YOMA International Summer Academy

Welcome to YOMA’s International Summer Academy! A comprehensive summer course for particularly interested orchestral instrument players aged 12-18. The course is given in Vänersborg, Sweden and is free of charge.

If you’re playing at an advanced level or are music college student, apply here.

• You get 3 individual lessons, and group lessons  
• You are instructed by skilled teachers and our coaches    
• You play daily in small ensembles or chamber music groups  
• You play in various orchestras such as string, wind and/or symphony orchestras 
• You will participate in concerts and attend various concerts 

Teachers and professors

The instructors are distinguished musicians, professors and educators from the professional orchestras, music academies, centres of excellence and music schools of the Nordic countries and the rest of Europe.   

The list will be updated regularly:

• Randi Krogvold Lundqvist, flute (Barratt Due Musikkinstitutt)
• David Strunck, oboe (Oslo Philharmonic)
• Kaitlyn Cameron, bassoon (Göteborgs Symfoniker)
• Björn Olsson, French horn (Kungliga Musikhögskolan)
• Tom Poulson, trumpet (Kungliga Musikhögskolan)
• Jonas Olsson, piano and accompaniment (freelance, Young Musicians Academy)
• Lorenzo Soulès, piano and accompaniment (freelance)
• Johannes Lörstad, violin (Kungliga Filharmonikerna, Stockholm)
• Kristoffer Dolatko, violin (Syddansk Musikkonservatorium, Odense)
• Göran Fröst, viola (Kungliga Musikhögskolan)
• Laura Groenestein, viola (Göteborgs Symfoniker)
• Lars-Inge Bjärlestam, cello (Musikhögskolan Ingesund)
• Dan Styffe, double bass (Barratt Due Musikkinstitutt)
• Andreas van Tol, conductor (freelance, Young Musicians Academy)

Practical info and application

We will offer accommodation and breakfast for about 500 SEK/night in shared rooms. Generally, all participants, except adults, are accommodated in shared rooms. We also offer lunch and dinner for about 120 SEK/meal. Once you are accepted, we will send you a link for booking meals and accommodation. 

If you are admitted to the course and play oboe, bassoon, French horn, tuba, viola or double bass and live more than 300 kilometres from Vänersborg, we pay for your travelling expenses up to an amount of 800 SEK. You book the trip yourself and send the receipts to us.

There are some online spots on the course to apply to for those who want to participate online instead.

The application closed on 2025-05-18 but if you play the bassoon or French horn, there may be places left on the course. Contact us at yoma@yomacenter.se

Your application is valid only when you    

• have sent a link to a recording on YouTube or Vimeo (it can but does not have to be with piano accompaniment) – the link is sent to yoma@yomacenter.se with ‘Recording Summer Academy + your name’ in the subject line 
• have sent the sheet music for your individual lessons as an attached PDF file (no link) in an e-mail to yoma@yomacenter.se with ‘Sheet music Summer Academy + your name’ in the subject line 

Organiser  

Organised by the National Centre for Music Talents, involving the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, and all music colleges in Sweden. 

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