Liverpool String Academy offers to select violin, viola, cello and double-bass players aged 8 to 18 specialist education in historically informed performance and ensemble music (with particular emphasis on the music of the ‘long eighteenth century’, from Corelli to Schubert) under the guidance of expert theoreticians and practitioners.
To become Early Music specialists in their own right, LSA students have to apply themselves over a prolonged period to develop new techniques of bowing and fingering as well as a distinct musical sensibility more suited to the specific repertoires that are the object of their studies.