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The Accademia Musicale "Jacopo Napoli" (English: Jacopo Napoli Academy) is a music institute in Cava de' Tirreni, Salerno. It was founded in 1987 by Felice Cavaliere. It organizes Master classes in the major musical instruments as well as singing, string instruments and conducting. Amongst the teachers at the Academy there are Leonid Margarius, Sonig Tchakerian, Marco Fiorini, Gabriele Geminiani and many other.
The Academy organizes also the Festival of Chamber Music "Le Corti dell'Arte" in August, in which they performed artists as Michele Campanella, Maxence Larrieu and François-Joël Thiollier. The Festival takes place in the ancient courts of the noble palaces of the Old Town of Cava de 'Tirreni.
For almost a decade, the Academy has organized a prestigious course of Orchestra conducting held by Bruno Aprea; it aimed at the production of Operas that have been performed in concert. During the past years, the Academy organized many events; one of the most important is the Amalfi Coast Music & Arts Festival in collaboration with the Center for Musical Studies in Washington. But the Academy organized also manifold concert seasons and the International Singing Competition "Vissi d'Arte", in Eboli.