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Designed for adult amateur musicians, the BSO Academy is an immersive week of playing and learning side-by-side with the members of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Marin Alsop.

Baltimore Symphony to offer second BSO Academy in June

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November 16, 2010 | Tim Smith | Baltimore Sun

The first week-long BSO Academy -- the Baltimore Symphony's outreach to amateur musicians -- was a big hit with participants last June. Registration is now open for the second Academy, which will run June 12-18, 2011.

The schedule includes master classes, individual lessons and sectional and full orchestral rehearsals, culminating in a public concert at Meyerhoff Hall by Academy members and BSO musicians, conducted by Marin Alsop.

That concert will offer a hefty program: Bernstein's "Candide" Overture; pieces by Rimsky-Korsakov, Ravel and Hindemith; and nothing less than

the towering first movement of Mahler's Symphony No. 2.

Chamber ensembles, involving Academy participants and BSO musicians, will be formed; they'll give a concert at MICA.

The Academy is open to amateur players who are at least 25 years old. Applications are due by noon on Feb. 1. The $35 application fee will be waived before Dec. 15. Tuition is $1,650. More details can be found on the Academy's Web site .

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Leadership support for the BSO Academy in 2010 through 2015 is generously provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.