17th ANNUAL PERCUSSION WORKSHOP SYMPOSIUM TRSTENICE 2013 International Courses for Composers and Percussion Players with: Clarence Barlow (D-USA) Jeff Beer (D), Ivo Medek (CZ) Tomáš Ondrůšek (CZ-D), Olaf Tzschoppe (D) and others June 30 - July 7 2013 Music Centre Haus Urban Trstenice Czech Republic hf.jamu.cz/symposium-trstenice Organizers : Sdruzeni Q Brno, Music Centre Haus Urban Trstenice For more information: Prof. Ivo Medek, Ph.D., Brno, Sirotkova 67, 616 00, tel. (++42O) 603149923, e-mail: medek@jamu.cz http://www.musica.cz With the generous support of: Czech Ministry of Culture, Region of South Moravia, Music Fundation Život umělce, Czech Music Fund and OSA Partnership Talent Programme
COURSE CONTENT This summer course is designed for students (or graduates) who play percussion instruments, as well as composers specifically interested in composition for percussion ínstruments. The course is open to students of conservatories and music academies, as well as mature high-school students and interested members of the public, between the ages of 15 and 30. Date: 30. 6-7. 7. 2013 Place: Music Centre Haus Urban Trstěnice (near the town Svitavy), Czech Republic Course Fee: 250 euro (includes: accommodations, all meals from dinner 30.6. to breakfast 7.7. and course fee) to be paid on the spot during course registration. Please send applications to the following address: Prof. Ivo Medek, Ph.D., Sirotkova 67 616 00 BRNO Czech Republic or via e-mail: medek@jamu.cz Applications must be post-marked no later than May 15. 2013. For more information: Prof. Ivo Medek, Ph.D., tel. +420 549249840 (after 7:00 p.m.), +420 603149923 or e-mail: medek@jamu.cz The purpose of the course is: For performers: - improvement of solo and ensemble skills under the guidance of renowned instructors - greater theoretical and practical knowledge of world percussion literature, - untraditional instruments, performance techniques, questions of interpretation, and notational and compositional problems - practical group-work with composers and instructors of percussion and composition - individual concert performance for all participants Each participant must prepare a solo performance, maximum length 10 minutes, to be chosen from 20th century literature.
For composers: - discussion of individual works with experienced authors and performers, presentation of selected compositions by instructors and more experienced participants - greater familiarity with notational problems and specific compositional techniques relating to solo and ensemble literature for untraditional percussion instruments - opportunity to experiment with the various possible timbres of different instruments - application of compositional skills in cooperation with instructors of percussion and composition, with a focus on concert performance Also take your own compositions (not only for percussions) for the analyse purposes. Course program: There will be workshops and seminars given by our regular professors of the younger middle generation who were carefully chosen by the Society of Percussionists, supplemented with lectures by visiting professors who are being invited for one workshop and seminar. The guests for this year for duration of all courses are again world renowned musicians - composer Clarence Barlow, professor of the California State University Santa Barbara and German percussion player Olaf Tzschoppe, member of Les Percussions de Strasbourg, Ensemble Modern and Musik Fabrik. Professor of Hochschule fur Kunste de Bremen in Germany - in addition to the permanent lecturers. The lecture series will be supplemented with a concert series. The concerts will take place in the concert hall of the Music Centre Urban and are open to the public. Performers will include instructors and participants of the course. General course outline: 30. 6. afternoon - arrival of participants evening - round table 1.7. 6.7. morning - individual instruction and group instruction afternoon - workshops and seminars, group instruction evening - concert 7. 7. morning - round table - departure of participants
Regular instructors: Jeff Beer (*1952), Tomáš Ondrůšek (*1964), Ivo Medek (*1956). Jeff Beer (Ger) Studied composition and percussion at the Academy of Music in Wurzburg. Received many awards, for instance: special prize at the international competition for contemporary music Radio France; Bavarian national prize 1985; 1' prize Deutscher Musikwettbewerb, Bonn; Studienstiftung des Deutsches Volkes; scholarship grant at the Cité Internationale des Artes in Paris, and others. Has performed as a soloist in Berlin, Basil, Stockholm, New York, Madrid, Koln, Chicago and elsewhere. Workshop subjects: developtment of percussion instruments, solo repertoire, construction of percussíon instruments, new instruments, analysis of own compositions. Tomáš Ondrůšek (Cz Rep., Ger) Studied percussion at the academies in Nurnberg and Stuttgart. Performed as a soloist in the renowned Percussion Ensemble Stuttgart. Has appeared in concerts throughout Europe, awards include the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes. Has performed solo recitals in Pragae, Moscow, Nurnberg, St. Petersburg, Brno and elsewhere. Many guest lecturer appearances, including performance courses in contemporary music and the R. Strauss Conservatory in Munich, JAMU Brno, the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, Musik Hochschule Bonn, R. Korsakov Conservatory in St. Petersburg and others. From 1995-96 participated in such festivals as Warsaw Autumn, Bienale St. Petersburg, Prague Spring, etc. Presently is a member of the ensemble AGON. Workshop subjects: notatíon, analysis of works by famous composers (Xenakis, Lachenmann and otbers), development and construction of sticks and mallets. Ivo Medek (Cz Rep) Studied composition at the Janacek Academy in Brno, where be presently teaches composition and theory of composition and works as the rector/president since 2010. Has devoted more than 10 years exclusively to composition for percussion instruments, both practically and theoretically. In 1990 and 94, lectured at the Darmstadt courses, where his works for percussion were presented. Has also lectured and made masterclasses at various institutions in Portugal, Poland, Germany, Holland, several American universities, Austria, the Ukraine, Thailand, Korea, etc. His works bave been heard ín Austria, the USA, Holland, Germany, Poland, Switzertand, Hungary, Portugal, Belgium, the Ukraine and elsewbere. Was a prize winner of the Annual Prize of the Czech Music Fund in 1993, received the Alypios fund grant in Munich, and has won other prizes in national and international competitions. Medek is the widely published author too ("Processuality as a complex composition method", Music Order and General Principles of its Construction (with Alois Pinos),..). Workshop subjects: Analysis of own works, general compositional principles, specific forms.. Guests: Clarence Barlow (*1945) One of the most important personalities of the music of the 20th and 21st century. Professor of Composition and Computer Music at the renowned biennial Summer Courses of the International Music Institute at Darmstadt (1982-1994); over twenty years as Lecturer in Computer Music at Cologne Music University (1984-2005); four years as Artistic Director of the Institute of Sonology (1990-1994) and twelve years as Professor of Composition and Sonology at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague (1994-2006); Corwin Professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara since 2006. Olaf Tzschoppe (*1962) World-wide known percussionist, since 1992 member of the Les Percussions de Strasbourg group; plays regularily in other ensembles as Ensemble Modern, Musik Fabrik, etc Professor of Hochschule für Künste in Bremen, Germany.
17 th Annual Percussion and Composition Courses Percussion Workshop Trstěnice 2013 Application Form Name:. Address : e-mail address:... cell phone:... School:. Age:. Performer/Composer: Signature: Deadline for applications : May 15, 2013 Organizers of the courses will send you the decision about your participation on the above mentioned address. The fee will be paid cash the first day of the courses.