Accademia Chorus for mixology

The Accademia Chorus in Rome is selecting applications for its course to train new mixology professionals.

The Accademia’s ambitious goal is not only to train new mixology professionals but also to offer a job placement service that pinpoints the demand for their services and sets up a data bank of sector workers.

Massimo D’Addezio, the curator of the course that begins in October, explained that the project was in response to the demand from Cocktail Bars, Restaurants, Hotels and other high-profile establishments that need personnel who are not simply competent but also well-trained. Unfortunately, in the world of beverages and, in general, the food service sector it is difficult to find professionals with the

The course, which begins in October with a careful selection of applicants (for more information  https://www.accademiachorus.it/ ),will be held in the suggestive Chorus Café, in Via della Conciliazione. This is the “home” of Massimo D’Addezio – the celebrated Rome bartender and a 2009 Best Bar in the World – who together with Gelasio Gaetani D’Aragona – founder of the International Wine Academy of Rome – and many other professionals will have the task of training the barmen of tomorrow.

“Accademia Chorus wants to create a system that can identify those who have the necessary skills, or simply the innate art of hospitality, and involve them in a work vocation that strives for success, which sometimes is not just a commercial one”, Massimo D’Addezio explained.

The project is being set up in collaboration with Forma Camera (a special Rome Chamber of Commerce arm for entrepreneurial training) and Openjobetis (Italy’s largest temporary employment agency) that will place the “new Bartenders” on the job market through a qualified process of preselection and professional presentation.

Although it kicks off in the autumn of 2018, Accademia Chorus’ ambition is to become more national with two parallel sessions already in 2019, in Rome and Milan. For now, it will be at this temple of mixology, Café Chorus, which while relatively new has already received a number of international recognitions. Condè Nast, for example, included it in their list of the 9 Best Bars in the World. And it is here, a stone’s throw from St. Peter’s Basilica, that all the aspects of mixology will be tackled with an overall approach that focuses not only on cocktails and their ingredients but also on training the bartender to be a sector professional, a manager in the continually changing world of spirits who is capable of running a bar with the right rules and tools. But the world of mixology is also composed of fascinating stories from over the centuries that will certainly be told by these sector experts as they skillfully prepare a perfect cocktail.

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