Academy Master Classes & Enrichment Offerings

A hallmark of the Academy is regular master classes featuring some of the world's most renowned artists and pedagogues.  In addition to master classes, the Academy offers special enrichment classes featuring lectures, workshops with experts in the field of classical music. These professionals provide a broad view of the world of music and help students leave the Academy prepared for careers as soloists, chamber musicians, orchestra members, and teachers.

Midori Master Class

Previous Guest Master Classes Presenters

  • Midori
  • violinist, Curtis Institute of Music; Artistic Director Steans Music Institute Piano & Strings 
  • Martin Beaver
  • violinist, Colburn School Conservatory
  • Danielle Belen
  • violinist, University of Michigan 
  • Clive Greensmith
  • cellist, Colburn School Conservatory
  • Heidi Castleman
    violist, Juilliard School
  • Miriam Fried
  • violinist, New England Conservatory
  • Orion String Quartet
  • Viviane Hagner
    violinist
  • Richard Aaron
    cellist, University of Michigan and The Juilliard School
  • Sergei Babayan
    pianist, Juilliard School and SMU Meadows School of the Arts
  • Laurie Carney
    violinist, Manhattan School of Music
  • Pinchas Zukerman
    violinist, violist & conductor
  • eighth blackbird
  • Pamela Frank
    violinist, Curtis Institute of Music 
  • Matt Haimovitz
    cellist
  • Stephen Hough
    pianist, Royal Northern College in Manchester and Juilliard
  • Mark Kaplan
    violinist, Jacobs School of Music
  • Joel Smirnoff
    violinist, Juilliard School
  • Robert Nagy
    cellist
  • Jorge Federico Osorio
    pianist
  • Cavani Quartet
  • Laurence Lesser
    cellist, New England Conservatory
  • Steven Doane
    cellist, Eastman School of Music
  • Vadim Gluzman
    violinist, Peabody Institute 
  • Sharon Robinson
    cellist, Cleveland Institute of Music
  • Janina Fialkowska
    pianist
  • Vladimir Feltsman
    pianist, SUNY New Paltz and Mannes College The New School for Music
  • David Taylor, violinist
    CSO assistant concertmaster
  • Rachel Barton Pine
    violinist, Rachel Barton Pine Foundation 
  • Nelita True
    pianist
  • Roger Chase
    violist, Roosevelt University; Trinity Laban Conservatoire in London
  • Roberto Diaz
    violist, President/CEO Curtis Institute of Music
  • David Geber
  • cellist, Manhattan School of Music
  • Daniel Heifetz
    violinist, Founder of the Heifetz International Music Institute
  • Ilya Kaler
    violinist, Cleveland Institute of Music
  • Ida Kavafian
    violinist, Juilliard School and the Bard College Conservatory of Music
  • Jeffrey Siegel
    pianist
  • Amit Peled
    cellist, Peabody Institute
  • Pacifica String Quartet
  • Paul Kantor
    violinist, The Shepherd School of Music
  • Robert Lipsett
    violinist, Colburn Conservatory
  • Robert McDonald
    pianist, Curtis Institute of Music
  • Wendy Warner
    cellist, Schwob School of Music

Previous Enrichment Presenters

  • Jeff Handley
  • Fulcrum Point New Music Project: World Music
  • Dr. Amber May
  • Psychiatrist, Whole Brain and Body Health
  • Stephen Burns
    Fulcrum Point New Music Project / Contemporary Music
  • Kitty Knight
    former cellist, Da Vinci String Quartet/Careers in Music
  • Nina Kraus
  • Nina Kraus, Ph.D., Biology of Auditory Learning, Northwestern University
  • Robert Duke
    Professor of Music and Human Learning at University of Texas-Austin
  • Anne Midgett
    music critic
  • Steven Robinson
    WFMT Radio Executive Vice President for Radio & Project Development
  • Henry Fogel
    Past President of CSO and of American Symphony Orchestra League
  • Garry Clarke
    Founder of Baroque Band; Baroque Performance Practice Specialist
  • Stacy Garrop, Reena Esmail, Jim Stephenson, Mischa Zupko, Chen Yi, Zhou Long, Marta Ptaszynska
    Renowned Living Composers
  • Paige Whitley-Baugess
    Baroque Dance Specialist