"Last year was inspirational and my playing improved out of all proportion so I am hoping for the same miracle again."
Julian Britton, retired surgeon

"I had the most amazing and unforgettable time ... My playing seems to have taken a huge leap forward since August. It's more confident and assured, even on pieces I didn't play in France. But the experience was so much more than musical, it was the company, the food (aaah, the food!) the chateau itself. I'm already saving up in the hope that there will be a Castelfranc again next summer."
Dave Nelson, freelance musician and piano teacher

"The place, the people, the weather, the food, everything was memorable. But the most important thing I took away with me was confidence. Back home, working at the piano has a new impetus since last summer. I no longer feel my difficulties are unique."
Charlotte Way, piano teacher

"I never imagined I could be so keen to practise that I'd queue in my pyjamas to book a piano every morning!"
Caroline Billings, music student

"The course at Castelfranc was one of the most enjoyable times of my life."
Reiko Nakatsukasa, post-graduate piano student

"Music at Castelfranc has a winning formula: to balance fun and challenge with the feeling of a delightful house party. I now feel pianistically invigorated and galvanised to put much more energy into my playing: this is down to Castelfranc."
Miles Holford, management consultant and amateur pianist

"I have just stepped out of an enchanted experience in which, once again, magic was woven out of old stones, hard labour, high spirits and genius... Students go through genuine and profound change while they're there, and that opens them up to be bonded and elated and also protected from all the lowering grit of everyday life."
Cynthia Kee, novelist