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"Das Universalinstrument Stimme - 20 Jahre Academia Vocalis (Studienverlag).
Date of publication: July 2008
Further informationen is available at: office.creative@kundl.at
 

THE VOICE AS INSTRUMENT
14th – 19th July 2008

Course leader: KS PROF. FRANCISCO ARAIZA
Accompaniment: TOBIAS KRAMPEN

Francisco Araiza – the Mexican tenor without any airs and graces

He is an uncomplicated man who is not unduly concerned by the fact that the international critics are unable to count past the number three when it comes to tenors, but who is undoubtedly one of the world's best tenors of our time. The man in question is Francisco Araiza, a Kammersänger at the Vienna State Opera by profession and proud to have been a permanent member of the Zurich Opera House since 1977.
This versatile artist, who has already achieved worldwide fame as the best interpreter of Mozart and Rossini, has, since 1983, developed into one of the leading exponents of the dramatic Italian, French and German repertoires in roles like Edgardo, Alfredo, the Duke of Mantua, Richard III, Don Alvaro, Faust,
Werther, Don Jose and, in particular, as a youthful hero in Wagner and Strauss operas. Araiza is a modest man, but is happy to list his numerous guest appearances at all the major opera houses in the world. Munich, Hamburg, La Scala in Milan, Covent Garden in London, the Bastille in Paris, San Francisco, the Met in New York, Mexico City and many more are excellent examples of this. Among the highlights of his exceptional career are his selection by Herbert von Karajan in 1980 for the Salzburger Festspiele as well as his recording of the “Magic Flute“ under von Karajan's direction shortly before this, his Belmonte in the last new production directed by Karl Böhm in the same year in Munich, his stepping into the breach in Jean-Pierre Ponelle's production of “Manon“ in Vienna in 1983, which marked the start of his change of area of expertise, “Faust“ under the direction of Ken Russel in Vienna in 1985, the “Best Musical Experience 1988“ award for his lieder evening in Tokyo, his triumphant debut in the role of Lohengrin in Venice in 1990 and, most recently, as the Fire God Loge in Robert Wilson's production of “Ring“ in Zurich.
Since 1996 Araiza has been teaching on master courses, starting in this year at the Vienna Music High School, in 1998 at the Richard Strauss Festival Days in Garmisch, in 1999 at the Munich School of Singing and the University of Mexico City, and finally in 2002 at the Music High School in Stuttgart and again at the Munich School of Singing. He has been a professor since 2003.

Additional information on Francisco Araiza can be found on the Internet at www.francisco-araiza.ch


Tobias Krampen, born in 1974, initially studied piano at the University of Music and Drama in Hanover under Prof. Heidi Koehler, before completing the Artist Diploma course for solo piano and chamber music at Montreal‘s McGill University under Prof. Tom Plaunt and Prof. Michael McMahon. At the moment he is working on his Lied Duo concert examination in Prof. Irwin Gage‘s masterclass in Saarbrücken. Tobias Krampen is a scholarship holder from Cologne‘s Richard Wagner Association and has won many awards at such prestigious events as "Jugend Musiziert" and Grotian Steinweg. Other accola- des include the "Das Deutsche Lied" prize in Cologne in 2001 and in 2002 the Jury Prize for the best Lied pianist at the Concours de Chant in Kerkrade, Holland. In the mean time, he has performed in concerts in Bonn‘s Beethoven Hall, in the NDR Studio in Hannover and also at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
He has also taken part in NDR and Bayerischer Rundfunk recordings.

Audition:
Monday, 14th of July 2008, 10:30 a.m. meeting/pianist; audition: 2:00 p.m.
Audition: 2.00 p.m.

Location:
Music School, Wörgl

Course fee:
€ 450,- (for passive participation 50%)

Registration possible until 4th of July 2008

Final concert: Saturday, 19th of July 2008
                      Start: 8:00 p.m.

