As the leading summer music program in Europe, AIMS is a one-of-a-kind experience. The program is designed to prepare you for a career as a professional musician. In six weeks of intense training, you’ll work on every aspect of your craft, studying opera and lieder repertoire, and performing with renowned European conductors. Many participants feel they learn more in a summer at AIMS than in a year or more at school. And it all takes place in Graz, one of the most beautiful small cities in all of Europe.
A concert featuring works by Austrian composers. Primarilly a concert of opera arias and ensembles by Mozart, it also included pieces by Lehar and Bartok.
A concert of operetta and other fun pieces. This concert primarilly featured selections from Strauss II's Die Fledermaus, but also included pieces from operettas by Kalman, Abraham, Lehar, Gilber and Sullivan, and various pieces by Rossini, Bernstein, and Herbert.
The final round of the Meistersinger competition. This is a competition held at AIMS in Graz annually, bringing together the 8 finalists in a final concert with orchestra.