The spectacular setting of the Austrian Alps serves as the backdrop for a festival where you, the amateur chamber musician,
will play and perform together with professional musicians from around the world. In addition to playing in an ensemble along side
such incredible musicians, you will be coached by additional members of the faculty as well.
AlpenKammerMusik will be accepting applications until May 1.
The Festival Voice
During this summer’s session of AlpenKammerMusik, a TV crew visited Liesing to film the festival in action for Austrian television. In this documentary, there are interviews with both the faculty and festival participants as well as footage of both students and faculty in performance.
The international nature of the festival is displayed with participants speaking in English, German, French and Chinese. The documentary is filmed at the music school as well as the Kultursaal. We hope you enjoy the video!
Click here to view the documentary.
AlpenKammerMusik is happy to announce a new addition to our faculty, clarinetist Chad Burrow. Chad is associate professor of clarinet at Oklahoma City University, the principal clarinetist with the Oklahoma City Philharmonic Orchestra and the Quartz Mountain Music Festival Orchestra, artistic director of the Bright Music Chamber Ensemble and member of Duo Clarion along with his wife, pianist Amy Cheng.
Chad brings a rich background of experience with his engagements and performances from all over the world. AlpenKammerMusik and Camerata Pangaea look forward to a wonderful summer of chamber music with Chad.
To learn more about Chad, visit his biography page.
What might a retired surgeon from New York, a physicist from Geneva, a biotech executive from San Francisco and a dozen other people with equally diverse backgrounds and residences possibly have in common while they are spending ten days in a remote Alpine valley? The answer is simple. Participate in the AlpenKammerMusik Festival 2007 where professionals and amateurs play chamber music as one community.
AlpenKammerMusik’s ensemble in residence is called Camerata Pangaea. It would have been difficult to find a more appropriate name. Pangaea means “all the land” in Greek and it was the name of the gigantic supercontinent consisting of all of the Earth’s land masses 200 million years ago. Camerata Pangaea’s members, a group of brilliant professional musicians literally come from all corners of the globe. Claudia Ajmone-Marsan (violin) and Tanya Bannister (piano) from London, Stephen Buck (piano) and Suzanne Farrin (composer) from New York, Roland Glassl (viola) from Frankfurt, Guy Eshed (flute) from Tel Aviv and Trey Lee (violoncello) from Hong Kong. They were the coaches and we were the students. We were, nevertheless, a true community.
We met on a Friday in July at the Munich airport, and then a bus took us to the beautiful Lesachtal valley in which the picturesque Alpine community of Liesing provided the setting for the chamber music festival community to play and practice. …
Check out pictures from this summer’s festival by clicking on the picture below!
AlpenKammerMusik’s very own Stephen Buck will be performing in concert with ‘So Percussion‘, at Miller Theatre, Columbia University, in New York City on Friday March 23rd and Saturday March 24th at 8:00 pm. Called “astonishing and entrancing” by Billboard and “brilliant” by the New York Times, ‘So Percussion’ is devoted to the conceptual dreamscapes of modern composers such as Reich, Iannis Xenakis, John Cage, and others. …
A while back, Strad Magazine wrote an article about the Mandelring String Quartet, the ensemble in which AlpenKammerMusik faculty member Roland Glassl is violist. It is interesting to note that the other three members of the quartet are siblings, and I’m sure there is a viola joke in there somewhere. Roland has been a member of the quartet since 1999, and maintains a busy concert schedule with the quartet, performing throughout Europe, the United States, South America and the Middle East. And this is in addition to his busy schedule as Professor at the prestigious Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main.
Here are a few quotes from the press about the Mandelring Quartet:
“Their performances are exemplary: technically perfect, wonderful in sound, secure in understanding of style and idiom and responsive to every nuance of color, mood and expression” - Strings Magazine …
AlpenKammerMusik faculty member Tanya Bannister and the award winning Parker String Quartet will be performing together in concert on Thursday, March 1, 2007 at Thalia Theater at Symphony Space in New York City. The program will include world premiers by Christopher Theofanidis (solo piano), AlpkenKammerMusik faculty member Suzanne Farrin (piano quintet) and György Ligeti’s String Quartet No. 1.
In advance of this concert, WQXR 96.3 FM will be airing performances by both Tanya and the Parker String Quartet on Wednesday, February 28 at 9 pm E.S.T. …
Faculty member Stephen Buck is sometimes a writer of concert notes, and we thought it appropriate to post some of his more recent notes. We hope you learn something and enjoy them.
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Partita in c minor, BWV 826
Italy enjoyed a paradoxical position in 18th century Europe. One the one hand, it was a politically fractured land, colonized and coveted by stronger nation-states to the north. On the other hand, it was the focal point for European culture, the country that produced artists, writers, musicians and philosophers who inspired the rest of the continent. In music, the style of the Italian composers became the standard international language. Different nations would respond to these Italian influences …
‘Ensemble 360′, of which AlpenKammerMusik faculty member Guy Eshed is a member, has just been voted ‘Editor’s Choice‘ in the January edition of BBC Music Magazine, a very highly coveted award in the music world.
Ensemble 360 was formed in 2005 and already has 3 CDs in the works with the Sanctuary Classics label, the first release being awarded by the BBC’s ‘Editor’s Choice’, certainly not a bad start to such a dynamic group! The group is also unique in how it presents it’s concerts, with the audience completely surrounding the artists, who themselves perform …
Trey’s second album, entitled “Schumann-Mendelssohn-Chopin” is out now!
Collaborating with EMI, Trey’s new album [Schumann, Mendelssohn, Chopin] released in 2006 topped the classical charts and was enthusiastically received by audiences and critics …
