This Course is divided into two sections with two different instructors. Both sections may be filled, or the course may be limited to only one section. 

During the Course, students may perfect pieces of their own choosing, to be indicated in advance on the Application Form.

To be admitted to each section, candidates must pass the required examination and pay the corresponding attendance fee. Payment of the application and examination fee is required only once, even in cases of repeat attendance.

The admission exam is by pre-recorded video audition. Candidates must submit the requested works for the corresponding instructor:

Ilya GRINGOLTS Course

For the entrance examination candidates are free to choose their own program from the violin solo repertoire or the repertoire for violin and piano. The selected pieces should be indicated on the application form.

During the Course students may perfect compositions of their own choosing from the entire violin repertoire, indicating their choices in advance on the Application Form.

By virtue of the collaboration with Salvatore Sciarrino’s Composition Course, some pieces from the Composition class for solo violin will be performed by active students at the final concert of the Violin Course, which will take place on Saturday 30 July in the concert hall of Palazzo Chigi Saracini.

Salvatore ACCARDO Course

Examination programme:
a) Paganini, one Capriccio of the candidate’s own choosing;
b) J. S. Bach, one movement from the Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin of the candidate’s own choosing;
c) Mozart, one movement from a Concerto of the candidate’s own choosing;
d) one movement from a Concerto for violin and orchestra of the candidate’s own choosing (to be indicated on the Application Form).

During the Course students may perfect compositions of their own choosing from the entire violin repertoire, indicating their choices in advance on the Application Form.