California Summer Music’s free masterclass series at Sonoma State’s Green Music Center features three performances by our talented young performers. Each performance is followed by a class where the master will show both audience and performer methods to use to improve the performance.

Irene Sharp, cello: Ms. Sharp has been acclaimed internationally for her teaching. She led the Margaret Rowell String Seminar for sixteen years and has given master classes for American String Teachers Association, European String Teachers Association, Australian String Teachers Association, and the Suzuki Association of America.

Ms. Sharp is a founder and Artistic Director of California Summer Music, a festival for young string players, pianists and composers. She studied with Margaret Rowell, Eugene Eicher, Theo Salzman and Gabor Rejto, and performed in the Pablo Casals master class.

California Summer Music is a thriving environment for young musicians and composers to learn, grow, and achieve their goals through the unique experience of music making. Every summer, we provide each emerging artist highly individualized, quality musical training and mentoring with CSM faculty and internationally renowned guest artists.