

The Gustav Mahler Academy offers an artistic experience that is unique in its excellence and diversity. Perfect your instrumental skills and gain invaluable experience by playing in ensembles of all genres. Develop an international network of peers and leading personalities in the international music scene. Spend unforgettable summer weeks in Bolzano and in the picturesque mountain village of Toblach, where Mahler once composed.
To offer a deeper and more sustainable learning experience, starting this year the Gustav Mahler Academy is organized as a biennial program. In case of a successful audition, you will be admitted to both summer academies 2023 and 2024. Your participation in both academies will be mandatory.
Teachers
Guest Faculty 2023

Gregory
Ahss
violin

Kerson
Leong
violin

Veronika
Hagen
viola

Alban
Gerhardt
cello

Rick
Stotijn
double bass

Olivier
Patey
clarinet
Mahler Chamber Orchestra 2023
Many musicians from the Mahler Chamber Orchestra are invited each year as Resident Tutors,
to perform alongside our students, and to transmit their knowledge, their sense of quality and perfection and their absolute dedication, which are the specific and characteristic features of all Claudio Abbado projects and ideals of the MCO itself.
Chiara
Tonelli
flute
Aljaz
Begus
clarinet
Chiara
Santi
bassoon
Jonathan
Ramsey
trombone
Martin
Piechotta
timpani
Afanasy
Chupin
violin
Timothy
Summers
violin
Hilde
Niebur
violin
Anna
Puig Torne
viola
Philipp
von Steinaecker
cello
Kristina
Blaumane
cello
Christophe
Morin
cello
Naomi
Shaham
double bass
“The Gustav Mahler Academy plays a very important role in the Italian and European cultural scene (…)
offering many musicians a truly significant artistic opportunity.”
(Claudio Abbado)
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