MASTER CLASS
ITALIAN OPERA
19th to 26th July 2008

Director: KS MIRELLA FRENI
Accompaniment: PAOLA MOLINARI

Mirella Freni – the gift of eternal youth and the charm of an unending lyric
If Milanese opera-goers had drunk a sleeping potion rather than champagne in the interval at the performance of La Bohème in 1963 and then woken up 32 years later then would have thought that they had only been asleep for a few moments. This is because, 32 years later, Mirella Freni was again playing Mimi on the stage. And she was just as fresh, just as dazzling and just as moving as she had been in 1963.
It was 1963 when Mimi first “conquered” Milan’s La Scala with her lyrical soprano in the legendary Bohème. No less a figure than Franco Zeffirelli was responsible for the direction and no less a figure than Herbert von Karajan was at the conductor’s stand. The film of this production became one of the most celebrated opera films of all time.
In Karajan she found a kindred spirit, and one who handled her like a delicate flower and helped develop and further her international career. After Karajan’s death Freni recalled her first Bohème at Milan’s La Scala, “Karajan, with tears in his eyes, hugged me and said, ‘This is only the second time in my life that I have cried – the first time was when my mother died.’”
Mirella Freni began her career close to home as a lovely but tragic Micaela in Carmen. This debut took place on 3rd February 1955 in her home town of Modena. After numerous appearances in various Italian theatres and at the Dutch Opera in Amsterdam her career was given a real kick-start when she met Franco Zeffirelli at Glyndebourne, where she was singing the part of Adina in a performance of Elisir d’Amore.
She then left Modena and sang in Covent Garden, at La Scala in Milan and at the Met. There followed 30 years at Milan’s La Scala and the opening of 8 runs.
Mirella, soave fanciulla, is one of the greatest Mimis, Micaelas or Susannas (Figaro) of all time. And who could forget her Elisabette (Don Carlos), Cho Cho San (Madame Butterfly), Desdemona (Othello), Manon Lescaut, Adriana Lecouvreur, Aida, Tatiana (Eugene Onegin) or Lisa (The Queen of Spades)?

Paola Molinari
Piano degree at the G.B.Martini Conservatory in Bologna, then advanced courses under Alfred Cortot in Paris and Lausanne, “concert licence“ at the Paris Conservatory. She made a name for herself in the past not only through solo concerts, but also as an accompanying pianist at home and abroad.
She has worked with many well-known artists like Mirella Freni, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Mariella Devia, Sonia Ganassi, Luciana Serra, Katia Ricciarelli and William Matteuzzi at international opera houses like New York’s Metropolitan Opera, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Toronto, Madrid, Paris, Tokyo, Osaka, Zurich, Frankfurt, Vienna’s Musikverein, Prague, San Carlo/Naples, Fenice/Venice, Rome, Bologna and many more.
She also teaches at the G.B.Martini Conservatory in Bologna and was, for many years, the head répétiteur at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna and La Scala in Milan. She has also worked with orchestra directors like Ricardo Muti, Riccardo Chailly, Vladimir Delman and Roberto Abbado.


Auditions:
Saturday, 19th July 2008, 11:00 a.m.

Location: Astner Saal - GH Alte Post, Wörgl

Course fee: € 510,- (50% for passive participation)
Registration possible until 9th of July 2008

Final Concert: Wednesday, 26th July 2008
                       Start: 8.00 p.m.

PART AND MOVEMENT IN SONG AND OPERA
27th July - 4th August 2008

Direction: PROF. KURT WIDMER
Accompaniment: ANDREA STROBL – KLAUS EIBENSTEINER

Kurt Widmer wwas born in Will/St. Gallen and studied singing at the College of Music in Zurich, later on in Luzern, Wiesbaden and Vienna. From 1967 on, busy activities lead him all around Europe, to Israel, Canada and the United States as an oratorio and a concert singer. He is singing regularly at some of the most famous festivals in Europe such as Luzern, Zurich, Montreux, Donaueschingen and many others. The repertoire of his numerous record and broadcast recordings stretches from Machaut’s “Messe” up to contemporary works. He has already received numerous honors, like the soloist award of the Swiss Sound Artist Association, the Regio-Award for Music of the Production Association of the economy on the upper Rhine in 1985, additionally he was given different record awards. Kurt Widmer teaches in the Departments of Conservatoire and Schola Cantorum Basiliensis of the Basler Music Academy.
His seminars are always an inspiration for his many students. For example, he teaches that musical interpretation requires a thoughtout singing body training. The interrelation of tension and loosening enables natural rhythm and flowing phrasing, musical bows schould be prepared in the body. In this way Professor Widmer’s interpretation seminar is aligned for singers with special yoga exercises and physiotherapist methods based on the knowledge of a future-oriented education.


Andrea Strobl studied piano and cello at the Mozarteum as well as song accompaniment at the College of Music in Vienna with Professor Roman Ortner. She has been employed as a college assistant since 1986 in the opera class at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and, amongst other things, has been the accompanist in Paul Shilhawsky’s Lieder courses and at the international summer academy in Salzburg.






Klaus Eibensteiner, piano accompanist, singer, arranger and composer, teches répétiteur studies and singing at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, pianist for and artistic director of Salzburg’s “Comedian Harmonists”.










Audition:
Sunday, 27th of July 2008, 10:00 a.m.

