A music course in summer? An international camp for young musicians? A cultural event? It is all this – and a lot more. Above all, the IMF is a gift! A present or rather a gesture to surprise everyone, who experiences it, each time anew. A gesture which exceeds any pattern, any project or individual expectation. Those, who participated see music in a new way, like a door which opens up to an intense and more truthful taste of life itself.
The IMF, the International Musical Friendship, is an experience of music and friendship which emerged from the encounter of some musicians of different nationalities in 1993. During this encounter these musicians felt the instant desire to share a musical holiday with their young students. Since then over 100 young musicians from Austria, Germany, Poland, Latvia, Russia and Italy come together every summer. The joy of playing music together motivates the tutors to commit themselves every year. The IMF is not a master course, but it is a place where everyone is looking for beauty. Thus the seemingly impossible becomes true: Young people of completely different backgrounds like their different languages, different age and different musical levels experience a unity and see themselves as protagonists of an adventure with great impact on their lives.