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CREATE MUSICAL OPPORTUNITY in Guarneri Hall! Your gift supports our music performance and education programs, including concerts (live and streamed), master classes, workshops, and lessons for aspiring musicians. In addition, your gift helps us increase access to great music worldwide through production and distribution of high-quality classical music video like the ones here. Guarneri Hall NFP is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit so your donation is tax deductible to the extent permitted by law.

All of us at Guarneri Hall NFP are deeply appreciative of your generosity. Thank you!

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Guarneri Hall NFP is a not-for-profit classical music incubator in Chicago whose home is a new, acoustically engineered and technologically advanced 60-seat performance space in the Chicago loop. Guarneri Hall NFP presents live classical music performances in Chicago and creates audio and video content, available worldwide for free. The organization has a special focus on reaching young people with limited access to classical music. Guarneri Hall NFP is very grateful for the many individuals and corporate partners who have so generously supported our music and education programs.

Acceptance of any contribution, gift or grant is at the discretion of Guarneri Hall NFP. Guarneri Hall NFP will not accept any gift unless it can be used or expended consistently with its purpose and mission.

No irrevocable gift, whether outright or life-income in character, will be accepted if under any reasonable set of circumstances the gift would jeopardize the donor’s financial security.

Guarneri Hall NFP will refrain from providing advice about the tax or other treatment of gifts and will encourage donors to seek guidance from their own professional advisers to assist them in the process of making their donation.

Guarneri Hall NFP will accept donations of cash or publicly traded securities. Gifts of in-kind services will be accepted at the discretion of Guarneri Hall NFP.

Certain other gifts, real property, personal property, in-kind gifts, non-liquid securities, and contributions whose sources are not transparent or whose use is restricted in some manner, must be reviewed prior to acceptance due to the special obligations raised or liabilities they may pose for Guarneri Hall NFP.

Guarneri Hall NFP will provide acknowledgments to donors meeting tax requirements for property received by the charity as a gift. However, except for gifts of cash and publicly traded securities, no value shall be ascribed to any receipt or other form of substantiation of a gift received by Guarneri Hall NFP.

Guarneri Hall NFP will respect the intent of the donor relating to gifts for restricted purposes and those relating to the desire to remain anonymous. With respect to anonymous gifts, Guarneri Hall NFP will restrict information about the donor to only those staff members with a need to know.

Guarneri Hall NFP will not compensate, whether through commissions, finders' fees, or other means, any third party for directing a gift or a donor to Guarneri Hall NFP.

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Summer Music Academy Guest Instructor Bios

Note: The 2020 Summer Music Academy guest instructors are listed below. This page will be updated when 2021 guest instructors are announced.

James Ehnes, Violin

James EhnesJames Ehnes has established himself as one of the most sought-after violinists on the international stage. Gifted with a rare combination of stunning virtuosity, serene lyricism and an unfaltering musicality, Ehnes is a favourite guest of many of the world’s most respected conductors including Ashkenazy, Alsop, Sir Andrew Davis, Denève, Elder, Ivan Fischer, Gardner, Paavo Järvi, Mena, Noseda, Robertson and Runnicles. Ehnes’s long list of orchestras includes, amongst others, the Boston, Chicago, London, NHK and Vienna Symphony Orchestras, the Los Angeles, New York, Munich and Czech Philharmonic Orchestras, and the Cleveland, Philadelphia, Philharmonia and DSO Berlin orchestras. Read more

Miriam Fried, Violin

Miriam FriedMiriam Fried has been recognized for years as one of the world’s preeminent violinists. A consummate musician—equally accomplished as recitalist, concerto soloist or chamber musician—she has been heralded for her “fiery intensity and emotional depth” (Musical America) as well as for her technical mastery. Fried has played with virtually every major orchestra in the United States and Europe and has been a frequent guest with the principal orchestras of Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, New York, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh, as well as with the Israel Philharmonic, the London Symphony, the Royal Philharmonic, and the Vienna Symphony.

