Music Academy of the West

The Music Academy of the West is a music conservatory located in Montecito, California near Santa Barbara, California. Every year, it hosts a summer music festival for the community highlighted by concerts and workshops directed by famous composers, conductors, and artists.

A yearly maximum of 135 students may be enrolled in its program for an eight-week summer course.

Famous sponsors

• Maurice Abravanel
• Otto Klemperer
• Gwendolyn Koldofsky
• Lotte Lehmann
• Yehudi Menuhin
• Darius Milhaud
• Pierre Monteux
• Gregor Piatigorsky
• Artur Rubinstein
• Arnold Schoenberg
• Robert Shaw
• Martial Singher
• Igor Stravinsky
• Bruno Walter

Notable alumni

• Burt Bacharach
• Grace Bumbry
• Barry Carl
• Juan Diego Florez
• Pamela Frank
• Thomas Hampson
• Marilyn Horne
• James Newton Howard
• Martin Katz
• Lotfi Mansouri
• Cynthia Phelps
• Anthony Plog
• Paul Schenly
• David Shifrin

External links

• Music Academy of the West

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