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PIANO/PIANO DUO – Piano Duo Chipak-Kushnir (University of Music and Drama Rostock)

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Dozenten:

© Neda Navaee

Olha Chipak und Oleksiy Kushnir gehören als Klavierduo zu den renommiertesten Ensembles der Kammermusikszene.

Prägende Einflüsse in ihrer künstlerischen Entwicklung bekamen sie in ihren Studienjahren bei dem Klavierduo Hans-Peter und Volker Stenzl sowie bei Maria Krushelnytzka, Nelja Pasteliak, Jozsef Örmeny.

Olha Chipak und Oleksiy Kushnir sind an der Hochschule für Musik und Theater sowie an der Lwiw National Musikakademie (Ukraine) als Lehrende tätig.

Das Piano Duo Chipak–Kushnir ist auf Bühnen in Europa, den USA und China regelmäßig zu Gast. Die internationale Bühnenetablierung kam nicht zuletzt dank Erfolgen bei wichtigen Klavierduowettbewerben:
1. Preis und Spezialpreis für zeitgenössische Musik – „Rom-98“, 2. Preis – TIM (Torneo Internazionale di Musica) (2000), 2. Preis – Kammermusikwettbewerb – Caltanissetta (2000), 1. Preis – „Premio Seiler“ – Palermo (2002), 2. Preis –– „Palma d’Oro“ – Finale Ligure (2002), 1. Preis und Spezialpreis – Bialystok (Polen, 2002), 1. Preis „Klavierduo im 20.Jahrhundert“ – Premio Valentino Bucchi (2003), 2. Preis und Publikumspreis – „Dranoff Two Piano Competition“ – Miami (2003), 1. Preis und Spezialpreis – San Marino Klavierwettbewerb (2006)

Die Einspielung der Werke von Johannes Brahms, Max Reger und Sergei Rachmaninow gewann den „Web Concert Hall Competition”. Weitere Tonträger erschienen bei GENUIN – mit Musik von Johannes Brahms und die CD-Aufnahme „Masques“ mit Ersteinspielungen von Igor Strawinsky, Maurice Ravel, Abram Chasins, Franz Liszt, Sergei Rachmaninow – erhielten viel Anerkennung in der Fachpresse und beim Hör- und Fernsehfunk.

www.chipak-kushnir.de

Daten:

Ankunft: Mittwoch, 1. Mai 2024, bis 12 Uhr
Dozentenkonzert: Mittwoch, 1. Mai 2024, 18:30 Uhr
Abschlusskonzert: Samstag, 4. Mai 2024, 18:00 Uhr
Abreise: Sonntag, 5. Mai 2024, bis 14 Uhr

Kursdetails

Zum Kurs sind vor allem Studierende und fortgeschrittene junge Pianisten eingeladen – egal ob vor unmittelbaren Prüfungen, Wettbewerben, Projekten oder einfach mitten im Studium. Auf spezielle Weise richtet sich der Kurs an Klavierduos (vierhändig oder an 2 Klavieren), die auf der Suche nach neuen Anregungen sind.

Zum letzten Schliff sind auch Teilnehmer des Bundeswettbewerbs „Jugend musiziert“ 2024 in der Klavierduo-Kategorie herzlich willkommen.

Der Kurs beginnt am 01.05.2024 mit einem Dozentenkonzert. Die Teilnahmegebühr beinhaltet die Unterbringung, einen täglichen Unterricht, eine Schiffsfahrt, den Besuch des Beethoven-Museums Bonn sowie eine Mitwirkung am Konzert der Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer am 04.05.2024.

Unterbringung:

© Falko Hönisch

Die Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer werden in der Akademie, einer wunderschön am Rhein gelegenen und vollständig auf die Bedürfnisse einer Akademie eingerichtet untergebracht.

Verpflegung:

Es steht eine Küche zur Selbstversorgung zur Verfügung! In einem Supermarkt in der Nähe können Lebensmittel gekauft werden. Es wird zu einem gemeinsamen Einkauf geraten. Gekocht werden kann dann aus der Gruppe jeden Tag ein anderes Team.

Zimmer:

Im Geiste der Romantik findet bei den Kursen der Internationalen Musikakademie Sankt Goar alles unter einem Dach statt: Leben, Lernen, Essen und Schlafen. Daher werden die Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer im Gebäude der Musikakademie untergebracht.

