Harpsichord - RUCKERS GENOOTSCHAP, Antwerpen

35th Academy for
historical performance practice
on keyboard instruments
Harpsichord
1640-1780
Harpsichord
16th and early 17th century
Master Class
Jos van Immerseel
Master Class
Kris Verhelst
Tuning Workshop
Anne Galowich
Museum Vleeshuis, Antwerpen
July 8th - 15th 2006: Harpsichord
organization:
RUCKERS GENOOTSCHAP vzw
Executive Director: Dr Jeannine Lambrechts-Douillez
President of the Board of Directors: Jacques Peeters
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instruments
Harpsichords
1. - Ioannes Daniel Dulcken, Antwerpen, 1747, 5 oct., 8'8'4', well-tempered.
Restored by Hubert Bédard, Maintenon, 1972 and Emile Jobin, Boissy-L' Aillerie, 2005.
2. - Matthias Griewisch, Bammental, 2001, after Michael Mietke, s.d., Berlin,
two manuals, 5 oct. 8'4'8', well-tempered.
3. - Hubert Bédard, Maintenon, 1974, Reconstruction of the harpsichord by
Andreas Ruckers, Antwerpen, 1644 in the Museum Vleeshuis, 4 oct. (short C-octave),
8'4', mean-tone.
4. - Michel de Mayer, Brussels, 1983, after Carlo Grimaldi, Messina, 1697, 41/2 oct.,
mean-tone.
5. - Andrea Restelli, Milano, 2006, after Philipp Jacob Specken, Stockholm, 1748,
5 oct., 8'4'8', well-tempered.
Klavichord
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6. - Joris Potvlieghe, Tollembeek, 2003, after Philipp Jacob Specken, Stockholm, 1743,
41/2 oct., well-tempered.
Hogeschool Antwerpen, Jeannine Lambrechts-Douillez, Jos van Immerseel,
Kris Verhelst, Anne Galowich.
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practice
practice
principles of
harpsichord playing
master classes
tuning workshops
Each participant will be granted sufficient practice time on the available instruments.
Jos van Immerseel will also be treating some "principles of rhetoric".
Kris Verhelst will include an introduction into the clavichord.
The master classes focus on the specific ‘toucher’ required by each of the instruments to bring out their most rich sound.
The tuning workshops are not compulsory but highly recommended: a well-chosen
and professionally executed tuning not only helps to bring out the best of an
instrument, but tuning an instrument is above all a unique opportunity to get
acquainted with it, to discover its secrets and to know immediately when it needs
further maintenance.
Tuning workshop can also be attended by non participants to the master classes.
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Other activities
other activities
10 July, 8.00 pm:
"La Restauration du clavecin Dulcken"
Lecture by Emile Jobin.
11 July, 8.00 pm:
Recital by Kris Verhelst.
13 July, 8.00 pm:
Recital on two harpsichords by Jos van Immerseel and Anne Galowich.
15 July, 11.30 am:
An intimate concert by the participants will conclude the Academy.
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Subscription
subscription
A) Participants in 2 Master Classes:
320 €
B) Participants in 1 Master Class and auditor in the other: 300 €
C) Participants in only Tuning Workshop:
100 €
D) Auditors: 100 € for the whole week or 18 € a day.
Reduced prices for members of the Ruckers Genootschap:
50 € for the whole week or 8 € a day.
Fill in the application form and send it together with a curriculum vitae
(it is important that you mention your experience with original historic instruments
or copies) and your repertoire, before May 1st, 2006 to the Ruckers Genootschap.
preparation
languages
future Master
Classes
Each participant will prepare and present a 60 minutes' repertoire of music that
suits the available instruments.
This flyer is in English for practical reasons. During the course however, communication being extremely important, various languages are customary, as in all international courses. With everybody's good will everything is possible, nothing is
mandatory.
2007
July 7th-14th:
Master Classes Fortepiano by Jos van Immerseel and Claire Chevallier.
Workshop Tuning.
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The Ruckers
Genootschap
The name Ruckers reminds us of the historical past of Antwerp as the most important
centre for harpsichord making during the 16th and 17th centuries. Changing trends in art represented very often a threat to the cultural heritage of predecessing times. Human minds developed new techniques and superseded traditional crafts destroying evidence for the future.