Location: Astner Saal - GH Alte Post, Wörgl

Fee: € 440,- (Passive Participants 50%, can join the body training)
Registration possible until 17th of July 2008

Final concert: Sunday, 3rd of August 2008
                      Start: 8.00 p.m.

GERMAN LIED & OPERA
5th - 12th August 2008

Direction: KS PROF. CHRISTA LUDWIG
Accompaniment: ORESTA CYBRIWSKY

KS Prof. Christa Ludwig -
said goodbye on 9th August 1993 to the Salzburg Festival which, next to Vienna and New York, had been the most important venue in her long career. In Salzburg she had been singing since 1955 the great alto and mezzo roles in operas and oratorios and had given a series of Lieder evenings. She celebrated her debut as an 18-year-old in Frankfurt and then via Darmstadt and Hannover she made her way in 1955 to the Vienna State Opera and the Salzburg Festival. In 1959 she made her first appearance at the New York Met and enjoyed tremendous success there as Färberin in Strauss’ “The Woman without a Shadow”.  “The conductors who had a decisive influence on me”, she says, “were Böhm, Karajan and Bernstein”.

In this masterclass it is not so much a case of basic technique, rather the focus is on the shaping of musical and textual content. The results will be presented in a representative concert.


Oresta Cybriwsky “doesn’t play the piano, she makes music“, said Gregg Smith, composer and conductor of the world-famous Gregg Smith Singers vocal ensemble. While she was still studying – majoring in the piano – at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, USA, in 1974, Smith took her to New York City. Thanks to the professional collaboration with GSS and contemporary American composers like Ned Rorem, Elliot Carter and Lukas Foss, among others, there followed numerous performances, recordings, radio and television broadcasts, as well as several concert tours in the USA and Asia. Working with Leonard Hokanson, Professor Kurt Eichhorn, Krysztof Penderecki, Les Percussions de Strasbourg, Kammersänger Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, René Kollo, Barbara Daniels, Francisco Araiza, Kammersängerin Brigitte Fassbaender, Hartmut Höll and René Jacobs, among others, helped further shape and develop her musical talents. There followed numerous concerts at home and abroad, numerous studio and live performances as well as pedagogical work as a répétiteur for singing, including at the Stuttgart and Würzburg Academies, and also as a solo répétiteur at the State Theatre/Gärtnerplatz in Munich, at the Music & Theatre Academy in Munich, at the August Everding Bavarian Theatre Academy in Munich and at the State Conservatoire in Innsbruck. Since 2003 she has been working as an accompanist on the master courses of Kammersängerin Brigitte Fassbaender in South Tyrol and Tyrol..

Audition:
Tuesday, 5th of August 2008, 4:00 p.m.

Location: Astner Saal - GH Alte Post, Wörgl

Fee: € 510,- (Passive Participants 50%)

Registration possible until 25th of July 2008

Final concert: Tuesday, 12th of August 2008
                      Start: 8:00 p.m.

OPERA AND LIED

13th - 20th August 2008

Direction: KS GRACE BUMBRY
Accompaniment: GÖTZ PAYER

Mezzo-soprano Grace Ann Melzia Bumbry’s sensational performance on the “Arthur Godfrey Talent Scout Program“ in 1954 earned her a scholarship at the Northwestern University in Evanstown, where she met Lotte Lehmann, who immediately invited her to the Music Academy of Santa Barbara. She remained there until 1958 (having also previously studied at Boston University). In the same year she won the Met Auditions, before making her concert debut in London in 1959, and her stage debut as Amneris in Paris in 1960. Her international breakthrough came on 23 July 1961 at the Bayreuth Festival, going down in the annals of this event as the “Black Venus”. In 1961 she made her debut in Brussels, in London and Chicago in 1963, and at the Salzburg Festival as Lady Macbeth in 1964. In 1965 she gave her first performance at the Metropolitan Opera, and in 1966 at the Scala di Milano. In 1966 and 1967 she was von Karajan’s Carmen in Salzburg, before making her debut at the Vienna State Opera in 1970. During this period she concentrated increasingly on soprano singing and enjoyed great success in parts like Santuzza, Aida, Tosca, Abigaille, Medea, Gioconda, Turandot or Salome. In later years she returned to a few of her mezzo roles and bade farewell to the opera stage in 1997 by playing Strauss‘ Klytemnestra in Lyon. Much in demand as a concert singer and particularly as a lieder singer Grace Bumbry is still today to be found performing on the biggest stages (on 14 August this year she will be reprising her „Hommage à Lotte Lehmann“ at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival in Kiel), holding master courses and acting as a judge in singing competitions. Her star has been on the St. Louis Walk of Fame since 17 May 1992, she holds honorary doctorates from the Ebner-Rust College Holy Springs (Missouri) and the University of Missouri St. Louis and she is also engaged in various Unesco projects.

