Annual brochure 2016 - European Chamber Music Academy

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· 2016 ·
European Chamber Music Academy
www.ecma-music.com
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European Chamber Music Academy
Oslo 2015
Vilnius 2015
Großraming 2015
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Bern 2015
Fiesole 2015
Vienna/Grafenegg 2015
Oslo 2016
Manchester 2016
04Preface
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Erasmus+
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ECMA – Educational Program
12Partnerships, 2015/16
14Partners
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Cooperating Partners
24STATEMENTS about ECMA I
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Ensembles
29Alumni
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Guest Ensembles
32Awards and Achievements
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General Assembly, 2015
44STATEMENTS about ECMA II
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Tutors
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CD Releases, 2015
54Obituary – Peter Cropper
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Events
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The Association
As of May 2016
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preface – The story of ECMA
I
t was Piero Farulli who had the original idea and subsequently
asked his good friends Hatto Beyerle (Alban Berg Quartet),
­Norbert Brainin (Amadeus Quartet), and Milan Skampa (Smetana
Quartet) to head the first Accademia Europea del Quartetto with
him in Fiesole. This course, held during 2001 and 2002, was an
extraordinary success for the young participants: the incredible
experience of spending one week with four great artists and masters,
each of them so different from the others, was utterly unlike any
of the master classes in which they had participated before!
So Piero asked Hatto to take the lead and fashion a true programme
of advanced training for chamber musicians that would travel
­throughout Europe. Hatto, for his part, invested effort and energy
into involving Vienna (under the direction of Johannes Meissl, who
became the programme’s other “driving force”), as well as Paris and
a steadily growing group of music universities from other parts of
­Europe, as well. Another central effort they made was to form a large
pool of instructors that would guarantee the highest quality –
teaching not individual interpretation, but the deepest-possible
­understanding of chamber music along with its history, rules, and
backgrounds. In short: instructors who would teach young artists
with great potential how to search for and find their own inter­pre­
tations. The expansion from string quartets to ensembles with piano
or other instruments was a natural consequence.
Today, following more than ten years of excellent work and out­
standing success under the leadership of its two artistic directors,
ECMA has come to be regarded as an apex of chamber music
­training. And a continuously increasing number of institutions,
­academies, and festivals have come to view ECMA as an anchor
point: not as a standalone school, but as a strategic partnership of
­institutions, each of which makes its own contribution in the knowledge that ECMA reaches a level that no one institution could
attain on its own.
Mathias Deichmann
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The goal of ECMA is music. It is a goal to be reached together – as
institutions, tutors, and young artists – following a few very simple
rules: work together, think together, grow together.
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preface – ECMA – The Idea
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he idea of founding a new kind of “European String Quartet Academy”
was first introduced to me by one of the greatest musicians I had the privilege to meet in my life, the unforgettable Maestro Piero Farulli, on a walk
through the park of the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole. His idea met with my immediate and enthusiastic agreement, and right on the spot, Piero appointed me as
the first “direttore artistico” of this newly created Academia Europea del Quartetto. There followed a few wonderful initial years of fruitful cooperation between the
instructors Piero Farulli (Quartetto Italiano), Norbert Brainin (Amadeus Quartet),
Milan Skampa (Smetana Quartet), and myself. Some years after, as a consequence of the death of Norbert Brainin, it became necessary to reform the Academia, and I found it better to place it on a broader footing. After careful deliberation, I decided to base the Academia on a more international cooperation, and I
therefore con­tacted my friend Johannes ­Meissl and others in order to transform
the Academia into the European Chamber Music Academy (ECMA), with the
intention of using this reorganisation to also include piano trios, string trios,
and other classical formations in order to convey our old European tradition to
the broadest possible cross-section of young musicians.
fter twelve years of intensive work, ECMA can be regarded a truly
­successful project! The list of prize-winning and well-recognized
ensembles is truly impressive! And based on the rich tradition of
European chamber music and the constantl re-evaluaton of our approach
we are striving to carry on the “ECMA spirit” into the future.
Since the days of Guido di Arezzo, our occidental music has gone through a
process of development that is unique among all those phenomena that we define
in general as “music”. As far back as in the early 16th century, it became intimately
ECMA will face multiple challenges in the years to come. Besides ­ensuring
sufficient funding for the further development of our activities in times that
continue to be economically restricted, we are also starting to bring the
next genera­tion into our family of tutors. There are so many wonderful
musicians among our alumni whom we can trust to carry on ECMA’s ideas
and principles and to develop the project further in the future. And at the same
time, we will be working on a more equal gender balance among our tutors.
linked with philosophy and mathematics – and it was in this context that music
proceeded to develop so rapidly over the centuries that followed. It is thus impossible for us to truly understand the music of the 17th and 18th centuries without
having devoted thorough studies to the music of the 16th and 17th centuries.
In much the same way, romantic music is linked with the musical language oft the
(Viennese) classical period. And our contemporary musical output is based on the
principles of the 19th and even the 18th centuries. It therefore is of great importance
that we provide the next generations of musicians as well with an understanding
of past eras’ musical languages as well as of their national characteristics.
For without such knowledge, it is hardly possible to realize good interpretations.
If we know occidental music’s rhetorical and harmonic characteristics as well as
its intellectual background and development, and if we know how to interpret the
philosophy upon which it is based, then all the music created later on becomes
clearly comprehensible – and we have a coherent basis for a mode of inter­pre­tation that affords great latitude to our creativity and our artistic imagination.
That is the essential thing that we seek to achieve in our work together with
young artists.
Hatto Beyerle
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preface – The Future
European Chamber Music Academy
The “ECMA spirit”, which seeks to enable young, ambitious ensembles to
find their own ways of profound interpretation based on the understanding
of the philosophy and the musical language of the 17th and 18th centuries,
not only ought to become a “matter of course” for musicians and audiences
alike, but also enables us to design innovative concepts for the development
of chamber music production and interpretation.
By embarking on the adventurous journey of the Erasmus+ strategic partnership
project “ECMA Next step”, we will try to develop new forms of academic
inte­gration of ECMA’s work at European institutions of artistic higher education
while at the same time collaborating even more strongly with the music market.
I am convinced that especially right now, when European integration is
threatened by renationalization and xenophobia, ECMA has an important
role to play by enhancing our common strengths in music and culture!
Chamber music practice is not only an elevating experience for musicians
and audiences because its great masterpieces certainly can be counted
among the peak achievements of human civilisation, but at the same time
also a model of how to become a socially responsible autonomous
personality...