Anmeldung:

Um sich anzumelden, müssen Sie entweder:

(a) von Frau Chipak und Herrn Kushnir empfohlen werden, oder
(b) ein unbearbeitetes Video (z.B. mittels eines YouTube-Links) übermitteln.

Darüber hinaus müssen Sie das Anmeldeformular online ausfüllen, dieses abschicken und die Bearbeitungsgebühr von €40,- bezahlen.

Anmeldeschluss: 1. April 2024

Kosten:

Kursgebühr (inkl. Unterbringung, täglicher Unterricht, Schifffahrt, Besuch des Beethoven-Museums in Bonn sowie Mitwirkung im Konzert): 

Klavier solo: €450,-
Klavierduo (zwei Personen): €650,-

PIANO and CHAMBER MUSIC – Tomoko Ogasawara (University of Music Freiburg)/Matthias Ranft

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After studying at the State University of the Arts in Tokyo where she was born, the pianist Tomoko Ogasawara continued her studies in Germany at the University of the Arts in Berlin and the University of Music in Freiburg im Breisgau, where she received the solo diploma with honors and went on to win 1st Prize in the German Hochschulwettbewerb.

Among her teachers were Georg Sava, Tibor Hazay and Georgy Sebok who influenced her artistic development and led her to early success, for example as finalist in the international competitions “Maria Canals” / Barcelona and “ Clara Haskil” / Montreux.

Since then concert engagements have taken Tomoko Ogasawara to the concert halls of the international music world (such as Berlin, Montreux, London, Paris, Tokyo, Jerusalem, Bangkok, Shanghai). She has played concerts together with Albrecht Mayer, Jörg Widmann and Tabea Zimmermann and regularly plays with the principals and leading musicians of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the Bavarian Symphony Orchestra and the SWR Orchestra also in the context of chamber music formations, such as the piano trio “Franconia”, the ensemble “Abraxas” and at international festivals such as “Affinis” in Japan.

As soloist Tomoko Ogasawara has played, among others, with the Symphony Orchestra Berlin, Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, Bad Reichenhall Philharmonic Orchestra and the Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Bamberg. She is featured in numerous radio broadcasts as well as CD recordings. In the season 2006/2007 Ogasawara performed the complete cycle of piano sonatas by W. A. Mozart.

Currently Tomoko Ogasawara passes on her musical experience through the teaching position she holds at the University of Music in Freiburg im Breisgau as well as regular master classes in Tokyo and Yokohama. Students of hers have won prizes in both national and international competitions.

The Hamburg born Matthias Ranft received his first cello at the age of seven and while still in high school he started studying at the Conservatory of Music Arthur Troester. His musical education lead him to Freiburg with Christoph Henkel and then later after winning scholarships from the DAAD and the Cultural Society of German Industry he went to study with Janos Starker in Bloomington, Indiana, USA. Before his graduating from the Conservatory in Freiburg he had already collected Orchestra experience between 1981 and 1983 as solo cello with the Hofer Symphony and won the 1984 Mendelsson Competition in Berlin.

Since 1985 Ranft has been the first cellist with the Bamberg Symphony/ Bayerish State Philharmonic. On the side he takes regular part in international festivals such as Affinis in Japan. He also concertizes as a chamber musician with the ensemble ABRAXAS, Trio FRANCONIA,  with Jörg Widmann, and with Frank Peter Zimmermann among others. He has also played as soloist under Gilbert Varga, Roger Norrington, Adam Fischer, Lawrence Renes and Jonathan Nott.
His musical accomplishments are shown through countless radio and CD recordings. He has shared his musical experience as a docent at the Freiburg Conservatory from 2001-2004 and at masterclasses throughout Japan. Matthias Ranft plays on a Giovanni Grancino cello from 1695. 

Dates:

Arrival: Sunday, August 11, 2024 from until 2 pm
Closing Concert: Friday, August 16, 2024 at 6 pm
Departure: Saturday, August 17, 2024 until 2 pm

Piano-works from all periods: from Baroque over Classic and Romantic to Modern Music; preparation for exams, concerts and competitions

Repertoire:

Piano solo or for four hands
Chamber Music for Piano and Violoncello          

Accommodation:

Students are hosted on a shared room basis in a beautiful villa on the bank of the Rhine river.

Meals:

A kitchen is available for cooking; groceries can be bought in a nearby supermarket. Group shopping is advised. A different team can do the cooking daily, which can be organize in situ.

