What Sets Us Apart

• a non-competitive, supportive environment to grow as a musician

• A small festival with just 27 students

• Tuition and Room and Board are Totally Free

• Focus on Chamber Music and Chamber Orchestra Repertoire

• Practical and Beneficial classess in Alexander Technique, career guidance, improvization and more

Each day, You Will

• have a chamber music session with nationally-recognized faculty members

• chamber orchestra rehearsal, performing great works from the standard orchestral repertoire

• opportunities for private instruction

• time to take advantage of the many opportunities for recreation and relaxation at the Villa Maria Center

• attend performances of our outstanding faculty artists

Getting to the Festival

• Villa Maria Center is just off of US 422, one mile east of the Pennsylvania/Ohio border. Driving directions can be found here.

• Participating musicians should plan arrive on the afternoon of Sunday, June 2, 2024 and depart on Sunday, June 16, 2024

• If flying, participants should fly into Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT)

Past Orchestra Repertoire includes:

• Beethoven Symphonies 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8

• Ravel - Le Tombeau de Couperin

• Mozart - Symphony No. 40

• Schubert - Symphony No. 5

• Mendelssohn - “Italian” Symphony

• Handel - Water Music

The setting at Villa Maria is reflective and beautiful—a positive environment capable of transforming young students into real musicians.

—Stephen Caplan | Oboe Professor, UNLV