About

The Philadelphia International Music Festival is a summer music program offering students of all ages and skill levels - from throughout the U.S. and abroad - the unique opportunity of spending 14 days immersed in classical music education and performance with members of The Philadelphia Orchestra. Festival highlights include private lessons, daily orchestra rehearsals, daily music education courses, optional daily chamber music rehearsals, solo performance and competition opportunities, daily private practice time, faculty recitals and master classes featuring principal players and other members of The Philadelphia Orchestra, and much more. The summer music program includes full symphonic repertoire (at appropriate junior and senior levels), and is conducted on the exquisite, estate-like grounds of Bryn Mawr College in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. PIMF is sponsored in part by The Cunningham Piano Company.

The festival is divided into three divisions: the Children's Division (for students 8 - 10 years of age, with exceptions made for intermediate and advanced  students between those ages), the Senior Division for students 11 - 18 years of age, and the College and Young Professionals Division. The Senior Division consists of four programs: the Symphony Program (which is the Signature Program here at PIMF), the Solo Performance Preparation Program (by audition only), the College Auditions Preparation Program (for high school Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors), and the Piano Program. PIMF also conducts Senior Programs in Franklinville, New Jersey, Miami, Florida, and Groznjan, Croatia.

Each year, musicians from throughout the United States and around the world attend The Philadelphia International Music Festival (PIMF), open to performers of all ages, from eight years of age through the college years. The program - conducted on the exquisite grounds of Bryn Mawr College in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania - offers student musicians a unique opportunity to spend 14 days of intensive music study and performance with members of the world-renowned Philadelphia Orchestra. PIMF includes daily orchestra rehearsals (for those who elect the Symphony Program), private lessons (up to five per week,)  optional daily chamber music rehearsals, solo performance opportunities, required daily private practice hours, faculty recitals and master classes featuring principal players and other members of The Philadelphia Orchestra, weekly concerto competitions, an off-campus trip to a Philadelphia Orchestra performance at the Mann Music Center,a festival-ending Grand Finale, and much more. PIMF also conducts a Solo Performance Preparation Program in Miami, Florida, each December.

Our faculty, comprised of some of the world's finest musicians, has a passion for classical music. It is this passion, in fact, that has enabled them to develop into world-class musicians. It is our goal at the Philadelphia International Music Festival music camps to pass on to the student - through personal and group instruction - the energy, the enthusiasm, the intensity that set apart the superb player from the average, the extraordinary from the ordinary. Our Faculty Recitals, Master Classes and private lessons, presented by members of The Philadelphia Orchestra and other internationally-acclaimed musicians, give musicians a taste of professional performance. Our required daily private practice hours, private practice seminar and private practice marathon help students establish greater discipline habits; and our numerous concerts and daily discussion groups help musicians of all ages to FALL IN LOVE with classical music. This saturation in classical music education and performance can make a significant impact on the lives of promising performers, and it is our hope that you will join us in Philadelphia this year to experience for yourself two dynamic weeks of music education, solo performance preparation and chamber, ensemble, or orchestra coaching.

For more information about any of the exciting progamming presented by PIMF, browse our extensive web site, or phone our East Coast office at: 856-875-6816.