Courses:

NB:
​The ONLY official language of the Volterra Project is English

Master Classes:
The Master Classes aim to prepare not only accomplished and skilled musicians but also intelligent and insightful artists. The program offers master class instruction with workshop’s director Antigoni Goni, and guest artists. Students will be asked to participate in chamber music groups coached by the assistants and guest artists. The repertoire for the chamber music groups will be distributed in June. Students are expected to have the piece ready for performance by the beginning of the Volterra Project.

Business Seminars:

Lectures and individual sessions will focus on topics such as
  • Effective promotional materials-biographies, news releases, program notes, websites, ads, etc
  • Media coverage, media interviews and the development of other promotional skills.
  • How-tos of arts education and outreach
  • Concert Programs, and “concert artist etiquette”
Participants will leave the “Volterra Project” with an understanding of how the media work and how best to position themselves for promotion of concerts, recordings, residencies and teaching with a focus on career-long strategy.

Music Physiology:
The music physiology classes will help the students to become more aware of, and to understand better one of the most important parts of their instrument: their own body and their own mind.
Through a better connection with their body, the use of several technique, gaining insight in stability, mobility, and breathing the musicians can reduce their level of tension during practicing, and stress during performance.
As an example among others, the Alexander Technique can help to function better and bring more ease in your playing and practicing. Also some knowledge on the subtle function of the body can really help you to make choices in your practice. Further more it can support you in preventing or recovering from injury and pain.
Also, the course will teach the students a few coaching techniques and a number of informal exercises that can be incorporated into daily practice.

Seminars & workshops
2018
  • Gretchen Egolf: "The Acting Guitarist" 
  • David Jaggs : "Produce your own CD"
2017
  • David Jaggs : "Produce your own CD"
2016
  • David Jaggs : "Produce your own CD"
  • Lynn McGrath : "Creative Divergence: Forging Artistic Identities"
2015
  • Nana Simopoulos: Circle singing technique and improvisation
  • Maurizio Villa: Video Analysis of Music Performance
  • Caryn Hellman: Continuum Movement for Musicians
2014:
  • Clarice Assad: VOXploration
  • Gaëlle Solal: Stage Performance crash course
  • Maurizio Villa: Video Analysis of Music Performance
2013
  • ​Michael Newman and Laura Oltman: Top Tips for Practicing Proficiency​
2012
  • Alvaro Company: la biodinamica musicale
  • Avril Kinsey
2011
  • Antigoni Goni and Margarita Escarpa: guitar improvisation
2010
  • Antigoni Goni and Elena Papandreou: "Competitions: before, during, and after"
2009
  • Arkadi Bourkanov: renaissance music

Luthiers

In addition to the above, the Volterra Project will host a day of presentations from several of the most acclaimed Italian Luthiers who will present their instruments, explain the process of guitar building, giving young guitarists an original perspective on their instruments and make them discover the importance of the synergy of luthiers and guitarists in the creation of the instrument.