A new CD with chamber music works by Cypriot composers might be of interest to colleagues. The CD is published by the Cyprus Music Information Center. More information available at CyMIC's website and CD can be ordered directly by sending an email to Michalis Karakatsanis (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
Autumn and Spring concerts have seen The Fidelio Trio on a South African tour including a recital for the Johannesburg Music Society, a London recital of American trios by John Harbison, Bright Sheng, Charles Wuorinen and Evan Ziporyn, Bethlehem Chapel, Prague, appearances throughout the UK, New Music Dublin and a short residency at Queen's University Belfast with Robert Plane (clarinet). Upcoming events include recitals at Vale of Glamorgan Festival (10th May), ensemble-in-residence at Soundings, Austrian Cultural Forum London (14th-17th May www.acflondon.org.uk/music/soundings), City of London Festival at LSO St. Luke's on 28th June and Walled City Music Festival in Derry on 21st July celebrating UK City of Culture 2013.
The Fidelio Trio's position as artists-in-residence at St. Patrick's College Drumcondra, Dublin has been hugely successful including recital broadcasts on RTE Lyric FM and continues next year including a year-long series of concerts as well as the inaugural Fidelio Trio and Friends Winter Festival 1st-3rd November.
The Fidelio Trio's most recent CD release is Michael Nyman's piano trios launching The Michael Nyman Chamber Music series. Included on the album, Piano Trios 1992-2010, are the premiere recordings of Poczatek (this version made especially for The Fidelio Trio) and The Photography of Chance as well as performances of Yellow Beach and the Joseph Brodsky inspired Time Will Pronounce.
For further information visit www.fideliotrio.com
Good morning, dear colleagues!
My name is Ksenia Bonduryanskaya, I am the Chief of Office for festivals, competitions and special events of Moscow conservatory, our management organizes all competitions and festivals within the walls of Moscow Conservatory.
Today I would like to make a short presentation of the competitions that will be held in the next concert season and will be anyway connected with the chamber performance. So, the Second International Nikolay Rubinstein Competition for chamber ensembles and string quartets, September 2013.
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The European Chamber Music Academy (ECMA) is an international network connecting 7 European music academies and 3 European music festivals. ECMA was established in 2006 on the initiative of the prominent professors of chamber music and fosterers of this music genre Hatto Bayerle (viola, Germany) and Johannes Meissl (violin, Austria). In 2011, the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre was also invited to participate in the activities of the network for its considerable educational achievements in the field of chamber music. The ECMA forges young European talents focusing on established chamber ensembles – string quartets and grand piano trios. The session will provide an opportunity for young and prospective chamber ensembles to improve their skills, to get professional experience from one of the best specialists of chamber music in the world, and to forge international relations that will be useful for the future international concert activities of the ensembles. Each of the seven ECMA member academies operating in Austria, Finland, France, the UK, Norway, Italy and Lithuania, organises master class meetings on chamber music once a year, which ECMA professors and students attend. Alongside the master classes there are lectures on the different courses of chamber music and the visitors can learn about the culture and traditions of chamber music of the receiving country; chamber ensembles participating in the ECMA courses also organise courses and perform and present new programmes of chamber music which they prepare during the session.
Master-Class du 9 au 15 septembre 2013 Petr Prause (Quatuor Talich) Quatuor Gilles Millet (Quatuor Danel) Quatuor Marc Danel (Quatuor Danel) Quatuor et Violon
Nous avons le plaisir de vous faire part de quelques informations au sujet d'événements musicaux qui se dérouleront en Belgique à quelques encablures de Stavelot dans un lieu unique en Belgique, Le domaine Rurhof (www.rurhof.be)
Ce havre de paix, idyllique pour nos rencontres musicales, vous propose 4 périodes de Master-Class de haut niveau. Nos étudiants viennent de l'Europe entière : Bulgarie, Espagne, Autriche, Allemagne, Hollande, France, Belgique...
Le but de ces rendez-vous est de permettre aux jeunes de travailler dans les meilleures conditions possibles afin que chaque instrumentiste, chaque groupe, se sente en " résidence " dans ce lieu de rêve au coeur des Hautes Fagnes. Tous les quatuors ont leur salle de travail exclusive durant l'entièreté du séjour.
Les Master-class de l'année 2013 proposeront diverses disciplines : la flûte, la clarinette, le violon, le violoncelle et le quatuor à cordes. Le nombre d'étudiants admis est limité dans le but de maintenir une ambiance calme, conviviale, et intime.
Pour les périodes de mars, juin et novembre, nous prendrons un maximum de 3 ensembles et 6 instrumentistes par professeur.
En septembre 2013, 7 quatuors seront présents, venus des 4 coins de l'Europe. Marc Danel complètera notre session avec 6 violonistes.
Nous aurons aussi l'honneur d'accueillir Petr Prause, violoncelliste du Quatuor Talich pour notre session de septembre.
Le Quatuor Danel donnera 2 concerts le 14 septembre à 20h et le 15 septembre à 11h30 dans la Salle des Lieutenants du Domaine Rurhof.
Le programme se composera d'oeuvres de Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Britten, Weinberg.
Every summer the Debussy String Quartet organizes a chamber music academy during the Festival “Cordes en Ballade”. It could be an opportunity for you to come and work with them in France. We offer one scholarship for a foreign string quartet, why not you?
