The International Summer Academy Biel promotes particularly talented music students as well as young instrumentalists from the age of 14 years, from all over the world in annual master classes held in July.

The lecturers are all internationally renowned personalities who hold professorships at Swiss or foreign universities. A special feature of the Summer Academy Biel is the participation of a professional orchestra. Students are thus offered the unique opportunity to rehearse and perform as soloists with orchestral accompaniment. 

The Masterclasses are accompanied by concerts of the lecturers, final concerts of the Masterclasses and orchestra concerts with soloists from the Masterclasses.