MASTERCLASS LIED

25. - 29. August 2024


Univ.-Prof. Stephan Genz - Singing - HfM Salzburg

Target group: Professional singers, vocal students at a professional level

Content: Vocal technique in individual lessons, musical interpretation incl. accompaniment, individual coaching concert repertoire song, language coaching song.

Course repertoire: The course repertoire is freely selectable in the genre LIED. Depending on requirements, concert and song cycles as well as concert programs can be worked on according to the vocal subject. Please agree the course repertoire with the course leader in advance.

Registration: requested by 8.7.2025 at the latest

Meeting point: 18.7.2025, 11.00 am, Landesmusikschule Wörgl


FINAL CONCERT GERMAN SONG
22. July 2025, 8.00 pm
Location Hall at the House of Music Wörgl

General information

Participation & costs:                                                                                           

Participation in the master classes can be either active or passive. The course management will decide on active participation after the audition on the first day of the course. An early confirmation of active participation can also be made after proper registration with Academia Vocalis by August 15, 2024, after submission of a recording or a recording link. For active participation in the German Lied master class € 450,-- will be charged. The number of participants in active status is limited to a maximum of 15 per course.

Language of instruction:                                                                                           

German|English                                                                                                       

Course certificate                                                                                                    

During the final concert, all participants will be presented with a course certificate confirming their successful participation in the master class.                             

Lesson notes: glued in triplicate   



Stephan GenzStephan Genz was born in Erfurt and studied at the Hochschule für Musik Leipzig and the Hochschule in Karlsruhe. At the same time, he worked with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, who mentored him for several years.

Guest appearances have taken him to the leading opera houses: Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, Semperoper Dresden, Staatsoper Hamburg, Opera National de Paris, Teatro alla Scala Milano, Theatre Champs-Elysees, Grand Theatre Geneve, La Fenice, the opera houses in Strasbourg, Cologne, Parma and Monte Carlo and the festivals in Aix-en-Provence and Baden-Baden.

He has worked with conductors such as G. Sinopoli, K. Nagano, K. Masur, G. Albrecht, D. Harding, Ph. Herreweghe, R. Jacobs, G. Kuhn, Th. Hengelbrock, J. Lopez-Cobos, F. Luisi, J. Tate and N. Harnoncourt.

He has given recitals in the world's major music centres: Wigmore Hall, Chatelet, Champs-Elysees, Louvre, Philharmonie Köln, Alte Oper Frankfurt, La Monnaie, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Alice Tully Hall, Rockefeller Center, Maggio Musicale, Edinburgh Festival as well as in San Francisco, Montreal, Washington, Tokyo and Lucerne.

Over 50 CD recordings document the singer's wide-ranging repertoire. His Lied recordings have been honoured with numerous awards (Gramophone Award, Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik, Timbre de Platin, Diapason d'Or).

As Gabriel von Eisenstein in ‘Die Fledermaus’, conducted by Claude Schnitzler, he was heard in several opera houses in France in 2021. He also sang as a baritone in ‘Carmina Burana’ at the Opera National du Capitole Toulouse. Highlights of 2021 were his performance as baritone soloist in the VI Symfonia by Krzystof Penderecki and his performance in ‘In Memoriam’ in Warsaw, conducted by Maciej Tworek.




Eric Schneider ThumbEric Schneider, Pianist, UdK Berlin

Originally from the Bergisches Land region, Eric Schneider studied piano and mathematics. At the age of 22, he passed his artistic maturity examination with distinction at the Cologne University of Music. After winning his first competition prizes and piano recitals, he decided to take a postgraduate course in song composition with Hartmut Höll. He received groundbreaking impulses for his career from pianists such as Bruno Leonardo Gelber, Paul Badura-Skoda and Alfred Brendel as well as Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. In the 1990s, he studied conducting with Rolf Reuter at the Hanns Eisler School of Music.
"Hanns Eisler" for conducting. Eric Schneider has worked closely with singers such as Matthias Goerne, Christine Schäfer, Christiane Oelze and Anna Prohaska for many years. His most recent releases include "Apparition": songs by Henry Purcell and George Crumb with Christine Schäfer, "Wanderers Nachtlied", songs by Franz Schubert in a recording with Matthias Goerne, and "Behind the Lines" with Anna Prohaska on DGG.

For some time now, Eric Schneider has also returned to solo performances. He has recently given successful recitals at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, the Kissinger Sommer and the Ruhr Piano Festival. His current solo CD contains works by Leoš Janáček, Ludwig van Beethoven and Robert Schumann. He has been teaching at the UdK Berlin since 2009.

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