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Violin Masterclass with Prof. Ulf Klausenitzer
20-24 February 2012
For full details of this masterclass please see below
Violin Masterclass with Barbara Doll
25th - 29th January 2012
Master Class from Barbara Doll, President of ESTA Switzerland.
For more information check on: www.barbaradoll.net/Unterricht.htm (German) www.barbaradoll.net/Teaching.htm (English)
Masterclass - Switzerland
20th - 26th february 2012
Karel Boeschoten, Vladimir Mendelssohn (chamber music and viola) and Thomas Grossenbacher (violoncello) will give masterclasses in Switzerland.
More information: www.workpermit-rhb.ch
Johansen International Competition for Young String Players
21st - 24th March 2012
Young string players ages 13-17 are invited to compete for $66,000 in prize money in the Johansen International Competition for Young String Players, which will be held March 21-24, 2012 in Washington, DC.
Details and the application are now available online at www.fmmc.org
Menuhin Competition Beijing 2012
6-15 April 2012
Menuhin Competition goes to Beijing in 2012
Application period opens 11 April
2010 prize-winner Kerson Leong to perform at launch on 5 May, Asia House, London
The next Menuhin Competition – the world’s leading competition for young violinists, widely regarded as the ‘Olympics of the violin’ – will be held for the first time ever outside Europe. It will be hosted by the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, China from 6 to 15 April 2012.
“Yehudi would have been thrilled!” says Menuhin’s daughter Zamira Menuhin Benthall. The connection between Menuhin and China goes back a long time and Menuhin was the first Western musician to receive an Honorary Professorship from the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing in 1979.
Gordon Back, Competition Director, says: “Over the decades, the Menuhin Competition has seen many Chinese prize-winners, with an increasing number of entries coming from Asia. So it seemed a natural choice to take the Competition to China.” According to Tao Qian, the Central Conservatory’s Deputy Director, around 10 million children are currently learning the violin in China, which is second in popularity only to the piano.
The Menuhin Competition attracts applicants from all over the globe (from 34 different countries in 2010) including some of the world’s most gifted violinists. Previous winners include Isabelle van Keulen, Julia Fischer, Ilya Gringolts, Daishin Kashimoto and Nikolaj Znaider.
The star-studded 2012 jury panel will be composed of nine internationally acclaimed musicians, including British former Menuhin Competition prize-winner Tasmin Little and Russian virtuoso and conductor Maxim Vengerov. The panel will be chaired by the USA’s Pamela Frank.
For more information go to: www.menuhincompetition.org/
IX International Balys Dvarionas Competition for Young Pianists and Violinists.
29th April - 5th May 2012
Competition dates: 29.04. - 05.05.2012
Competition deadline: 15.02.2012
Categories of the competition: Piano, Violin
City: Vilnius (Lithuania)
Age range: 1-20 (three age groups)
Structure: Pre-selection by DVD followed by two or three rounds depending on age category
Cycle: every four years
Categories: Piano, Violin
Organiser: International Balys Dvarionas Competition for Young Pianists and Violinists, International Cultural Programme Centre
Contact: competition@dvarionas.lt or info@ipmc.lt
Cellos at Belle Serre, Summer 2012
July and August 2012
Lowri Blake will be giving daily master classes and group tuition at Belle Serre this summer. There will also be cello ensembles and chamber music.
For more information see the leaflet below
ESTA International Conference in CROATIA
Tuesday 16th - Saturday 20th October 2012
CROATIA will host the ESTA International Conference in Porec in 2012
More information will be posted soon on www.hdgp.hr/engleski.htm
ESTA International Conference in OXFORD
2013
The UK will host the ESTA International Conference in OXFORD during the last week of August 2013.
ESTA International Conference in GERMANY
2014
Germany will host the International Conference in 2014
ESTA International Conference in MALTA
2018
The host country will be MALTA
Competition for Young Violin Virtuosi - CROATIA
February 16th-20st 2011
The 17th International Competition for Young Violinist will take place in Zagreb in February 2011.
The competition requires compulsory scales and etudes. The etudes were composed by Mr Tomislav Uhlik and can be downloaded here
The competition is divided into six categories:
The Revue – participants born in 2002 and younger (aged 9 and younger)
I. category – born in 2001 and younger (aged 10 and younger)
II. category – born in 1999 and younger (aged 12 and younger)
III. category – born in 1996 and younger (aged 15 and younger)
IV. category – born in 1993 and younger* (aged 18 and younger)
V. category – born in 1987 and younger* (aged 24 and younger)
**IV. and V. category are divided in two stages. The jury decides if the candidate has the
right to perform in the second stage.
For all additional information,
E-mail: etideiskale@gmail.com or pavla.markovca@zg.t-com.hr
tel/fax +385 1 2552 590 or +385 1 4555 804
Competition: www.etide-i-skale.com <http://www.etide-i-skale.com>
Music school: www.glazbena-skola-pavla-markovca.hr <http://www.glazbena-skola-pavla-markovca.hr>
Mastercourse for Cellists - BELGIUM
19th - 23rd April 2011
Solo-works and Chamber Music of the 20th and 21st Century under the direction of Fredrich Gauwerky.
For more information download the PDF below
Back to the Future: Meeting the New Challenges of Music Teaching - SWEDEN
1 - 5 June 2011
39th ESTA International Conference
Falun Conservatory of Music
Falun
SWEDEN
Download the programme of events below
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