Smarano Organ Academy is a unique cultural platform in Europe: it isn’t just a summer school where students play once in a masterclass and have no time to practice, but it is an immersion environment based on historical methods of teaching, where participants attend multiple integrated classes, have four hours a day of scheduled practice time on multiple keybaord instruments and individual coaching. That is why Smarano’s motto is a quotation from Seneca: Docendo Discitur, meaning “it is learned by teaching”.
The Smarano Academy is a true meeting platform where people in our field gather to learn from one another and teach one another about a valuable European cultural heritage: the art of keyboard music before 1800. More than 350 alumni attended the Smarano Academy since 1993.