Fifth Weimar Bach Academy

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Fifth Weimar Bach Academy

                                       July 29 - August 12, 2018

                                       hosted by the Thuringia Bach Festival and the
                                       University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar

                                       For the fifth time the great Bach interpreter and
                                       promoter, Helmuth Rilling, in¬vites young
musicians from across the world to come to Weimar to study and
perform Bach?s cantatas in their authentic location. In the four
previous years, 70 musicians from 18 countries were chosen from
countless applicants who evolved in the shortest time into an
excellent choir and orchestra with immense enthus¬iasm and great
musical talent. The concerts which followed the rehearsals were

excellent choir and orchestra with immense enthus¬iasm and great
musical talent. The concerts which followed the rehearsals were
unforgettable experiences for interpreters and audiences. They
showed in an im¬pressive way what can be achieved by such a
project in a historic location; to transmit the spirit of Bach and the
core of his music to young people so that they will hardly ever be
able to perform this music in their own countries without thinking
back to this experience.
With the Bach Cantata Academy Ensemble and selected soloists,
Helmuth Rilling will again perform and explain cantatas in lecture
concerts in summer 2018. At the centre this time are three of Bach?s
cantatas, the soloists, the choir and orchestra will also present their
own concerts.

Application deadline: April 1, 2018

Unfortunately the registration is not possible anymore.

  Instructors

  Helmuth Rilling - Director
  Founder and long-standing director of the Gächinger Kantorei and
  the Bach - Collegium Stuttgart, the Internationale Bachakademie
  Stuttgart, and the Oregon Bach Festival (USA). 1985 - first
  complete recording of all Cantatas, 2000 - first complete recording
  of the entire works of Johann Sebastian Bach. Initiator of Bach
  Academies throughout the world.

  Kathy Saltzman Romey - Choir
  Professor and Director of Choral Activities at the University of
  Minnesota and Artistic Director of the Minnesota Chorale. Chorus

Professor and Director of Choral Activities at the University of
Minnesota and Artistic Director of the Minnesota Chorale. Chorus
master of the Oregon Bach Festival Choir. Longtime teacher and
guest conductor e.g. with the Internationale Bachakademie
Stuttgart, Berkshire Choral Festival and Minnesota Orchestra.

Lorenzo Ghirlanda - assistant orchestra
Studied trombone in Bern, Weimar, and at the Basel Schola
Cantorum. Collaboration with Luca Pianca, Dorothee Oberlinger,
Vittorio Ghielmi and Ivo Pogorelich. Conducting debut in 2008 with
the Handel opera ?Alcina? at the Handel Festival in Halle
(Germany). 2015 founder of the Vox Orchestra in Frankfurt. In
December 2016 Lorenzo replaced Helmuth Rilling in 3 ?Messiah?
concerts.

Rahel Rilling - Violin
Studied with Michael Mücke, Yair Kless und Nora Chastain.
2005-2008, NDR orchestra Hamburg. Concertmaster for the Bach
Collegium Stuttgart and a regular guest with the Berlin
Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2006, she founded her own chamber
music festival in Hohenstaufen. Chamber music partners include
Simon Rattle, Jörg Widmann, Daishin Kashimoto, Dávid Adorján
and Amihai Grosz. She has appeared as a soloist with Orchestra
Verdi in Milano, Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz or the
Simon Bolivar Orquesta in Caracas.

Erich Krüger - Viola
Longstanding principal violist of the Berlin Radio Symphony
Orchestra. Professor for viola at the University of Music FRANZ
LISZT Weimar. Previously at the Hanns Eisler School of Music
Berlin. Professor Krüger offers numerous international master

LISZT Weimar. Previously at the Hanns Eisler School of Music
Berlin. Professor Krüger offers numerous international master
classes.

Dávid Adorján - Cello, Continuo
Studied under Jan Polasek, Frans Helmerson and Heinrich Schiff.
Solo cellist of the German Symphony Orchestra (DSO) Berlin
since 1999, and instructor at the UdK Berlin since 2004. Chamber
music partners have included Renaud Capuçon, Rahel Rilling,
Jörg Widmann, Heinrich Schiff, Amihai Grosz and Paul Rivinius.
He has appeared as a soloist under the direction of Christopher
Hogwood, Michael Gielen and Mariss Jansons.

Nigel Shore - Woodwinds
Studied at the Royal Academy of Music London, member of the
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Karajan and Abbado before
becoming principal oboe at the Komische Oper Berlin. Also
principal oboe of the Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Orchestra under
Hartmut Haenchen. As a soloist Shore regularly performs in
Japan, Middle East, America, Russia and throughout Europe.

Eckhard Schmidt - Trumpet
First trumpet of the Hamburg State Opera and professor at the
Musikhochschule Hamburg. Regularly active as soloist and
instructor with the International Bach Academy Stuttgart among
others, as well performances as with such conductors as
Christoph v. Dohnanyi, John Eliot Gardiner, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
and Roger Norrington.