Rooms:

Committed to the spirit of romanticism, all masterclasses offered by the Sankt Goar International Music Festival and Academy unite everything under one roof: living, learning, eating and sleeping. That is why participants will be hosted on a shared room basis.

For further impression, please visit our venue site.

Audition information and registration:

In order to be accepted, you must meet one of the following criteria:

(a) be recommended by Ms Ogasawara, or
(b) submit an unedited video audition (YouTube link) for review.

In addition, you must complete and submit our application form and pay a €40,- application fee.

Registration Deadline: July 11, 2024

Tuition:

Course fee (incl. accommodation): €590,-

PIANO – Prof. Klaus Sticken (Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna)

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Teacher:

© Martin Teschner

Klaus Sticken is a versatile and distinctive pianist with over 25 years of concert experience. He performs in such venues as the Tonhalle Zurich, the Great Hall of the Tchaikovsky Conservatoire in Moscow, the Philharmonie in Kiev, the Megaron in Athens, the Konzerthaus in Berlin and the Musikhalle in Hamburg. His successes in the Concours Clara Haskil in Vevey, the Grand Prix Maria Callas in Athens and the Hamamatsu International Piano Competition in Japan led, amongst other engagements, to concerts with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre de Chambre Lausanne, the Ukraine State Orchestra and the Berlin Symphonic and Moscow Symphonic Orchestras. He undertakes concert tours throughout Europe and in the Far East.

His creative engagement with piano music is well displayed in the theme-based recitals for various radio stations, the Deutschlandradio, Radio Suisse Romande and Westdeutsche, Mitteldeutsche and Hessische Rundfunk and others. Sticken also works with experimentally minded partners such as the Kuss Quartet or the author and pianist Cord Garben and tries out new methods of presenting music and text with the poet Oskar Ansull. Recordings for the CD label Thorofon and many radio productions of seldom heard masterpieces by Clementi, Reubke, Strauss, Martin, Honegger, Korngold and Rota provide evidence of the wide-ranging nature of his repertoire.

Through his teachers Vladimir Krainev, Vitaly Margulis, Gyorgy Sebok and Alfred Brendel Klaus Sticken has become familiar with very varied approaches to music. Besides his concert activity serves as a professor of piano at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna.

Dates: 

Arrival: Thursday, Oktober 26, 2023, until 2 pm
Closing concert: Sunday, October 29, 2023, 5 pm
Departure: Monday, October 30, 2023, until 12 am

Course Description:

Piano-works from all periods: from Baroque over Classic and Romantic to Modern Music; preparation for exams, concerts and competitions

Repertoire:

Piano solo or for four hands          

Accommodation:

Students are hosted on a shared room basis in a beautiful villa on the bank of the Rhine river.

Meals:

A kitchen is available for cooking; groceries can be bought in a nearby supermarket. Group shopping is advised. A different team can do the cooking daily, which can be organize in situ.

Rooms:

Committed to the spirit of romanticism, all masterclasses offered by the Sankt Goar International Music Festival and Academy unite everything under one roof: living, learning, eating and sleeping. That is why participants will be hosted on a shared room basis.

Audition information and registration:

In order to be accepted, you must meet one of the following criteria:

(a) be recommended by Prof. Sticken, or
(b) submit an unedited video audition (YouTube link) for review.

In addition, you must complete and submit our application form and pay a €40,- application fee.

Registration Deadline: October 22nd, 2023

Tuition:

Course fee (incl. accommodation): €500,-

PIANO – Prof. Andreas Weber (University Mozarteum Salzburg)

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Teacher:

Andreas Weber began his pianistic education at the Music University of Cologne with Prof. Karin Merle and continued with Prof. Hans Leygraf at the University of Music in Salzburg.

His gives concerts as a soloist and as chamber musician in Europe and Asia, i.a. with the Trio Cartellieri and with the Violinist Albert Fischer.

Television recordings in Austria, Korea and China.

He holds many Masterclasses in Korea, China, Germany and Belgium and is member of jury in national and international piano competitions in Germany, Austria, China and Korea.

He made CD recordings with the Cellist Hanna Spielbüchler (Brahms, Schubert and Franck) as well with the Violinist Albert Fischer (Mozart, Brahms, Schubert) and with the Trio Cartellieri (Turina, Takacs, Piazzolla).