I am happy that there will be new collaborations with presenters,
organisations and festivals, and that there is a permanently increasing
interest in ECMA’s activities from all sides!
Johannes Meissl
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erasmus+
ECMA – Next Step is an Erasmus+
strategic partnership programme
in chamber music.
erasmus+
Project organisation:
The steering committee is located in Oslo and coordinated with the ECMA office in
Vienna. The programme includes two working groups, focusing on teaching and
learning and on the joint master’s degree programme. The project will be evaluated
by an external evaluator, and both students and teachers will participate in the
programme until its conclusion on 1 September 2018.
Background:
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ith chamber music’s heightened significance both in the labour market
and on European concert stages, educators and musicians are now
­facing new challenges and opportunities to develop and innovate so as
to make possible chamber music activities at the highest level. One of the main
goals of this three-year strategic programme is to ensure the utmost quality of
chamber music training and proactively meet the challenges and opportunities that
the increasing demand for chamber music entails. This strategic programme thus
aims to modernize higher education in the classical music field by strengthening its
chamber music component.
ECMA Next Step is a partnership programme that will aim to develop new content
for the ECMA training programme in terms of curriculum, mobility, and recognition,
as well as to further develop existing chamber music expertise. A special focus will
be on the pedagogical knowledge and skills of chamber music instructors in the
­interest of strengthening chamber music’s position in regular training programmes.
It also intends to establish a new organizational structure for ECMA in the form of
a joint European Master’s Programme for Chamber Music, which will make ECMA
a more sustainable effort in the context of the opportunities offered by the Bologna
process and the Erasmus+ programme. The programme outcomes will include a
new ECMA teaching and learning manual on chamber music, the aforementioned
master’s ­programme, and a project evaluation.
The ECMA Next Step application was submitted in 2015 and was granted funding
in the amount of EUR 398,789 from the Erasmus+ programme. The project period
will be from 1 September 2015 to 1 September 2018.
Chamber music training is increasingly becoming a crucial component of
­per­formance degree curricula in higher music education institutions all over the
world because of the shift from permanent forms of employment with fixed contracts to employment situations where musicians are work freelance and combine
different professional activities in the form of portfolio careers. Opportunities in the
traditional areas of employment such as orchestras and opera houses are growing
scarcer, while chamber music is experiencing a heightened degree of significance
on the ­international concert stage.
In the 21st century, chamber music is also increasingly being viewed as a vital
­pedagogical tool for the training of broadly applicable skills important for the
­musician in the 21st century. In chamber music, things like teamwork, peerlearning, and ­reflective practicing are essential basic principles, and mastering
the associated skills will support musicians in preparing themselves to be reflective
practitioners in their future portfolio careers.
While the response of music-centred institutions of higher education to these new
realities has been slow, the ECMA consortium views chamber music as an ideal
tool with which to modernize present-day higher education in classical music.
By adapting their curricula, these institutions can make the necessary adjustments.
This requires the further development of an elite training programme that can
gather the most talented people and the most advanced methods and knowledge
in the interest of supporting a European chamber music scene of the highest
­possible quality. Strong chamber music programmes based at institutions can
play an important role in the mainstreaming of chamber music and its artistic and
pedagogical benefits to standard training programmes in music.
Seven partners from institutions of higher music education in Vienna, Oslo,
The Hague, Vilnius, Paris, Manchester, and Fiesole, as well as the two festivals
of Grafenegg and Prades, are cooperating to create the best possible tools for
chamber music education today and to secure the greatest possible effort in
the field of classical music education.
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ECMA – Educational Program
Patrons
ECMA – Educational Program
Patrons
ECMA ensembles selected by audition are entitled to participate in
ECMA sessions. These sessions offer chamber music coaching by
renowned musicians plus relevant lectures, seminars and excursions
that are compulsory.
Shmuel Ashkenasi
Elena Bashkirova
Pierre Boulez †
Furthermore, ensembles are given the opportunity to present
themselves to a wider public through concerts, performances
and recordings.
Bruno Canino
Piero Farulli †
ECMA’s ongoing training cycle covers a period of two years,
with seven to eight sessions per year.
David Geringas
In contrast to the attendance of single master classes, regular
participation in as many ECMA sessions as possible assures young
ensembles a continuity of high-profile coaching by well-established
tutors and combines interpretational work with impulses from the
academic realm.
Heinz Holliger
Bruno Giuranna
Seppo Kimanen
Gidon Kremer
Oleg Maisenberg
Each session takes place at an ECMA partner institution or
at a partner festival. Participation is free of charge for ECMA
ensembles. Costs arising in connection with travel and lodging
are usually covered by the ensembles themselves.
Arto Noras
Eiji Oue
Krzysztof Penderecki
Heinrich Schiff
Salvatore Sciarrino
Milan Škampa
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Christian Tetzlaff
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PARTNERSHIPS
PARTNERSHIPS, 2015/16
MEMBERS
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AUSTRIA
Vienna – mdw – Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst
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AUSTRIA
Grafenegg – Grafenegg Kulturbetriebsgesellschaft m.b.H.
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FRANCEParis – Conservatoire national supérieur
de musique et de danse de Paris
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ITALY
Fiesole – Scuola di Musica di Fiesole – Fondazione Onlus
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LITHUANIA
Vilnius – Lietuvos muzikos ir teatro akademija
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NORWAYOslo – Norges musikkhøgskole
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SWITZERLANDBern – Hochschule der Künste
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THE NETHERLANDS The Hague – Koninklijk Conservatorium
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UNITED KINGDOMManchester – Royal Northern College of Music
COOPERATING PARTNERS
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AUSTRIA
Großraming – Europäisches Kulturforum Großraming
AUSTRIAHorn – Allegro Vivo Kammermusik Festival
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AUSTRIA
Vienna – isa – International Summer Academy of the mdw
FRANCE
Prades – Festival Pablo Casals
FRANCEParis – Centre de Musique de Chambre
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ITALYRavenna – Ravenna Festival
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UNITED KINGDOM
London – Wigmore Hall
UPCOMING COOPERATIONS
PORTUGAL Harmos Festival Porto
SPAIN Musethica
GERMANY
ISRAEL
POLAND
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partners
partners
grafenegg – AUSTRIA
Address
Joseph Haydn Institut für Kammermusik, Alte Musik und Neue Musik
Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1
1030 Vienna
www.mdw.ac.at/ijh/
Address
Grafenegg Kulturbetriebsgesellschaft m.b.H.
