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Membership drive continues!
The ECMTA board is asking all members to take a moment to inform their colleagues about our association, share the 7-language brochure with them and encourage them to join us. After a very successful 2010-2011 season, we are hoping to continue to grow, but to do so we need the help of current members. We are counting on you!
For paper copies and pdf files of the brochure, contact evan.rothstein@ecmta.eu
Welcome to new members
A hearty welcome to new members:
- Individual members : Brigitte Behrens (Germany); Michał Jan Borzykowski (Poland); Ksenia Bonduryanska (Russia); Odile Caracilly-Philips (France) ; Erkki Korhonen (Finland) ; Anna Bellagamba (Italy); David Dolan (UK)
- Insitutional members : Chamber Studio, London (Richard Ireland); Guildhall School of Music & Drama (Alasdair Tait)
- Contributing member : Benoit Debuyst (Festival de Wallonie, Brussels)
Membership fee coming soon
Invoices for 2012 will be arriving in December, and should be paid in January. If you are an institutional member, please help us out and check with your school bursar to make sure that everything has been taken care of. Please remember that ECMTA is entirely funded by membership fees, and we intentionally keep the fees low in order to make membership accessible.
Next general meeting in Tallinn
The next general meeting will take place in Tallinn at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre on May 4-6 2012, in parallel with the International Student Chamber Music Festival. The Festival is a bi-annual event which always includes students from the three Baltic country superior conservatories and a few guest schools.
ECMTA members will be invited to all events of the festival – masterclasses, student concerts, conferences – and in addition will be organizing its usual members’ forum, round tables, and of course the general meeting. Round table topics will include Chamber Music and Psychology and Chamber Music in Artistic Residency Projects.
Inscription forms will be available in mid-December, along with detailed information about travel and lodging. For information about the preceding edition of this festival, which was in Stuttgart, take a look at the article.
The most recent issue of Ensemble Magazin
The ECMTA column in the October-November issue of Ensemble Magazin gave an in-depth description of chamber music training opportunities at the Guildhall School of Music in London. The following issue contains reflections on the 30th anniversary festivities of the Orlando Festival and the stepping down of its founder and director Stefan Metz.
http://www.ensemble-magazin.de/mediadaten/EN_inhalt_5_2011.pdf
ECMTA Autumn Gathering in Amsterdam
With 24 delegates from 14 countries, it was an excellent turn-out for the Autumn Gathering in Amsterdam, which, as expected, was an exciting weekend. Events included a day of conferences at the Amsterdam Conservatory and a day of free entry to the Dutch Classical Music Meeting, the country’s most important classical music fair, as well as conferences, showcase concerts at the Concertgebouw and the Muziekgebouw, and a most spectacular trade dinner along with hundreds of  presenters and specialists from the Dutch and international professional music scene. Our sincere thanks to DCMM senior project manager Michael Nieuwenhuizen, to Michel Dispa and Walter van Hauwe of the Amsterdam Conservatory, to student chamber ensembles of the Conservatory, and to our own member presenters for their contributions: David Dolan, Filippo Faes, Marje Lohuaru, Petras Kunca, Milena Brents and Elena Novozilova, Robert Irvine, Marine Berthet, José Manuel Gil, and Anna Prabucka-Firlej.
Special thanks to Stefan Metz, who made a moving and impassioned speech concerning the importance of specialized string quartet training during our meeting at the Amsterdam Conservatory, and who presented an excellent young quartet from the NSQA.
For the full program see ‘Past events’ on the ECMTA website.
Website reminder
The minutes of board meetings and general meetings are on the reserved section of the website. Only paid members may create a login in order to have access.
ECMTA at Mondomusica in Cremona October 1-2
 For the first time, ECMTA was present at Mondomusica with an information stand and a side event. Speakers for the side-event “Chamber music teaching in Europe” included Chairman Evan Rothstein, Board member Filippo Faes and his colleague from the Conservatorio “G. Steffani” in Castelfranco-Veneto, Anna Bellagamba, and Juan Paolo Gamarra from Concerto Malaga. Roberto Galletto (Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia) made a guest appearance in order to speak about the impact of the ECMTA annual meeting organized last spring in his school.
The ECMTA information stand was shared with Ensemble Magazine.
For the full program, see
http://www.cremonafiere.it/module-mContent-view_pagelayout-id_pagelayout-659.phtml
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