Situated on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean, the Music Academy of the West enchants students and audiences alike with its lush surroundings and musical offerings. The campus occupies a garden estate (Miraflores) donated four decades ago by an ardent supporter. The main building was designed by renowned California architect Reginald Johnson. Each summer its halls and gardens are filled with music.

Metropolitan Opera stars Lotte Lehmann and Lawrence Tibbett and composer Ernest Bloch are but a few of the illustrious names in music whose collective dream to open a fine musical finishing school on the West Coast came true in the summer of 1947. Since its inception, the mission of the Music Academy of the West has been the rigorous preparation of talented young musicians for professional careers-through private lessons, small ensemble coaching, orchestral and operatic experience and masterclasses.

The concept of the masterclass, pioneered by Madame Lehmann, remains at the core of the Academy’s training program. These lessons are open to the public, giving the young artists the invaluable opportunity to perform in front of an audience.

The variety of student performances and the opportunity to experience firsthand the performing skills of distinguished faculty provide richly varied musical experiences for students and community.

Notable faculty include Marilyn Horne, Warren Jones, Fred Carama, Jerome Lowenthal, Anne Epperson, Zvi Zeitlin, Timothy Day, Takács Quartet and Canadian Brass. Marilyn Horne The American opera singer Marilyn Horne (born January 16, 1934) is a mezzo soprano who is particularly associated with the music of Rossini and Handel. ... Jerome Lowenthal is a professor of piano at the Juilliard School in New York, where he was also chair of the piano department. ... The Takács Quartet is a world famous string quartet, founded in 1975 in Budapest, Hungary by Gabor Takács-Nagy, Károly Schranz, Gabor Ormai, and András Fejér while the four were students at the Liszt Academy. ... Canadian Brass is a brass quintet founded by Chuck Daellenbach, Stuart Laughton, and Gene Watts in 1970. ...

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