Grafenegg 10
3485 Grafenegg
www.grafenegg.com/campus
Artistic Director
Johannes Meissl
[email protected]
OrganiSation
Mara Földi
[email protected]
T +43 1 711 55 3002
Jutta Kornfeld
[email protected]
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mdw – Universität für Musik
und darstellende Kunst Wien – AUSTRIA
Executive Director
Paul A. Gessl
ORGANISATION
Magdalena Klamminger
Grafenegg Campus
T +43 2742 90 80 70-730
[email protected]
Verena Hager
T +43 2742 90 80 70-726
[email protected]
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partners
partners
Conservatoire National Supérieur
de Musique et de Danse de Paris – FRANCE
Scuola di Musica di Fiesole,
Fondazione Onlus – ITALY
Address
Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris
209 Avenue Jean Jaurès
75019 Paris
www.conservatoiredeparis.fr
Address
Via delle Fontanelle, 24
50014 San Domenico di Fiesole (FI)
www.scuolamusica.fiesole.fi.it
Artistic director
Bruno Mantovani
[email protected]
OrganiSation
Gretchen Amussen
[email protected]
T + 33 1 40 40 45 79
F + 33 1 40 40 46 51
Artistic director
Antonello Farulli
OrganiSation
Maria Grazia Martelli
T +39 055 5978529
[email protected]
[email protected]
Head, Department of Classical & Contemporary
Instrumental Disciplines
Thierry Vaillant
[email protected]
T +33 1 40 40 45 04
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partners
partners
Lietuvos muzikos ir teatro akademija – LITHUANIA
Koninklijk Conservatorium/
Royal Conservatoire – NETHERLANDS
Address
Gedimino Pr. 42
LT-01110 Vilnius
www.lmta.lt
Address
Juliana van Stolberglaan
12595 CA Den Haag
www.koncon.nl VICE PRINCIPAL
Martin Prchal
[email protected]
Artistic Director
Dalia Balsytė
[email protected]
HEAD OF THE CLASSICAL MUSIC DEPARTMENT
Wim Vos
[email protected]
OrganiSation
Rima Rimšaitė
T +370 5 2124967
F +370 5 2120093
[email protected]
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partners
partners
Norges Musikkhøgskole – NORWAY
Hochschule der Künste Bern – SWITZERLAND
Address
Slemdalsveien 11
NO-0302 Oslo
www.nmh.no
Address
Papiermühlestrasse 13a
3000 Bern 22
www.hkb.bfh.ch
Rector
Peter Tornquist
[email protected]
Artistic Director
Are Sandbakken
[email protected]
Artistic Director
Patrick Jüdt
[email protected]
OrganiSation
Irène Noguchi-Bigler
[email protected]
T +41 31 848 39 68
OrganiSation
Ellen Haldar
[email protected]
T +47 23 36 70 75
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partners
partners
COOPERATING PARTNERS
Europäisches Kulturforum
GroSSraming – AUSTRIA
In cooperation with the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
Royal Northern College of Music –
UNITED KINGDOM
Address
124 Oxford Road
Manchester M13 9RD
www.rncm.ac.uk
Artistic Director
Jeremy Young
[email protected]
OrganiSation
Melanie Smith
[email protected]
T +44 161 907 5463
Artistic Director
Hatto Beyerle
OrganiSation
Europäisches Kulturforum Großraming
Dir. Siegfried Schörkhuber
Festival Pablo Casals – FRANCE
Address
BP. 24
F 66502 Prades Cedex
www.prades-festival-casals.com
Artistic Director
Michel Lethiec
OrganiSation
Sonia Ritlewski
[email protected]
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STATEMENTS about ECMA I
STATEMENTS about ECMA I
The incredibly talented chamber musicians who gather around ECMA are, in their
spirit of enquiry and their determination to go on learning and growing, a pleasure
to teach and a credit to the music profession. Surely there are few other fields
which can boast such a combination of accomplishment and open-mindedness in
their young professionals.
Susan Tomes
ECMA a însemnat una din cele mai ­importante etape pentru dezvoltarea noastră
ca ansamblu, și mai mult decât atât, a fost și este ca o familie pentru noi. ECMA
este locul unde am învăţat ce înseamnă muzica de cameră în toate aspectele ei
profunde, alături de personalităţi marcante ale vieţii muzicale internaţionale.
Arcadia Quartet
Avoir vécu l’expérience ECMA, c’est avoir vécu une aventure humaine et artistique
qui a façonné et soudé notre trio d’une manière déterminante, et qui marquera toute notre vie de musicien.
Trio Atanassov
The Paris Conservatoire's participation in ECMA has provided an invaluable
­European dimension to our chamber music program, one which has had a
­transformative effect on participating trios and quartets. Transformative in that it
has enabled these musicians to develop their international professional networks
and, thanks to the exceptional musicians involved and the breadth of the artistic
and contextual approaches specific to different regions of Europe, to enhance
and indeed grow a "European" musical discourse whilst forging their own musical
identities. In Paris, we have sought to showcase both French repertoire and
­music-making with the specificities of Conservatoire training as well as inte­
grating the city's vast cultural resources - the re-opening of the Picasso Museum,
for example.
Bruno Mantovani, director of the Conservatoire national supérieur
de musique et de danse de Paris
ECMA is THE chamber music program! We learned more about the repertoire and
about music there, and we met incredible and enthusiastic teachers. Many thanks
for everything!
Trio Chausson
Ecma è la casa per Giovani Quartetti
Quarteto di Cremona
Thanks to its mentors, ECMA possesses the power to motivate each and every
ensemble on a highly individual level, with every course exciting and every new
piece of information a discovery. It’s an adventure in living through music, inspiring
us to ­improve ourselves as musicians.
Giocoso String Quartet
Die Arbeit mit den großartigen Musikern bei der ECMA hat uns im Kopf viele
Türen geöffnet, uns neue Wege für unsere Interpretation gezeigt und uns
immer wieder zu Diskussionen und zur Reflexion über unser Spiel angeregt.
Die Gemeinschaft mit den anderen Ensembles, die sich für denselben
musikalischen Weg entschieden haben, war schön zu erleben, und dies hat uns in
unserer Entscheidung für die Kammermusik immer wieder bestärkt und bestätigt.
Es war eine spannende Zeit, von der wir noch immer profitieren!
Boulanger Trio
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It is very important for me to be part of this fantastic teaching experience,
focused on how to transfer a wonderful musical language made of beauty
on how to purity, and share it with the most promising musicians.
