Each day everyone would have a private lesson for twenty to forty minutes long where a teacher from somewhere in South America would give you a lesson on the piece of your choice. Also, for fifty minutes, everyone would be in a group class with about ten others that were their level and the teacher would help them with the group songs that everyone would be playing at the final concert. The group lesson were very fun because the teachers loved playing all kinds of games like bowing each other's instruments or walking around on chairs while playing twinkle twinkle. Each day there would also be a play-in where all the 120 violinists went to the gym and played songs from twinkle twinkle all the way up to the Bach double together. And everyone got to pick an elective or two including orchestra, choir, and cajón (a box drum). Then every afternoon there were three recitals and each kid had been assigned to one of these twelve recitals. Here you would perform with an accompanist for your peers.
One night there was a concert that all the violin, cello, recorder, guitar and flute teachers did. They had solos, duets, trios, quartets, etc. up to 12 or 15 people. It was a great concert. On Friday night was the workshop concert where the orchestra, cajones and choir performed. And the festival ended on Saturday night with the final concert where the cellos had their play-in, the recorders had their play-in and then the violins had their play-in.
The festival was a great experience getting to music with violinists from all over South America. Just in my group class alone was a girl from Bolivia, a girl from Colombia, a girl from Peru, six kids from Brazil, me from the US and our teacher from Chile. We also met a family that was there from Canada.
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