Modules 2024
Orchestra
Each year, the orchestra project is led by an outstanding conductor who will rehearse an entire programme with the young musicians, including a solo work and a major symphony.
In summer 2024, we are very much looking forward to welcoming Sebastian Weigle, one of the world's leading conductors. Sebastian Weigle's engagements have taken him to the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Berlin, Munich, Dresden and Hamburg State Operas, the Metropolitan Opera New York, the Vienna State Opera, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden London and the opera houses in Zurich, Cincinnati and Sydney, as well as to Japan; he has also appeared in concerts with the Berlin, Dresden and Weimar State Orchestras, the Dresden Philharmonic, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo and the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. He made his debut as a young conductor and soloist at the Salzburg Festival in 1990.
Programme Orchestra Concerts:
- Sergei Prokofjew: Symphony No.1 D major Op. 25 (Classique)
- Robert Schumann: Cello concert in a minor Op. 129
- Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Symphony No.4 A major Op. 90 (Italian)
The group rehearsals will be conducted by members of the Vienna Philharmonic.
Concerts with this programme under the baton of Sebastian Weigle will take place at the Festwochen Gmunden on 15 August 2024, at Schloß Esterházy in Eisenstadt on 18 August 2024, at the YEC Festival Berlin on 20 August 2024 and at Mozarteum Foundation Salzburg on 22 August 2024.
Chamber music
During the chamber music course, various works will be performed by different ensembles, which will be put together by the juries in the course of the selection procedure. The individual ensembles will receive several lessons from a member of the Vienna Philharmonic and will finally present themselves in one of the concerts in Salzburg.
Participants can be assigned to several chamber music groups. The works to be studied will be communicated before the beginning of the course and the sheet music will be made available. We ask all musicians to prepare their parts individually before the course.
Ariadne auf Naxos
Richard-Strauss-Tage 2024
An additional project will take place for the first time in 2024: This year, the Summer Academy will take part in a concert production of the opera Ariadne auf Naxos at the Richard-Strauss-Tage in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. At the invitation of the artistic directors of the Summer Academy or the juries of individual instrumental groups, there will be the opportunity to take part in this production, which will take place in June before the start of this year's Academy.
The musical director of the production is Kai Röhrig, the soloists come from the Opera Studio of the Mozarteum University. The very demanding orchestral part of Ariadne will be performed by 36 soloists, the orchestra will be coached by members of the Vienna Philharmonic.
Dates:
- Rehearsals in Vienna between 27.5. and 6.6.2024 - detailed rehearsal dates will follow
- 7.6. preview performance Radiokulturhaus, Vienna
- 9.6. performance Richard-Strauss-Tage, Garmisch-Partenkirchen
If you are interested in this special project and are available in Vienna during the specified period, please let us know by email after registering for the audition that you would also like to be considered for Ariadne!