The International Holland Music Sessions is one of the leading organizations in the world for career development for exceptionally talented young musicians in classical music.

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Since 1988 lessons and master classes in combination with stage experience form the core of The International Holland Music Sessions (TIHMS).

During the Summer Academy a new generation of soloists is intensively supervised and coached by internationally renowned musicians and pedagogues. The classes, together with the public concerts that take place during the Summer Academy, may be the first step toward an invitation to perform in prestigious concert halls in the Netherlands as well as around the world.

SUMMER ACADEMY & FESTIVAL 2010

The 23th edition of the TIHMS Summer Academy & Festival will take place from July 25 until August 29 2010 in Bergen NH (Netherlands) and surrounding places. Over a hundred concerts and public master classes will be given with young musicians from more than 40 countries. They have been invited for the Summer Academy after international auditions to follow master classes with a renowned international faculty, teachers at the best musical institutes from all over the world.

SUMMER ACADEMY PROGRAM

The programming of the Summer Academy & Festival will be available on the website in the first half of july.

INTERNATIONAL FACULTY 2010

Violin:
Week 1 Josef Rissin
Week 2 Krzysztof Wegrzyn
Week 3 David Takeno

Cello:
Week 1 Maria Kliegel
Week 2 Reinhard Latzko
Week 3 Lluis Claret

Piano:
Week 1 Jacques Rouvier
Week 2 Matti Raekallio and Mikhail Voskresensky
Week 3 Matti Raekallio and Klaus Hellwig

NEW MASTERS ON TOUR (selected in 2009)

The following musicians were selected during the Summer Academy 2009 and will perform in the international New Masters on Tour concerts 2010-2011:

Violin:
Xenia Beltiukova (Belarus) with Vital Stahievitch (Belarus)
Charlotte Bonneton (France) with Sander Sittig
Doren Dinglinger (Germany) with Gerard Boeters

Cello:
Aurélienne Brauner (France) with Jelger Blanken
Stjepan Hauser, Croatia) with Mirsa Adami
Gleb Pysniak, (Lithuania) with Darius Mazintas (Lithuania)

Piano:
Martin Levicky (Czech Republic)
Anna Petrova (Bulgaria)
Georgiy Tchaidze (Russia)
Wu Qian, (China)

> New Masters on Tour

Jan Marisse Huizing resigns from The International Holland Music Sessions

After having been associated for over 20 years with TIHMS, artistic director Jan Marisse Huizing has resigned from The International Holland Music Sessions.

Huizing was involved in TIHMS since 1989 - at first as a faculty member and artistic advisor and since 2002 until January 2010 as member of the faculty and artistic director.

Under his artistic leadership The International Holland Music Sessions started the highly succesful series of international concerts "New Masters on Tour", now taking place in more than 15 countries.

Also the annual Summer Academy has developed into a very successful starting point for violinists, cellists and pianists, leading many young instrumentalists to success at renowned international competitions and successful international careers.

In the future Huizing likes to spend more of his time on teaching and writing. His book on the Chopin Etudes was published in a German edition in October 2009 by Schott Verlag (Schott ED 8744).

A book on the Beethoven Sonatas is in preparation. Moreover Jan Marisse Huizing wants to be involved in the further development of the International Lipatti-Haskil-Foundation (www.lipatti-haskil-foundation.com) of which he is the founder and president since 2004.

New Masters on Tour 2010-2011
Concertgebouw Amsterdam en Theater Odeon Zwolle

Wij kunnen u inmiddels de nieuwe concertserie New Masters on Tour op de website presenteren.

Na een aantal jaren begeleiding in Bergen NH, presenteert de nieuwe generatie internationale solisten zich in Nederland op de podia van Het Concertgebouw en Theater Odeon te Zwolle. Na hun debuut op deze podia vervolgen zij hun serie concerten op de toonaangevende podia in Europa.

De serie in Nederland bestaat uit vijf concerten van september 2010 tot en met mei 2011. De concerten vinden plaats in de Kleine Zaal van het Concertgebouw Amsterdam op de zondagmiddag (14.30) en worden steeds 2 dagen later op de dinsdagavond (20.30) herhaald in Theater Odeon in Zwolle (Dommerholtzaal).

De geselecteerde musici komen uit Belarus, China, Frankrijk, Rusland, Litouwen, Bulgarije, Tsjechië, Duitsland en Kroatië.

