Public events take place regularly at the Landesmusikakademie, which are mainly the result of the work of individual courses or groups of students. In most cases, these are course graduations or public dress rehearsals with free admission. Here you will find an overview of the events that will take place in the near future.
SOUNDS OF AMERICA: Benny Troschel Quintett
Open air or in the garden hall of Schloss Engers
Im Rahmen der Reihe SOUNDS OF AMERICA feiert der New Yorker Jazztrompeten-Absolvent Benny Troschel mit Folksmusik sein Debutalbum-Release in der Landesmusikakademie Rheinland-Pfalz.
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Free
Tuesday, 25.06.2024
19:30 h
An evening with Jazz - Guitar & Vocals
Court concert
Although the duo is the smallest possible band, it offers all forms of interaction in jazz. This makes this line-up very exciting and at the same time places high demands on the musicians. The course provides input in the areas of arrangement, sound, voicings and improvisation. Standards and bossa novas are developed, which are presented at the jazz evening.
Eva Mayerhofer studied jazz singing at the Swiss Jazz School and at the Hochschule für Musik in Hanover. As a sought-after soloist she can be heard with projects all over Germany, among others as a guest with the Big Band of the Hessischer Rundfunks or the Frankfurt Jazz Trio.
Christian Eckert is an experienced duo player. He went to Holland in the early 1990s to study jazz guitar, before moving to New York with teachers such as Jim Hall, Hal Galper and John Abercrombie.
Free
Friday, 05.07.2024
18:00 h
Vollgas connected – Ambassador of inclusion
in the "Krupp'schen Halle" of the "Sayner Hütte"
The unique nationwide project “Vocation of a Musician*in” of the Musikschule Fürth and Lebenshilfe Fürth, in the framework of which young people with disabilities receive training as musicians, is a complete success: The band “Vollgas”, which emerged from the first season, has since its founding in 2009 under the direction of Uschi Dittus and has rocked in the Bavarian State Parliament, the Bavarian State Chancellery, the Federal Congresses of the German Music School Association (VdM) in Mainz and Bamberg and even in the German Bundestag.
Vollgas not only presents itself as a self-contained band, but under the name "Vollgas Connected" is also an ambassador of inclusion in various musical mergers with other students and teachers of the Fürth Music School as well as “professional” musicians such as Quadro Nuevo, the Feveran Quartet or the Thilo Wolf Big Band “on tour” through the Republic. Following the invitation of the International Society for Music Education (ISME), “Vollgas Connected” has appeared in Edinburgh and Glasgow (2016) as well as in Salzburg (2018). In concerts and workshops, it presents the professional world with the conditions for success of a music pedagogy of diversity and shows that inclusion does not have to remain a vision. “Unique. Together brilliant!”
Free
Saturday, 06.07.2024
16:00 h
Inclusive concert with the band Vollgas and Engerser Ensembles
at the auditorium of the Heinrich-Haus
For more than 30 years, students of the Hallemann School Fürth (Förderschule G) and the Musikschule Fürth e.V. have been going on a joint concert and leisure trip in July. This year the trip leads to the Landesmusikakademie. Since 2009, the band VOLLGAS (musicians of the Dambacher Werkstätten der Lebenshilfe) has been a travelling constant. The band consists of former students of the Förderschule, who completed a two-year training as musicians at the Musikschule Fürth. Since 2009, the music school has been an "outdoor workplace" for them, corresponding to their inclinations, talents and "vocation". Hence the project name "Profession Musiker*in".
On Saturday afternoon, July 6th, the band VOLLGAS will play a concert at the Landesmusikakademie, to which we cordially invite you and which is certainly an experience for young and old. As part of the concert, the Inclusive Ensembles Engers will also introduce themselves, coffee and cake round off the program.
"...preferably together!" Inclusive concert with the band VOLLGAS Saturday, 6 July 2024, 4 p.m. Aula of the Heinrich-Haus
For the students of the Hallemann School and also for those of the inclusive ensembles Engers, the musicians of Vollgas are important role models, impressively demonstrating that every human being is capable of a special performance. The band is proof of their thesis that anyone who wants and is willing to get involved can learn to make music. A special highlight of all concerts on the trip is always when the students of the school join the big band Vollgas Connected and play some songs together. As part of this year's trip, VOLLGAS and Vollgas connected will play several school concerts as well as a concert in the Sayner Hütte.
