Chamber Music Institute
Young Performers Program
For Advanced String Players and Pianists,
ages 10-19
Dmitri Atapine and Hyeyeon Park, Co-Directors
Music@Menlo’s Young Performers Program provides an incomparable experience for some of the most outstanding young musicians from across the country and abroad. Designed for enthusiastic and dedicated string players and pianists ages ten to nineteen, the program immerses students in a rigorous, nurturing environment, where, through intense exploration of advanced chamber music repertoire, they are transformed into the leaders of tomorrow. Chamber music, with its rich historic tradition and unique challenges, is the perfect art-form to cultivate the skills needed for success. Leadership and teamwork, discipline and creativity, communication and engagement, inventiveness and adaptability: all are addressed in a profoundly engaging way, while offering musical training at the highest level.
Approximately thirty students are accepted into the program each summer. Highlights of the program include:- An in-depth exploration of chamber music repertoire with some of the world’s best musicians in an intense and immersive environment
- Public master classes
- Multiple student performances all professionally produced and broadcast live
- Free tickets to all Music@Menlo main stage events
- Café Conversations and Encounter Lectures with leading artists and musicologists
- Instrument specific sessions focusing on technique and performance skills
- Development of public speaking and communication skills
- Multiple scholarship opportunities
- Yoga sessions
- Group activities that promote inclusiveness and friendship, including ping-pong, scavenger hunts, etc.
- Watch a performance of Bloch’s Piano Quintet no. 1 from the 2019 Young Performers Program.
- Watch a performance of Beethoven’s Piano Trio in G Major from the 2016 Young Performers Program.
- Watch a performance of Shostakovich’s Two Pieces for String Octet from the 2016 Young Performers Program.
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