The International Järvi Academy for Conductors

In the 20th century one of the world’s greatest conducting schools developed at the St. Petersburg, where many now world famous conductors like Neeme Järvi were educated. Conductors of these schools distinguish themselves in the first place by a high standard of musicality and the manual technique to communicate their ideas to the orchestra, but also a thorough knowledge of basics like repertoire, bowings of strings and traditions.

Since 2000 Neeme Järvi found every year time in his busy schedule to teach young talent during the Oistrahh Festival in Pärnu, a special course with the Residentie Orchestra in The Hague and in Leigo. To meet the Neeme Järvi's demands of surrounding, inspiration of nature and expansion of the master class itself, the master class operated in 2009 as an individual organization. The co operation with Estonia's National Youth Orchestra and masterclasses and courses for strings developed into a festival size event with around 10 concerts in one week. In 2011 the Järvi Summer Festival Pärnu was born. As part of the festival the Järvi Academy offers selected students to work with several orchestra and teachers, among them Neeme Järvi, Paavo Järvi and Leonid Grin.

Participating at the Neeme Järvi International Master class for Conductors means: getting to the core of music, conducting and pushing yourself to highest professional levels. Many of his students therefore return every year to participate in his course and many new students find their way to become one of his students. Several of them find their way into a professional conducting career.

To provide more practice with orchestra, specific repertoire inside and the oppertunity for students to show their qualities over a longer period, the Winter Academy, Leonid Grin conductors masterclass, was founded in 2010. During this masterclass 2 or 3 participants will be selected to be active participant in the following Summer Academy during the Järvi Festival.