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Fourth Weimar Bach Academy
August 6-19, 2017
hosted by the Thuringia Bach Festival and the
University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar
For the fourth time the great Bach interpreter
and promoter, Helmuth Rilling, invites young
musicians from across the world to come to Weimar to study and
perform Bach?s cantatas in their authentic location. In the three
previous years, 70 musicians from 18 countries were chosen from
countless applicants who evolved in the shortest time into an
excellent choir and orchestra with immense enthusiasm and great
musical talent. The concerts which followed the rehearsals were
excellent choir and orchestra with immense enthusiasm and great
musical talent. The concerts which followed the rehearsals were
unforgettable experiences for interpreters and audiences. They
showed in an impressive way what can be achieved by such a
project in a historic location; to transmit the spirit of Bach and the
core of his music to young people so that they will hardly ever be
able to perform this music in their own countries without thinking
back to this experience. With the Bach Cantata Academy Ensemble
and selected soloists, Helmuth Rilling will again perform and explain
cantatas in lecture concerts in summer 2017. At the centre this time
are four of Bach?s cantatas for major church festivals. The soloists,
the choir and orchestra will also present their own concerts.
Application deadline: 1 April 2017
Instructors
Helmuth Rilling - Director
Founder and long-standing director of the Gächinger Kantorei and
the Bach - Collegium Stuttgart, the Internationale Bachakademie
Stuttgart, and the Oregon Bach Festival (USA). 1985 - first
complete recording of all Cantatas, 2000 - first complete recording
of the entire works of Johann Sebastian Bach. Initiator of Bach
Academies throughout the world.
Kathy Saltzman Romey - Choir
Professor and Director of Choral Activities at the University of
Minnesota and Artistic Director of the Minnesota Chorale. Chorus
master of the Oregon Bach Festival Choir. Longtime teacher and
guest conductor e.g. with the Internationale Bachakademie
Stuttgart, Berkshire Choral Festival and Minnesota Orchestra.
Stuttgart, Berkshire Choral Festival and Minnesota Orchestra.
Lorenzo Ghirlanda - assistant orchestra
Studied trombone in Bern, Weimar, and at the Basel Schola
Cantorum. Collaboration with Luca Pianca, Dorothee Oberlinger,
Vittorio Ghielmi and Ivo Pogorelich. Conducting debut in 2008 with
the Handel opera ?Alcina? at the Handel Festival in Halle
(Germany). 2015 founder of the Vox Orchestra in Frankfurt. In
December 2016 Lorenzo replaced Helmuth Rilling in 3 ?Messiah?
concerts.
Rahel Rilling - Violin
Studied with Michael Mücke, Yair Kless und Nora Chastain.
2005-2008, NDR orchestra Hamburg. Concertmaster for the Bach
Collegium Stuttgart and a regular guest with the Berlin
Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2006, she founded her own chamber
music festival in Hohenstaufen. Chamber music partners include
Simon Rattle, Jörg Widmann, Daishin Kashimoto, Dávid Adorján
and Amihai Grosz. She has appeared as a soloist with Orchestra
Verdi in Milano, Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz or the
Simon Bolivar Orquesta in Caracas.
Erich Krüger - Viola
Longstanding principal violist of the Berlin Radio Symphony
Orchestra. Professor for viola at the University of Music FRANZ
LISZT Weimar. Previously at the Hanns Eisler School of Music
Berlin. Professor Krüger offers numerous international master
classes.
Dávid Adorján - Cello, Continuo
Studied under Jan Polasek, Frans Helmerson and Heinrich Schiff.
Dávid Adorján - Cello, Continuo
Studied under Jan Polasek, Frans Helmerson and Heinrich Schiff.
Solo cellist of the German Symphony Orchestra (DSO) Berlin
since 1999, and instructor at the UdK Berlin since 2004. Chamber
music partners have included Renaud Capuçon, Rahel Rilling,
Jörg Widmann, Heinrich Schiff, Amihai Grosz and Paul Rivinius.
He has appeared as a soloist under the direction of Christopher
Hogwood, Michael Gielen and Mariss Jansons.
Matthias Bäcker - Woodwinds
Professor for oboe at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT
Weimar. Previously principal oboist at the Mannheim Opera and at
the Deutsche Oper Berlin. Guest musician with the Berlin
Philharmonic and the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Principal
oboist of the Camerata Salzburg.
Eckhard Schmidt - Trumpet
First trumpet of the Hamburg State Opera and professor at the
Musikhochschule Hamburg. Regularly active as soloist and
instructor with the International Bach Academy Stuttgart among
others, as well performances as with such conductors as
Christoph v. Dohnanyi, John Eliot Gardiner, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
and Roger Norrington.
Programme
Cantatas for major church festivals
?Christen, ätzet diesen Tag? BWV 63
?Sie werden aus Saba alle kommen" BWV 65
?Christen, ätzet diesen Tag? BWV 63
?Sie werden aus Saba alle kommen" BWV 65
?Der Himmel lacht? BWV 31
?Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen? BWV 11
Choir-only programme
Laudate!