Bestellen
Het is mogelijk een abonnement op de serie van vijf concerten te bestellen, maar ook losse concerten. U vindt alle informatie, de concertprogrammering, informatie over de musici en wijze van bestellen, op deze pagina's:

> New Masters on Tour Amsterdam

> New Masters on Tour Zwolle

Folder aanvragen
Ofschoon de website alle informatie biedt, kunt u een folder rondom deze concertreeks aanvragen en thuisgestuurd krijgen. U kunt dat doen via de knop 'Folder aanvragen' in het menu.

Folder downloaden
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> Download PDF informatiefolder New Masters on Tour

Wij wensen u veel plezier bij de concerten!

Congratulations!

November 2009

The International Holland Music Sessions congratulates Georgiy Tchaidze

21-year old Russian pianist Georgiy Tchaidze is the winner of the Honens International Pianocompetition 2009 in Galgory, Canada.
Tchaidze, who won 35000,- Canadian dollars, participated in August at the Summer Academy 2009 of TIHMS, giving several concerts and preparing repertoire for this competition in master classes with Prof. Boris Berman and Jan Marisse Huizing. After the Summer Sessions Georgiy Tchaidze was invited by TIHMS to participate in the international series of concerts 2010/2011, including at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw.

October 2009

TIHMS participants (2008), cello students of the Zagreb Academy of Music on the top at the "Brahms" international competition

For the 16th consecutive year Poertschach (Austria) was hosting the "Johannes Brahms" international competition for young musicians.

Among the cello participants two students of prof. Valter Despalj at the Zagreb Academy of Music shone: Marie Spaemann (21) from Germany and Bas Jongen (17) from The Netherlands. This year the competition attracted a record number of 49 cellists from a number of countries of Europe, America and Asia. A very demanding repertoire gave everyone chance to demonstrate their musicality, technical command of the instrument and sense of style. The jury, composed of internationally renown cello performers and teachers gave the highest points in all three rounds to Marie Spaemann, with Bas Jongen placed second. In the final round both of them presented exciting performances Tchaikovsky's "Variations on a Rococo Theme" accompanied by Corynthian Symphony Orchestra, drawing a huge applaus from the audiences which packed up the Congress Hall of Poertschach.

Besides the First Prize, Marie also won the a special prize: invitation from Dajeon Culture And Arts Center for a concert tour of South Korea. Bas Jongen, the Second Prize winner was awarded a special prize by Interclassica Concert Management.

May 2009

The Latvian pianist Vestard Shimkus is the winner of the 55th Maria Canals International Piano Competition that took place in March in Barcelona.
Shimkus, who also won the audience prize, defeated 89 competitors that were selected to participate in the first round (out of four rounds) after 120 pre-selection candidates.
This prize has brought him a CD recording at Naxos label, 2 years of recitals and concerto performances in New York, Paris, Rome and throughout Spain and a tour in China next year, as well as a 3-year-management contract with the agency Arcadia Musica. Information on his webpage vestardshimkus.arcadiamusica.com
Vestard Shimkus was a participant at the Summer Academy of The International Holland Music Sessions in 2007. He was invited by TIHMS for the series 'New Masters on Tour' in the season 2008/2009.
In February, just before the competition started, he gave for TIHMS very succesful international concerts including at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.

March 2009

Croatian cellist Luka Sulic was the winner of the first prize in Warszaw, Poland 2009 at the Witold Lutoslawski International Cello Competition.

Luka Sulic, participant in the Summer Academy, was invited by TIHMS for the series 'New Masters on Tour' in the season 2008/2009, in which he recently played in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam with pianist Jelger Blanken.

December 2008

Pianist Ching-Yun Hu, who joined TIHMS in 2005, won the silver medal & audience favorite prize (no first prize awarded) at the Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition in Tel Aviv, Israel.

November 2008

Violinist Saténik Khourdoian, who won the 4th Prize in the Long-Thibaud Competition (November 2008) and 3 special prizes, the public prize, the prize of the best interpretation of a Fauré piece and the best interpretation of the Contemporary piece written for the competition.
(Saténik Khourdoian performed for us in the Concertgebouw on February 2009 in the New Masters on Tour series.)

Hungarian celist ISTVÁN VARDAI, first prize + pubic prize at the
Geneva International Music Competition, 2008
(His accompanist during the competition was his compatriot Balázs Fülei who was awarded as the best accompanist during the Tchaikovsky competition, Moscow 2007).

Dutch pianist HANNES MINNAAR, second prize (1st nominated) + public prize (1st prize not attributed) at the Geneva International Music Competition, 2008

Dutch violinist CARLA LEURS, second prize at the 1st 'Nuri Iyicil' international violin competition, Istanbul , 2008

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