The last two courses were simply amazing ... the teachers, the atmosphere, the people, the place and of course the music make it something special. Seriously, thanks a lot for gifting me with an opportunity to live something like that. 
Thank you so much for a fabulous, inspiring and utterly delicious week! I really feel that I have come away ready to perform in front of an audience, which is what I set out to do.
Castelfranc was just a WONDERFUL experience for me and for my music.
The time at Castelfranc was magical. I have returned to the piano with so many new ideas and new skills. Most important to me, though, is the renewal of the passion for the piano I seemed to have lost many years ago when other responsibilities and activities took over my life. The course helped me to reconnect.
Stefan Bojsten - Course IIIStefan Bojsten is among the most established pianists in Sweden. He has been a soloist with most of the Swedish orchestras, and has been active in both solo repertoire and chamber music in the UK, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Romania, China and the USA, as well as across Scandinavia. Of the many awards Stefan has garnered in the course of his career, a high point was in 1985 when the duo Bojsten – Almgren won the first prize in one of the world's biggest chamber music competitions, the premio Vittorio Gui in Florence, resulting in invitations all over Europe. In 1986, along with the violinist Dan Almgren and cellist Torleif Thedéen, he formed the Stockholm Arts Trio, which was soon playing at such prestigious venues as the Bath Festival and Carnegie Hall in New York.
As a teacher Stefan has given master classes in the USA and Russia, and for the past 15 years has been Head of Piano at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. He is vice president of the Swedish Piano Teachers Association (EPTA Sweden) as well as president of the association for 19th-century keyboard instruments in Sweden, "Klaverens Hus".
Stefan has recorded under the labels Polar, Caprice, Fermat, Artemis , Map, Recut, Musica Sveciae, BIS and Naxos.
The magnificent Priory at Ambialet in the Tarn Gorge is the summer school's new home. Over the years it has maintained and developed the original vision of its founders: to nurture the highest standards of music-making in idyllic surroundings...
Music at Ambialet offers accommodation in the newly restored, 11th-century Benedictine priory in the village of Ambialet, in the Gorge du Tarn.
"Students have returned year after year. Clearly this is one summer school that could become addictive"
- BBC Music Magazine
"The place, the people, the weather, the food, everything was memorable."
