Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Utah Music Festival


Dear Mannes School of Music Department Chair, Faculty, and Staff,

I would like to briefly update you as to a new and exciting opportunity to
base the Utah Music Festival & School at the beautiful Canyon Four-Season
Resort (#10 in the nation) in Park City! This will first provide a
world-class resort level of lodging and amenities for faculty, students,
and their families. It will also allow the festival to work with a
marketing partner with national outreach to promote the educational and
concert programs year-round. Even more importantly, this partnership will
no doubt lead to increased funding, sponsorship, and organizational growth
for the future.

A large part of providing a quality program this summer will not only be
the usual high standards of faculty both in performing and teaching, but an
active student program. This new direction has encouraged us to offer a
more generous scholarship plan for prospective students. Hopefully the
following information will make it easier for you to recruit additional
faculty and students.

Here are the links for the student application and faculty sign-in. This
does not commit you to attending this summer; it is simply a way to gather
publicity information about potentially interested faculty.

http://www.utahmusic.org/#!faculty-application/cr53
http://www.utahmusic.org/#!student-application/c1ejv

Also, should you have a chance to share specifics about tuition, here is a
sample discount listing for multiple weeks:
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*PLEASE DEDUCT $125 FROM THE TUITION FIGURES IF YOUR STUDENTS ARE UTAH

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Violists for Zodiac Music Academy & Festival


Violists Needed – Scholarship Positions – South of France

July 2 – 15, 2013 (Valdeblore, Cote D’Azur, France)

The Zodiac Music Academy & Festival – an advance performing academy and festival in the South of France – is actively looking to fill its viola studio headed by Pittsburgh Symphony’s violist Marylene Gingras Roy.

EVERY SUCCESSFUL APPLICANT RECEIVES A SCHOLARSHIP AWARD.

Students receive 4 private lessons from Marylene Gingras Roy, chamber music coachings and perform in venues on the French Riviera. Session is from July 2 – 15. 

Advance students collaborate with faculty in chamber music setting in critically reviewed performances.

Additionally, the Festival offers numerous clinics and seminars, masterclasses, sight-reading events and excursion to points of interest on the French Riviera.  

Mediterranean Opera Studio


Mediterranean Opera Studio


An intensive 20 day workshop from July 29th to August 18th - for the development and perfecting of operatic vocal technique, and its impact on the legato musical line; with a parallel immersion into Italian language and culture. 

Mediterranean Opera Studio in Mondello, Sicily is the place to be to immerse yourself in the type of culture and experience from which Italian Opera emerged - an old and beautiful culture, and an inspiring landscape. Come into contact with some of Opera's leading singers and instructors, gleaning experience, knowledge and friendships, all necessary in promoting a strong operatic career. Developing and perfecting your vocal technique is the absolute goal of Mediterranean Opera Studio; the carefully threaded fabric of the three week event is woven around this principle goal. Voice lessons with leading international vocal technicians; masterclasses with the very elite of the global operatic scene; musical preparation at the hands of the finest American and European maestri; performance opportunities with orchestra and piano - all these guided by the one overarching goal of giving you strong tools to shape your future as an operatic performer.

Guest Artists - Master Classes:

Sicily's own Marcello Giordani, internationally-acclaimed tenor
Tenor Salvatore Fisichella - Renown Bellini specialist
Italy's celebrity tenor, Pietro Ballo

Faculty Includes:

General Director and Master Voice Instructor: 
Gioacchino (Jack) Li Vigni

Musical Director:
Felice Venanzoni, Conductor and Studienleiter, Oper Frankfurt

Assistant Musical Director:
Daniela Candillari, Conductor, pianist and composer

Sicilia, a major centre of antiquity, its culture spanning millennia, is also the land where great operatic luminaries found inspiration. Among them the great operatic composer Vincenzo Bellini. The mountains of Palermo, merging with its pristine coastline have inspired many artists who as artistic pilgrims came to this land for inspiration; among them Richard Wagner and Goethe. The sunshine of Sicily shines forth in the voices of many of its great opera singer children like Giuseppe Di Stefano, Mario Lanza, Marcello Giordani, Roberto Alagna, Salvatore Licitra, Salvatore Fisichella, Pietro Ballo, Lucia Aliberti, Desiree Rancatore, Simone Alaimo, and many others, including director of Mediterranean Opera Studio - Metropolitan Opera tenor, Maestro Gioacchino Lauro Li Vigni and his father Salvatore. 

