Orchestral Conducting Masterclass 28 August – 5 September 2024

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WITH THE CZECH/SLOVAK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA & MAESTRO NIELS MUUS

IN BRATISLAVA, SLOVAKIA

ESSENTIAL 20th-CENTURY LARGE ORCHESTRAL REPERTOIRE 

  • Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber
  • Rachmaninoff: The Isle of the Dead, op. 29
  • Janacek: Suite from Cunning Little Vixen
  • Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1
  • Mieczysław Weinberg: Suite for Orchestra
  • Mahler: Symphony No. 1
  • Respighi: Pines of Rome
  • Britten: Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes
  • Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe Suite No. 2

Limited to the first 12 conductors who apply, are accepted, and confirm their places with deposits.

All works are masterpieces from late 19th and 20th Century and have extended instrumentation often including a third flute or piccolo, English horn, bass clarinet, contra-bassoon, additional trumpets or cornets, piano, harp, celeste, extra percussion, etc.

PUBLIC CONCERT I ON 31 AUGUST 2024

  • Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber (21’)
  • Rachmaninoff: The Isle of the Dead, op. 29 (20’)
  • Janacek: Suite from Cunning Little Vixen (20’)
  • Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1 (28’)
  • Mieczysław Weinberg: Suite for Orchestra (21’)

PUBLIC CONCERT II ON 5 SEPTEMBER 2024

  • Mahler: Symphony No. 1 (53’)
  • Respighi: Pines of Rome…(23’)
  • Britten: Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes (16’)
  • Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe Suite No. 2 (18′)

HOW TO APPLY

Please send us the following:

  • your CV
  • recent examples of your conducting

IF ACCEPTED, please send the deposit of €300

MASTERCLASS FEES AND PAYMENT

€300 – non-refundable deposit.
€2.550 – balance fee no later than one week before the first day of the Masterclass if sent. This may also be paid in cash on site on the first day. The balance fee, once paid, is non-refundable due to the financial obligations to the institution.

A limited number of passive participants / auditors will also be accepted for a fee of €500, exclusive of accommodation, transport or meals.

BANK ACCOUNT INFORMATION FOR BANK WIRE TRANSFERS

Bank name: BAWAG P.S.K.
Name on account: Blue Danube Musikimpresario GmbH
IBAN: AT22 1400 0020 1000 6026
BIC: BAWAATWW
Reason for payment: Masterclass deposit fee (please send EUR only).

Conductors have 20 minutes of podium time each day as well as dress rehearsal and performance on one of the two concerts. In the period they are not performing on the concert, they rehearse only what they wish from the repertoire. During their performance week, conductors rehearse their performance assignment as well as anything else they select.

Niels Muus Conductor Masterclass - Opera Conducting Masterclass I - 2024<br>State Opera Stara Zagora, Bulgaria & Maestro Niels Muus

NIELS MUUS The Viennese conductor with Danish and American roots, Niels Muus is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, Denmark. He furthered his studied at the Conservatorio San Martino (Bologna), the Mozarteum (Salzburg), the Ecole Normale de Musique (Paris), as well as with maestri Franco Ferrara, Carlo Zecchi, Tatjana Nikolajewna and Jakob Gimpel.Between 1992 and 1999, Niels Muus was a principal conductor at the Tiroler Landestheater, Innsbruck, and between 1999 and 2003, conductor and casting director at the Volksoper Wien. Recognized as an expert in the field of opera, Niels Muus has conducted some major productions worldwide. Among others, notable was a televised production by RAI of Donizetti’s “L’Elisir d’amore” from the Macerata Opera Festival (ARTHAUS MUSIK), Rossini`s “L`Assedio di Corinto” for the Culture Olympics in Greece, Dvorak’s “Rusalka” for the international H.C. Andersen Year in Moscow and Denmark and Verdi`s “Aida” at the Worker`s Stadium in Beijing (broadcasted by CCTV).

As a symphonic conductor, Niels Muus has given performances in concert halls such as Berliner Philharmonie, Gewandhaus Leipzig, Academia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Chicago Symphony Hall, National Arts Center Ottawa, Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, Tokyo Opera City, and Tivoli Copenhagen conducting orchestras such as MDR Symphony Orchestra, Berliner Symphoniker, Orchestra Arturo Toscanini, Korean Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, Vancouver Opera Orchestra, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, and many others.

Niels Muus is an internationally renowned pedagogue. He gave master classes with institutions such as Conservatorio Monteverdi (Bolzano), Netherlands Opera Studio (Amsterdam), Opera Studio New National Theater Tokyo, Opera Academy Korean National Opera, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien, Opera Academy (San Francisco).
Currently, Niels Muus is engaged as the artistic advisor for Mozarthaus Vienna and Otto Edelmann Society, and music director of Musikfestival Steyr, Austria. From September 2013 he was the newly appointed professor/director of the opera department of Konservatorium Wien Privatuniversitaet der Stadt.

Please note: Master teacher, repertoire and dates subject to change. Blue Danube Musikimpresario reserves the right to cancel its masterclasses and/or competitions due to insufficient enrollment, illness of the coach, force majeure, or any other circumstance or event for which Blue Danube Musikimpresario cannot be held responsible. In case of illness or death of the coach, Blue Danube Musikimpresario reserves the right to provide a substitute teacher and cancellations are not accepted.