Early Music

Dear friends of the Summer Academy for early music,

We are very pleased to present you and you an exciting new edition of our "Alte Musik-Sommerakademie" in beautiful Neuburg an der Donau in August 2023 and cordially invite you to participate in the courses and to visit our concerts and events.
In 2021, the focus of our course work was already on the repertoire of 16. and 17. century. This was received so enthusiastically that we are now taking up the theme again with corresponding offers of instrumental and vocal courses, a lot of ensemble work and finally concerts, which will take place in the various places in Neuburg's historic city centre.

In particular, we will devote ourselves to the wonderful music of Biagio Marini (1594-1663). Trained in Italy, Marini worked at a young age as a violinist under Claudio Monteverdi at St. Mark's Basilica in Venice. From 1623 to 1645 he held a long and important position at the court of Wittelsbach Duke and Count Palatine Wolfgang Wilhelm in Neuburg an der Donau and his court in Düsseldorf. He has travelled extensively throughout Europe and is regarded as one of the first travelling virtuosos of his time and plays an important role in the development of early instrumental chamber music.
In addition to the master class for singing with Emma Kirkby, we were again able to attract outstanding, internationally renowned lecturers for the master classes:
Mayumi Hirasaki (violin), Friederike Heumann (viola da gamba), Kristin von der Goltz (cello), Catherine Motuz (trombone in old scale), Han Tol (recorder), Josué Meléndez (zinc) and Julian Behr (lute).

Gerhard Abe-Graf and Johannes Weiß will support us as accompanists on harpsichord and organ.
Johannes Weiß will also give us important insights into the practical aspects of performance and will also lead the large ensembles for the closing concert.
Josué Meléndez and Catherine Motuz will also introduce everyone interested to the art of improvisation.
On 7 August, the Neuburg public is invited to listen to the young ensembles at the final of the Biagio-Marini competition in the Congregation Hall and then to vote on the award of the audience prize.

Our wonderful team will present themselves with a musical pasticcio from early Baroque repertoire at the lecturers' concert on 8 August.
On August 11, an open-air concert will continue in the Schlosskapelle and on the Schlosshof, which are an opportunity for the Neuburg audience to listen to beautiful music in a relaxed atmosphere and to get in touch with the musicians.
On August 12, the participants will present the results of our intensive work in the academy in the festive closing concert in the Hofkirche.

In anticipation of an intensive week with diverse encounters in summer Neuburg greets you cordially

Your Xenia Löffler

Artistic Director Early Music

Artistic Director Early Music

Artistic Director Early Music

Artistic Director Early Music

Artistic Director Early Music

€412.00

Julian Behr - lute

Mon 8/7/23 - 8/12/23

First, Julian Behr studied classic guitar and lute with Prof. Dr Mario Sicca and Robert Marto at the Conservatory of Stuttgart. After postgraduate studies with Joachim Held at the Conservatory of Hamburg, Julian Behr studied early music and lute instruments with Hopkinson Smith at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel. From 2007 to 2011 he taught lute at the Conservatory of Nuremberg. Since 2020, he has been holding a professorship for lute at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis.
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.

€412.00

Friederike Heumann - viola da gamba, lirone

Mon 8/7/23 - 8/12/23

Friederike Heumann studied viola da gamba with Jordi Savall and Paolo Pandolfo at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (Suisse) and completed her studies with a soloist diploma for early music. Nowadays, she tours both as solo artist and with her ensemble “Stylus Phantasticus” all around the world. Her multiple award-winning CD recordings are regularly celebrated by international critics. Friederike Heumann teaches viola da gamba and consort at the Conservatory for Music and Theatre of Munich and at numerous international master courses. Since summer semester 2020 she has been professor for historical chamber music for strings and viola da gamba at the Conservatory for Music of Würzburg. She is a jury member at international competitions for early music.

€448.00

Emma Kirkby - Singing

Mon 8/7/23 - 8/12/23

Emma Kirkby’s singing career was unexpected. During her studies of classical philology in Oxford, she took every opportunity to sing, particularly polyphonic works of the renaissance. During a short period of her classical philology lectureship, she was lucky since she met pioneer groups of early music with expressive singing voices and historical lute, wind and string instruments. Nowadays, she can look back on decades of being a successful singer who, due to her unique voice and expressivity of her interpretations, fascinates the audience all around the world.

Johannes Weiss - Correpetition

Mon 8/7/23 - 8/12/23

Johannes Weiss is musician, singer and conductor, primarily dedicated to the music of the 17th and 18th centuries, he is member of the French ensemble »Akadêmia«, and he teaches ensemble and historical interpretation at the mdw Institute of Early Music in Vienna. Paralelly – together with his colleague Heidi Gröger – he developed several government-financed festivals like »Musikfest Eichstätt« and »Spandau macht Alte Musik«. During his college years, he won several chamber music competitions on both harpsichord/organ and viola da gamba, including the Biagio-Marini-Wettbewerb, the Van-Wassenaer-Concours, and others. As a singer has had solo roles at the opera houses in Frankfurt, Brussels, Prague, Paris, Danzig, and Monte Carlo.

