Courses

Dear friends of the Neuburg Summer Academy,

we are currently planning the 47th Neuburg Summer Academy. You can register for our courses from December 18th 2024 at 5:00 p.m.

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03 Aug

Yu Chuan: Bridging Strings – Chamber Music without Boundaries

€500.00

4 free spaces

Sun 8/3/25 - 8/9/25

Volkshochschule Neuburg

Classical

The course is aimed at string and wind instruments, as well as percussion, who play together in an ensemble formed by the course leader and participants in various configurations to work on and perform works, including folk music.

The course leader Yu Chuan is a master of the erhu, a traditional Chinese two-stringed string instrument that is not only used to perform traditional Chinese music, but is now also used to play transcriptions of works by Bach, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Saint-Saens, and other composers.

His compositions and transcriptions of well-known works in various configurations, which are now part of the standard repertoire in Asian concert halls, attract particular attention.

In addition to his concert appearances as a soloist and chamber musician in Asia and the West, Yu Chuan teaches erhu, conducting, and composition at the University of Beijing and is the musical director of the Beijing Wujie Chamber Orchestra.
The premiere of his children's musical “If instruments could speak” took place in 2023.

03 Aug

Guido May - drums (jazz-pop)

€500.00

1 free place

Sun 8/3/25 - 8/8/25

Volkshochschule Neuburg

Jazz / Pop

Guido May is one of the most popular drummers in Europe. Since 1996 he has been an established band member from Funk icon and James Brown’s saxophonist Pee Wee Ellis. Due to his funky beats, Guido May has already worked for Fred Wesley, Maceo Parker and Carleen Anderson. Performances with Jazz greats like Benny Golson, Chico Freeman, Paul Kuhn and Diana Krall reflect his deep connection with the tradition of Jazz.

03 Aug

Irma Issakadze - piano

€500.00

No free place

Sun 8/3/25 - 8/9/25

Kongregationssaal Neuburg

Classical

The internationally renowned pianist Irma Issakadze was born in Tbilisi, Georgia, and comes from one of the most important musical families of the former Soviet Union. In Germany she studied with Ludwig Hoffmann and Vladimir Krainev and began her professional career at the age of 14. The outstanding artistic personality of the pianist has always caused great attention on international stages.

03 Aug

Katrin Schoess- Landscape and Architecture - Drawing and Painting in the Open Air

€330.00

1 free place

Sun 8/3/25 - 8/8/25

Obere Altstadt Neuburg

Fine Arts

Landscape and architecture - drawing and painting in the open air
Motifs in nature and/or in an urban context (urban sketching) are our starting point: we put our impressions on site on paper or on canvas. Each participant finds a personal approach to artistically dealing with the place and the time spent there. The focus should be on the process, the experiment and the experience, not the result.
Topics such as horizon, perspective, plot, composition, structures, light and shadow, Lo sfumato, La sprezzatura etc. are discussed and, if necessary, expanded upon.
Depending on the weather and location, different materials can be used and combined in unusual ways.

03 Aug

Martin Kursawe - guitar (jazz-pop)

€500.00

3 free spaces

Sun 8/3/25 - 8/8/25

Volkshochschule Neuburg

Jazz / Pop

Due to his wide-ranging musical direction, Martin Kursawe has worked as a guitarist in live and studio productions of diverse genres e.g. accompanying Claudia Koreck, Al di Meola, Till Brönner, Cory Henry (Snarky Puppy), Nik Kershaw, Helene Fischer, Midge Ure (Ultravox), Chris Thompson (Manfred Mann), Bobby Kimball (Toto), Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull), David Garett and Klaus Doldinger. Further recordings can be heard in cinema and TV productions like “Fünf Freunde”, “Elementarteilchen”, “Die wilden Kerle”, “SOKO Kitzbühel”, “Alarm für Cobra 11” or “Dahoam is Dahoam”.

03 Aug

Wolfgang Mayer - "the art of the duo"

€500.00

Bookable

Sun 8/3/25 - 8/8/25

Volkshochschule Neuburg

Jazz / Pop

Wolfgang Mayer is a professor for practical school piano playing and the former vice chancellor of the University of Music Saar. He studied school music and piano at the University of Music in Karlsruhe. Besides, he studied Jazz in Boston and New York. He performs at many concerts and records numerous CDs with his trio and quartet “Wolf Mayer Dialects”. Furthermore, he works as a pianist, composer and arranger.
The art of creating songs of all kinds, pop songs, Jazz standards etc. when singing is combined with piano.

03 Aug

Heiko Stralendorff - correpetiton

Sun 8/3/25 - 8/9/25

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Classical

Until his Abitur, his father, the pianist Rudolf Stralendorff, was his piano teacher. During his studies, Heiko Stralendorff was taught by Vitalij Margulis in Freiburg and Klaus Schilde in Munich. After his master class diplomas in piano and piano chamber music, he attended a five year private study with Marina Horak which expanded his education to get additional holistic aspects. He took part in courses with Frédéric Gevers (Antwerp) and jazz piano with Wolfgang Mayer (Saarbrucken).

03 Aug

Meike Dölp - Collage - Object and material

€330.00

2 free spaces

Sun 8/3/25 - 8/8/25

Obere Altstadt

Fine Arts

Everything can be art, BUT art cannot be everything. We need challenges of the real life in order to meet them artistically. Everything can be art: shopping lists, crosswords, old child’s drawings, city maps, fake eye lashes, construction plans… simply everything! It only depends on how we include the things into the artistical process and which issue we want to deal with. In this course, we use all things collected in our households and which are of no use any longer but are not to simply thrown away. This “stuff” can be reason, motive or material for pictorial working as it is analysed, changed, arranged or associated becoming meaningful. In this course, pictorial working is not limited to one technique or medium but crosses such borders so that every participant is accompanied to achieve his or her best possible realisation of his or her pictorial idea. We approach objects differently and create new connections at the same time. This course is suitable for beginners and advanced students.

03 Aug

Florian Riedl – Saxophon

€500.00

No free place

Sun 8/3/25 - 8/8/25

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Jazz / Pop

Florian Riedl, a saxophonist and composer based in Munich, is known for his versatile and successful career in the field of music. With a portfolio covering a wide range of styles, he has released records with his own projects (Hi-Fly Orchestra, Sonic Drei, Liquid Loop) nationally and internationally, as well as working with numerous bands of different genres. He is a permanent member of the band Dreiviertelblut, which tours successfully in German-speaking countries. A live album has been released as a cooperation with the Munich Symphony Orchestra. Florian's talent on a wide range of instruments, including saxophone, bass clarinet, clarinet and flute, underlines his versatility both as a soloist and as a sought-after sideman.
As a composer, Florian Riedl has worked on numerous cinema, film and television productions and has created numerous audio logos and show openers for national and international television stations.

03 Aug

Tomoko Nishikawa - correpetition

Sun 8/3/25 - 8/9/25

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Classical

Tomoko Nishikawa was born in Tokyo and since 1983 she has been living in Germany. She completed her piano studies with Prof. Ludwig Hoffmann and Prof. Margarita Höhenrieder at the University for Music in Munich where she received a master class diploma with chamber music as second mayor. She attended master courses with Rudolf Buchbinder, Arne Torger and Bengt Forsberg. She won several awards of solo and chamber music competitions, inter alia, first prize and special award at the international chamber music competition “Citta di Finale Ligure” in Italy.

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