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15 Jan 2025: Amazing Prizes & Awards

For this year's academy our generous partners have donated awards worth many thousand Euro, such as:

• Loan of a fine old Italian instrument by Florian Leonhard Fine Violins
• A case for your instrument by Gewa
• String sets for different instruments by Pirastro
• A solo performance at the IMUKO Music Festival
• Career-boosting awards and Ambassador program by Classeek

... and more. For details visit see the full list of awards 2025 »

30 Dec 2024: International lectures

For 2025 we've put together a program with wonderful speakers who are all among the leaders of today's classical music business:

• Dr. Harald Eggebrecht, author and freelance writer for the Süddeutsche Zeitung
• Avi Shoshani, General Secretary of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
• Dr. Norbert Gertsch, Managing Director of G. Henle Publishers
• Florian Leonhard MBE, violin expert & violin maker

15 Dec 2024: Another Partner Joins the Academy

Florian Leonhard Fine Violins make, restore and sell the finest string instruments. Welcome aboard!

12 Dec 2024: Classeek Becomes Partner

The academy welcomes its new partner! Classeek discover, follow and support classical music talent globally.

09 Nov 2024: Violinbooks.com Join Our Partners

The Stradivari Books have the world's highest quality of photographic violin reproduction. We are proud the have won violinbooks.com as our new partner.

18 Oct 2024: Another Great Partner on Board

We are delighted that Dolfinos, the maker of the fantastic Miniput and best known for their high-class chin & shoulder rests, will support the Engers Academy from 2025.

05 Oct 2024: Concert of the Professors

While master-classes normally only present stundents' concerts, the final concerts of the Engers Academy will also feature performances by the international professors, at the Château Engers. For more details visit concerts 2025

15 Sep 2024: Gewa Award

We are very happy to have won Gewa Music as a sponsor of the Engers Academy. Gewa Music will be giving selected prizes to academy participants.

30 Sep 2024: Three Amazing New Sponsors

Pirastro, Henle Verlag and The Violin Channel have joined our board of supporters. Thank you very much!

09 Sep 2024: World-Class Professors

We are happy and proud to announce the renowned professors who will join the academy director Kirill Troussov in 2025: Christian Altenburger (violin), Lawrence Power (viola) and Benedict Klockner (cello). For more details visit the academy page

03 Sep 2024: Engers Academy Goes Live

Welcome to the brand-new website of the first edition of the newly founded Engers Academy! For more details about the academy and its founders visit the about page