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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11 Aug

Emma Kirkby - Voice

€460.00

Bookable

Mon 8/11/25 - 8/16/25

Volkshochschule Neuburg

Early Music

After our wonderful "Bach Week" in 2024, we are already looking forward to the Summer Academy in 2025. This time, the focus will be on Renaissance music. There will again be lutes/theorbos, keyboard instruments, wind instruments and strings, for the wealth of arias, duets and ensembles, secular and sacred, that so many composers of this era have left us. We especially welcome singers who are willing to get involved with new pieces and have the courage to try new ways of performing. Of course, works from the Baroque period can also be worked on.

11 Aug

Andreas Kotulla - Drawing - Experiments and Explorations

Andreas Kotulla - Drawing - Experiments and Exploration (Woche 2)

€300.00

No free place

Mon 8/11/25 - 8/16/25

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.

11 Aug

Catherine Motuz - Trombone

€460.00

5 free spaces

Mon 8/11/25 - 8/16/25

Volkshochschule Neuburg

Early Music

Catherine Motuz has an active career as a performer, teacher and scholar. She is co-director of the Ensemble Fedeli and has played with ensembles such as the Freiburg and Amsterdam Baroque Orchestras, Concerto Palatino, Les Cornets Noirs, Les Traversées Baroques, and others. Catherine has taught at McGill University, the Université de Montréal, and the Royal Conservatoire of the Hague, and is currently a lecturer in historical trombone at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis.

Catherine Motuz is from Ottawa, Canada, and studied historical trombone with Charles Toet at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis from 2004 to 2011. As a researcher, her main interests are historical improvisation pedagogy and ideas about musical expression and aesthetics in the 16th century.

11 Aug

James Munro - Historical Bass

€460.00

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

Julian Behr - lute

€460.00

5 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

€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.

11 Aug

Josué Mendez - Zink

€460.00

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

Herbert Wiedemann - piano improvisation for beginners

€460.00

5 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

Bernhard Forck - violine

€460.00

7 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

€300.00

7 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.

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Neuburg an der Donau