Dear friends of the Neuburger Sommerakademie, dear old music enthusiasts!
We are very pleased to present a new edition of our Early Music Courses in the beautiful Neuburg in August 2024 and would like to invite you to participate in the courses and to visit our concerts and events.
In 2023, we focused our course work on the repertoire of the 16th and 17th century. In 2024 we will return to the baroque repertoire of the 18th century with a a variety of instrumental and vocal courses, a lot of ensemble work and finally concerts, which are to take place at the various venues in Neuburg's historic city centre. This summer academy we will devote special attention to the music of the Bach family and its many musically creative and productive members. A special focus is to be placed on the music of Johann Sebastian Bach.
Again this year we were able to recruit outstanding, internationally renowned lecturers for the master classes: Emma Kirkby (vocals), Bernhard Forck (violin), Friederike Heumann (viola da gamba), Kristin von der Goltz (violincello), Xenia Löffler (baroque oboe), Han Tol (recorder), Györgyi Farkas (bassoon) and Julian Behr (lute). Gerhard Abe-Graf and Mimoe Todo will support us as accompanists on harpsichord and organ.
Our wonderful team will present themselves with a varied baroque program at the lecturers' concert on August 6 in the Congregation Hall.
On August 7th the Neuburg public is invited to listen to the young ensemble at the final of the international Biagio-Marini Competition in the Congregation Hall and then to vote on the award of the Audience Prize. The competition, which is for young ensembles, is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, which we want to celebrate together with musicians, audience and jury.
On August 9th we will continue our “Jour fixe” concerts in the castle chapel and in the castle courtyard, which are an opportunity for the Neuburg public to listen to the most beautiful music in a relaxed atmosphere and to get in touch with the musicians.
On August 10th, the participants will present the results of our intensive work at the academy at the closing concert in the Hofkirche.
In anticipation of an intensive week with varied encounters in summery Neuburg we cordially greet you.
Your Xenia Löffler
Artistic Director of Early Music
General information about the courses:
The courses are aimed at professional musicians, music students, music school teachers, school musicians as well as advanced music students who want to gain experience in historically informed performance practice.
In the mornings individual lessons take place in the respective classes, while in the afternoons chamber music works in different ensembles are rehearsed with the lecturers.
Notes on chamber music:
The pitch for the ensemble works will be 415 Hz.
Instruments in different pitches can also be brought along for individual lessons.
Artistic Director Early Music
Artistic Director Early Music
Artistic Director Early Music
Artistic Director Early Mus
Both as solo artist and as continuo player he performs on festivals in most European countries and in South America, inter alia, with “Capricornus Consort Basel”, “Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin”, “Al Ayre Espagnol”, “Passions de L’Ame”, “B’Rock” and with altos Franz Vitzthum and Andreas Scholl, sopranos Maria Cristina Kiehr and Hana Blazikova and tenor David Munderloh.
Since 2001 she has been a member and solo oboist of the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and performs as a soloist and chamber musician with other ensembles and orchestras under renowned conductors all over the world. Trained at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, she is particularly interested in researching and publishing unknown oboe repertoire. In the meantime numerous solo CDs are available on labels such as Harmonia Mundi France, Accent and Supraphon. Some of these recordings have received major awards (Diapason d’or) or nominations, including the BBC Music Awards and the Gramophone Award.
