The Amalfi Coast Music Festival is pleased to once again welcome students of the Hotchkiss School in 2008 for another collaborative summer arts experience in the incomparable setting of the Italian Mediterranean. Students adopt the rhythms of daily life in southern Italy, surrounded by rich cultural landmarks and stunning landscapes. While engaging in their chosen course of study, they will thrive in the stimulating environment of a classical music festival, with daily concerts, master classes, and lectures in music, art history and architecture.

The Summer Arts Program offers options in both music and art history in an intensive study format. Daily classes will be interspersed with excursions to the most significant points of interest in the area, where students visit museums, architectural ruins, temples and palaces at the world-famous sites of Pompeii, Naples, Capri, Ravello, and more.

Music - Piano

Hotchkiss piano faculty Fabio Witkowski and Gisele Nacif Witkowski return to oversee the music program, offering a full-immersion study experience in piano and a chance to interact with festival musicians of all ages and levels. The Witkowskis balance their roles in Italy as coordinators of the Summer Arts program with their participation in the music festival as key performers. More.

Art History - From Temples to Palaces, From Cathedrals to Church

Students will join Hotchkiss Art and History teacher, Dr. Verena Drake, for an intensive course in art history examining the classical past of Greece and Rome as manifested on the Amalfi coast and witnessing how these classical examples influenced Christian art in buildings and architecture throughout the area. More.

Hotchkiss Summer Arts Program, Faculty