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Chaya Czernowin, 2007		Master class 2007		James Avery, 2007		Master class concerts, 2007
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 5-22, 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. 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.
Instructors: Chaya Czernowin, Steven Kazuo Takasugi, Amnon Wolman 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 2011 they will be joined by Amnon Wolman.
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 given 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.
Ammon Wolman Born 1955 in Israel, works as a composer and sound artist. After having studied composition in Utrecht/Netherlands, Tel Aviv/Israel and Aspen/USA, he graduated with a D.M.A. (Doctor of Musical Arts) in composition and computer music from the Stanford University in 1986. Since 2006, he has been the artistic director of Ensemble Musica Nova in Tel Aviv and since 2007, director of the School of Music Education at Levinsky College in Tel Aviv. Previous positions include professorships of composition at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and at the Center for Computer Music at Brooklyn College in the USA among many others. Amnon Wolman has received numerous fellowships and awards, in 2000, he was the winner of the Queens’ 2000 International Competition at Queens College, Oxford/USA.
Contact: Akademie Schloss Solitude Solitude 3 70197 Stuttgart Germany Tel. +49 (0)711 99 61 94 74 Fax +49 (0)711 99 61 95 0 Email: summeracademy@akademie-solitude.de Flyer 2011 (582kb)
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