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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
€610.00
1 free place
Sun 8/3/25 - 8/16/25
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
€500.00
Bookable only with request
Sun 8/3/25 - 8/9/25
Volkshochschule Neuburg
Classical

Whether on the concert stage or as a teacher, working with modern and baroque instruments is equally important to cellist Kristin von der Goltz.

She is in international demand as a solo cellist, chamber musician and artistic director of numerous concert and ensemble projects, but also as a teacher and lecturer. Her musical partners have included Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Marc Minkovski, Kristian Bezuidenhout, Isabelle Faust, Gerold Huber, Dorothee Oberlinger and Hille Perl.
03 Aug
€500.00
Bookable only with request
Sun 8/3/25 - 8/8/25
Volkshochschule Neuburg
Jazz / Pop
The pianist and composer Andreas Feith (*1987) is currently one of the most sought-after jazz musicians of his generation in Germany.
After studying jazz piano at the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg, he completed a Master of Music at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln, which he graduated with distinction in 2014. Since then he has realized his musical visions in various artistic projects, in his own quartet (finalist at the New German Jazz Prize 2020), in a duo with his longtime companion Markus Harm or in further collaborations with Lutz Häfner, Doug Weiss, Adrian Mears u. Above all, he is a sought-after sideman, among others in the award-winning Rebecca Trescher Tentett.
03 Aug
€500.00
Bookable only with request
Sun 8/3/25 - 8/9/25
Volkshochschule Neuburg
Classical
Baritone Valentin Lanzrein is an active artist, a passionate singing teacher and a distinguished scientist. His broad repertoire includes nine languages and all classical styles from the Renaissance to the 21st century. With almost 20 years of experience as a vocal pedagogue, his areas of expertise include diction, song interpretation, vocal pedagogy, vocal literature and opera direction in addition to singing lessons. He is a published author of Oxford University Press, and his book The Singer's Guide to German Diction, published by Oxford University Press, has been hailed as "the most important work on diction in the last twenty years".

03 Aug
Andreas Kotulla - Drawing - Experiments and Explorations

Andreas Kotulla - Drawing - Experiments and Exploration (Woche 1)

€330.00
No free place
Sun 8/3/25 - 8/8/25
Obere Altstadt
Fine Arts
For my artistic approach, it is essential to transfer aesthetic concepts and experiences from one medium to another. For drawing and for the course, this means, among other things, starting from the question: How does the space get into the surface ¬– and the drawing into the space?
I would like to encourage and support the participants to develop a personal approach to this issue and their own forms of expression, using as wide a range of techniques and materials as possible, from classic drawing techniques to more unconventional means.
Individual and group discussions about the experiences gained in drawing experiments should also be accompanied by occasional excursions into art history and visits to exhibitions on the subject.
03 Aug
€500.00
No free place
Sun 8/3/25 - 8/8/25
Volkshochschule Neuburg
Jazz / Pop
There is hardly any other German bassist like Sven Faller who has accompanied such a stylistically wide field of artists like Larry Coryell, Pippo Pollina, Philip Catherine, Charlie Mariano, Konstantin Wecker, Georg Ringsgwandl or Arlo Guthrie. Sven Faller started his studies at the “Bruckner Conservatory” in Linz and in 1997 he completed his studies at the “Mannes College of Music” in New York.
03 Aug
€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.
11 Aug
€500.00
8 free spaces
Mon 8/11/25 - 8/16/25
Volkshochschule Neuburg
Early Music
An informed approach to the topic of historical bass instruments is by nature a broad and varied undertaking. From the numerous possible tunings of the 8‘ Violone and 16‘ Violone/Contrabass, to the many historical bows, these are all variants of the wider historical bass instrumentarium which will provide guidance material during the course of the Summer Academy.

Each student arrives with their own history, profile and preferences and my initial aim is to accommodate the wishes of each individual. At the same time I encourage a broader experience of the „unfamiliar“ - instruments of different tunings, varying historical bows, etc. - in order to approach the historical context of bass instrument players of the Baroque era, where „adaptability“ was the order of the day.

In addition to the opportunity to participate in a class Bass Consort, an informed and practical approach to the Basso Continuo role of the Violone and Contrabass in Baroque music will of course provide an essential element to the class programme.
11 Aug
€500.00
2 free spaces
Mon 8/11/25 - 8/16/25
Volkshochschule Neuburg
Early Music
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.
11 Aug
Anna-Maria Kursawe - Painting - On the Relationship between Objectivity and Abstraction

Anna-Maria Kursawe - Painting - On the Relationship between Objectivity and Abstraction

€330.00
Not bookable
Mon 8/11/25 - 8/16/25
Fine Arts
The focus of the course is the clarification and further development of own pictorial concepts in the field of tension between representativeness and abstraction. The basis is perception, natural vision (in contrast to the camera's gaze), direct contact with things, precise observation, one's own fresh gaze rubbing against reality, because the training of the gaze is also necessary for abstract work. As a result of spatial-object representations, abstract compositions can be created that structure the image surface with their own pictorial rhythm. The course offers individual support on the way to the further development of one's own visual language. It is aimed at people with several years of painting practice.