Psalm settings by Claudio Monteverdi, Heinrich Schütz, and
Johann Sebastian Bach
Orchestra-only programme
Suites for orchestra No. 2 BWV 1067 and No. 3 BWV 1068
Ensemble and Soloists
Choir
40 Singers
Orchestra
2 flutes - 3 oboes* - 2 bassoons* -4 trumpets * - timpani - organ strings (5-4-3-2-1)
(*partly alternating soloists)
Soloists
Julia Sophie Wagner, soprano
Lidia Vinyes Curtis, alto
Nicholas Phan, Tenor
Lidia Vinyes Curtis, alto
Nicholas Phan, Tenor
Tobias Berndt, Bass
Schedule / Concerts
06 August
07 August
Arrival and first choir rehearsal
Arrival and first orchestra rehearsal
09 August
Lecture Concert Weimar | BWV 63
11 August
Lecture Concert Weimar | BWV 65
12 August
Lied recital soloists
13 August
Choir and orchestra only concerts Erfurt
15 August
Lecture Concert Weimar | BWV 31
17 August
Lecture Concert Weimar | BWV 11
18 August
Final Concert Eisenach | BWV 63, 65, 11
19 August
Final Concert Leipzig | BWV 63, 65, 11
20 August
Departure
Announcement / Application
Students as well as young graduates from around the world
between the ages of 18 and 32 years are welcome to apply.
Rehearsals will be held in German and English. Participants must
have a high level of proficiency in at least one of the two
languages.
Participation is free of charge. The costs of accommodation in a
double room and meals in Weimar as well as a travel stipend will
be covered by the organizers.
The following travel stipend will be covered: 100 Euros for
participants from Germany (except students from Thuringia), 350
The following travel stipend will be covered: 100 Euros for
participants from Germany (except students from Thuringia), 350
Euros for participants from Europe, 1.000 Euros for participants
from outside of Europe.
Active participants must pay a 40 Euro registration fee upon
arrival.
Application form
Together with the application form, please submit a video
recording as a Youtube link. If this is impossible for you, we do
accept an application as DVD, MD, mp3- or mp4-file as well.
Files of up to 5MB can be submitted via e-mail. Should this size be
exceeded, please send a hard copy by post. Your family name
must be included with the file name.
Audition recordings must be:
? made in a clean acoustic,
? the accompanying instrument play softly with the piano lid down,
? the singer is close enough to the microphone for a clear
recording,
? the volume is controlled and balanced.
Please send your recording to:
[email protected]
Thüringer Bachwochen e.V., Krämerbrücke 3, 99084 Erfurt,
Germany
Musical requirements
Choir
Choir
? A piano-accompanied Bach Aria in German
? your voice part from the opening chorus (Movt 1) of cantata 31
1/4 = 90-96
Sop 1: mm 1-9 and 16-21
Sop 2: mm 2-9 and 12-21
Alto: mm 4-9 and 11-21
Tenor: mm 9-21
Bass: mm 8-21 (Baritones can sing the low E/D in mm 15, 17,
and 21 up the octave)
? your voice part from the final Chorale of BWV 31 1/4 = 70-76
Please note that the opening chorus from BWV 31 calls for
Soprano 1 and Soprano 2.
If a soprano or alto is able to do the soprano 2 part, I would like to
hear both parts: S1/S2 for soprano or S2/Alto for altos.
Music:
imslp.org/wiki/Der_Himmel_lacht!_die_Erde_jubiliert,_BWV_31_(Bach,_
)
Violin
· 1st movement of a concerto by W.A. Mozart
· one slow and one fast movement of a Bach partita or sonata for
violin solo
Viola
· C.P. Stamitz - Concerto in D Major op. 1, 1st movement OR
· F.A. Hoffmeister- Concerto in D Major, 1st movement
· two movements of a Bach cello suite
· two movements of a Bach cello suite
Cello
· Haydn - 1st movement of the concerto in D major
· two movements of a Bach suite
Doublebass
· 1st movement of one of the concertos by Dittersdorf, Vanhal or
Hoffmeister
Flute
· W.A. Mozart -flute concerto in G or in D, Exposition
· J.S. Bach - aria ?Aus Liebe will mein Heiland sterben? from St
Matthew Passion
Oboe
· W.A. Mozart - Concerto in C Major: 1st movement, up to m. 97,
no cadenza
· J.S. Bach - from Cantata "Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis" BWV 21:
Sinfonia and Aria for soprano "Seufzer, Tränen, Kummer, Not",
mm. 1 - 8
Bassoon
· W.A. Mozart - Concerto KV191, 1st movement: mm. 32 - 97, 2nd
movement: mm. 6-26
· J.S. Bach - Orchestra Suite no. 1 C Major, BWV 1066, 1st
movement (Overture): mm. 20-32 and mm. 48-69
Trumpet
· J. Haydn - 1st movement of the Concerto in E-flat Major OR
· J.N. Hummel - 1st movement of the trumpet concerto (mm. 1-146
and 273-end)