RENSSELAERVILLE — The annual High Peaks Music Residency and Festival is accepting applications from outstanding violinists, violists, cellists, mandolinists, and pianists for an intensive 10-day seminar, running from Aug. 7 to 17.

Led by internationally renowned cellist Yehuda Hanani, the annual High Peaks Music Festival combines an educational residency program featuring immersive master classes for 50 hand-picked emerging artists from around the world with evenings of classical music concerts for the public.

A joint presentation of the Carey Institute and Close Encounters With Music, the 2017 High Peaks Music Festival will celebrate the work of great women composers to commemorate the centennial of women’s suffrage in New York State, the first state in the union to grant women the right to vote.

Featured composers will include Clara Schumann, Fanny Mendelssohn, Maria Theresia von Paradis, Ethel Smyth, Germaine Tailleferre, Marianna Martinez, Augusta Holmes, Joan Tower, Tamar Muskal, Judith Zaimont, and Thea Musgrave.

Joining Hanani’s faculty are: Peter Zazofsky, Irina Muresanu, British cellist Alexander Baillie; violists Michael Strauss and Pierre-Henri Xuereb; and pianist and conductor Michael Chertock.

In addition to private lessons and chamber music coachings, participants have the opportunity to explore historic approaches to Baroque practice with period performance experts Paul Dwyer on cello and Adriane Post on violin.  New this year is the mandolin program, led by French virtuoso performer Vincent Beer-Demander.

The application deadline is March 3. Application and additional information is available at catskillhighpeaksmusic.org.