I would like to warmly welcome everyone to our extraordinary academy, NYCA.

It is a great honor to introduce New York Concerto Academy (NYCA), the first and only academy specialized in concerto performance with professional orchestras.

As a violin professor and jury member of many famous international competitions, I always found it difficult to provide an opportunity for students to perform the concerto with a professional orchestra.
With the current classical education system, not only in New York, but also across the world, there are no opportunities for students to perform concertos with active orchestras. Students can only gain this chance through playing with university orchestras or by winning international competitions. Thus making it extremely rare for them to perform and grow as a soloist.

This is why we decided to open the New York Concerto Academy and the Concerto Course, here in New York. With professional orchestra teams, conductors, directors, from all over Europe, we would like to provide chances to perform the concerto with an internationally renowned orchestra for students. You can find the orchestras and artists that are already planned to cooperate with NYCA here. For those who would like to cooperate with NYCA, feel free to contact us.

I would like to warmly welcome all the musicians with limitless possibilities to the New York Concerto Academy.

Igor Petrushevski

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