If you are interested, contact us by email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Description:
This chamberacademy is open to anyone wishing to learn or improve its string quartet skill. The academy and the festival “Cordes en Ballade” are deeply connected.
The participants have exceptional working conditions: each string quartet can have access to a personal practicing room all day long.
Beyond the lessons for the pre-professional string quartets, the academy allows students to acquire meaningful professional and scenic experience, while taking part in rehearsals and concerts of the festival by two configurations:
Further more, the students will have the opportunity to meet the invited artists and attend master classes organized for them.
More information: www.debussystringquartet.com
Applications for Chamber Music, Violin and Contrabass Masterclasses are being accepted through the end of May
From the H. Eller Music School in Tartu: our school is proud of its ECMTA membership, and our chamber music players are joining the work of the Association. The school's Chamber Music final exam will take place on June 5th, 2013 with the following programme:
Vocal ensembles coached by Janika Sickle-Rand will also appear in this concert.
The jury will include all of the chamber music teachers, with Natalia Sakkos of the Estonian Academy of Music in Tallinn as Chairman.
Arts School Lab Barbican Centre 17 – 28 June 2013
Application process now open. Closing date 6 May 2013.
Arts School Lab 2013 is a two-week summer school focused on collaboration, creativity and encounters with everyday life. It is an intensive learning programme intended to bring together creative people with an active curiosity about ideas and action through the arts.
Core Tutors include film-maker and director Penny Woolcock, artist and co-founder of muf architecture/art, Katherine Clark.
Dear friends,
I would like to remind you that you can listen to the free podcasts of my radio program by clicking on the following link: http://www.thegreatcomplottoradio.com/wordpress/podcast-litaliainvaligia
Here you can listen to: Giuseppe Devastato (pianist and composer), Teodora Ristic (pianist), Antonello Novellino (videomaker), Lara Trevisan (photographer), Angelo Rinna (actor) and Cristina Cavalli (pianist).
The Festival born with the spirit of attracting the high peaks of the Pyrenees Aragones, musica and artistic experience from of great international artists.
Our Academy 2013 has a special interest in instrumental and chamber music class, including complementary aspects like the Alexander technique, body & movement, or emotional intelligence for musicians. We have an Academi 2013 Competition for the best student of Academy or Chamber group.
We offer a discount for chamber music groups.
Information : www.festivalpanticosa.com
www.duogarciaesteban.com
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Dear friends, I would like to inform you about my summer masterclass, next July in Madrid. It's a Piano and Chamber Music course (one of the options or both), and all instruments will participate, with teachers coming from all over the world. The best students will perform in Teatro Ateneo, an historical an prestigious concert hall in Madrid centre.
It will be possible to join only a part of the ten days, and follow the lessons in English, Spanish or Italian.
It is also a wonderful occasion to visit Madrid (in that period it's not too hot) and enjoy its lifestyle, the "movida" and the cultural life. For more information, please contact me personally by email and visit the website.
Thank you very much for your attention and best regards.
Cristina Cavalli
Pianist
Chamber Music in Italy - artistic director
Mob (+34) 693 71 48 39 (Spain)
(+39) 328 65 11 661 (Italy)
e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
www.cristinacavalli.com
www.chambermusicinitaly.org
Michael Tsalka´s upcoming chamber music performances include the Ravel Piano Trio, the Schubert Piano Trio Op. 99, a world premiere of a Sonata for harpsichord and fortepiano by American composer Max Yount, an evening of Mandolin and Piano music with repertoire ranging from early Barouqe to contemporary, a Two pianos program presenting pieces by Schubert, Brahms, and Lutuslawsky, and a world premiere recording of Symphonies transcribed for four hands by Dittersdorf for the Naxos/Grand Piano label.
These performances and recordings will take place in Greece, Finland, Israel, Sweden, Holland, Taiwan, China, and Austria.
| >> Kurgan – 14.03.2013 Kurgan philharmonic Debussy, Ravel, Poulenc, Gershwin |
>> Tyumen – 15.03.2013 Tyumen philharmonic Debussy, Ravel, Poulenc, Gershwin |
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>> Belgorod – 20.03.2013 |
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>> Samara – 25.03.2013 |
| >> Novokuibyshevsk – 26.03.2013 Debussy, Dukas, Chabrier, Ravel, Poulenc |
>> Pochvistnevo – 27.03.2013 Schubert, Tchaikovskiy, Brahms |
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| >> Warsaw (Poland) – 09.04.2013 Masterclass in Chopin University |
>> Lodz (Poland) – 12.04.2013 Lodz Philharmonic Concerts for two pianos with orchestra Mozart, Poulenc |
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>> Moscow – 07.05.2013 |
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>> Arkhangelsk – 23.05.2013 |
Vmeste! Together!
International Youth Festival in Petrodzavodsk in 26. - 28.3.2013
Already since 2009 there has arranged a festival called "Together" for professionals and amateurs, adults and children in Petrodzavodsk, in Russian side of Carelia. Each year there has been a different theme in the festival and this year it was "Mozart of the III Century". Next year the festival will concentrate on chamber music.
The main organizer of the event has been an institutional member of ECMTA, Mily Balakirev Children School of Arts in co- operation with other music institutions of the city.