International masterclass for piano and chamber music13 to 18 August 2024
Lecturers:
Charles Richard-Hamelin, piano
Štěpán Ježek, violin
Prof Marek Jerie, violoncello
A warm welcome
The Mendelssohn Music Week Wengen (www.mendelssohn-wengen.ch) offers
in the magnificent landscape of the Bernese Oberland, at the foot of the Jungfrau, is once again a masterclass, which was founded thanks to a legacy from long-time holiday guest Ms Margarita Minder.
The course is aimed at students and young students. Instrumentalists with solo programmes as well as existing ensembles can take part.
During the masterclass, students can draw on the wealth of experience of the
of the three lecturers from the wealth of experience of the three teachers. The lessons are open for the public.
Course content
- Playing technique, interpretation of works, sense of style
- Consolidation and further development of existing experience
- Teaching basic techniques for rehearsing in an ensemble
- Encouragement to play chamber music
- Inspiration for new goals
The course begins on 13 August 2024 and ends on 18 August 2024 at 11.15 a.m. with a public final matinee of the participants, the Margarita Minder Concert.
Timetable
Arrival: Monday, 12 August 2024; Departure: Sunday, 18 August 2024.
Lessons: Tuesday - Friday from 10.00 to 13.00 and from 15.00 to 17.00, Saturday only in the morning.
Free admission for course participants to the opening concert of the festival with the Guarneri Trio Prague on 17 August 2024 at 5.30 pm.
Course fee
CHF 350.- individual registration, CHF 250.- ensemble lessons per person. Plus: CHF 750.- for 6 nights with half board for students in a shared room.
Practice rooms and pianos are available.
The lecturers:
The Canadian pianist Charles Richard-Hamelin, silver medallist and winner of the Krystian Zimerman Prize at the 2015 International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, stands out today as one of the most important musicians of his generation. In 2014, he was also awarded second prize at the Montreal International Musical Competition and third prize at the Seoul International Music Competition in South Korea. Charles is a recipient of the Order of Arts and Letters of Quebec and the prestigious Career Development Award from the Women's Musical Club of Toronto. Charkes Richard-Hamelin performs regularly in Canada, the USA, Europe and on the Asian continent - as a chamber musician and soloist under the direction of renowned conductors.
Štěpán Ježek teaches violin and chamber music at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and regularly gives masterclasses in Eelde (NL), Dartington UK, Sobeslav and La Pellegrina Budweis (CZ). He is a regular jury member in violin and chamber music competitions. In 1998 he co-founded the Bennewitz Quartet. With this ensemble he won several of the most important chamber music competitions (including the Osaka Chamber Music Competition and Festa 2005, Premio Paolo Borciani 2008). Since then, the quartet has toured Europe, America and Asia. He has recorded CDs with the Bennewitz Quartet for various labels (Supraphon, Haensler Classic, Coviello Classics) as well as radio and television programmes.
Prof Marek Jerie is one of the most distinguished cellists of his generation. As a soloist and member of the Guarneri Trio Prague, he has performed in the most important music centres in Europe, Australia, Japan, Canada, the USA, South America and China. With the Guarneri Trio Prague he realised the recording of the classical and romantic piano trio repertoire on CD for Praga Digitals. Valuable, lost concertos from the Czech cello literature of the 18th century have been performed, recorded and edited by him. Contemporary composers such as Lubos Fiser, Thüring Bräm, Michael Beyer and Milan Slavicky have dedicated their works to him. Marek Jerie taught cello and chamber music at the Lucerne School of Music for 34 years.
Silvia Ježková, accompanist
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