Unlike paintings, instruments were not always considered as part of our cultural heritage; modern harpsichords were made with pianolike features providing no historical information for the
interpretation of music.
The Ruckers Genootschap took an active part during the second half of the 20th century in the
recognition of instruments as part of our cultural heritage providing accurate contemporary
information on the interpretation of music by organizing:
- Colloquia in 1970 and 1977 on Conservation or Restoration and copying instruments with
historical accuracy. The most prominent scholars, instrument makers, directors of musical
instrument collections, technicians and performers took part in these discussions.
- Summercourses since 1971 on historic instruments.
- In 1989, 1991 and 1993 a new forum was offered with the organization of Antverpiano,
organised under the supervision of Jos van Immerseel.
The International
Academy for
Interpretation on
Historic Musical
Instruments
started in 1971 for harpsichord. Since 1982 Jos van Immerseel was invited and new trends
around 19th century music were inspired by the fortepiano. Sigiswald Kuijken taught baroque
violin in 1982, 1984, 1986 and 1987; Barthold Kuijken gave a course of traverso in 1983 and
Paul Dombrecht baroque oboe between 1984 and 1996. Since 1971 approximately 800 musicians from all over the world participated in these courses. Many of these musicians have now
an important task as professor sending their students to the course, their names belong to the
universal discography of early music.
Jeannine
LambrechtsDouillez
coordinated all these activities as Curator of the
museum Vleeshuis, having an important collection
of musical instruments. She gave many lectures
and is considered internationally for her expertly
knowledge of Antwerp harpsichord and restoration problems. She promoted the careful
approach in restoration as well as the alternative of making good copies. She was founding member of CIMCIM, the International
Committee for Museums and Collections of
Musical Instruments of ICOM (UNESCO),
being president from 1983 to 1989.
"A visit to the Vleeshuis, where the Ruckers
Genootschap unfolds its activities, helps us to
check our own ideas on performance and
sound to which we have to submit ourselves
not only once but again and again."
Gustav Leonhardt
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Jos
van Immerseel
A native of Antwerp, studied piano with Eugène Traey, organ with Flor Peeters, harpsichord with
Kenneth Gilbert, singing with Lucie Frateur, and conducting with Daniel Sternefeld. In 1973 he
won the first Paris Harpsichord Competition. He is self-taught in the disciplines of organology,
rhetoric and the historic piano. He has held teaching positions at the Scola Cantorum in Basel,
the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam, the Conservatoire Supérieur de Musique in Paris.
Master Classes in Europe, America, and Japan. In 1987 he founded Anima Eterna. The group
gradually became a symphony orchestra, playing on historical instruments. With this orchestra
he recorded 40 records: Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Johann Strauss,
Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov and Borodin. New projects: Ravel, Debussy, De Falla, the complete
Beethoven-Symphonies (Zig-Zag Territoires). Immerseel has appeared as guest conductor with
the Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik, the Wiener Akademie, Tafelmusik Toronto and the Budapest
Festival Orchestra. He maintains a unique collection of historical keyboard instruments, which
he plays in concert. Chamber music partners are Midori Seiler (violin), Claire Chevallier (fortepiano) and Anne Galowich (harpsichord). Jos van Immerseel has made over 100 recordings
(Accent, Channel Classics, Sony, Zig-Zag Territoires).
Kris
Verhelst
Has been performing throughout Europe, The United States of America and Japan on both
historical and modern musical instruments and her interpretations always reflect a thorough
understanding and deep respect for the specific qualities of every individual instrument.
Kris Verhelst studied organ with Chris Dubois at the Lemmensinstituut in Leuven and harpsichord with Jos Van Immerseel at the Royal Flemish Conservatory in Antwerp.
During the past decade she has built up an international reputation both as a soloist and
as a continuo player, performing and recording regularly with well-known ensembles such as
the orchestras Anima Eterna, Les Muffatti and Collegium Vocale and chamber music ensembles such as More Maiorum, Oltremontano, La Sfera Armoniosa and Ricercar Consort.
