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Summer Music Institute

World Class Instruction for Young Artists at the 15th Summer Music Institute, June 6 – 29, 2013 in Ottawa

The Summer Music Istitute has become a world-renowned magnet for the best young Canadian and international classical artists, providing world-class instruction for especially gifted young musicians, conductors and composers.

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About the SMI

In 1999, the National Arts Centre's Music Director Pinchas Zukerman founded the Young Artists program (YAP) with just 10 students. Over the years, the program has grown to include the Conductors program(CP) directed by Maestro Kenneth Kiesler and the Composers program (CMP) directed by NAC Award Composer, Gary Kulesha. Together, they make up what we know today as the Summer Music Institute.

With an exceptional international faculty and students of the highest calibre, the Summer Music Institute brings the world to Canada and Canada to the world. In 2012, over 90 young people came from across Canada and around the world to Ottawa to experience intensive learning, passionate pedagogy and new-found friendships at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa.

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The 2013 Summer Music Institute is made possible through the wonderful generosity of individual donors and corporations and the NAC’s National Youth and Education Trust and its Lead Partner CIBC. We would like to thank all those who support the Summer Music Institute.

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