Programme

Programme

Johann Sebastian Bach

Cantatas

      ?Herr, gehe nicht ins Gericht BWV 105
      ?Du Hirte Israel, höre? BWV 104
      ?Wir müssen durch viel Trübsal? BWV 146

Choir-only programme

      Knut Nystedt: Immortal Bach
      Herbert Howells: Requiem

Orchestra-only programme

      J.S.Bach: Suite for orchestra No. 1 BWV 1066
      Jean-Baptiste Lully: ?Psyché?-Suite LWV 56

Ensemble and Soloists

Choir
40 Singers

Orchestra
flute - 4 oboes / oboes d?amore / taille* - bassoon - organ - strings
5-4-3-2-1
(*partly alternating soloists)

Soloists

Soloists
Julia Sophie Wagner, soprano
Lidia Vinyes Curtis, alto
Martin Lattke, tenor
Tobias Berndt, bass

Schedule / Concerts

29 July - Arrival and first choir rehearsal
30 July - Arrival and first orchestra rehearsal

03 August             Lecture Concert BWV 105
05 August             Lecture Concert BWV 104
06 August             Lied recital soloists
07 August             Choir and orchestra only concert
09 August             Lecture Concert BWV 146
10 August             Final Concert Leipzig
11 August             Final Concert Eisenach
12 August             Departure

Announcement / Application

Students as well as young graduates from around the world
between the ages of 18 and 32 years are welcome to apply.
Rehearsals will be held in German and English. Participants must
have a high level of proficiency in at least one of the two
languages.
Participation is free of charge. The costs of accommodation in a

languages.
Participation is free of charge. The costs of accommodation in a
double room and meals in Weimar as well as a travel stipend will
be covered by the organizers.
The following travel stipend will be covered:
100 Euros for participants from Germany (except students from
Thuringia), 350 Euros for participants from Europe, 1.000 Euros
for participants from outside of Europe.
Active participants must pay a 40 Euro registration fee upon
arrival.

Application form
Link to the online form:
http://ww3.unipark.de/uc/BachKantaten/

Together with the application form, please submit a video
recording as a Youtube link. If this is impossible for you, we do
accept an application as DVD, mp3- or mp4-file as well.
Files of up to 5MB can be submitted via e-mail. Should this size be
exceeded, please send a hard copy by post. Your family name
must be included with the file name.

Audition recordings must be:

     made in a clean acoustic,
     the accompanying instrument play softly with the piano lid
     down,
     the singer is close enough to the microphone for a clear
     recording,
     the volume is controlled and balanced.

the volume is controlled and balanced.

Please send your recording to:

academy@thueringer-bachwochen.de
Thüringer Bachwochen e.V.
Krämerbrücke 3, 99084 Erfurt, Germany

Musical requirements

Choir
· A piano-accompanied Bach Aria in German
· Opening chorus of cantata 105
 your voice part in tempo 1/2 = 94-100
 page 6-10 letter C through letter F
 (Allegro ?Denn vor dir wird kein Lebendiger gerecht?)
 score: www.bach-cantatas.com/Scores/BWV105-V&P.pdf
· Final Chorale of cantata 104
 your voice part in tempo 1/4 = 76-80
 page 20 in score:
www.bach-cantatas.com/Scores/BWV104-V&P.pdf

Violin
· 1. Satz aus einem Mozart-Konzert
· ein langsamer und ein schneller Satz aus einer Bach-Partita oder
Solosonate

Viola
· C.P. Stamitz - Concerto in D Major op. 1 or
· F.A. Hoffmeister - Concerto in D Major (first movement of one of
the concerts)

· F.A. Hoffmeister - Concerto in D Major (first movement of one of
  the concerts)
  · two movements of a Bach cello suite

  Cello
  · J. Haydn - 1st movement of the concerto in D
  · two movements of a Bach suite

  Doublebass
  · 1st movement of one of the concertos by Dittersdorf, Vanhal or
  Hoffmeister

  Oboe | Oboe d?amore
  · W.A. Mozart - Concerto in C Major: 1st movement, up to m. 97,
  no cadenza
  · J.S. Bach - from Cantata 21: Sinfonia and Aria for soprano
  "Seufzer, Tränen, Kummer, Not", mm. 1 - 8
  · for Oboe d?amore: J.S. Bach - B Minor Mass, Qui Sedes

  Bassoon
  · W.A. Mozart - Concerto KV 191,
  1st movement: mm. 32 - 97,
  2nd movement: mm. 6-26
  · J.S. Bach - Overture C Major BWV 1066, 1st mov. (Overture):
  mm. 20-32 and mm. 48-69

  The application deadline is April 1, 2018. Admitted participants
  will be notified in May.

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