Miguel da Silva
© Gerard Spee
Bez European Chamber Music Academy z pewnością nie bylibyśmy w miejscu,
w którym obecnie się znajdujemy.
Szczególnie intensywna współpraca z Johannesem Meisslem i Hatto Beyerle
pomogła nam zbudować solidne podstawy kwartetu i miała istotny wpływ na
obecny charakter zespołu.
Apollon Musagète Quartet
ECMA is where we developed our ability to speak in music.
Galatea Quartet
For the teachers and students at the academy in Oslo, it is a great inspiration
to be a member of ECMA. It enables us to connect with the best of European
traditions in a wonderful way.
Are Sandbakken, Norges Musikkhøgskole
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ensembles
ECMA ENSEMBLES
Acros Trio Venezuela/Germany/Ecuador
Arcis Saxophon Quartett Germany/Slovenia
Boccherini Trio Australia/Belgium/Italy
Darian Trio France/Australia/Japan
Quatuor Hanson Japan/UK/France
Stefan Zweig Trio Japan/France/Bulgaria
© Nancy Horowitz
Quatuor Akilone France
© Diar Nedamaldeen
Mettis String Quartet Lithuania
Acros Trio
Stratos Quartet Austria/Japan/Czech Republic
Boccherini trio
Arcis Saxophon Quartett
Mettis Quartet
ECMA Aspirant-ENSEMBLES
© Boccherin
Trio Metral France
Amatis Trio Germany/UK/Netherlands
Darian trio
Delta Piano Trio Netherlands
Equalis Quartet Hungary/Poland
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Trio Vitruvi Denmark/Switzerland/Australia
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Orbis String Quartet Germany
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ECMA ALUMNI
Apollon Musagète Quartet Poland – www.apollon-musagete.com
Arcadia Quartet Romania – www.arcadiaquartet.com
Berlin Piano Trio (former Berolina Trio) Poland/Germany – www.berlinpianotrio.com
Boulanger Trio Germany – www.boulangertrio.de
Cuarteto Quiroga Spain – www.cuartetoquiroga.com
Galatea Quartet Switzerland – www.galatea-quartet.com
Giocoso String Quartet Germany/Romania/Netherlands – www.giocosostringquartet.com
Kamus Quartet Finland – www.kamusquartet.com
Quatuor Hanson
Stratos Quartett
Akilone Quartet
Stefan Zweig Trio
© Stratos Quartett
© Elise de Bendelac
Meta4 Finland – www.meta4.fi
Minetti Quartet Austria – www.minettiquartett.at
Pacific Quartet Vienna Japan/Hungary/Taiwan/Switzerland – www.pacificquartet.com
Quartetto di Cremona Italy – www.quartettodicremona.it
Quatuor Girard France – www.quatuorgirard.com
Quatuor Zaïde France – www.quatuorzaide.com
Streeton Trio Australia – www.streetontrio.com
Trio Atanassov France – www.trio-atanassov.com
© nancy horowitz
Trio Chausson France – www.triochausson.com
Trio FortVio Lithuania – www.fortvio.lt
Trio Imàge Germany – www.trioimage.eu
Trio Gaspard Albania-Greece/Germany/UK – www.triogaspard.com
© Natacha Colmez
Trio Karénine France – www.triokarenine.com
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GUEST ENSEMBLES, 2015
GUEST ENSEMBLES, 2015/16
Manchester, 2015
Trio Egmont Belgium/France/Italy/Japan, guests
Solem Quartet UK-Belgium/France/Italy/Japan, nominated by the RNCM
Oslo, 2015
Munich Artis Trio Germany/Slovenia/Ukraine, guests
Aluna Quartet Switzerland, nominated by the Hochschule der Künste Bern
Quartetto Testosterone Norway, nominated by the Norges musikkhøgskole
Grafenegg/Vienna, 2015
Piatti Quartet UK, guests
Quartetto Guadagnini Italy, guests
Quasi Trio Czech Republic, guests
Sedlacek Quartet Czech Republic, guests
Fiesole, 2015
Quartetto Taag Italy, nominated by the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole, Fondazione Onlus
Quartetto Trella Italy, guests
Quartetto Testosterone Norway, nominated by the Norges musikkhøgskole
Vilnius, 2015
Trio Claviola Lithuania, nominated by the Lietuvos muzikos ir teatro akademija
Quartet Furiant Germany, guests
BERN, 2016
Aluna Quartet Switzerland, nominated by the Hochschule der Künste Bern
MANCHESTER, 2016
Diverso Quartet UK/Poland, nominated by the RNCM
Gildas Quartet UK, nominated by the RNCM
Sonus Saxophone Quartet Austria/Croatia/Slovenia,
nominated by the mdw – Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien
OSLO, 2016
Sonus Saxophone Quartet Austria/Croatia/Slovenia,
nominated by the mdw – Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien
Quatuor Tchalik France, guests
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AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
ASSOCIATED ENSEMBLE
ECMA Aspirants
Quartetto Lyskamm
Borletti-Buitoni Trust, Special Chamber Music Prize
in honour of Claudio Abbado, 2016, IT
1st Prize International Vittorio Rimbotti Competition, Fiesole 2014, IT
AMATIS PIANO TRIO
2nd Prize International Joseph Joachim Chamber Music Competition 2016, DE
1st Prize Parkhouse Award, Wigmore Hall, London 2015, UK
Dutch Classical Talent 2015/16, NL
Audience Prize Grachtenfestival Concours 2014, NL
NOMINATED ENSEMBLES FROM PARTNER INSTITUTIONS
Delta Piano Trio
1st Prize 7th International S. Vainiunas Chamber Music Competition, Vilnius 2014, LT
1st Prize Salieri-Zinetti International Chamber Music Competition, Verona 2014, IT
1st Prize Orlando Competition (Prix Charles Hennen), Kerkrade 2015, NL
2nd Prize International Gianni Bergamo Classical Music Award, Lugano 2015, CH
© Marco Borggreve
Trio Trikolon
nominated by the mdw – Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst
1st Prize Svirél International Music Competition 2015, SLO
1st Prize “I Reino del Aneto” International Chamber Music Competition 2015, ES
3rd Prize Malta International Music Competition 2015, MT
Finalist Gianni Bergamo Classical Music Award 2015, CH
Bank Austria Art Award 2015, AT
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AMATIS PIANO TRIO Delta Piano Trio
Orbis String Quartet
1st Prize & Special Award International Beethoven Chamber Music Competition 2015, PL
2nd Prize 21st International Johannes Brahms Competition, Pörtschach 2014, AT
Trio Vitruvi
1st Prize & Audience Prize Danish Radio P2 Chamber Music Competition 2014, DK
