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Summer Academy 2011: International Master Class for Young Composers Every two years since 2003, the public foundation and residency program Akademie Schloss Solitude hosts a summer master class for young composers. The fifth Summer Academy will take place from August 5 to 22, 2011. Sixteen composers at various stages in their work will be chosen to participate. During the Summer Academy, participants will meet with faculty for individual lessons, meet each other one-on-one to discuss their work, and partake in the evening presentations, where each composer introduces and discusses his or her work with the entire group. The Freiburg-based Ensemble SurPlus will be in residence during the second half of the Summer Academy to prepare and perform two public concerts of the participants’ compositions held at the end of the course. There will also be sessions of musical analysis with the faculty, workshops on notation and performance practice with SurPlus members, as well as guest presentations. The participants can enjoy the beautiful natural surroundings of the Akademie Schloss Solitude while benefiting from interactions with other artists present in this multidisciplinary environment. The permanent faculty of the Academy is Chaya Czernowin and Steven Kazuo Takasugi. In 2011 they will be joined by Amnon Wolman.
Submissions Not more than three works with recordings and scores OR when applicable recordings only, and the application form. Application forms can be downloaded as pdf documents from the Akademie Schloss Solitude Website from July 15, 2010 to December 1, 2010 (deadline). Submission deadline: December 1, 2010. (Postmark) Fee: 800 Euro, including all courses, room and board Some scholarships, partial scholarships, and need-based scholarships are available. Enrollment is limited to 16 participants. Course Language: English
Short Biographies of the Instructors Chaya Czernowin born 1957 in Israel, studied composition at the Tel Aviv Academy of Music until 1982. Fellowships and studies followed in Berlin, Japan and the USA, where she was able to concentrate on forming her musical language and thought. She has taught composition at the Yoshiro Irino Institute, JML, Tokyo, Japan and at the Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music from 1990-94 and in 1998. In 1992 she won the Kranichsteiner Musikpreis. She was a fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude in 1996. Chaya Czernowin is a professor of music at the University of California, San Diego since 1997. She wrote the opera Pnima...ins innere for the Munich Biennale 2000. This work is based on David Grossman's story Momik and hauntingly treats the burden of individual Holocaust memories and the difficulty of communication between the generations. She was awarded the Bavarian Theater Prize for the work and it was awarded the title of Best Premiere of the Year by the magazine Opernwelt. In addition to numerous further prizes, Czernowin was awarded the Förderpreis of the Ernst-von-Siemens Music Foundation in 2003 and of the Rockefeller Foundation in 2004 with two portrait concerts in New York. Czernowin was invited to festivals in Dresden und Darmstadt as Composer in Residence in 2004 and in 2006 to the Salzburg Festival, where she was commissioned to supplement Mozart's opera Zaïde. Steven Kazuo Takasugi born 1960 in Los Angeles, studied composition with Noah Creshevsky, Bunita Marcus, Morton Feldman, Brian Ferneyhough, Joji Yuasa and Roger Reynolds, as well as computer music with Charles Dodge, F. Richard Moore, and Harold Cohen. He received his masters and doctoral degrees in composition from the University of California San Diego and has held artists and guest residencies in Japan, Germany, France, and the United States. His compositions have been presented worldwide and he has won numerous awards. He has lectured extensively and is author of many articles on new music and aesthetics. Takasugi currently teaches composition at University of California, San Diego. His primary compositional interests lead to a re-examination of instruments-Western, »Non-Western«, technological, makeshift and invented-informed by deconstructive analyses of assumptions embedded in traditional or experimental practices, as well as scientific, socio-political, or religious-aesthetic pretense, as these pervade compositional and artistic thinking of musical material, time and space. From this »excavation« of lodged assumptions comes the energies for his work. This includes a cycle of works entitled Vers une myopie musicale and his most recent piece Jargon of Nothingness. Amnon Wolman born 1955 in Israel. Composer and Sound Artist, currently a professor of composition and director of the Center for Computer Music at Brooklyn College (CUNY), and a professor of composition at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). Previous Positions include Northwestern University, Tel Aviv University, Group Musica Nova-Israel, Ferienkurse fur Neue Musik in Darmstadt, Germany, Stanford University, and the University of California at Berkeley. Has a DMA in composition and computer music from Stanford University in 1986, prior studies include the Center for Compositional Studies at the Aspen Music School, the University of Utrecht-Holland and at the Rubin Academy of Music, Tel Aviv University - Israel.
Support The Summer Academy is supported by funds from the Harvard Music Department and the Ministry of Science, Research, the Arts of the State of Baden-Württemberg and the Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne.
Contact Address Akademie Schloss Solitude Stiftung des öffentlichen Rechts Marieanne Roth Solitude 3 70197 Stuttgart, Germany Tel. +49 (0) 711 99 61 94 74 Fax +49 (0) 711 99 61 95 0 summeracademy@akademie-solitude.de Back to the Newslist

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