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International Masterclass for young composers Every two years since 2003, the public foundation and residency program Akademie Schloss Solitude (Stuttgart, Germany) hosts a summer master class for young composers. The fourth Summer Academy will take place from August 7-23, 2009 (departure August 24). Seventeen 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. This year they will be joined by Mark Andre and Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf. Fee: 800 Euro (includes room and meals). Some scholarships, partial scholarships, and need-based scholarships are available. 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.
Instructors: Chaya Czernowin, Steven Kazuo Takasugi, Mark Andre, Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf Chaya Czernowin and Steven Kazuo Takasugi are permanent faculty for the Summer Academy master class to give consistency in methodology and content. An additional instructor - different for every master class - will join the two for a diversified exchange between teachers and students. For the master class 2009 they will be joined by Mark Andre and Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf.
Short biographies of the instructors: Chaya Czernowin Was born 1957 in Israel and 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«. In 2006/2007 she teached at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. In autumn 2009 she will teach composition at the Harvard University.
Steven Kazuo Takasugi Was born 1960 in Los Angeles and 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, Israel, 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 has taught at the University of California, San Diego, the California Institute of the Arts, and the Kunitachi College of Music, and has taught at master classes throughout the world. In 2009, he will accept an appointment as Associate in the Music Department at Harvard University and will be Managing Director of the Harvard Summer Master Courses in New Music Composition. He is one of the founding editors of »Search Journal for New Music and Culture«, a peer reviewed journal with an emphasis on new music composition. He currently lives and works in Vienna.
Mark Andre Was born 1964 Paris and studied composition, counterpoint, harmony, analysis and musical research at the Conservatoire National Supérieure de Musique de Paris, where his teachers included Claude Ballif and Gérard Grisey. In 1993 Mark Andre got a scholarship from the French Foreign Ministry and reached an advanced degree in composition with Helmut Lachenmann at the Musikhochschule in Stuttgart and he took a doctorate degree in musicology in 1994. Mark Andre recieved numerous scholarships and honours: In 2008 he got a grant from the Berliner Kunstpreis of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin and in 2007 he received the Giga Hertz Production Prize for electronic music and the orchestral prize from Donaueschingen Festival for »...auf... « III from the SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden and Freiburg. Furthermore he won the Christoph and Stefan Kaske Composition Prize 2006 and he composed »...22, 13...« in 2004, a music theater in three parts, written for the Biennale in Munich and the Mainz City Theater. 2002 Mark Andre got the grant from the Ernst von Siemens Foundation for Music and in 2001 he got the composition prize of the opera in Frankfurt for »...das O...« and a scholarship from the Opera in Frankfurt. From 1998 until 2000 the composer had a fellowship at Villa Medici in Rome and in 1997 he got a scholarship from the Heinrich-Strobel-Foundation in Freiburg, as well as one from the SWR and the city of Baden-Baden. In this year he also won the first prize at Stuttgart International Composers´ Competition. In 1996 Mark Andre was a fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart and he got also a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the Kranichstein Music Prize for »un-fini I« and »le loin et le profond« from the Darmstadt International Holiday Courses in New Music and he attended a master class with Wolfgang Rihm. His recent composition, the cycle »...auf...« is composed for a large orchestra and conceived as a triptych of three pieces, but the different pieces can also be performed and listened to separately although they form a whole. The first performance is planned for Berlin in 2009; other performances will follow in Brussels and Paris. Mark Andre is teaching at the Conservatoire National in Strasbourg and at the Musikhochschule in Frankfurt. He lives in Berlin.
Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf Was born 1962 in Mannheim and studied musicology, philosophy and sociology at the Universities of Heidelberg, Freiburg and Frankfurt am Main. He also studied composition with Brian Ferneyhough. In 1987 Mahnkopf studied at the Staatliche Hochschule for Music in Freiburg, where his teachers were Klaus Huber, Emmanuel Nunes, Peter Foertig and James Avery. In 1989 he graduated in sociology with Jürgen Habermas and in philosophy with Ludwig von Friedeburg. In 1992 he graduated in composition and music theory. One year later Mahnkopf received a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Frankfurt am Main. Since 1988 he had following lectureships: Hochschule für Musik und Theater Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in Leipzig ( 2003-2005); Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg (2002-2003 and 1992-1996); University of Freiburg (1990-1995); Darmstadt International Holiday Courses (1988-1994). Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf recieved numerous scholarships and honours. From 2005 to 2009 he is a member of the jury of the Stuttgarter Composition Prize. He had a scholarship from the Heinrich-Strobel-Foundation of the SWF several times (2003, 1998 and 1991) and in 2001 he began the cooperation with the Experimental Studio there. In 1998/1999 he was at the Villa Massimo in Rome and in 1998 he also got the grant from the Siemens-Foundation. In 1995/1996 he got a fellowship at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart and the Baldreit-scholarship from the city of Baden-Baden in 1994. In 1991 he was composer in residence at the Staatsoper Hamburg and in 1990 he received a scholarship of the Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg and achieved the Gaudeamus Prize for his creation »Interpénetrations«. Since 2005 Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf is the editor of »sinefonia« and since 1997 he is the editor of »Musik & Ästhetik«. In 2006 he published his book »Kritische Theorie der Musik«. In the years 2004–2006 he was an artistic and scientific advisor of the »Festival of International Society for Contemporary Music« (ISCM-Festival). 2002 he established the book series » New Music and Aesthetics in the 21st century«. In 2000 his music theatre »Angelus Novus« could be seen at the Biennale in Munich. Extensive works of all genres and premieres. Recent world premieres: »humanized void« for big orchestra and »Dritte Kammersymphonie« for chamber orchestra. Currently working on »voiced void« for the Vocalensemble des SWR Stuttgart and »void – un delitto italiano« for the Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart. He is exclusively represented by the Hamburg based publishing house Sikorski. Since 2005 Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf is a composition professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Leipzig.
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