1st Prize Jurmala International Music Competition 2014, LV
Equalis Quartet Trio Vitruvi
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Sonus Saxophone Quartet
nominated by the mdw – Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst
1st Prize International Alpe Adria Chamber Music Competition 2016, IT
Award Svirél International Music Competition 2013, SLO
Musica Juventutis 2014, AT
Josef Windisch Chamber Music Prize
mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna 2014, AT
1st Prize Chamber Music Competition, Illzach, ADMC 2015, FR
Orbis String Quartet
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ECMA ENSEMBLES
ACROS Trio
Josef Windisch Chamber Music Prize
mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna 2013, AT
Arcis Saxophon Quartett
1st Prize 4th International Gaidamovich Contest – of Chamber Ensemble Performance,
Magnitogorsk 2015, RUS
2nd Prize Chamber Music Competition of the Alice Samter Foundation Berlin 2014, DE
1st Prize and Audience Prize Musikwettbewerb des Kulturkreises Gasteig
e.V. Munich 2013, DE
1st Prize International Music Competition “Pietro Argento” 2013, IT
1st Prize First Classical Music International Internet-Festival “Chance Music”
Moscow 2013, RUS
3rd Prize 13th Chieri International Competition 2013, IT
Hanson Quartet
3rd Prize and Audience Prize, 11th Lyon International Chamber Music Competition,
String Quartets 2015, FR
2nd Prize Concours européen de Musique d'ensemble de la FNAPEC,
Bourse de l'Académie des Beaux Arts, Paris, 2014, FR
Mettis String Quartet
1st Prize and Special Award XII International Lithuanian Chamber Music Performance
Competition 2012, LT
isa Laureates isa – International Summer Academy of the mdw 2012 & 2014, AT
Stefan Zweig Trio
1st Prize & Audience Prize
6th International Joseph Haydn Chamber Music Competition, Vienna 2015, AT
STRATOS QUARTETT
1st Prize and Special Award “Patrizia Cerutti Bresso” – International Chamber Music
Competition Città di Pinerolo e Torino – Città Metropolitana 2016, IT
1st Prize and Special Award 20th International Johannes Brahms Competition,
Pörtschach 2013, AT
Josef Windisch Chamber Music Prize mdw – University of Music and Performing
Arts Vienna 2013, AT
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ALUMNI-ENSEMBLES
Apollon Musagète Quartet
BBC New Generation Artist 2012–2014, UK
Echo Rising Star Artists 2010/2011, BE
1st Prize and 3 Special Awards ARD International Music Competition 2008, Munich, DE
1st Prize V. E. Rimbotti Competition, Fiesole 2008, IT
Josef Windisch Chamber Music Prize mdw – University of Music and Performing
Arts Vienna 2008, AT
Special Award International Joseph Haydn Chamber Music Competition, Vienna 2007, AT
isa Laureates isa – International Summer Academy of the mdw 2007, AT
Arcadia Quartet
Winners, “1000 fans challenge”, Hello Stage
1st Prize Osaka International Chamber Music Competition & Festa 2014, Japan
1st Prize, Esterházy Foundation Prize and Beethoven Prize Wigmore Hall London
­International String Quartet Competition 2012, UK
Winners International Chamber Music Competition Almere 2011, NL
1st Prize, Brahms Prize, Mendelssohn Prize Hamburg International Chamber Music
­Competition 2009, DE
2nd Prize “Gianni Bergamo” Classical Music Award 2009, CH
isa Laureates isa – International Summer Academy of the mdw 2012 & 2009, AT
Haydn Prize, Artis Prize isa – International Summer Academy of the mdw 2009, AT
1st Prize “Ferdinand Weiss” Chamber Music Competition 2007, RO
1st Prize “Mozart” Chamber Music Competition 2006, RO
BERLIN PIANO TRIO
3rd Prize International Joseph Haydn Chamber Music Competition Vienna 2009, AT
Audience Award, donated by the Esterhazy Foundation International Joseph Haydn
Chamber Music Competition, Vienna 2009, AT
Prix Marguerite Dütschler 2009, CH
1st Prize and Grand Prix Cracow International Contemporary Music Competition
(formerly the PENDERECKI Competition) 2007, PL
1st Prize and Audience Prize European Chamber Music Competition Karlsruhe 2007, DE
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Boulanger Trio
Supersonic Award Pizzicato magazine in Luxembourg, 2014, for Beethoven CD, LU
Supersonic Award Pizzicato magazine in Luxembourg, 2012, for Shostakovich-Vasks CD, LU
Winner of the Swiss radio broadcast “Diskothek” on DRS2 with its recording of the
trio byClara Schumann, 2012, CH
Excellentia Award Pizzicato magazine in Luxembourg, 2012,
for Brahms-Liszt-Schoenberg CD, LU
Annemarie and Hermann Rauhe Prize 2008, DE
2nd Prize Trondheim International Chamber Music Competition 2007, NO
Cuarteto Quiroga
Quartet-in-Residence of the Palatine Decorated Stradivarius Collection
at Madrid’s Royal Palace 2014, SP
Best Classical Music CD of 2012 for their CD Statements (Cobra Records),
awarded by the Independent Producers Association of Spain (UFI), ES
3rd Prize Beijing International Chamber Music Competition 2011, CN
Special Award Premio Paolo Borciani 2008, IT
2nd Prize Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition 2007, FR
Grand Prix de la Presse Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition 2007, FR
Spanish National Radio Culture Prize awarded in 2007 by Spanish Radio
(RNE-OjoCritico), ES
Special Award Geneva International Music Competition 2006, CH
1st Prize & Gold Medal Palau Competition Barcelona 2006, ES
Galatea Quartet
Special Award Canton of Zurich, 2013, CH
Echo Klassik 2012, DE
1st Prize V. E. Rimbotti Competition, Fiesole 2010, IT
Special Prize Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition 2010, FR
3rd Prize Osaka International Chamber Music Competition 2008, JP
1st Prize Migros Chamber Music Competition 2007, CH
3rd Prize and Audience Award Geneva International Music Competition 2006, CH
GIOCOSO STRING QUARTET
2nd Prize Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition 2015, AU
“Peter Druce” Audience Award & “Musica Viva Australia” Award
Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition 2015, AU
