Meet our new Academy members

The young musicians perform in orchestral productions accompanied by mentors from the orchestra’s ranks, they take part in masterclasses and training courses, they receive mental and physical coaching, and perform chamber music concerts at unique locations.

This season’s programme includes masterclasses by violinist Liza Ferschtman and future chief conductor Klaus Mäkelä, and concerts in the Recital Hall of the Concertgebouw. Several Academy participants will be coming along on the tour to the USA.

Both violists, Francisca Galante and Felipe Manzano, are former participants of the orchestra's summer project Concertgebouworkest Young for talented musicians aged 14 to 17. It illustrates how the Concertgebouworkest has been training musicians from a young age. Concertgebouworkest Young (since 2019) and the Academy (since 2002) together form a particularly fruitful breeding ground, contributing to a healthy future for symphonic music. The Concertgebouw Orchestra itself currently harbours fifteen (soon to be sixteen) former academy members.