June 15-21, 2008

What a fabulous festival!
Congratulations to the Accent08 participants and faculty for a great week, and outstanding concerts!

Accent08 is a chamber music festival offering internationally recognized artist-faculty. Ensemble activities are supported by daily private lessons, classes, and orchestra rehearsals. We welcome pre-formed ensembles. Ensembles and classes are arranged by level as well as by age.

This one-week intensive program is opened by a faculty concert, and showcases its participants with concerts during the week. Concerto competitions and daily master classes provide further performance opportunities.

Accent08 is open to college students, as well as strong high school students with a solid background in either woodwind instruments, brass instruments, stringed instruments, piano, percussions, voice or composition. Crescendo08, the young musicians division of A08, is open to high school and middle school students. Accent08 can be taken for one or two undergraduate credits.

Accent08 is closely connected with Music08, the CCM festival of new music for professional musicians and graduate students: the two programs have some common faculty, and a joint master class. Our composition students will be scheduled to attend Music08 master classes. The series of Music08 concerts presented each evening offers a high level exposure to new music available to all Accent08 participants.

Application deadline: April 30, 2008 or until spaces are filled.

Contact: Dorotea Hoffman - 513/375-8765, dorotea.hoffman@uc.edu

Photographs by Joy Campbell, Ben L. Kaufman, Myron Schober, Shoko Uchida.

A is for Accent (W is for Wow)