EconGas Prize isa – International Summer Academy of the mdw 2012, AT
HSBC-Laureates Festival d´Aix-en-Provence 2012, FR
Josef Windisch Chamber Music Prize mdw – University of Music an Performing
Arts Vienna 2012, AT
isa Laureates isa – International Summer Academy of the mdw 2011 & 2012, AT
3rd Prize Charles Hennen International Chamber Music Competition 2009, NL
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Kamus Quartet
Recording of the Year 2015 with CD Different Voices – Quartets by Sibelius,
Tiensuu and Kaipainen / awarded by the Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE, FL
3rd Prize & Special Prize for the best performance of the contemporary piece,
Kuhmo International Chamber Music Competition 2004, FI
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Special Prize in recognition of their contribution to Finnishe culture,
donated by the Fund of Jenny and Antti Wihuri, 2013, FI
Record of the Year 2012 Shostakovich: String Quartets Nos. 3, 4 & 7 / awarded by
the Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE, FI
Emma Prize (the Finnish Grammy) in the category “Classical Album of the Year”
2012", FI
Echo Klassik 2010, DE
BBC Young Generation Artist, 2008–10, UK
1st Prize International Joseph Haydn Chamber Music Competition, Vienna 2007, AT
1st Prize & Special Prize for the best Shostakovich, Shostakovich International
Quartet ­Competition, Moscow 2004, RU
Minetti Quartet
Pasticcio Preis Ö1 2013, AT
1st Prize International V. E. Rimbotti Competition, Fiesolee 2007, IT
2nd Prize International Joseph Haydn Chamber Music Competition, Vienna 2007, AT
isa Laureates isa – International Summer Academy of the mdw 2007, AT
Special Prize for the best Haydn, International Joseph Haydn Chamber Music
­Competition, Vienna 2007, AT
2nd Prize Franz Schubert and Modern Music – Competition, Graz 2006, AT
Special Award for Contemporary Music Franz Schubert and Modern Music –
Competition, Graz 2006, AT
HSBC-Laureates Festival d’Aix-en-Provence 2006, FR
Paul Klee Trio
1st Prize Trondheim International Chamber Music Competition 2011, NO
3rd Prize Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition 2011, AU
Audience Award Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition 2011, AU
PACIFIC QUARTET VIENNA
August Pickhardt Price 2016, CH
1st Prize 6th International Joseph Haydn Chamber Music Competition,
Audience Prize & Special Prize for the best Haydn, 6th International Joseph
Haydn Chamber Music Competition, Vienna 2015, AT
1st Prize VIII International Marco Fiorindo Chamber Music Competition 2008, IT
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Quartetto di Cremona
Artist in Residence Società del Quartetto, Milano, IT
Winner International Web Concert Hall Competition 2010, US
Borletti Buitoni Trust Foundation Fellowship 2005, UK
“Franco Gulli” International Chamber Music Prize 2004, IT
2nd Prize Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition 2003, AU
2nd Prize Vittorio GUI International Competition, Florence 2002, IT
1st Prize VII International String Quartet Competition, Cremona 2002, IT
2nd Prize (1st Prize not awarded), at the Charles Hennen International Chamber Music
­Competition, Holland 2001, NL
Quatuor Girard
3rd Prize Geneva International Music Competition 2011, CH
HSBC-Laureates Festival d´Aix-en-Provence 2010, FR
Grand Prix Académie Maurice Ravel, Saint-Jean-de-Luz 2010, FR
Quatuor Zaïde
Special Award ARD International Music Competition 2012, Munich, DE
Artis Quartet Award, Viennese Classicism Award isa – International Summer
Academy of the mdw 2012, AT
1st Prize International Joseph Haydn Chamber Music Competition, Vienna 2012, AT
Special Prizes International Joseph Haydn Chamber Music Competition, Vienna 2012, AT
1st Prize Beijing International Chamber Music Competition 2011, CN
Special Prize Beijing International Chamber Music Competition 2011, CN
1st Prize Charles Hennen International Chamber Music Competition 2010, NL
Press Prize Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition 2010, FR
3rd Prize Banff International String Quartet Competition 2010, CA
Streeton Trio
1st Prize Musica Viva Chamber Music Award 2011, AU
AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
Trio Atanassov
2nd Prize (1st Prize not awarded), Franz Schubert and Modern Music Competition,
Graz 2015, AT
Special Prize for the comtemporary piece, Franz Schubert and Modern Music
Competition, Graz 2015, AT
3rd Prize The 8th Osaka International Chamber Music Competition & Festa 2014, Japan
3rd Prize Internationaler Joseph Joachim Chamber Music Competition 2012, DE
3rd Prize Trondheim International Chamber Music Competition 2011, NO
1st Prize International Schumann Chamber Music Award Frankfurt 2010, DE
3rd Prize International Joseph Haydn Chamber Music Competition Vienna, 2009, AT
Special Prize for the best Haydn, International Joseph Haydn Chamber Music
­Competition, Vienna 2009, AT
isa Laureates isa – International Summer Academy of the mdw 2009, AT
3rd Prize Vibrarte International Music Competition, Paris 2008, FR
Trio Chausson
1st Prize 4th International Joseph Joachim Chamber Music Competition 2005, DE
Special Prize International Joseph Haydn Chamber Music Competition, Vienna 2004, AT
Trio FortVio
Culture and Art Award of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania 2014, LT
GRAND PRIX International Master Competition for Music Teachers, Warsaw 2013, PL
Laureates Golden Disc Award, Lithuanian Musicians’ Union 2009, LT
2nd Prize 3rd Taneev International Chamber Ensemble Competition 2008, RU
Special Prize 3rd Taneev International Chamber Ensemble Competition 2008, RU
3rd Prize International Johannes Brahms Competition, Pörtschach 2006, AT
isa Laureates isa – International Summer Academy of the mdw 2006, AT
1st Prize 5th International Stasys Vainiunas Piano and Chamber Ensemble ­Competition
2006, LT
Trio Gaspard
