YOMA International Summer Academy

In August 2025, the first YOMA International Summer Academy was held! A comprehensive summer course for particularly interested students aged 12–18 who play orchestral instruments. In the summer of 2027, the course will return to Vänersborg.

The page will be updated as the course approaches. Until then, you can read the information below and this news post.

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

Course content

• 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 course’s 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.   

These teachers joined in 2025:

• Gitte Marcusson, flöjt (Royal College of Music, London)
• Randi Krogvold Lundqvist, flöjt (Barratt Due musikkinstitutt)
• David Strunck, oboe (Oslo Filharmoni)
• Magnus Holmander, klarinett (frilans)
• Kaitlyn Cameron, fagott (Göteborgs Symfoniker)
• Björn Olsson, valthorn (Kungliga Musikhögskolan)
• Tom Poulson, trumpet (Kungliga Musikhögskolan)
• Endre Vetås, trombon (Göteborgs Symfoniker)
• Jesper Kramer,tuba (Göteborgs Symfoniker)
• Martin Ödlund, slagverk (Göteborgs Symfoniker)
• Jonas Olsson, piano och instudering (frilans, Young Musicians Academy)
• Lorenzo Soulès, piano och instudering (Folkwang Universität der Künste)
• Anna Kolby Sonstad, violin (Musikhögskolan Ingesund)
• Erik Heide, violin (Musikhögskolan i Malmö)
• Johannes Lörstad, violin (Kungliga Filharmonikerna, Stockholm)
• Judith Ingolfsson, violin (Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, USA)
• Per Enoksson, violin (Kungliga Musikhögskolan)
• Göran Fröst, viola (Kungliga Musikhögskolan)
• Laura Groenestein, viola (Göteborgs Symfoniker)
• Jun Sasaki, cello (Göteborgs Symfoniker)
• Lars-Inge Bjärlestam, cello (Musikhögskolan Ingesund)
• Dan Styffe, kontrabas (Barratt Due musikkinstitutt)
• Andreas van Tol, dirigent (frilans, Young Musicians Academy)

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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