MASTER CLASSES
Solo program for:
Violin
Cello
Piano
Internationally renowned musicians and pedagogues will give individual lessons and public master classes (free choice of repertoire).
Each solo class will consist of a maximum of 15 active participants.
Participants may use studios and pianos free of charge.
FACULTY SCHEDULE 2008
Week 1: Sunday July 27 - Saturday August 2
Week 2: Sunday August 3 - Saturday August 9
Week 3: Sunday August 10 - Saturday August 16
Violin:
Week 1 György Pauk and Serguei Azizian
Week 2 Pierre Amoyal and Isaac Schuldman
Week 3 Krysztof Wegrzyn
Cello:
Week 1 Lluis Claret
Week 2 Dmitri Ferschtman
Week 3 Johannes Goritzki
Piano:
Week 1 Matti Raekallio and Jan Marisse Huizing
Week 2 Willem Brons and Geoffrey Madge
Week 3 Boris Berman
ACCOMPANISTS for violin and cello
Mirsa Adami, Jelger Blanken, Gerard Boeters, Inga Dzekster, Yuki Negishi, Sander Sittig and Noriko Yabe.
LESSON/CLASS SCHEDULE
• Individual lessons and public master classes
Monday - Saturday, 10.00-13.00, 14.00-17.00
NEW LOCATIONS SUMMER ACADEMY 2008
The International Holland Music Sessions (founded in 1988) has concentrated all the venues for the lessons, master classes and concerts right in the centre of the beautiful historic village of Bergen NH, situated only a short distance from the North Sea beaches.
Lessons and master classes will be given at the Berger Scholengemeenschap, a comfortable and modern High School on the edge of the woods of Bergen NH. This will also be the location were lunches will be provided for all participants.
Dinner will be provided in the Parkhotel in Bergen NH.
Parkhotel Bergen NH. Click image for website.
Concerts will take place at the Ruïnekerk, but also at the Museum Kranenburgh, while public master classes will now be given at the Kunstenaarscentrum Bergen (Art Center Bergen).
Beside these venues, which are all within walking distance of each other, there will also be concerts at the 16th century old Remonstrantse Kerk in the centre of Alkmaar, one of the oldest historic cities in the Netherlands.
As the organisation provides all participants with bed and breakfast at the host family without extra charge, the Summer Academy 2008 offers therefore a complete package of lessons, master classes, housing and meals included in the total fee.
Host families are friends of THIMS who voluntarily offer their hospitality to the participants. Lunch and dinner is provided from Monday till Saturday and on Sunday it can be used with the host family.
BERGEN NH AND ALKMAAR
The Summer Academy takes place in Bergen NH and Alkmaar, in the region Noord-Holland in the Netherlands.
• Ruïnekerk Bergen NH
• Kunstenaarscentrum Bergen NH
• Berger Scholengemeenschap
• Museum Kranenburgh Bergen NH
• Remonstrantse Kerk Alkmaar (nearby city)
(For details, please click on the map)
CONCERTS DURING THE SUMMER ACADEMY
Each active participant during the Summer Academy will perform at one of the following locations:
Alkmaar: Remonstrantse Kerk
Bergen NH: Ruïnekerk
Bergen NH: Museum Kranenburgh
Full recital programs will be shared with a maximum of two performers; concert performances are a factor in the selection procedure for the upcoming International Concert Season (New Masters on Tour).
Concerts take place almost every day and evening between July 27 and August 16, 2008.
AUDITION AND APPLICATION
Active participation at the Summer Academy:
Applicants for active participation must be between 16 and 27 years of age in the period July 27 - August 17, 2008.
Active participation is available for those musicians who are selected in one of the following three categories:
- Those who receive a personal invitation from The International Holland Music Sessions artistic staff.
- Those who audition by submitting a recent unedited video tape or DVD of a live performance (between 30 and 40 minutes), either a studio recording or a concert recording.
Applicants who are accepted in the program have the opportunity to participate for the full period of three weeks.
Applicants for active participation must enclose with their application a full 40-minute recital program for public performance during the Summer Academy. This recital program must consist of (at least) two different musical styles. Concertos and concerto movements are not accepted. This repertoire may not be changed after submission. However, the recital program may differ from the audition program.
Participants are encouraged to include in their program a solo piece (for piano, cello or violin) from a native composer, not longer than 8 minutes, and composed after 1970.
Deadline for sending the application form is April 1, 2008.
For those who plan a video audition, video tapes or DVD's must be received by TIHMS by April 1, 2008
Important: More detailed information about application, fees, audition requirements, deadlines etc. can be found on the page <Application and Fees> in this Summer Academy Section of the website.