1st Prize International Joseph Joachim Chamber Music Competition Weimar 2012, DE
Special Award for the best interpretation of a contemporary piece, International Joseph
Joachim Chamber Music Competition 2012, DE
EconGas-Prize, Viennese Classicism Award isa – International Summer Academy
of the mdw 2012, AT
1st Prize International Joseph Haydn Chamber Music Competition, Vienna 2012, AT
Special Prize International Joseph Haydn Chamber Music Competition, Vienna 2012, AT
1st Prize International Chamber Music Competition Illzach 2011, FR
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ATTENDANCE LIST
GENERAL ASSEMBLY, 2015
Trio Imàge
Echo Klassik 2014, DE
2nd Prize Franz Schubert and Modern Music Competition, Graz 2006, AT
Audience Award Franz Schubert and Modern Music Competition, Graz 2006, AT
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Participants
Trio Karénine
NORDMETALL – Ensemble Prize Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festtival 2015, DE
Awardees Fondation Oulmont 2014, FR
2nd Prize (1st prize not awarded), 62nd ARD International Music Competition
in ­Munich 2013, DE
Special Prizes, including the Prize for the Best Interpretation
of the ­Commissioned Composition (Fazil Say: “Space Jump”),
62nd ARD International Music Competition Munich, 2013, DE
Laureates Fondation Banque Populaire 2012, FR
1st Prize Charles Hennen International Chamber Music Competition 2012, NL
Special Award International Joseph Haydn Chamber Music Competition, Vienna 2012, AT
International Pro Musicis Prize 2011, FR
Prix Rotary Club à l’Académie internationale Maurice Ravel 2010, FR
Gretchen Amussen Paris
Dalia Balsyte Vilnius
Hatto Beyerle Vienna/Hannover
Matteo Deichmann ECMA president
Antonello Farulli Fiesole
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Verena Hager Grafenegg
Gerhard Hildenbrand Vienna/Basel
Patrick Jüdt Bern
Magdalena Klamminger Grafenegg
Avedis Kouyoumdjian Vienna
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Johannes Meissl Vienna
Monika Mistlbachner Vienna
Martin Prchal The Hague
Rima Rimsaite Vilnius
Ulrike Sych Vienna
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Peter Tornquist Oslo
Wim Vos The Hague
Jeremy Young Manchester
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STATEMENTS about ECMA II
STATEMENTS about ECMA II
For us in Oslo, the opportunity to access the best impulses in European chamber
music represents a great enrichment. And at our Oslo Sessions, it was important to
us that the ECMA participants have a chance to experience the highlights of our
Norwegian cultural history. In the midst of our session venue’s beautiful natural
­surroundings, we visited art museums and listened to folk music, with the participants also dancing folk dances themselves.
Norges musikkhøgskole
Without ECMA, our group wouldn’t exist as we do today. It enormously helped
our musicality, and it also helped us in learning the language and finding music’s
secret beauty.
에크마 없이는 지금 우리의 그룹이 현재처럼 존재하지 않을 것입니다.
Trio Gaspard
For us, ECMA is one of the greatest sources of inspiration. It offers us ­everything
we need to develop: concert appearances, intense musical work with great musical
personalities, detailed work on quartet technique, and – thanks to the lectures –
­honing of our intellectual awareness.
Pacific Quartet Vienna
The European Chamber Music Academy offers what every young ensemble dreams
of: regular training with the most accomplished mentors you can find anywhere in
the world. Though their perspectives differ, they're united by a common impetus.
This impetus is like oxygen for a young ensemble, and in an ECMA session, young
ensembles and incredible pedagogues breath the same air. Indeed, one of the
unique ­features of ECMA is the opportunity to really get to know the tutors: in a
­very convivial atmosphere, we can prolong the lessons with talks around a glass
at Café Schwarzenberg in Vienna or share opinions on a musical subject after a
­lecture... All this is very stimulating. In a nutshell, ECMA is a true musician’s music
course! L’ ECMA, une fête de la conscience musicale!
Trio Karénine
ECMA is much more than an extra­ordinary chamber music academy with the
best tutors and the most stimulating young European ensembles: it goes beyond
professional training to link music, philosophy and language in a unique way
that seeks to apprehend the heart of our European culture via Soctratic-style
teaching and critical thinking.
CUARTETO QUIROGA
ECMA has truly been a blessing for us.
Streeton Trio
Ever since we first heard of ECMA, it was our dream to become a member.
ECMA allows you not only to expand your horizons in terms of musical ­perception,
but also to enhance your communication skills and didactic knowledge while
having a chance to immerse yourself in the cultures of other countries. For our lives
and our career together, we view ECMA as being of inestimeable value, and we’re
very glad that we can be part of it.
Piano trio FortVio
ECMA war für uns ein wunderbarer und unvergesslicher, auch intensiver Abschnitt
in unseren Quartettanfängen! Die ersten Begegnungen und Unterrichtsstunden
mit Legenden der Musikgeschichte wie Norbert Brainin-Amadeus Quartett,
Milan Skampa-Smetana Quartett und großen Persönlichkeiten des aktuellen
Konzertgeschehens waren prägende, unvergessliche Momente für die wir sehr
dankbar sind!
Das ­Gemeinschaftsgefühl mit den vielen anderen ECMA-Gruppen, also Gleichgesinnten wurde in den Sessions vertieft. Die Vorträge, Workshops und gemeinsamen
Konzerte motivierten zu Höchstleistungen. Sehr gut in Erinnerung sind uns vor
­allem Fiesole, Zürich, Groß­raming und Wien.
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ECMAssa vietetyt vuodet valoivat Meta4:n kivijalan ja olivat ratkaisevat meidän koko
olemassaololle. ECMA avasi meille suoran yhteyden jousik­vartetin synnyinlähteille, on
vaikea kuvitella inspiroivempaa opiskeluympäristöä nuorelle jousikvartetille.
