the course as an auditor.

The candidate must submit, together with the application form, the scores of two recent compositions, one for solo instrument and one for a chamber ensemble from 3 to 6 instruments. Please send an mp3 audio file of the compositions.

These scores must be received by the Accademia Chigiana, together with the application form and the application-examination fee, by 31 May. The Academy will inform all candidates of the outcome of the selection made by the examining commission.

The course will benefit from the collaboration of a consort of 4 viole da gamba, resident instrumentalists who will be present throughout the course. Students can use this instrumental ensemble as a basis for their own work.

Well in advance of the period of the course, the active students will start working on the first drafts of their pieces together with the composition instructor, as well as by the other instrumental teachers who will all give useful indications and suggestions regarding their instrument.

The aim is to ensure that the active students arrive to the course with the draft of a composition that is already well on its way. Therefore, during the course, it will be possible to make further advancements in the work, to deepen and develop other aspects in direct collaboration with the resident instrumentalists of the laboratory from the Mozarteum University Salzburg.

If possible, the composition will be performed by the resident instrumentalists at the final concert of the course, scheduled for Monday 2 September (in concert hall of Palazzo Chigi Saracini).