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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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11 Aug
€500.00
No free place
Mon 8/11/25 - 8/16/25
86633-neuburg-an-der-donau-franziskanerstrasse-b-200-volkshochschule-neuburg-an-der-donau-e-v
Early Music
The course is aimed at aspiring cornettists. We will tackle technical issues in various repertoires, including embouchure, articulation, diminution and solmisation, which are necessary for reading vocal repertoire correctly. Between the southern and northern Alps there have been waves of musical influences in both directions, marking the golden centuries of the cornett and documenting a wide and varied repertoire for this instrument. In combination with trombone lessons we will play works from around 1600, but other repertoire is also welcome. In group sessions we will learn how to use diminution books to improve our playing, exploring in particular the books of G. B. Boviceli, Riccardo Rognono and Francesco Rognoni. If there is interest we will also look at improvisation and diminution.
11 Aug
€500.00
4 free spaces
Mon 8/11/25 - 8/16/25
Descartes-Gymnasium Neuburg
Classical
After his studies of school music and piano, Herbert Wiedemann taught piano at the University of Oldenburg. In 1983 he obtained his doctorate in music pedagogy. Five years later, he was granted the professorship for piano- with a focus on improvisation- at the University of Arts in Berlin.
11 Aug
€500.00
6 free spaces
Mon 8/11/25 - 8/16/25
Volkshochschule Neuburg
Early Music
Bernhard Forck has been dedicated to the violin since he was five years old. After studying at the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin with Professor Eberhard Feltz, he was engaged in the Berlin Symphony Orchestra in 1986, both accompanied by a strong interest in early music, which led him, among other things, led to Nikolaus Harnoncourt at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. His membership in the Academy for Early Music Berlin (Akamus), founded in 1982, where he is one of the concertmasters, is the consequence of his intensive engagement with historical performance practice.
11 Aug
Katrin Schoess- Landscape and Architecture - Drawing and Painting in the Open Air

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

€330.00
6 free spaces
Mon 8/11/25 - 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.
11 Aug
Mon 8/11/25 - 8/16/25
Volkshochschule Neuburg
Early Music
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.
11 Aug
Mon 8/11/25 - 8/16/25
86633-neuburg-an-der-donau-franziskanerstrasse-b-200-volkshochschule-neuburg-an-der-donau-e-v
Early Music
After teaching alongside Emma Kirkby in Neuburg for the first time in 2023, I am particularly looking forward to being back in 2024. This time with a class that has "doubled" in size. All participants will have the opportunity to receive individual lessons from both Emma and myself. In addition, "team teaching units" with Emma and myself are planned, which proved to be extremely successful last year.
11 Aug
Meike Dölp - Collage - Object and material

Meike Dölp - Collage - Object and material

€330.00
5 free spaces
Mon 8/11/25 - 8/16/25
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.
11 Aug
Miriam Wahl - Painting

Miriam Wahl - Painting

€330.00
2 free spaces
Mon 8/11/25 - 8/16/25
Obere Altstadt Neuburg
Fine Arts
Painting is as complex as life and the people who, for mysterious reasons, keep reaching for paint and brushes. What am I looking for with and in painting? This workshop offers space and time to continue on your own artistic path and to work on old and new motifs, methods, questions and insights with support. The focus is on individual painting projects, which are further developed and supported in individual and group discussions. There will be no recipes or set techniques, but instead numerous exercises and suggestions to immerse yourself in the diverse world of painting and to train your gaze, sensitivity, sense of color and space in a playful, exploratory way and to get ideas for your own work. For example, we will become aware of the possibilities of artistic principles such as series, individual works or groups of works or various approaches to image creation, experiment with painting surfaces, collections of materials and the inexhaustible fund of our own view of the world. Trust in what we do, mutual inspiration and the joy of the painting means themselves are at the heart of this workshop.

All those who want to embark on an intensive painting process and are open to playfulness and the unexpected along the way are welcome.
11 Aug
Stefanie Pojar - Printing - Experimental printing graphics

Stefanie Pojar - Printing - Experimental printing graphics

€330.00
Not bookable
Mon 8/11/25 - 8/16/25
Obere Altstadt Neuburg
Fine Arts
The main aim of the course is the experimental and playful handling of print graphics. Cold needle, material, stencil and plant printing, wood and linoleum cutting, as well as monotyping and frottage are possible. Experimenting with different materials and techniques, even combinations, is desirable. The use of various, “unusual” tools, such as cutters, drills, cutting tools or even chainsaws and Dremels is also conceivable. Unusual substrates, i. e. not only paper, but also textiles and plastics can be brought along and used. The tools and materials should be brought with you or certain errands should be agreed with the group.

11 Aug
€500.00
No free place
Mon 8/11/25 - 8/16/25
Volkshochschule Neuburg
Early Music
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.