Violin Academy

Director Boris Belkin
Teachers

The Violin Course aims to train highly professional figures with solid techniques and artistic skills, to start a solo or Chamber Music career. The musician is going to reach the technical knowledge to tackle, manage and sustain a concert event at a high level. Public performance is considered a fundamental feature of the course.

Attendance to the course is subject to passing the entrance exam by audition, with the following programme:

1. Johann Sebastian Bach. Performance of one of the following Sonatas for solo violin:

  • Sonata No. 1 in G minor, BWV 1001 (Adagio and Fugue)
  • Sonata No. 2 in A minor, BWV 1003 (Grave and Fugue)
  • Sonata No. 3 in C major, BWV 1005 (Adagio and Fugue)

2. A virtuoso piece for solo violin or for violin and piano, chosen from composers such as:

  • Wieniawski
  • Paganini
  • Ernst
  • Ysaÿe

3. The first movement of a Romantic concerto for violin and orchestra.

 

The admission exam to the class of Maestro Francesco Manara,  requires an audition with the following program:

• the first movement of a Mozart concerto of your choice
• two steps or orchestral solos of your choice
• a piece for solo violin of your choice

 

 

TYPES OF COURSES

  •  Multi-Year Violin Course: for students up to the age of 19. The didactic activity will be parallel to the Three-Year course, to set a solid basement for an educational continuity within the Academy. The aim is to provide them with technical and interpretative skills to complete their studies at a high level.
  • Three-Year violin Course: for students aged 20 and over. At the end of the course it is possible to take the final Diploma exam.
  • Senior Violin Course: exclusively for students aged over 27 years. This course addresses to concert performers whose will is to deepen their repertoires. Admission to the course is only possible if presented by one or more teachers of the Academy and only after passing an entrance exam with the unanimous approval of the entire commission.
  • M° Manara Solos and orchestral excerpts Course: focused on the study and preparation of solos and orchestral passages from symphonies, operas and ballets, as well as the study of the repertoire usually required in competitions.
  • Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree Courses: details to be found at the related sections of the website.

Bachelor’s Degree
Master’s Degree

 

STUDY PLAN

Each year of the Multi-Year Course includes:
– a recital programme
– a piece for violin and orchestra
– a romantic concerto for violin and orchestra
– one virtuoso piece
– one piece from the contemporary repertoire

Each year of the Three-Year Course includes:
– two recital programmes
– two pieces for violin and orchestra
– two virtuoso pieces;
– one piece from the contemporary repertoire.

All pieces, with the exception of the sonatas and the contemporary piece, must be performed by heart.

Each year of the Senior Course includes:
– a 60-minute recital
– a concert for violin and orchestra

The repertoire of M° Manara Solos and orchestral excerpts Course will be agreed directly with the teacher, according to the specific interests of the student.

 

In order to attend the following academic year of each course, it is mandatory to pass the annual passage exam. Program to be agreed with the teacher.

 

ATTENDANCE
Lessons are individual and take place between October and June.

Annual attendance fee Multi-Year Course
€ 2.100,00 to be paid within the following deadlines:

  • 15th October: I fee € 1.050,00
  • 15th February: II fee € 1.050,00

Annual attendance fee Three-Year course
€ 2.500,00 to be paid within the following deadlines:

  • 15th October: I fee € 1.250,00
  • 15th February: II fee € 1.250,00

Annual attendance fee Senior Course
€ 2.250 to be paid within the following deadlines:

  • 15th October: I fee € 1.125,00
  • 15th February: II fee € 1.125,00

Annual attendance M° Manara Solos and orchestral excerpts Course
– up to 26 years, 30 hours of lessons per year/€1.900,00 to be paid within the following deadlines:

  • 15th October: I fee € 950,00
  • 15th February: II fee € 950,00

– aged 27 or more, 24 hours of lessons per year/€2.250,00 to be paid within the following deadlines:

  • 15th October: I fee € 1.125,00
  • 15th February: II fee € 1.125,00

 

For details about tuition fees of Degree Courses, please refer to the related section of the website.

Bachelor’s Degree
Master’s Degree