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Summer Academy
10–28 August 2016
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26 th International Summer Academy
14–28 August 2016
in Mürzzuschlag, Payerbach,
Reichenau and Semmering
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Open Chamber Music
International Laureates
Young Stars
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Instrumentalists
Chamber Music
Composers
Contemporary Music
Workshops
Competition
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tutors
tutors
Tutors
TUTORS 2015/16
Balsytė, Dalia piano – Vilnius
Beyerle, Hatto viola – Großraming
Farulli, Antonello viola – Fiesole
Jüdt, Patrick viola – Bern
Lethiec, Michel clarinet – Prades
Mantovani, Bruno composer – Paris
Meissl, Johannes violin – Vienna
Sandbakken, Are viola – Oslo
Young, Jeremy piano – Manchester
Båtnes, Elise violin – Oslo
Bertrand, Emmanuelle cello – Paris
Beyerle, Hatto viola – Vienna/Hannover
Bieler, Ida violin – Graz
Bitlloch, Sara violin – Barcelona/London
Carlsen, Morten violin – Oslo
Cropper, Peter † violin – Manchester
Farulli, Antonello viola – Fiesole
Jüdt, Patrick viola – Bern
Kouyoumdjian, Avedis piano – Vienna
Lethiec, Michel clarinet – Prades/Paris
Lundberg, Per Anders piano – Oslo
Meissl, Johannes violin – Vienna
Miguel Da Silva viola – Paris/Geneva
Mommertz, Dirk violin – Munich
Nannoni, Andrea cello – Fiesole
Pernoo, Jérôme cello – Paris
Phillips-Varjabédian, Jean-Marc violin – Paris
Plagge, Wolfgang piano – Oslo
Prause, Petr cello – Manchester
Richter, Christoph cello – Essen/London
Sandbakken, Are viola – Oslo
Schlichtig, Hariolf viola – Munich
Schuster, Claus-Christian piano – Vienna
Tait, Alasdair cello – London
Tomes, Susan piano – London
Young, Jeremy piano – Manchester
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LECTURERS
Lecturers presenting scholarly input and content from special musicological
fields are invited in accordance with each session’s thematic focus, which is
proposed by the hosting partner.
Ališauskas, Egidijus musician – Vilnius
Aspaas, Tor Espen pianist – Oslo
Baltakis, Stasys filmmaker – Vilnius
Boukobza, Jean-François musicologist – Paris
Bružaitė, Aistė musician – Vilnius
Bürger, Angela director – Bern
Budde, Elmar musicologist – Berlin
Cacciari, Massimo philosopher – Fiesole
Cappelletto, Sandro music critic – Fiesole
Cardas, Berit violinist – Oslo
Egidijus, Ališauskas musician and conductor – Vilnius
Gagel, Reinhard improviser, researcher – Berlin
Givone, Sergio philosopher – Fiesole
Glanz, Christian musicologist – Vienna
Glaser, Liv fortepiano – Oslo
Greenhead, Karin Dalcroze teacher – London
Haslmayr, Harald art historian – Graz
Joo, Hyung-ki pianist, composer, comedian – Vienna
Junod, Jérôme director – Vienna
Kraggerud, Henning violinist – Oslo
Lemke-Matwey, Christine journalist – Hamburg/Munich
Navickaitė-Martinelli, Lina musicologist – Vilnius
Player, Steven dancer, actor, choreographer – Fiesole
Skurvydaitė, Loreta historian – Vilnius
Svarstad, Elizabeth dance instructor – Oslo
Szabó-Knotik, Cornelia musicologist – Vienna
Williamon, Aaron performance scientist – London
Wilson, Elizabeth author, cellist – Fiesole
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CD Releases, 2015
CD Releases, 2015
COMPOSERS
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Dick, Leo composer
Harenberg, Michael scientiest media scholar, composer
Kurtág, György composer
Kruse, Bjørn composer, painter
Meixner, Michael composer
Ofenbauer, Christian composer
Plagge, Wolfgang composer, pianist
Sciarrino, Salvatore composer
Stroppa, Marco composer
Thommessen, Olav Anton composer
Urbaitis, Mindaugas composer
Vacchi, Fabio composer
Weissberg, Daniel composer
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obituary – peter cropper
It has been a severe shock for us to learn
that our friend and colleague Peter Cropper
was unexpectedly summoned away from this world.
With his musicality, esprit, knowledge, and formidable arsenal of experience,
he was a figure of central importance among our teachers. He was admired and
­loved by everyone – not just as a great musician, but also for being the person
who he was. His passion for music and for teaching music to young musicians
was every bit as legendary as was his constantly open and direct manner, both in
the musical world and among his friends. He hated any and all sorts of tactical
­manoeuvring. His could occasionally come across as brusque, but what he said
was unfailingly characterised by clarity and honesty. And at his core, he was an
­unbelievably sensitive, refined human being and musician, a jewel in our world.
“Let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these
cometh of evil!” seemed to be his motto in life. And what’s more, he was a man
of genuine modesty, a quality that – these days – has become rather rare.
He was a person whom one simply had to love for his clear forthrightness
and for the warmth of his humanity.
All of us are deeply saddened by Peter Cropper’s passing!
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events
events
UPCOMING SCHEDULED Events
Austria – Vienna/Grafenegg 2015*
Grafenegg KulturbetriebsgmbH
15 May – 22 May 2016
Session and festival
Italy – Fiesole 2015
Scuola di Musica di Fiesole –
Fondazione Onlus
24 July – 31 July 2016
Session
Lithuania – Vilnius 2015
Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre
28 September – 3 October 2016
Session
Austria – GroSSraming 2015 *
France – Paris 2016
Conservatoire national supérieur
de musique et de danse de Paris
26 October – 1 November 2016
Session
Europäisches Kulturforum Großraming
4 September – 10 September 2016
Session and festival
SWITZERLAND – BERN 2016
United Kingdom – London 2017
Wigmore Hall London
26 – 28 January 2017
Showcase
United Kingdom – Manchester 2017
Royal Northern College of Music
06 March – 11 March 2017
Session
Norway – Oslo 2017
Norges musikkhøgskole
19 April – 25 April 2017
Session
Austria – Vienna/Grafenegg 2017*
Grafenegg KulturbetriebsgmbH
07 May 2017 – 14 May 2017
Session and festival
Italy – Fiesole 2017
Scuola di Musica di Fiesole –
Fondazione Onlus
02 July 2017 – 09 July 2017
Session
* in cooperation with the mdw – University of Music and Performing Vienna
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17 – 23 November 2016
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the Association
the Association
ECMA – THE Association
ECMA is organised as a nonprofit association registered under to ­Austrian law.
ECMA partners are acknowledged either as Partner Institutions or
Extraordinary Members.
Name
ECMA – European Chamber Music Academy
(Association for the Promotion of European Chamber Music)
Johannes Meissl
Executive Committee
President
Mathias Deichmann
Artistic Director
Hatto Beyerle
Artistic Director
Johannes Meissl
Finance CommitteeAvedis Kouyoumdjian
ManagementMonika Mistlbachner
Advisor
Gerhard Hildenbrand
Hatto Beyerle
Account Details
Name
ECMA-Europ. Chamber Music Academy
BankBank Austria UniCredit Group
IBAN
AT85 1200 0506 6200 8363
BIC
BKAUATWW
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ECMA Coordination
Monika Mistlbachner
ECMA – European Chamber Music Academy
c/o mdw – Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst
Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1
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