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Aimed at musicians between 18 and 25 years of age from all over Latin America, the academy combines high-level musical training, comprehensive professional development, personalized mentoring, and significant performance experiences.
Exceptional Training
Overview
The Latin American Academy of Advanced Music was established as a strategic alliance between Fundación Teatro del Lago and the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía, with the aim of becoming a regional benchmark for artistic excellence, cultural integration, and professional projection for young Latin American musicians.
Aimed at musicians between 18 and 25 years of age from all over Latin America, the academy combines high-level musical training, comprehensive professional development, personalized mentoring, and significant performance experiences. Inspired by the success of the Latin American Orchestra Academy, this new initiative focuses on chamber music as a space for collaborative learning, personalized attention, artistic leadership, and international projection.
Program structure
- Throughout 2026, there will be three five-day in-person Encounters (four days of training + a final concert), organized at Teatro del Lago (Frutillar, Chile). These foster high-level artistic practice through chamber music work, promote comprehensive professional development through workshops, tutorials, and training sessions, and culminate in concerts open to the public that consolidate the link between training and artistic projection.
- Encounter 1: Piano trios and quartets and string quartets (February).
- Encounter 2: Wind instruments and piano (July/August).
- Encounter 3: ALMA Grand Camerata (September/October).
Second Encounter: Winds and piano (July 2026)
- Aimed at students and musicians of wind instruments and piano
- Application dates:
- Applications open from March 16 to April 27
- Call results: May 11
Period of the first Academy Encounter:
From July 26 to August 1, 2026, at Teatro del Lago, Frutillar, Chile.
Final concert: August 1, 2026, Teatro del Lago Llanquihue Amphitheatre, 7:00 PM
Selected students must be available to attend all scheduled activities within the mentioned dates.
Supporting unique projects
Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation Programme
The Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation Program is a subject of the Master’s Degree in Musical Performance at the Reina Sofía School of Music and is carried out thanks to the collaboration of the Banco Sabadell Foundation and If! Foundation.
The program has about 20 students each year and relies mostly on the methodology of Learning by doing, with the realization of a real project, in group. Through the design and implementation of this project, students learn notions, among others, of budgetary and administrative management, teamwork, communication and digital marketing, production.
Wellbeing and Artist Development
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