Welcome to the website of the 2010 IU Jacobs School of Music Summer Piano Academy! We’re delighted that you’d like to learn more about our program. Do linger a while and check out our offerings on the menu at left, especially if you’re considering the Academy for your summer study experience. I think you’ll come away with a good picture of what we’re about.

This is the Piano Academy’s Silver Anniversary year, a major milestone for any program. As Founding Director, when I consider how far we’ve come from the Academy’s modest beginnings in 1986 as a little piano camp (23 students, 4 teachers), to its current stature as one of the premier pre-college piano institutes, I confess that I feel more than a little proud of what we’ve accomplished. In those early years, we worried that we would manage to prepare our students to the level expected by our distinguished master teachers. These days we have the opposite problem: the Academy draws so many fine young pianists from around the country and abroad to our beautiful Bloomington campus that we worry that we’ll have enough master class slots for all the talented performers who deserve one!