Six-week chamber music festival with 65 artists and 200 graduate, college, and pre-conservatory students in strings, piano, woodwinds, harp, percussion and composition. Seventeen professional concerts, 3 Gamper Contemporary Festival concerts, 20 Community and Extra concerts, and 50 student recitals. Faculty includes: Mikhail Kopelman, Ilya Kaler, Sergiu Schwartz, Cyrus Forough, Carol Rodland, Steven Doane, Boris Slutsky, Arie Vardi, and the Shanghai and Ying Quartets. Recent guest artists: Yefim Bronfman, George Crumb, Roberto Diaz, Glenn Dicterow, Jaime Laredo, Midori, Paul Neubauer, Fred Sherry, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, Liang Wang. Lewis Kaplan, director.