Since 2002 Andreas Weber is professor for piano at the University Mozarteum and since 2005 he is the head of the Leopold-Mozart-Institut for highly talented young students and is promoting young talents at national and international level.

Since 2009 he is professor at the International Summer Academy of Mozarteum.

Many of his students are prize winners of international piano competitions.

Dates: 

Arrival: Thursday, May 16, 2024, until 2 pm 
Closing concert: Sunday, May 23, 2024, 5 pm 
Departure: Monday, May 24, 2024, after 12 pm

Course Description:

The masterclass is primarily aimed at young, motivated pianists who want to prepare for an entrance examination at a music university or for a competition.

The vigilant and creative examination of the score, as well as the individual encounter and motivation of the participant are the focus of this course.

An inspired musical idea and its technical realization should be experienced and formed as an inseparable unit.

The final concert provides a valuable experience for the further musical development of the participants.

Repertoire:

Piano solo or for four hands

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© Falko Hönisch
© Falko Hönisch

Accommodation:

Students are hosted on a shared room basis in a beautiful villa on the bank of the Rhine river.

Meals: 

A kitchen is available for cooking; groceries can be bought in a nearby supermarket. Group shopping is advised. A different team can do the cooking daily, which can be organize in situ.

Rooms:

Committed to the spirit of romanticism, all masterclasses offered by the Sankt Goar International Music Festival and Academy unite everything under one roof: living, learning, eating and sleeping. That is why participants will be hosted on a shared room basis.

Audition information and registration:

In order to be accepted, you must meet one of the following criteria:

(a) be recommended by Prof. Weber, or 
(b) submit an unedited video audition (YouTube link) for review.

In addition, you must complete and submit our application form and pay a €40,- application fee.

Registration Deadline: April 16, 2024

Tuition:

Course fee (incl. accommodation): €470,-

 

PIANO – Prof. Patrick O’Byrne (University of the Arts Bremen)

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Teacher: 

© Artem Yasynskyy

Pianist Patrick O’Byrne was appointed in 1985 to a professorship at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Stuttgart, assuming later the senior chair at the Hochschule für Künste, Bremen.

His concert performances worldwide have included appearances with renowned orchestras and illustrious conductors, among others the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, the Bochumer Sinfoniker, the New York Virtuosi and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie under Sir Charles Groves, Franz-Paul Decker and Albert Rosen. Born in Dublin and raised in New Zealand, the pianist has received international awards for his interpretations of French, Spanish and contemporary music. His repertoire encompasses all styles.
 

파 트 릭 오 번 – Patrick O ’B yrne

Biography
더블린 태생 뉴질랜드 오클랜드 대학졸업
퀸 엘리자베스 2세 예술 장학금, 영국 런던과 파리, 국립 프라이부르크 대학졸업
(독일 DAAD 장학금)
Rosa Sabater, Alicia de Larrocha, Kendall Taylor, Vlado Perlemuter사사

1978년 뉴질랜드 음악대상, 동경 국제 콩쿨, 스페인 Jaén 콩쿨,
영국 Dudley 콩쿨, 마요르카 콩쿨 입상,1983년 José Iturbi 국제 콩쿨 대상.
스페인 음악대상, 국제비평가상

New York Virtuosi, Bochumer Sinfoniker, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Auckland Philharmonia, RTE Symphony Orchestra, KBS Symphony Orchestra 등 유명오케스트라와 협연 및 TV 및 라디오 녹음 출연.

독일 국립 슈투트가르트 음대 교수 및 부학장 역임.
브레맨 국립음대 교수 및 학장 역임

그의 피아노 테크닉과 해석은 많은 국제 콩쿨 및 유명 마스터클래스에서 탁월한 교수
법과 해석으로 정평이 나 있으며, 훌륭한 제자들을 키워내고 있다.

Dates: 

Arrival: Thursday, June 1st, 2023, until 2 pm
Closing concert: Sunday, June 4, 2023, 5 pm
Departure: Monday, June 5, 2023, after 2 pm

Course Description:

Piano-works from all periods: from Baroque over Classic and Romantic to Modern Music; preparation for exams, concerts and competitions

Repertoire:

Piano solo or for four hands          

Accommodation:

Students are hosted on a shared room basis in a beautiful villa on the bank of the Rhine river.

