Has anybody attended or know someone who has attended the <a href="http://www.heifetzinstitute.org/institute.html">Heifetz International Music Institute</a> for piano? I plan to go there this summer but have no idea what to expect because I don't know any pianists who've been there. The program sounds great because it's exclusively chamber and solo music, and <a href="http://www.heifetzinstitute.org/faculty.html">the faculty</a> looks pretty solid (Barry Snyder from Eastman and Victor Rosenbaum from NEC, plus guest artists like Natalya Antonova, Andre Watts, and Horacio Gutierrez, etc).
From what I gather, this festival is more focused on strings than piano, but like I said, I don't quite know what to expect. If anybody knows anything about the piano program at Heifetz, please tell me anything at all! Stuff like:
--How do they arrange chamber groups? Are the groups and music assigned?
--Who did you study with and how did that work out?
--How did the two lessons per week schedule work out for you?
--What is the environment generally like? Friendly? Relaxed? Competitive? Rigorous?
--How did you like the communications classes?
--What is the general age group of people who attend?
--What did you love and hate about the program?
--What did you do for fun in Wolfeboro, NH?
Any information, comments, or recommendations at all would be helpful. They won't send me my student handbook and additional information until I pay all my tuition, so I have to wait a bit longer and I'm dying to know. Thanks!
Yours curiously,
Jessica T.
