COLIN METTERS INTERNATIONAL MASTERCLASS IN

SEMINAR AGENDA
ARRIVAL
/ September 21, 2014
REHEARSALS
/ September 22 - 26, 2014, Zagreb Music Academy,
Hall F5, Frankopanska 22
CONCERT
/ September 27, 2014 at 8 pm, Croatian Music Institute,
Gundulićeva 6a
DEPARTURE
/ September 28, 2014
SEMINAR & CONCERT
REPERTOIRE
OBLIGATORY:
/ J. Brahms: Symphony No. 3
/ Croatian piece - to be decided
OTHER:
/ J. Strauss Jr: Die Fledermaus Overture
/ R. Schumann: Symphony No. 3
/ S. Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2
Lovro and Lilly Matačić Foundation offers a unique opportunity to young and talented conductors from all over the
world to attend a masterclass in orchestral conducting
held by Prof Colin Metters. Colin Metters, Professor of
Conducting Studies at Royal Academy of Music, will offer
his knowledge to select attendees during this one-week
masterclass. The attendees will be supported during the
realization of seminar repertoire enabling them to reach
high levels of professional excellence. Attendees, chosen
by Prof Metters, will present what they learned during
the seminar in a concert held at the Croatian Music Institute.
CONTACT
/ Lovro and Lilly Matačić
Foundation
(Zagreb Concert Management)
Kneza Mislava 18, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
/ www.fondmatacic.hr
/ [email protected]
/ [email protected]
PARTNERS
/ Music Academy of the University in Zagreb
/ Croatian Music Institute
/ Zagreb Concert Management
/ Republic of Croatia Minsitry of Culture
/ Zagreb Tourist Board
LOVRO AND LILLY MATAČIĆ FOUNDATION
COLIN METTERS
INTERNATIONAL
MASTERCLASS
IN ORCHESTRAL
CONDUCTING
/ ZAGREB
/ SEPTEMBER
22 - 27, 2014
COLIN METTERS has been Professor of Conducting at
Royal Academy of Music since 1983. His wide experience
affords him an enviable reputation as professional conductor, orchestral trainer and conducting instructor. He
has worked with leading symphony orchestras in the UK,
and guest-conducted extensively abroad. Colin has an
international reputation as a leading pedagogue, and has
given masterclasses in Germany, Poland, Finland, Australia, Venezuela, Vietnam, China and the USA. In 1997
he was appointed Music Advisor and Principal Guest
Conductor to the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra,
directing a five-year programme of development. In 1999,
in recognition of his work, he was awarded the Vietnamese equivalent of the Order of Merit, the first to be made
to a British citizen.
TERMS OF PARTICIPATION
- advanced level of orchestral conducting program
- repertoire prepared in advance
- 14 active attendees shall be selected from the
applicants
- seminar participation fee for active attendees: €900
- unlimited number of passive attendees
- seminar participation fee for passive attendees: €100
- free entrance for Zagreb Music Academy students
(passive attendees)
APPLICATIONS
- to apply contact [email protected] or [email protected]
- applications can be sent no later than July 3, 2014
SELECTION PROCESS
- the applications will be reviewed by prof Metters and the
art committee of the Lovro and Lilly Matačić Foundation
- results will be announced on July 15, 2014
LOVRO & LILLY MATAČIĆ FOUNDATION was established
in 1987 in accordance with Maestro Lovro von Matačić
and his wife Lilly’s final will and testament as a non-profit association aiming to put the donors’ primary will in
action: to support and promote the artistic development
of young and talented conductors in Croatia and all over
the world, as well as to publish and document works that
will promote the artistic achievements of Maestro Lovro
von Matačić. The Foundation supports young conductors
primarily through grants extended to a number of candidates and through the organization of a large international competition for conductors, that is held every four
years in Zagreb. The Foundation has so far offered scholarships or other types of financial support to numerous
young Croatian conductors at the start of their careers.
MATAČIĆ CAN SHOW MUSIC EMERGING FROM THE
“OVERALL
HUMAN NATURE, VAST AND DEEP, WARM
AND LIMITLESS, AND THE IMPRESSION IS SO STRONG
THAT IT MAKES THE ENTIRE BODY AND SOUL VIBRATE
TO THE VERY ROOTS.
(Philharmonic, 1967)
”
Conductor and composer LOVRO VON MATAČIĆ (18991985) used a single word to describe his versatile artistic
personality – musician. After acquiring the knowledge he
needed in Vienna, his broad spirit led him further from
Zagreb, Ljubljana and Belgrade to concert and opera
stages of Paris, Florence, Milan, Bayreuth, Berlin, London, Tokyo... He con˝ducted the Philharmonic Orchestras of Berlin, Czech Republic, and Munich, recorded for
labels such as Columbia and Supraphon, performed in
the Bavarian State Opera, with the Dresden State Chapel,
in the Operas of Chicago and Rome, in Teatro Colon in
Buenos Aires, Musikverein in Vienna, in Museum Concerts in Frankfurt, heading the National Opera Orchestra
of Monte Carlo, and many more. The list also includes
the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, with which he initiated the Presenting Young Conductors series. The mu-
sicians he collaborated with include Arthur Rubinstein,
Christian Ferras i Rudolf Buchbinder, Marijana Radev,
Ruža Pospiš Baldani, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Christa
Ludwig, Renata Tebaldi, Birgit Nilsson, Leontyne Price,
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau... Apart from his favorites, Anton Bruckner and Richard Wagner, Lovro von Matačić’s
interests moved from Palestrina, Monteverdi and Henry Purcell through Bach, Händel, Gluck, Mozart, Haydn
and Beethovena to Mahler, Janáček, R. Strauss, Wagner,
Verdi and others. He had been very attentive to Croatian
authors, and made Croatian music a part of the global
orchestral repertoire during his performances around
the world. Croatian and European music will primarily
remember his greatness and significance in the field of
conducting, while the young artists to whom the Lovro
and Lillly Matačić Foundation has given a chance to study,
grow, and develop will mostly remember the maestro’s
human quality and selflessness, who left another piece
of enduring legacy to music and the society in general
through his noble gesture.