Götz Payer
Study of piano and the teaching of music at Lübeck University in Konrad Elser’s piano class followed by study of Lieder accompaniment under Irwin Gage in Zürich, graduating with  Distinction. At the moment Götz Payer is correpetitor at the Lübeck College of Music and is the official accompanist for the masterclasses of Grace Bumbry, Matthias Goerne, Christoph Prègardien, and many more. Payer is a member of the Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now programme for the promotion of music, has a scholarship with the DAAD and has been the winner of several international competitions. Payer has given concerts throughout Europe and on radio and TV for NDR [North German Radio] and SWR [South West Radio].


Auditions:
Wednesday, 13th of August 2008, 11:00 a.m.

Location: Astner Saal - GH Alte Post, Wörgl

Course fee: € 510,- (50% for passive participation)
Registration possible until 4th of August 2008

Final Concert: Wednesday, 20th of August 2008
                       Start: 8:00 p.m.

GUIDANCE  FOR PARTICIPANTS

MASTERCLASSES REGISTRATIONS

Registration for the courses can be done either by means of the enclosed Registration Card that can be found in our folder or over the the Internet. Registration is required because not only we, but above all the course tutors need detailed information.

Registration is final and participants are entitled to perform an audition as soon as 10% of the course fee has been credited to our account at the Raiffeisen-Bezirkskasse Wörgl Kufstein reg GenmbH (A/C No. 645077, BLZ 36358; IBAN AT 323635 800 00064 5077; BIC RZTIAT 22358). Upon receipt of this deposit confirmation will automatically follow within a few days.

Everything you need to know about the courses is contained both on our homepage as well as in the Folder 2008. Every registration will automatically be recorded as such and we will confirm every deposit. In the event of any unexpected change, we will immediately inform all participants.

We cannot be held responsible for cancellation in the event of the illness of the teacher. In such case, the participants who have already registered will be promptly informed and deposits already made will be transferred back. Academia Vocalis cannot be held responsible for any additional costs which have already been incurred.

Day tickets: If you are interested in the classes, you are warmly invited to enjoy a free “taster” day. For additional days day tickets will be issued. (Please register your interest by phoning one of the listed contact numbers or by email).

Please note: Deposits for the masterclasses and deposits for TVB Hohe Salve/room reservations are to be made to separate accounts (see the registration card within the folder).
 

ACTIVE AND PASSIVE COURSE PARTICIPANTS

Being classified as “passive” does not signify any diminution in a participant’s status. On the contrary, the presence of the “passive” participants is extremely important not only for the class but above all for the participants themselves who will personally gain so much valuable knowledge. Alongside the classrooms, pianos are available during and beyond the times of the classes in Wörgl’s Landesmusikschule and these can be used at any time for practice.
 

PARTICIPANTS AND AUDITORS

Unfortunately, the large number of course participants who apply every year make it necessary to organize the classes into PARTICIPANTS and AUDITORS after auditions. Auditing, too, will immeasurably help those who are talented learners andfurther career development.

ACCOMODATION

If you are looking for suitable accommodation while you are at the Academia Vocalis, then the Hohe Salve Holiday Region’s Tourist Association will be happy to help you in your search for the right place to stay!


To facilitate a speedy and trouble-free booking process please note the following points:


Make your inquiry by phone, e-mail or using the booking form (see inside the brochure). You will then receive a non-binding offer from the Tourist Office.

Once you have confirmed in writing your acceptance of the offer you will receive confirmation of the reservation with all the precise details of your accommodation.

Please note that your booking is only binding upon payment of a deposit of € 50.00. If you fail to appear at your accommodation on the agreed date then this deposit will be kept as a cancellation fee.

Our banking details and precise information on overseas funds transfers will be sent to you with the confirmation of the reservation and can also be found on the booking form.

Please ensure that you provide us with as accurate and detailed information as possible. To facilitate a smooth process we need your name, your full postal address, telephone number, fax number, e-mail address, exact arrival and departure dates and any special requirements for your accommodation.



Information and bookings:

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Bahnhofstraße 4a
A-6300 Wörgl

Tel.: +43 (0) 5332 76007
Fax: +43 (0) 5332 71680

eMail: info@hohe-salve.com
Internet: www.hohe-salve.com
 

OTHER INFORMATION

The seminar office is open daily from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. for you questions, suggestions and requests.

ACADEMIA VOCALIS

Bahnhofstr. 15/I
A-6300 Wörgl
Tel.: +43/5332/75660
Fax.: +43/5332/75660 – 10

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