Curriculum

- private instrumental lessons
- class lessons
- house concert performance for each student
- 2 public concerts of selected student performances
- 4 communal "seminars" on 4 themes
- recreational sessions with our student counsellor
- "The Challenge" (student competition with a prize)

Saturday, July 17,  20 - 21.15h

Pre recorded videos of 8 young talents aged 13 to 24 have been selected for this streaming concert. They play solo pieces or pieces with piano. 

Gala Concert: Saturday, July 17,  20 - 21.20h

 The highlight of Astona Online 2021 is the Gala Concert. Pre recorded videos of 7 young talents aged 12 to 22 have been selected to perform solo pieces or works with piano. Including the announcement of  "The Challenge" competition prize winner.

I took up the cello because I heard another boy playing it and fell in love with the sound. My teacher was Nancy Chumachenco. She expected a lot right from day one, and if you were a talented student she would go full steam ahead, not for just 30 or 60 minutes a week but a whole lot more. There was chamber music, too, and every year she would organise a summer school with students from other countries. Meeting kids from places like South Africa, Finland and the US as a twelve-year-old was so exciting, and it gave us a network of friends and colleagues to draw on as we got older. Not many people are lucky enough to be guided by someone like Nancy Chumachenco from the first time they pick up their instrument. 
The Strad, 2/2020

Christian Poltéra, born 1977,  Astona participant 1988 - 1993. Renowned international Cello soloist and chamber music player, Professor at Lucerne University.  

At the age of 15 to 17, I had the good fortune to attend Astona  International. I can attest to the fact that these years were the most formative in my musical education.

Philippe Jordan, born 1974, 

Astona participant 1990 - 1992,

Musica  Director: Paris Opéra

Principal Conductor: Vienna Symphony Orchestra