International Menuhin Academy Soloists

It was in 1977 that Yehudi Menuhin, with his friend and disciple Alberto Lysy, created the International Menuhin Music Academy (IMMA). Under their leadership, a young Ukrainian musician Oleg Kaskiv – who arrived in Switzerland from Lviv in 1996 – became a brilliant laureate of the 2001 edition of the prestigious Concours Reine Elizabeth. His ties to the traditions of the Menuhin quite naturally led to his becoming its first violin, its Musical Director, and the Academy’s Director of Studies.
The Menuhin Academy’s aim remains that of its founder: to educate over three years 16 virtuoso students of any nationality and to make of them - through their work as soloists and in chamber music ensembles - ambassadors of a tradition of musical excellence.
The Academy’s mission is not only producing first-world class musicians, but adopting a holistic approach - passing on the humanist teachings of Lord Menuhin - and giving our students a far broader experience in their education and in their approach to music making, as well as in proceeding into the community as musicians and contributors.
Throughout its history, the International Menuhin Music Academy has greatly contributed to the consolidation and the success of many selected young virtuosi from all around the world, who in our days pursue brilliant careers in various ways, as soloists, members of orchestras and chamber music ensembles, or professors. Each with different activities and ways of expression, all profoundly linked by a common spirit of service and love to the music created by the composers who made the world, through their efforts, a place worth.