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Jun 14, 2011 · The Music Academy nurtures exceptional musicians and leaders through the Summer School & Festival, Sing! children's choir, and MAX partnerships in Santa Barbara, California.
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Located in Santa Barbara, the Music Academy creates a space...
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140 fellows from around the world, ages 18-34, study and...
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Engaging with, connecting & celebrating Academy Alumni Music...
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Top-Tier Locations for Your Next Performance Our venues are...
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Paul has been on the faculty at the Music Academy of the...
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The Music Academy becomes an All-Steinway Institution, and a...
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Music Academy was one of the most enriching summers of my...
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May 2, 2024 · Get poured into by worldclass staff and teaching artists here in beautiful Santa Barbara, CA.
Located in Santa Barbara, the Music Academy creates a space where exceptional talent can thrive by encouraging artists to stretch, experiment, improvise, and play. The Music Academy provides artists with the tools they need to become not just great musicians but great leaders.
140 fellows from around the world, ages 18-34, study and perform for eight weeks with 50+ teaching artists in the spectacular coastal setting of Santa Barbara, California. Fellows cultivate tools they need to become not just great musicians, but great leaders. All just steps from the beach.
- Miraflores Transformed
- An Estate in Transition
- Readied For Its New Role
- An Evolution Nearly Complete
- A Move to Westmont College
Paul G. Thiene, who frequently worked with Johnson, was called in to integrate the landscape design with that of the house. One of the leading landscape architects of the Mediterranean revival era, Thiene had been trained as a horticulturalist in Germany and his practice was entirely residential. Thiene’s plan brought guests to an entrance gate nea...
Miraflores’ house and grounds suited the Jeffersons very well. They entertained frequently, sometimes with musical performances in the large living room. After Mr. Jefferson died in 1934, Mrs. Jefferson stayed on, assisted by the couple’s longtime secretary and devoted friend, Theresa (Helen) Marso. When Mrs. Jefferson died in 1950, the property an...
Though it could not be readied for full use by the beginning of the summer session, the property was made ready for an open house reception and musical performance on August 5, 1951. More than 1,500 people came to see Miraflores and enjoy the orchestral performance and debut of the Academy’s new Romany Chorus conducted by vocal department director ...
Abravanel Hall, the antecedent to Hahn Hall, opened in 1972. The earlier building was named for the late conductor Maurice Abravanel, who served as music director at the Academy from 1954 to 1980. Claeyssens Hall, the beautiful teaching and practice facility situated to the west of Anne’s Garden, opened in 1993. And in 2006 the Music Academy comple...
2016 marked a historic transition of the Academy fellows’ residential campus from Cate School in Carpinteria to Westmont College in Montecito. After decades of a wonderful partnership with Cate School, located 12 miles south of the Music Academy, the fellows’ accommodations are now located at Westmont College, a gorgeous private college campus just...
10 acres (4.0 ha) Website. www .musicacademy .org. The Music Academy of the West is a summer classical music training program in Montecito, California, and festival with performances in the County of Santa Barbara .
Founded in 1947, the Academy operates on a 10-acre, ocean-side campus in Santa Barbara, California. Music Academy of the West’s world-renowned eight-week Summer Festival comprises nearly 200 public events. Programs comprise voice, vocal piano, collaborative piano, instrumental, and solo piano.
