For 25 years, the Voksenåsen Summer Academy has been a comprehensive course for the most promising Nordic talents on string and wind instruments, as well as singers, within the classical genre. The academy is a creative, safe meeting place for students from different countries, genres, ages and stages in the course of study, all on an advanced stage of musicianship. The course functions as a recruitment arena for Norwegian musical life and academies, while at the same time Norwegian and Nordic students gain access to an international meeting place here in Norway. The role models the students meet in the form of the best performers, teachers and each other are an essential part of the program, and over 25 years, this concept has been developed and refined. Today, there is hardly any large Nordic orchestra that does not have former Summer Academy students in its permanent ensemble. Many talents return year after year and some also return as teachers later in their careers.