Meals:

A kitchen is available for cooking; groceries can be bought in a nearby supermarket. Group shopping is advised. A different team can do the cooking daily, which can be organize in situ.

Rooms:

Committed to the spirit of romanticism, all masterclasses offered by the Sankt Goar International Music Festival and Academy unite everything under one roof: living, learning, eating and sleeping. That is why participants will be hosted on a shared room basis.

Audition information and registration:

In order to be accepted, you must meet one of the following criteria:

(a) be recommended by Prof. O’Byrne, or
(b) submit an unedited video audition (YouTube link) for review.

In addition, you must complete and submit our application form and pay a €40,- application fee.

Registration Deadline: May 22nd, 2023

Tuition:

Course fee (incl. accommodation): €520,-

帕特里克·奥比恩 (Patrick O’Byrne）出生于都柏林 毕业于新西兰奥克兰大学

曾获伊丽莎白女王二世艺术奖学金，英国伦敦和巴黎毕业于弗莱堡国立大学 (德国DAAD奖学金)。 曾与 Janetta McStay、Rosa Sabater、Alicia de Larrocha、Kendall Taylor、Vlado Perlemuter等人 一起学习。

曾获（个人荣誉经历）： 1978 新西兰音乐奖，东京国际比赛，西班牙哈恩比赛，
1983年英国达德利比赛大奖、马略卡岛比赛大奖、何塞·伊图尔比国际比赛大奖、 西班牙音乐奖、国际评论家奖。

曾与纽约Virtuosi、波鸿交响乐团、德国室内爱乐乐团、新西兰交响乐团、奥克兰爱乐乐团、RTE交响乐团、KBS交响乐团等著名乐团合作，并出现在电视和广播唱片中。

录制并发行了多张室内乐CD，包括拉威尔所有歌曲、Granados (Goyescas) 和莫扎特钢琴协奏曲。
曾于德国斯图加特音乐大学担任教授兼副校长。
于德国不来梅国立音乐大学担任教授兼院长。

他的钢琴技法和理解在许多国际比赛和著名大师班（美国、日本、巴西、意大利、中国、韩国等国家）中以出色的教学方法和解说而出名，培养出了大批优秀的学生。

 

VIOLIN – Prof. Marianne Boettcher (Berlin University of the Arts)/Kensei Yamaguchi

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Teacher: 

Marianne Boettcher, violinist from the famous Berlin musician family, studied in Berlin under Professor Willy Kirch and Professor Michael Schwalbé, rounding off her studies in Geneva under Professor Henryk Szeryng. She teaches at the University of the Arts Berlin. She has gotten great recognition for playing classic and romantic music and has also become known as an interpreter of new music. She has given the first performances of many works written for her by contemporary composers.

She has won many prizes and has made a number of recordings for radio, television and the records industry in Germany and abroad. Extended concert tours have taken her repeatedly to the USA, Japan, Russia and almost every other country in Europe (for example in Rheinsberg, Prague, Vienna and Tallinn). She has also been a frequent guest performer at the Berlin Festival, the International Heinrich Schütz Festival in Sweden, the German Bach Festival in Berlin and the Vienna Festival.

The german president Johannes Rau awarded her 2003 the The Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Kensei Yamaguchi started playing piano at age five. At twelve, he won the All Japan Student Music Competition, which allowed him to join the Toho-Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo, the most prestigious music school in Japan, under the direction of Professor Hiroko Edo. Upon graduation he received a German National Scholarship to further pursue his studies at the Universität der Künste in Berlin, under Professors Erich Andreas and Pascal Devoyon.

Mr.Yamaguchi has participated in numerous international piano competitions. He is the winner of Third Prize in Porto International Piano Competition, Portugal (1998), First Prize at Senigallia International Piano Competition, Italy (1999), and of the prestigious First Prize at Monte Carlo Piano Masters, Monaco (2000).

His numerous concert activities include solo performances with Das Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Filarmonica Marchigiana, Italy, Monte Carlo Orchestre Philharmonique, Orquestra Nacional do Porto, the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra. In addition he has appeared in solo recitals and chamber music concerts in most European countries, Japan, and the USA.

Dates: 

Arrival: Thursday, April 27, 2023, until 12 pm
Closing concert: Sunday, April 31st, 2023, 5 pm
Departure: Monday, May 1st, 2023, until 12 pm

Course Description:

preparation for exams, concerts and competitions

Repertoire:

works for violin from all periods: from Baroque over Classic and Romantic to Modern Music

Accommodation:

Students are hosted on a shared room basis in a beautiful villa on the bank of the Rhine river.

