The Academy aims to provide talented young professional musicians, recent conservatory graduates and senior students from within China and the wider Asian region with a unique opportunity to make music with some of the most distinguished artists in the world.

                                           Tutors include:

Hong-Guang Jia, Associate Concertmaster, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Eugene Husaruk, Former Associate Concertmaster, Montreal Symphony Orchestra Alexis Golovine, Professor of Piano Faculty, Geneva Conservatory Michael Gieler, Principal Viola, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Brian Manker, Principal Cello, Montreal Symphony Orchestra Jacques Baudoin, Principal Double Bass, Montreal Symphony Orchestra Sabine Morel, Principal Flute, Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich Werner Herbers, Principal Oboe, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Michael Rusinek, Principal Clarinet, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Richard Hoenich, Former Principal Bassoon, Montreal Symphony Orchestra Jean-Pierre Berry, Principal Horn, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande James Thompson, Former Principal Trumpet, Montreal Symphony Orchestra Peter Sullivan, Principal Trombone, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Tutors for harp and percussion TBA

Duration:      July 10,2005  --  July 31,2005

Location:      Butterfly Valley  Nanguo Peach Resort Area   Nanhai District, Foshan City, Guangdong, China

Deadline for Application:   May 16, 2005  for students from Mainland China

Deadline for overseas students is subject to the live audition in respective cities, or by sending  audition videos which must be received by no later than May 31. Please go to www.cisma.org.cn for details.

Audition:   Please go to www.cisma.org.cn  for more information about audition. International applicants who are  not able to attend live auditions should send audition videos (DVD or VCD) by courier to the CISMA International Students Liaison Office. All audition videos should be received by the CISMA office no later than May 31, 2005.

Application:  Students aged 16 and above who are currently enrolled in a conservatory or a secondary music school affiliated to a     conservatory, young teachers at a conservatory, and instrument players in a professional orchestra or who have the equivalent qualifications are invited to apply for a place in the Academy. Students aged from 12 to 16 with certain qualification can apply as Young Amateur Students.  Please contact AmCham Guangdong office for more application information by email: events@amcham-guangdong.org  or tel: 86-20-8335-1476 .