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Making Music - Music 4 People

5th - 12 August 2017 

Yorkshire Dales residential school

We often receive brochures about festivals, courses and competitions.  Today we received the leaflet for Making Music's Summer School of Music.  (Hint - there are discounts and scholarships available!)  This might appeal to talented pupils and their families, so do pass the link on!

Summer School of Music www.m4p.org.uk

North London Piano School - International Summer Course 2014

North London Piano School Summer Course

Piano and Violin

16 -23 August 2014

Gala Concerts 23 August 2014

Website: www.learn-music.com/nlps2

International Academy of Music, Nice (France) July-August 2014

The Whittaker Library received another summer course announcement this morning - to Nice, in the South of France.

July 21 to August 18, 2014 at the Conservatoire Pierre Cochereau, with accomodation on campus.

• Masterclasses
• Teacher and Student Concerts
• International Music Competition

French website:- http://www.academie-internationale-ete-nice.com/
English website:-http://www.hexagone.net/music/academy_nice.htm

Passports at the Ready! Summer Music Courses in Weimar, Germany and Lyon, France

The Whittaker Library has received more brochures about summer schools in Europe.  Is your passport up-to-date and ready?!

Today, we share with you:- 

• Weimar Bach Academy, 5-16  August 2014 (Focusing on Bach cantatas, as the German course title indicates: Weimarer Bachkantaten-Akademie)
• Weimar Masterclasses, 18 July - 2 August 2014
• Lyon Academie de Fourviere - International Academy of Music, 26 July - 7 August 2014: Strings, Voice, Piano, Accompaniment, Improvisation, Chamber music, Piano Jazz

We'll pop the brochures in our own internal mail to the heads of appropriate departments at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

Winter Ennui? Time to Plan Summer Music and French Courses

The Whittaker Library has received more leaflets about summer courses, this time in Switzerland:-

Arosa Music Academy 2014 (near Chur, Switzerland)

August 17-24 Accordion and Woodwinds
August 24-30 Voice and Strings
August 31 - September 6 Strings and Piano

www.arosamusicacademy.ch

"Enjoy the experience of travelling with the Rhaetian Railway, just an hour's journey from Chur to Arosa."  - just one of the ways of getting there!

French Language Summer Courses, University of Geneva, Switzerland

June 23 - August 22

www.fle.unige.ch

Home and Away: Summer Music Courses and Competitions

Thinking about your summer activities?

Whittaker's post today included brochures for music courses and competitions in the UK and Italy. Visit the websites of Knuston Hall (Northamptonshire, England) and Val Tidone for further details.

• Knuston Hall:- www.knustonhall.org.uk
  (including an annual event with the British Banjo, Mandolin, Guitar Federation, not to mention singing, flute and clarinet courses, saxophone, accordion, jazz, early music and music appreciation.  Maybe one to recommend to your own instrumental pupils?)
• Val Tidone:- www.valtidone-competitions.com (piano prize, accordion prize, chamber music prize, young talent competition, composition competition, pop singer competition, and a summer camp).

Summer course opportunity: Orchestra Academy, Westfalen

Details of another course, this time in Germany, from a leaflet that landed in Whittaker's in-tray today: The Penderecki Musik Academie Westfalen (12 Aug - 1 Sept 2013)

http://www.musikakademie-westfalen.de/

Here's a taster from the musik:akademie westfalen website:-

Plans and objectives

• Krzysztof Penderecki, the most famous and influential modern composer, will be directing the second »penderecki musik:akademie westfalen im forum mariengarden burlo« from 12th August to 1st September 2013.

• The »penderecki musik:akademie westfalen im forum mariengarden burlo« is the summer orchestra academy forming part of the international classical music festival »musik:landschaft westfalen« which has been held since 2009. It is designed as an annual summer academy with international participation, featuring well-known teachers who give orchestra academies, master-classes for individual instruments, composition workshops or courses on certain themes.

Whittaker's in-tray: courses and festivals all over the place

Whittaker has been asked to promote musical events in Sweden, Germany, Austria - and Fife.  Take your pick!

For singers:-

• Norrköping, Sweden (4th Singing Competition, Wilhelm Stenhammar International Music Competition - WSIMC - 5-14 June 2012.  More info ... . Applications deadline 23 April 2012.

Keyboards, strings, wind, brass, percussion, conducting, Baroque opera, composition  (something for everyone here):-

• 53rd Weimar Master Classes (Weimarer Meisterkurse), at the Liszt School of Music, Weimar. 13-28 July 2012.  More info ... 

Piano (adult and children), voice, vocal accompaniment, conducting opera, violin, cello, string chamber music with or without piano):-

• Vienna Master Courses 2012 (Wiener Meisterkurse), at Schloss Laudon, 15 July - 23 August 2012.  Application deadline 15 June 2012.  More info ...

Trad:-

• FifeSing2012: the Fife Traditional Singing Festival, Friday - Sunday, 11-13 May 2012.  More info ...

There's so much here that Whittaker has started a new page - Summer Schools and Courses.  Does anyone else keep a blog of forthcoming summer schools?

Edinburgh Rehearsal Orchestra

Edinburgh 2011 residential course, 13-14 August 2011

"The Rehearsal Orchestra is a symphony orchestra that runs weekend and full-week orchestral courses for serious amateurs and future professionals. It offers high-level training through intensive rehearsal, exploring the core orchestral repertoire under the batons of prominent conductors." - from website homepage.

Website

Benslow: Music Making July - December 2010

The July-December 2010 brochure is now available. Celebrating 80 years of amateur music-making this year, the Benslow Music Trust offers short courses, concerts and other events which might be of interest to both adult and younger pupils. Website www.benslow.org Email info@benslow.org Instrument Loan Scheme (highly recommended!) ilsbenslow@benslow.org