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ORCHESTRA ACADEMY - INTERNATIONAL RESIDENCY FOR THE TRAINING OF ORCHESTRAL MUSICIANS

The Orchestral Academy was attended by 75 auditioned musicians, aged 18-28, who were looking for professional jobs and opportunities at the end of their formal education. Seven professors mentored and taught the young musicians in sectional and individual rehearsals. The symphonic programmes included some of the most important works of 19th and 20th century orchestral literature. Among the symphonic music written by geniuses such as Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann, Verdi and Wagner, this season we focused on some of the most precious operatic works. The conductors were Živa Ploj Peršuh from Slovenia and Carlo Rizzari from Italy. Soprano Urška Breznik and tenor Aljaž Farasin from Slovenia joined us for inspiring duets from Puccini's Madama Butterfly. The extensive programme took 13 days - 102 hours of rehearsals.

Programme

J. Brahms: Tragic Overture, L. van Beethoven: Symphony No 4 in B flat Major, op. 60 R. Wagner: Siegfried's Idyll, G. Puccini: Madam Butterfly, excerpts, G. Rossini: Semiramide, overture, G. Verdi: Vespri siciliani, overture, H. Berlioz: Carnival in Rome, R. Schumann: Symphony No 2 in C Major, op. 61

MASTER CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS

Master class OBOE // professor Emanuel Abbühl - 17 to 22 July 2017

Students: 16
Assistant: Seung Eun Lee
Pianist: Kimiko Imani

Master class CLARINET // professor François Benda – 12 to 17 July 2017

Students: 16
Assistant: Seung Eun Lee
Pianist: Kimiko Imani

Master class PIANO // professor Aleksandar Madžar – 27 July to 1 August 2017

Students: 12

Master class DIRECTING and VIDEO PRODUCTION // professor Alexander Luck - 18 to 23 July 2017

Students: 5

ACTIVITIES ART OF SUCCESS
Supporting Professions

Our content partner HELLO STAGE gives visibility to the classical music community and connects musicians, ensembles, managers and promoters. Our musicians are fully equipped with content to gain online promotion, personal advice, lectures and support to develop their professional careers.

Career Management Workshops - HELLO STAGE // Professors Bettina Mehne and Bernhard Kerres - 18 to 25 July 2017

Bernhard Kerres (Vienna) and Bettina Mehne (Berlin) are the founders of HELLO STAGE, an online portal for classical musicians (with around 40,000 active users). Bettina has worked for several years for concert institutions, agencies and tour organisers of renowned orchestras. She is passing on her knowledge, experience and contacts with marketing experience to a generation of musicians who, in order to succeed in their careers, need to expand their work into digital opportunities and learn to be their own manager or to represent themselves first and foremost.

Students: 80

Topics of lectures

Planning for the future
CV clinic / Advanced biography: How do I write CV? How to present? What is the portfolio of the musician?
Dynamics in various orchestras: What are the possibilities and requirements?
How to get to audition?
What are the other options?
Web and digital tools - yes or no?
Personal counselling
Usability of the Hello Stage Portal
Presentation of the book Be Your Own Manager

Music Up Close Network Annual Partners' Meeting and two-day workshop on audience development for contemporary music

The directors and artistic directors of the institutions linked to the European project were invited to Ljubljana for a workshop on audience development.

Conclusion: there is a growing need for livestreaming, so our organisation will facilitate a training session with a camera director at the Digital Concert Hall in Berlin. New work has been commissioned and all partners have committed to delivering it.

The transfer of expertise and performance practices to young people is an important and recognised key activity, and the Ljubljana International Orchestra has been invited to expand its activities and to undertake more joint projects with partners. Participants of the workshop watched a performance of Committed to Steps and met with Darko Brlek, Director of the Ljubljana Festival.

Participants

Accademia Nazionale Santa Cecilia Rome
ART BSA
National Orchestra from Lille
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra Amsterdam
Barcelona Symphony and Catalan National Orchestra
Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra
Montenegrin Symphony Orchestra

In total

220 musicians, 10 teachers from 42 countries gathered at the 2017 Summer Activities to share their knowledge, experience new concerts and acquaintances, and build on their musical and personal achievements. We performed 2 symphonic concerts at the Ljubljana Festival and 3 chamber concerts in front of 1085 people in the Grand Hotel Union. One of the symphonic programmes was broadcast live, reaching 6342 people from 48 countries.

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES 2017