Collaborative Piano Studio
June 29 – August 2, 2026
The Trentino Music Festival offers a select number of collaborative pianists the opportunity to train and perform in a professional festival atmosphere. As a collaborative pianist, you will have ample performance opportunities and exceptional training with leading international faculty members from the Metropolitan Opera, English National Opera, Mannes School of Music, Jacobs School of Music, Dutch National Opera Academy, and other leading opera opera houses and music conservatories.
Training and performance opportunities include:
Two private lessons during each week of the festival.
Accompanying for Master Classes, and voice lessons.
Diction lessons in German & Italian.
Rehearsal pianist for one or two opera productions.
Performances in Opera Galas, Concerts & Staged Performances.
Vocal coaching and score preparation:
Approaching Recitatives.
Step by step preparation of an opera score.
Working with ensembles and conductors.
The Pianist in the Rehearsal Room.
Opera Repertoire for 2026:
Don Giovanni by Mozart
Cosi fan tutte by Mozart
Die Zauberflöte by Mozart
The Turn of the Screw by Britten
Tuition & Housing – $2,500
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Limited space available. Early registration is highly recommended.
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AUDITIONS:
Applicants should submit an unlocked video with three selections accompanying a vocalist from the following repertoire.
* A song by Schumann, Brahms, Wolf, Strauss, or Debussy.
* A song by a 20th Century English composer such as Benjamin Britten, Samuel Barber, Ralph Vaughn Williams.
* One opera aria by WA Mozart with recitative from any vocal category.
“I got the opportunity to play for dance and opera performances, an experience I had not had in my music school. I loved the repertoire, my colleagues, and the exposure to people of so many different cultures and countries.”