Strings Program in Germany
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The Strings Program is extensive, intensive. and unique. It is designed with elements of the Russian school to boost students to the next level of playing. The beauty of their surroundings and cultural experience is ideal for artistic growth.
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Each student receives two private lessons per week with an internationally-renowned artist faculty member.
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All participants are preselected into chamber groups and assigned to partners and repertoire choices according to level, matched well in advance. Instrumentalists receive two fourty-five minute chamber coachings per week with an artist faculty member with their chamber group(s).
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Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider will be joining InterHarmony International Music Festival’s Outstanding Guest Artist Series in Sulzbach-Rosenberg, Bavaria, Germany this summer on August 6 for a concert of the intense and melodic Brahms trios. He will be sharing the stage with cellist and Music Director Misha Quint and pianist Saleem Ashkar. Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider will join the Outstanding Master Class Series at InterHarmony, presenting a violin master class opened to the public on August 5, where students will have a chance to perform for and work with the master.
NIKOLAJ SZEPS-ZNAIDER is the most celebrated performer of our time with recent and forthcoming highlights with the Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Dresden Staatskapelle, and the Stockholm, Brussels, and Oslo Philharmonics. As a conductor, Szeps-Znaider is Music Director of the Orchestra National de Lyon and is Principal Guest Conductor of the Mariinsky Orchestra.
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Participation of leading German conductor Oliver Weder at InterHarmony’s original location in Sulzbach-Rosenberg will add an intensive grand finale to the 2020 edition of InterHarmony. Maestro Weder, who will conduct the final concert of the summer on August 8, has an extensive experience conducting the best European orchestras. He will give students a taste of detailed orchestral work in a real professional setting so famous to Germany.
Maestro Weder has been the Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Thueringen Symphony Orchestra and at the opera in Ruolstadt, Germany. During his tenure at the helm of this long-established ensemble (founded in 1635), the Symphony performs more than 100 concerts and music-theatre performances per season.
As an internationally demanded guest-conductor, Oliver Weder has worked with over 40 orchestras and opera-theatres in Germany and abroad, including the Hamurg Symphony Orchestra, the German National Theatre Weimar, the San José Chamber Orchestra (USA), the Slovenian Philharmonic Lubljana, the Mainz State Theatre and the Southwest German Philharmonic Orchestra Konstanz. Additional guest appearances with the Rheinsberg Chamber Opera Festival, the Ludwigsburg Court-Festval, the Jena Philharmonic Orchestra and the Wuerttemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn have been met with critical acclaim.
More info »InterHarmony Festival Orchestra Program TBA
Haydn: Cello Concerto No.2 in D Major
Soloist: Misha Quint, cello
Oliver Weder, conductor
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The orchestra rehearses for the duration of the festival, culminating in the final orchestra concert at the huge Christuskirche. This summer Christian Vasquez will conduct the InterHarmony Festival Orchestra in a concert with Bayreuth Opera mezzo-soprano Christa Mayer and cellist Misha Quint and a program consisting of works by Tchaikovsky, Arvo Pärt, Handel, Gluck, Wagner, and Haydn. Orchestra assignments will be given at the festival.
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Each year, many of the artist faculty give Master Classes on subjects of their choice. The subjects of these Master Classes vary. In the past we have had lectures on Integrating the Musical and the Technical, Projection in Performance, Stage Presence, Jazz Improvisation, Orchestral Repertoire, Eurythmics, Yoga for String Players, and Alexander Technique. More info - List of Master Classes »
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Students have the opportunity to sign up to perform either as a soloist or with their chamber group in the performance master classes nearly every day of the festival. Master classes are open to all participants of the festival. Many of these Master Classes focus on specific composers or repertoire. More info - List of Master Classes »
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Instrumentalists will have ample practice time each day.
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With concerts almost every night, students are exposed to a high level both from artist faculty and their colleagues as they watch each concert. Students will have an opportunity to perform. Performance is based on approval on preparedness.
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We're excited to announce that Violinist Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider will be joining our Outstanding Guest Artist Series, performing Brahms Trios with Saleem Ashkar, piano, and Misha Quint, cello, and giving a violin master class.
We're excited to announce that Conductor Oliver Weder will be joining our Outstanding Guest Artist Series and conducting the InterHarmony Festival Orchestra!
InterHarmony Festival Orchestra Program TBA
Haydn: Cello Concerto No.2 in D Major
Soloist: Misha Quint, cello
Oliver Weder, conductor
Subject to change