She recorded for the labels Passacaille, Accent, Ramée, Klara, Channel Classics, Mirare and
EMR. During the past few years she is also increasingly active as a clavichord player.
Kris Verhelst teaches harpsichord and Basso Continuo at the Lemmensinstituut, Leuven. She
is regularly invited to give masterclasses and to lead workshops, such as the famous annual
keyboard course of the Ruckersgenootschap at the Antwerp Vleeshuis Museum.
Anne
Galowich
Born in Luxembourg, Anne Galowich studied the harpsichord with Jos van Immerseel in
Antwerp. They now work closely together and they regularly perform as a duo. Anne teaches at
the Conservatoire de Musique de la Ville de Luxembourg. For the Brussels Musical instrument
Museum (MIM), she recorded a CD with works by Byrd, Soler and Duphly. Her second CD, with
Jos van Immerseel and Anima Eterna, is dedicated to J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach and Hugo Distler
(Turtle Records). From 1999 to 2001, Anne regularly tuned harpsichords, clavichords and
fortepianos of the Brussels Musical Instrument Museum collection. Since 2001, she tunes and
maintains the Dulcken harpsichord at the Museum Vleeshuis and teaches harpsichord at the
Conservatoire of Luxemburg.
Emile
Jobin
Born in Switzerland in 1952, where he completed his baccalaureate and studied organ at the
Conservatoire of Chaux de Fond. In 1977 he studied harpsichord making in the workshop of
Jean Tournay. Together with Christopher Clarke he started in Paris a workshop called "les
Temp raments In gaux" in 1979. Between 1985 and 1986 he teaches tuning and regulating
harpsichords at the "Centre des M tiers de la musique" in Mons. Since 1989 he has his own
workshop in Boissy l'Aillerie and from 2001 on he teaches pianoforte and harpsichord tuning at
the C.N.S.M. in Paris.
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GENERAL INFORMATION
arrival
Participants are expected at the Centre Elzenveld on Saturday July 8th at 10am.
concerts & lectures
Concerts will be given by Jos van Immerseel, Kris Verhelst and Anne Galowich.
An intimate concert by the participants ends the Academy.
Participants have free access to these concerts.
Lecture on the Preservation and Restoration of historic harpsichords by
Emile Jobin.
accommodation
Museum Vleeshuis
Ruckers Genootschap
The organisation of this
Academy is possible
thanks to
Raad van Bestuur
Voorzitter:
Ondervoorzitter:
Secretaris-Penningmeester:
Penningmeester:
Leden:
Commissarissen:
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A) Participants in 2 Master Classes:
320 €
B) Participants in 1 Master Class and auditor in the other: 300 €
C) Participants in only Tuning Workshop:
100 €
D) Auditors: 100 € for the whole week or 18 € a day.
Reduced prices for members of the Ruckers Genootschap:
50 € for the whole week or 8 € a day.
can be provided at:
Centre Elzenveld, Lange Gasthuisstraat 45, B-2000 Antwerpen, Belgium
Tel. +32 (0)3-202 7770
(to be booked through the Ruckers Genootschap).
Vleeshouwersstraat 40, B-2000 Antwerpen, Belgium - Tel. +32 (0)3-233 6404
Mrs. Dr. J. Lambrechts-Douillez
Silvesterlaan 4, B-2970 ‘s Gravenwezel, Belgium
Tel & fax: +32 (0)3-383 1690
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Ministerie van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap, Departement Onderwijs
Ministerie van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap, Departement Cultuur
Hogeschool Antwerpen
Centrum Elzenveld
Lions Club Antwerpse Kempen
Museum Vleeshuis
Dhr. J.Peeters
Mevr. I.Cambier-Bouwens, Dhr. P. Hollenfeltz du Treux
Mevr. J. Lambrechts-Douillez
Dhr. F. Wittemans
Mevr. H. Craeybeckx, A. Galowich, A. Meinertzhagen-Limpens, Chr. Vermeire-Verhaegen,
HH. H. Baeten, J. De Haes, P. Huvenne, M. Scheck, J. van Immerseel, J. Verdin
Mevr. A.-M. Bunneghem, J.Gerharz
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