Meals:

A kitchen is available for cooking; groceries can be bought in a nearby supermarket. Group shopping is advised. A different team can do the cooking daily, which can be organize in situ.

Rooms:

Committed to the spirit of romanticism, all masterclasses offered by the Sankt Goar International Music Festival and Academy unite everything under one roof: living, learning, eating and sleeping. That is why participants will be hosted on a shared room basis.

Audition information and registration:

In order to be accepted, you must meet one of the following criteria:

(a) be recommended by Prof. Boettcher, or
(b) submit an unedited video audition (YouTube link) for review.

NB: The total number of participants is limited to eight musicians.

In addition, you must complete and submit our application form and pay a €40,- application fee.

Registration Deadline: March 27, 2023

Tuition:

Course fee: €200,-
Accommodation/Facility Fee (obligatory): €200,-

VOICE — Wolfgang Klose (University of Music Rostock)

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Teachers: 

© Anne-Marie von Sarosdy

Stylistic variety, authentic sound and the synthesis of word and music are the most basic elements of singing for the tenor Wolfgang Klose. He received significant impetuses from Thomas Heyer, Mario Hoff and Konrad Jarnot as well as on master classes with Francisco Araiza, Julie Kaufmann and Kurt Widmer.

He performed e.g. Tamino (Magic Flute), Symon (Bettelstudent) and Pylades (Iphigenie on Tauris) on the opera stage. Besides from off stage productions he performed at Händelfestspiele Halle, Deutsche Oper am Rhein and Bühnen der Stadt Köln.

His favorite work is dedicated to the oratorio stage: he is performing all main repertoire from Renaissance to contemporary music, mostly known for his interpretations of the cantatas and oratorios of the baroque and classical epoch. Being guest of numerous festivals and stages all over Europe and the USA he performs with symphonic orchestras and HIP ensembles.

In 2013 the he received a 1st price from Verband Deutscher Konzertchöre. Recordings of broadcasting services and CD labels are available such as WDR, rbb, SWR, Carus Verlag, Virgin Classics (former Label: EMI France) and cpo.

Having graduated at Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf and University of Music Mainz he has been teaching on university level for many years. Nowadays he teaches singing at Hochschule of Music und Theater Rostock and Folkwang University of Arts Essen.

Collaborative pianist: Prof. Thomas Hinz

Dates: 

Arrival: Monday, August 5, 2024, until 12 pm
Closing concert: Friday, August 9, 2024, 7 pm
Departure: Saturday, August 10, 2024, until 12 pm

Course Description:

The voice is the instrument most closely connected to the human body and therefore capable of transporting emotions unfiltered and most directly to the audience. Etymologically, there is a direct translation to  personare (latin for through sounding); in Hebrew there is even the same word for soul and throat.

For five days we will be working on throat skills which will help to make these connections hearable. Additionally to working on stylistic differences of the epochs, diction and interpretation impulses the fun of making music is of great importance as well!

Our master class is intended for all who are searching for new impulses in singing and interpreting – e.g. as a preparation for attending universities or for a check-up for (midterm) exams – we will work individually in three units each day and actually strengthen the instrument “voice”.

The interpretation of the repertoire will increase in authenticity by working out and improving individual qualities.

Repertoire:

Concert and opera arias, as well as art songs from the baroque era to contemporary music

Accommodation:

Students are hosted on a shared room basis in a beautiful villa on the bank of the Rhine river.

Meals:

A kitchen is available for cooking; groceries can be bought in a nearby supermarket. Group shopping is advised. A different team can do the cooking daily, which can be organize in situ.

Rooms:

Committed to the spirit of romanticism, all masterclasses offered by the Sankt Goar International Music Festival and Academy unite everything under one roof: living, learning, eating and sleeping. That is why participants will be hosted on a shared room basis.

For further impression, please visit our venue site.

Audition information and registration:

In order to be accepted, you must meet one of the following criteria:

(a) be recommended by Mr. Klose, or
(b) submit an unedited video audition (YouTube link) for review.

In addition, you must complete and submit our application form and pay a €40,- application fee.

Registration Deadline: July 5, 2024

Tuition:

Course fee (incl. accommodation): €590,-