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Orfeo Music Festival, Summer Academy and Competition is an international classic music festival that is held each July in the Alpine mountain resort of Vipiteno, Italy. Each summer prominent international soloists gather alongside aspiring young musicians. More than 9,000 patrons attend over 50 classical music events which take place during the festival including performances by soloists, orchestras, operatic scenes, chamber music, contemporary classical music and lectures. Orfeo Music Festival has attracted such musicians as Zakhar Bron, Andrei Diev, Stanislav Ioudenitch, Natalia Gutman, Mischa Maisky, Sergei Romanovsky, Dmitry Vdovin, Pavel Vernikov, Gilles Vonsattel.

The Academy provides students an opportunity to advance performance skills in classroom and on stage. A varied curriculum includes individual instruction, master classes, playing in an orchestra, performing solo, in opera scenes and chamber music groups. Orfeo International Music Competition and Orfeo Festival Concerto Competition are designed to identify new musical talent and further careers of young musicians by presenting them in the context of public competition before distinguished juries, audiences, media,and community.

The Festival was founded in 2002 to celebrate a profound role of music in enhancing the world. It's traditional slogan "Making Music Together" conveys the spirit of exchange and collaboration of musicians from different countries and between master performers and young musicians.

Official website: www.OrfeoMusicFestival.com