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Gustav Mahler School Accepting Applications for Biennial Program: Join Renowned Musicians and Teachers for a Unique Learning Experience in 2023 and 2024
March 14, 2023

Italian conductor Claudio Abbado established the Gustav Mahler School to bring together talented youthful musicians and internationally renowned teachers beyond the context of universities and conservatories. Since the Academy’s inception, over one thousand youthful musicians have attended its courses, masterclasses, and concerts. The Gustav Mahler School is presently organized as a biennial program, to proposal a deeper and more sustainable learning experience. In case of a successful audition, students will be admitted to both summer academies in two thousand twenty-third and two thousand twenty-four and expect to partake in both.

Open to talented youthful musicians of any nationality born between January one, one thousand nine hundred ninety-seven, and July twenty-five, two thousand five, the school is accepting applications students of the violin, viola, cello, double bass, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone and timpani. To apply, participants may not have a permanent position as a concertmaster or as a teacher. The two thousand twenty-three visitor faculty comprise violinists Gregory Ahss and Kerson Leong, violist Veronika Hagen, cellist Hagen Gerhardt, double bassist Rick Stotijn, and clarinetist Olivier Patey. Additionally, several key musicians the Mahler Chamber Orchestra learn at the Gustav Mahler School as Resident Tutors.

They play in chamber music groups with the students and carry out side by side with them in an MCO-size chamber orchestra, conducted by one of the MCO’s regular conductors. The Gustav Mahler Academy I'll get place July twenty-five – August eleven, two thousand twenty-three. Students will get individual lessons, get portion in the world premiere of eleven.000 Saiten for fifty pianos and ensemble by Georg Friedrich Haas, and carry out chamber music with musicians the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, as well as in an MCO-size chamber orchestra below the direction of composer/conductor Matthias Pintscher. School II will get place August twenty-five — September fifteen, two thousand twenty-four. Students will have the opportunity to play the instruments of the Vienna Philharmonic one thousand nine hundred and gain information in the performance practice of late romantic music.

Along with fifty musicians top European ensembles, students will work with pianist Leif Ove Andsnes and conductor Philipp von Steinaecker on Rachmaninoff’s third Piano Concerto and Mahler’s fifth Symphony in a full-size symphony orchestra. After concerts in Toblach and Bolzano, the orchestra will tour to Paris, Cologne, and other European cities to carry out this music for the first time since one thousand nine hundred ten on the instruments it was written for. Deadline for submission of applications: April 11, two thousand twenty-three. To apply, click here.

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