Modules 2023

Stage music includes all the instrumental musical action that takes place on or behind the stage during an opera performance.

Stage music is required for the following operas of the Salzburg Festival 2023:

G. Verdi: Macbeth
G. Verdi: Falstaff
B. Martinů: The Greek Passion

The participating musicians commit themselves to being available for the respective opera production with all performances. The rehearsals will be determined by the Summer Academy in consultation with the Salzburg Festival and may be postponed in the agreed period depending on the daily rehearsal schedule of the Festival.

Participants of the stage music activities as part of the Summer Academy will get paid.
The selection of participants for the stage music will be made by the jury in the course of the selection procedure. They will be informed in due time.

The various modules of the Summer Academy take place parallel to the stage music activities. 
Participants in the stage music module also receive individual lessons with a focus on audition literature.

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 the summer of 2023, we are very much looking forward to Tugan Sokhiev, one of the world's leading conductors who, in addition to his activities as music director of the Welsh National Opera, the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin or the Bolshoi Theatre, has already been a guest conductor at the Marinskii Theatre, the London Philharmonia Orchestra, the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonic Orchestras as well as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and has enjoyed great success.

Programme Orchestra Concerts:

• L. v. Beethoven: Overture to Coriolan
• L. v. Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 (Soloist: Lukas Sternath)
• J. Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C minor

The group rehearsals will be conducted by members of the Vienna Philharmonic. 

Concerts with this programme under the baton of Tugan Sokhiev will take place at the Festwochen Gmunden on 11 August 2023 and at Schloß Esterházy in Eisenstadt on 13 August 2023.

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. 

All participants in the chamber music module also take part in the chamber orchestra project, which is rehearsed and conducted by Jurek Dybał, double bass player of the Vienna Philharmonic and conductor. The aim is to train listening to each other, reacting and making music independently within the framework of a group, developing group sound and a common musical vision. 

The programme includes:

• W. A. Mozart: Symphony No.40 in G minor KV 550
• K. Penderecki : Sinfonietta No. 2 (Soloist: Karl-Heinz Schütz)

 
Cooperation with the Krzysztof Penderecki European Centre for music

On the occasion of the 90th birthday of the Polish avant-garde composer Krzysztof Penderecki, who died three years ago, and the 100th anniversary of Dkfm. Angelika Prokopp, promoter of art and culture as well as science and research and founder of the Angelika Prokopp Privatstiftung, main sponsor of the Angelika Prokopp Summer Academy of the Vienna Philharmonic for many years, a unique cooperation between the Summer Academy and the Krzysztof Penderecki European Centre for music will take place. Selected participants in the chamber orchestra module of the Angelika Prokopp Summer Academy of the Vienna Philharmonic will be offered a one-week stay at the Krzysztof Penderecki European Centre for music, during which they will rehearse a demanding programme under the guidance of conductor Jurek Dybał.
The period for this project is 2 to 9 July 2023.
The rehearsals will be conducted by members of the Vienna Philharmonic, who will also assist the young participants by taking part in the programmes themselves and providing individual tips and impressions in individual lessons, so that the musicians will enjoy holistic support. In two concerts, one in the impressive concert hall on site and one in Krakow, the repertoire will be presented. The soloist in both concerts will be the principal flutist of the Vienna Philharmonic Karl-Heinz Schütz, who will present an inspiring work, the Sinfonietta No. 2 by Krzysztof Penderecki, in presence of Madame Elżbieta Penderecki to the audience.

All participants in the Stage Music, Chamber Music and Chamber Orchestra modules also take part in the audition training. The students receive individual lessons with members of the Vienna Philharmonic. Within the framework of the academy, a simulated audition takes place for all instruments in front of a jury of members of the Vienna Philharmonic.

Master classes for the respective instrument groups are offered for participants in the orchestra module.