Organisation
Founded in 1993 as the International Chamber Music Academy Kronberg (and renamed in 1999), Kronberg Academy is based in Kronberg, but is also represented in the US and South Korea. Raimund Trenkler has been Kronberg Academy’s Managing Director and Artistic Director since the institution was founded.
Kronberg Academy has established a Bachelor and Master study program for young soloists that is unmatched in Europe: Kronberg Academy Masters. The exclusive course of study has been designed for outstanding young musicians who have the potential for an international career as soloists. Kronberg Academy Masters educational program serves the special needs and abilities of young artists.
Kronberg Academy Masters offers a two-tier course of instructions for a maximum of 12 young soloists: Kronberg Academy Master (M.Mus.), a Bachelor and Master course in cooperation with the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt (three years) and Kronberg Academy Further Masters Studies (one to two years) under the direction of Stephen Potts, (formerly at the Yehudi Menuhin School).
Teachers for the Kronberg Academy Masters are among others Ana Chumachenco and Christian Tetzlaff (violin), Nobuko Imai (viola), and Frans Helmerson and Gary Hoffman (cello). Other internationally renowned artists such as Gidon Kremer (violin), Yuri Bashmet and Tabea Zimmermann (viola), and Young-Chang Cho (cello) have been teaching as visiting professors.
Yuri Bashmet, Marta Casals Istomin and Gidon Kremer are members of the Artistic Council. Mstislav Rostropovich was a member of the Artistic Council of Kronberg Academy until his death in 2007.
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