Since 2004, more than 2000 students from over 50 countries have taken part in the Summer Institutes. A wide range of courses is offered in piano, strings, woodwinds, brass, percussion, voice, opera, choir conducting and chamber music. At Crescendo Summer Institute, students have performed over 200 concerts including solo, chamber ensembles, orchestra, song, opera scenes and opera performances, including Haydn’s Le pescatrici, Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore, Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Purcell’s The Fairy Queen. Works are chosen to give our students the best opportunities to grow as musicians on the way to becoming professionals.