Zhang Jie, an 18-year-old piano student, has become an object of envy among her peers. This month, she will embark on a four-year course at the Norwegian State Academy of Music, thanks to a summer camp she attended in Stavanger - Norway's fourth largest city - last year.

　　"The many concerts and classes (at the camp) widened my horizon and ex-posed me to a totally different learning experience," Zhang said yesterday.

　　Hopefully, more students like Zhang will benefit from an annual project - launched last year by the Royal Norwegian Consulate General in Shanghai for local music students and professionals.

　　The consulate invites music-dance students and young professionals - aged between 16 and 25 years - to the Stavanger International Summer Academy, a part of the International Chamber Music Festival held in August.

　　The camp students attend master classes given by top-notch artists and get free tickets to all concerts at the festival.

　　This year, three students majoring in piano, violin and cello from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and two young dancers have been invited to the August 16-24 camp.

　　"We wish to expose young Norwegian artists to Chinese artists," John Dag Hutchison, the Norwegian consul, said.