The annual Summer Music Academy, organized by Academia Roza Foundation, aims to provide an opportunity for the students from music schools to train in the field of orchestral playing under the guidance of proven professional musicians - conductors and teachers. It is considered to be an area of ​​secondary music education that is under-represented in the school curriculum.

Participants in the Academy are selected through an on-line competition (by sending a video of a short performance) by the conductor and creative director Maxim Eshkenazi.  The goal of the organizers is to form an orchestra of performers playing different types of musical instruments.

In the course of the trainings, traditionally held in the month of August in the town of Shipka, Bulgaria - the heart of the Rose Valey, for ten days, the young people rehearse the pieces together, like an orchestra. The weekly program of the participants consists of preparation on the selected works through their performance within the formed orchestra, and during the breaks a cultural and entertainment program is offered with visits to places of educational and cultural and historical value, as well as meetings with various actors of art and culture.

The academy ends with a final open air concert in the town of Shipka, giving the participants the opportunity to acquire valuable skills related to performing in front of an audience. During the first two editions of the Academy, concerts were also held in Kazanlak. The wish of the organizers is to plan concerts in other towns during the next editions of the Academy.

The main purpose of the Academy is to provide an opportunity for participants to acquire skills as orchestral (and not only solo) performers and to receive specific guidance and advice from a conductor and musical mentors who have proven their professionalism all over the world.

Young people are also provided with valuable guidance on the additional skills a musician needs to possess, as well as the business aspects of working in today's music world.

At the same time, musicians are offered an opportunity to perform in front of an audience that they rarely get within their schooling.

The project is also a meeting forum between the young performers, who have the opportunity to create professional connections both with each other and with their mentors. Within the Academy, as well as after its completion, the participants form their own independent chamber ensembles, with which they study, rehearse and present works at various forums on their own initiative.

During the Academy, the young musicians meet specially invited guests - musicians who further contribute to their professional development.

Within the framework of the two editions held (in 2021 and 2022), the Summer Music Academy has seen significant growth, both in terms of the number of participating students and the complexity of the selected musical works, as well as in terms of the audience's interest in the event. Thus, in 2021, the Academy started with an orchestra composed almost entirely of wind instruments, with the number of students being 15. For the second edition, works composed for wind and string instruments were selected, with the orchestra numbering 27 musicians. More than 400 people attended the concert in the town of Shipka (out of a population of 1,165 people), and in the town of Kazanlak - about 600 people.

Last but not least, proof of the positive assessment of the Academy as an extremely useful and necessary forum for the professional development and improvement of young musicians is the fact that a significant part of the participants in the first edition applied to participate in the second edition in 2022.