Recital tours have taken her to all of the major music centers in North America and to Brussels, London, Milan, Munich, Rome, Paris, Salzburg, Stockholm, and Zurich. Read more

Paul Huang, Violin

Paul Huang photo credit Marco BorggreveRecipient of the prestigious 2015 Avery Fisher Career Grant and the 2017 Lincoln Center Award for Emerging Artists, violinist Paul Huang is considered to be one of the most distinctive artists of his generation. The Washington Post remarked that Mr. Huang “possesses a big, luscious tone, spot-on intonation and a technique that makes the most punishing string phrases feel as natural as breathing,” and further proclaimed him as “an artist with the goods for a significant career” following his recital debut at the Kennedy Center. Read more

Julian Hersh

Julian HershA co-founder of Darnton & Hersh Fine Violins and partner in Midwest String Rentals, Julian Hersh has worked as a violin dealer in the string instrument trade for over 20 years. During that time he has been involved in a wide range of transactions worldwide, ranging from quality French and German instruments to the finest classical Italian masterpieces. In addition to his activities as a violin dealer Julian regularly writes and lectures about classical Italian instruments. His writings have appeared in various publications including The Strad magazine and the Cozio Carteggio.

Concurrent to his involvement with fine string instruments Julian has sustained a performing career, playing throughout the United States as well in Europe and Asia. As a founding member of the Jupiter Trio he won the Gold Medal at the Osaka International Chamber Music Competition and was the recipient of the Samuel Sanders Collaborative Artist Award for a CD of trios by Beethoven and Shostakovich released on the Bridge Records label. Julian has served on the faculty of various institutions including the DePaul School of Music and Roosevelt University.

Michael Darnton

Michael DarntonMichael Darnton is a Chicago violin maker and co-founder of Darnton & Hersh Fine Violins, where he is head of the repair and restoration workshop, and Midwest String Rentals. He is recognized nationally and internationally for his violins as well as his expertise on—and extensive writings about—classical violin making techniques, instrument setup, and adjustment. His articles published in the journal American Lutherie are referenced in shops throughout the world, and his online posts on these topics are followed by a wide audience.

In addition to his work as a violin maker and restorer, Michael performs setups and adjustments for numerous professional performers and supervises the setups on all Darnton & Hersh instruments. Over the last decade Michael has gained a reputation for conducting intensive summer violin making workshops that are attended by both amateur and professional makers and restorers from around the US and from as far away as Mexico, England, Australia, and Hong Kong.

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Important 2021 Dates

  • Application deadline: March 31
  • Orientation: Sunday, July 11
  • Academy is held: July 11 through August 7

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HELP US EDUCATE the next generation of musicians and music professionals by donating to the Fulton Summer Music Academy. Your gift will help to offset the cost of intensive daily one-on-one instruction for talented string students.
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Guarneri Hall NFP is a not-for-profit classical music incubator in Chicago whose home is a new, acoustically engineered and technologically advanced 60-seat performance space in the Chicago loop. Guarneri Hall NFP presents live classical music performances in Chicago and creates audio and video content, available worldwide for free. The organization has a special focus on reaching young people with limited access to classical music. Guarneri Hall NFP is very grateful for the many individuals and corporate partners who have so generously supported our music and education programs.

Acceptance of any contribution, gift or grant is at the discretion of Guarneri Hall NFP. Guarneri Hall NFP will not accept any gift unless it can be used or expended consistently with its purpose and mission.

No irrevocable gift, whether outright or life-income in character, will be accepted if under any reasonable set of circumstances the gift would jeopardize the donor’s financial security.

Guarneri Hall NFP will refrain from providing advice about the tax or other treatment of gifts and will encourage donors to seek guidance from their own professional advisers to assist them in the process of making their donation.

Guarneri Hall NFP will accept donations of cash or publicly traded securities. Gifts of in-kind services will be accepted at the discretion of Guarneri Hall NFP.

Certain other gifts, real property, personal property, in-kind gifts, non-liquid securities, and contributions whose sources are not transparent or whose use is restricted in some manner, must be reviewed prior to acceptance due to the special obligations raised or liabilities they may pose for Guarneri Hall NFP.

Guarneri Hall NFP will provide acknowledgments to donors meeting tax requirements for property received by the charity as a gift. However, except for gifts of cash and publicly traded securities, no value shall be ascribed to any receipt or other form of substantiation of a gift received by Guarneri Hall NFP.

Guarneri Hall NFP will respect the intent of the donor relating to gifts for restricted purposes and those relating to the desire to remain anonymous. With respect to anonymous gifts, Guarneri Hall NFP will restrict information about the donor to only those staff members with a need to know.

Guarneri Hall NFP will not compensate, whether through commissions, finders' fees, or other means, any third party for directing a gift or a donor to Guarneri Hall NFP.

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