€412.00

Catherine Motuz - Trombone

Mon 8/7/23 - 8/12/23

Catherine Motuz has pursued an active career as an interpreter, teacher and scholar. She is co-director of Ensemble Fedeli, and plays with ensembles from Japan to Vancouver, including the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, the English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble, and La Cetra. In recent years she has performed as a soloist at the Midsommer Barock Festival in Copenhagen as well as in Austria and Switzerland with countertenor Alex Potter. Catherine has taught at McGill University, Université de Montréal, and the Royal Conservatoire of the Hague and is currently a lecturer in historical trombone at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis.

€412.00

Mayumi Hirasaki - Violine

Mon 8/7/23 - 8/12/23

Mayumi Hirasaki studied violin in her hometown Tokyo and Nuremberg, baroque violin and harpsichord in Munich and Lucerne, and church music in Bamberg/Nuremberg. Her teachers included Daniel Gaede, Mary Utiger, Christine Schornsheim and Giuliano Carmignola.
She received her first teaching assignment in 2003, since then she has taught at the universities of Nuremberg, Essen and Frankfurt. Since 2017 she has been Professor of Baroque Violin and Viola at the Mozarteum University Salzburg.
Mayumi Hirasaki has won numerous competitions in Japan and Europe, including the International J. S. Bach Competition in Leipzig and the Competition for Early Music in Bruges, Belgium.
Since 2011 she has been concertmaster with Concerto Köln and Gaechinger Cantorey Stuttgart, and a regular guest with various baroque orchestras and ensembles such as Freiburg Barockorchester, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Dresden Festival Orchestra, Zurich Chamber Orchestra, Kammerorchester Basel, Neue Düsseldorfer Hofmusik, La Divina Armonia with concerts in Europe, USA and Japan.

€412.00

Han Tol - Block float

Mon 8/7/23 - 8/12/23

Since 1994 Han Tol has been professor at the College of the Arts in Bremen and he was appointed to a guest professorship at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel and at the Jacob’s School of Music (Indiana University, Bloomington USA). He has taught at various summer academies from Innsbruck (Austria) to Austin (USA) to Bela Horizonte (Brazil). He has also given master courses all around the world. Han Tol’s concert life is remarkably diverse. For 20 years he and his ensembles “La Dada” and “La Fontegara Amsterdam” have been explored, performed (first) and recorded an extensive repertoire. Furthermore, he is a member of the “ Balthasar Neumann Ensemble” dedicating to opera repertoires of the 17th century. From 1999 to 2007 he was a member of the “Flanders Recorder Quartet” with whom he went on numerous concert journeys all around the world.

€412.00

Kristin von der Goltz - Violoncello

Mon 8/7/23 - 8/12/23

Kristin von der Goltz studied with Christoph Henkel in Freiburg and with William Pleeth in London where she was a member of the “New Philharmonia London” under former Chief Conductor Guiseppe Sinopoli. From 1991 to 2004 she was a member of the baroque orchestra of Freiburg with whom she released numerous CDs and went on concert journeys worldwide.
In 2006 she became a member of the baroque soloists of Berlin, an ensemble of the “Berliner Philharmoniker”. From 2009 to 2011 she was solo cellist at the chamber orchestra of Munich. Kristin von der Goltz is a regular guest as artistic director at the Norwegian orchestra “Barokkanerne Norwegian Barocke”.

Gerhard Abe-Graf - Correpetition

Mon 8/7/23 - 8/12/23

Apart from early piano lessons, Gerhard Abe-Graf received his musical basic education by attending the music high school of the “Regensburger Domspatzen”. He was a master student from Christiane Jaccottet at the Conservatory of Geneva. After his successfully completed concert exam of harpsichord, he expanded his knowledge of basso continuo with postgraduate studies with J.B. Christensen at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis.

€412.00

Josué Meléndez - Zinc

Mon 8/7/23 - 8/12/23

Josué Meléndez, (Zinc) began his musical studies in Costa Rica at the Conservatorio Castella. From 1991-1996 he studied at the Escuela Nacional de Música, University of Mexico and founded the first festival of early music in Mexico; Festival Santo Domingo de Música Antigua, where he conducted L’Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi and many other projects. In 1997, Josué moved to The Hague where he received two diplomas in recorders from the Koninklijk Conservatorium, including one with distinction for new music. From 2002 to 2006 he studied zinc at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with Bruce Dickey. Since then he has been working as a Zinkenist and recorder player worldwide in concerts and CD recordings with leading early music ensembles.

Early Music

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