Chamber Music Week

NSA Chamber Music Week
Dates: May 26–31, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM daily
Location: Nevada School of the Arts

Join us for a week of fun, focus, and high-level music-making at the NSA Chamber Music Festival! Open to intermediate and advanced string and piano students, this immersive program offers a unique opportunity to study and perform chamber music in a professional-style setting.

Each day includes three hours of intensive coaching with NSA faculty, including Raja Rahman, CEO of NSA, and Dr. Scott Jackson, Dean and Director of Strings. Students will be placed in ensembles and assigned one or two movements from standard chamber repertoire—string trios, piano trios, string quartets, or piano quartets—to rehearse and perform by the end of the week.

Lunch is provided daily, and the festival concludes with a celebratory recital where participants will showcase the music they’ve prepared.

Faculty Coaches:

Raja Rahman is CEO of Nevada School of the Arts and a prize-winning graduate of The Juilliard School. He has performed internationally with conductors such as Sir Georg Solti, Valery Gergiev, and Iona Brown, and collaborated with renowned artists including cellist Matt Haimovitz, ETHEL, and members of the Juilliard String Quartet. A recipient of Juilliard’s Vladimir Horowitz Scholarship and numerous competition prizes, Raja has performed at major venues such as Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center. In addition to his classical career, he is a Steinway Artist and one half of the pianist/magician duo Jarrett & Raja, featured on America’s Got Talent and Shark Tank. Raja has also taught at Juilliard, Indiana University, and regularly leads masterclasses across the U.S.

Scott Jackson serves as Dean of NSA and Director of Strings. He is an accomplished concert violinist who has performed with leading orchestras across the U.S., including the St. Louis and Pittsburgh Symphonies. A semi-finalist in the prestigious Sphinx Competition, Scott earned his Doctorate of Musical Arts from the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music in 2017. He was a fellow with the New World Symphony from 2018–2022 and released his debut album, Double Portrait, in 2020. In 2022, he joined the string section for Adele’s Las Vegas residency, and in 2024, began touring internationally with the Sphinx Virtuosi, whose latest album Songs for Our Times was released under the Deutsche Grammophon label.
Come ready to work hard, collaborate, and perform — and have a blast doing it!

$200 or $180 if registered before May 20th.