Atlanta Festival Academy

Congratulations to our students at William Pu Music Academy Olivia Kim (9 yr old)), Charlotte Jeong (10), Yining Zhang (11), Angelina Lu (12), Jeremiah Jung (16), Brandon Lee (15) won Prizes at 1st Giovanni International Violin Competition (Italy-China) from their respective age groups! Five of six award winning students participated 2019 Atlanta Festival Academy. Almost 200 students from China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Italy, Denmark, Norway and United States participated the online phrase of the Competition. The Finals will be held in Rome, Italy in 2021.

The Italy-China International Violin Youth Competition just announced the result of the 1st round, Congratulations to all the participants including the alumni from the Atlanta Festival Academy!

The 1st international violin competition for youth and children Concorso Internazionale per Giovani Violinists Cina e Italia organized by Leonardo Da Vinci In...ternational Art Exchange Association and the Lin Yao Ji Music Foundation, is being held to promote the exchange of classical music, to discover and cultivate up-and-coming talents, and to provide international stages for young artists to perform. We are committed to this high-standard international youth and children competition and it will be held once a year in the future. Due to the impact of the epidemic, the Preliminary Rounds and Semi-Finals of the Competition will be web-based by video submissions. Until the end of the epidemic, we are looking forward to meeting the candidates in the Finals! Application Deadline: 30 September 2020 Video Submission Deadline: 30 September 2020 For the Competition Rules and Application, please download the following documents. http://www.linyaoji.com/events_detail.php?ESID=83

We are happy to announce The 1st International Violin Competition for youth and children, sponsored by the Atlanta Festival Academy and co-organized by the Lin Yao Ji Music Foundation and Vinci Art Exchange Association in Italy. For details please click the link below.

Violin Channel shared Chloe Chua with 2019 Atlanta Festival Academy Orchestra live performance.

The Johns Creek Herald recently published an article highlighting the success of our inaugural AFA Competition. We are so proud of the incredible participation we had by young musicians from around the world, and sharing this article is one small way we can say Thank You! You can read the article at northfulton.com.

Atlanta Festival Academy is thrilled to announce the divisional winners of our inaugural Competition! The full list of winners and honorees can be found at AtlantaFestivalAcademy.org/afc-2020-winners. We also want to take a moment to acknowledge and applaud the other entrants to this year’s competition, all of whom submitted wonderful recordings and who we encourage to apply again next year! Finally, please look back here soon for the announcement of the 2020 grand prize winner!

Attention fellow String, Guitar, and Piano teachers! The Atlanta Festival Academy proudly announces its 2020 Atlanta Festival Competition is moving online and is open to students 18 and under from anywhere in the U.S.A.! We’re offering the grand prize winner a $500 cash prize plus a performance spot at AFA’s 2021 Rising Stars concert! Other winners to receive a brand new Altamira guitar, a Gewa violin case, and more! Application and video submission deadline is June 15 - ple...ase visit atlantafestivalacademy.org/afc-2020 for details and to apply. We look forward to hearing you! #atlantafestivalacademy #gewa #altamiraguitars

On January 26, the Atlanta Festival Academy gathered our enthusiastic donors, teachers and students at FUMI launching the 2nd annual summer training camp! Three months later, along with rest of the country we refuse to succumb to the Covid-19 pandemic! The 2020 AFA will host an online Competition in June. Please help us by recommending it to your friends and students. #competition#atlantafestivalacademy#summercamp#

Although AFA’s main gathering has been cancelled for 2020, we’re still going forward with our new Competition! We’re moving it online, and so we encourage you to take a look at how this year’s competition will work!

With heavy hearts we have made the decision to cancel the main Atlanta Festival Academy due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Although we were all truly looking forward to nine wonderful days of music making this July, we think the wisest and safest choice for everyone involved with the main Festival is to not gather this summer. We will reconfigure not cancel the two new components of Atlanta Festival Academy, the Atlanta Festival Junior Academy and the Atlanta Festival Competit...ion, and details about these changes can be found at AtlantaFestivalAcademy.org. We are already planning how to make the return of the big Atlanta Festival Academy in July 2021 an especially exceptional experience, so please keep up with us for updates. In the meantime, we hope that you all stay healthy, stay strong, and keep making your own music. Sincerely, Amy, Lin Wei, & William

All of us here at Atlanta Festival Academy are maintaining our optimism that the 2020 AFA will still occur in July. It is our sincere hope that the COVID-19 outbreak will be well behind all of us by then and that we can gather to make music and create friendships together. So for now our Festival is still scheduled, and we will continue to update this status as events unfold. Thank you all and please stay safe and healthy!

We’re so excited that Prof. Mauricio Fuks will be sharing his immense enthusiasm for teaching and knowledge about all things violin with AFA’s participants again this summer! A long-tenured professor of violin at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music, Prof. Fuks’s accolades and accomplishments as performer, much sought-after pedagogue, and competition judge make quite the list! We encourage you to check out his full bio here: https://atlantafestivalacademy.org/mauricio-fuks/

Atlanta Festival Academy is here at All-State 2020 and we’re already finding our friends and alums! If you meet anyone this weekend that you want to perform more with this July, please bring them by our table and learn about the awesome performance opportunities that await at AFA!