With pleasure we can see again and again that graduates of the academy prove themselves as soloists in the hard competition of concert life or have gained leading positions as professors at universities and concertmasters or solo violoncellists in important orchestras.

 

The incomparable atmosphere of the old part of Cervo has always fascinated the students and contributed to the creation of a spirit of friendship and teamwork that in two weeks often created exceptional performances. A big “Cervo-music-family” has developed, that lives together here, making wonderful music also including the competent and interested audience.

 

We thank the community of Cervo, the district of Imperia and the region Liguria for their longstanding cooperation. At the same time we say thanks to everyone, who has filled with their collaboration the academy with life and substance, first of all my wife Elfe von Arnim, who died in 2004 and who was the heart and soul of the academy for a long time. Without her untiring effort during the first years the academy would not exist today.