At your request, MOS will collaborate with your academic institution in ensuring your receipt of college credit for your participation.

Thursday, May 2, 2013

International Voice Competition: Marmande, France

25th International Voice Competition (opera, operetta, and melodie francaise categories) in Marmande, France from August 28-31 2013.  20,000 Euros available in competition prizes/  For more information including application instructions, please visit http://www.fesilyrique.fr.

Chamber Music Masterclasses in Prades, France: International Academy of Music August 1-14 2013

L'Academie Internationale de Musique de Prades os a chamber music festival open to high-level individual instrumentalists and pre-formed chamber music ensembles from all countries.  It takes place in Prades from August 1-14 2013 during the Pablo Casals festival.

for more information and application instructions, please visit www.prades-festival-casals.com

Eckhardt - Grammate voice competition for Canadian vocalists, May 2014

Canadian and Contemporary Music Competition for vocalists (Canadian citizens or permanent residents) aged 18-35.

1st Prize: $10,000 & Canadian tour (ca. $5,000 concert fees)
 2nd Prize:  $5,000
3rd Prize:  $3,000
Best Performance of Commissioned Work:  $1,000
Application Deadline November 15th, 3013

7th Annual Yokohama International Music Competition

Announcing the 7th Annual Yokohama International Music Competition for stings, winds, vocalists, pianists, and chamber musicians.

The competition and the Winners Recital will take place in Sapporo, Japan.

Age categories for participants range from age 6 +

Application deadline is July 11th 2013, for application information please visit http://ymic.net

Amherst Early Music Festival, Summer 2013


The Amherst festival takes place during two weeks in July, on the campus of Connecticut College, in New London, Connecticut.  It brings together a large community of instrumentalists, musicologists, dancers, and amateurs of all levels.  It is a wonderful supportive atmosphere, in which a core of advanced students may do intensive work, in which amateurs expose themselves to new challenges, and in which people seeking to foray into a field related to their primary one (dancing for musicians, viol for cellists) receive expert advice and support.  There are also many concerts offering the opportunity to hear excellent early vocal and instrumental music as well as dancing.

This year courses are being offered which specifically take into account the interests of keyboardists hoping to get an overview of harpsichord and clavichord repertoire, and/or players with a strong collaborative inclination who wish to address the many questions the face in their work or studies (be they pianists, organists, or harpsichordists).

There is a strong wish to open young minds to early keyboard playing this year : a Youth Harpsichord Class will be offered, exposing young people to historical keyboard playing as a complimentary facet to their regular work with a teacher, be it mainly piano, harpsichord, or organ.

The faculty, John Bailey, Frances Fitch, Peter Sykes, Arthur Haas, and myself, will work closely to address the individual needs of each participant... so if you're wondering whether this program could be for you or for your student, the answer is, we will make it right for those who chose to come!

For more information, please visit: www.amherstearlymusic.org

Academies Internationales d'ete du Grand Nancy: Summer Music Masterclasses in France

European Music Masterclasses will be offered in France this summer 2013 in 2 sessions.  1st session: July 15-25, 2nd Session: July 27-August 6.  Instrumental masterclasses will be led by the greatest teachers of the CNSM de Paris and Lyon.  The festival includes chamber music workshops, lieder workshops, sight-reading and collaborative piano workshops, improvisation workshops, and vocal jazz coachings.  For more information visit www.academiesdugrandnancy.com

Ticino Musica Masterclasses in Lugano, Switzerland July 14th - 27th 2013

Ticino Musica offers masterclasses, chamber music, and private lessons for participants in the 2013 festival in Lugano, Switzerland.  Festival takes place at the Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana in Lugano from July 14 - 27, 2013.  For more information, visit www.ticinomusica.com.