Free
Thursday, 25.07.2024
19:30 h
Play and Repeat??! Days of piano improvisation
Lecturer concert in the auditorium of the Heinrich-Haus
Play & Repeat??! Days of Piano Improvisation
Lecturer concert with Sebastian Sternal, Laurens Patzlaff, Helmut Lörscher and Christopher Miltenberger
For the seventh time, pianists - students, professionals and committed amateur musicians - meet at the Landesmusikakademie to deepen their practice in the field of improvisation.
The four lecturers Sebastian Sternal, Christopher Miltenberger, Helmut Lörscher and Laurens Patzlaff are professors at the music schools in Mainz, Freiburg and Lübeck. They are among the most internationally renowned specialists in piano improvisation and each pursue individual approaches to improvisation, with which they have made an outstanding name not only in the field of jazz.
“... the ear does not like to be satisfied with what it has already suspected in advance, but always wants to be deceived.” (Joachim Quantz, 1752)
Improvising on jazz standards, folk songs and pop songs is one of the most important skills of music teachers nowadays. Improvisation is also playing an increasingly important role in instrumental lessons. The course is aimed at all those who want to deepen their knowledge of piano improvisation and at the same time break new ground in traditional ways. Variation and renewal of known musical patterns of all kinds is the focus of the course work.
Free
Saturday, 27.07.2024
19:30 h
Play and Repeat??! Days of piano improvisation
Final concert in the auditorium of the Heinrich-Haus
Play & Repeat??! Piano improvisation daysFinal concert by the participants
For the seventh time, pianists - students, professionals and committed amateur musicians - meet at the Landesmusikakademie to deepen their practice in the field of improvisation.
The four lecturers Sebastian Sternal, Christopher Miltenberger, Helmut Lörscher and Laurens Patzlaff are professors at the music schools in Mainz, Freiburg and Lübeck. They are among the most internationally renowned specialists in piano improvisation and each pursue individual approaches to improvisation, with which they have made an outstanding name not only in the field of jazz.
“... the ear does not like to be satisfied with what it has already suspected in advance, but always wants to be deceived.” (Joachim Quantz, 1752)
Improvising on jazz standards, folk songs and pop songs is one of the most important skills of music teachers nowadays. Improvisation is also playing an increasingly important role in instrumental lessons. The course is aimed at all those who want to deepen their knowledge of piano improvisation and at the same time break new ground in traditional ways. Variation and renewal of known musical patterns of all kinds is the focus of the course work.
Free
Wednesday, 31.07.2024
19:30 h
Music Days on the Rhine - Opening Concert
in the church of St. Martin Engers
A series of top-class concerts at historically significant locations along the Rhine and yet more than just a music festival: from Sunday 28 July, the chamber music summer camp "Musiktage am Rhein" will bring together around 70 exceptional young talents from all over the world at the Landesmusikakademie in Engers.
Under the direction of Anne Shih, Professor of Violin at the Mainz University of Music, a team of international lecturers will be supervising the young musicians. Individual lessons are offered daily to prepare them for playing in an ensemble. There are also coaching sessions, joint rehearsals and daily concerts at inspiring venues such as Engers Castle, Namedy Castle and the casting hall at Sayner Hütte. Lecturers and course participants perform together with the "Mainzer Virtuosi" ensemble and international guests such as pianist Georgy Tchaidze.
The programme also includes a cross-over concert with young musicians from the iSchool in New York, who will combine classical pieces with popular songs together with members of the string chamber orchestra.
The programme offers the audience a broad spectrum of high-quality, easily audible music, while the participants can look forward to making music together with like-minded people and gaining concert experience in the land of many great composers.
Free
Thursday, 01.08.2024
19:30 h
Midsummer Night's Dream - Open Air Concert with the Mainzer Virtuosi
in the courtyard of Namedy Castle
A series of top-class concerts at historically significant locations along the Rhine and yet more than just a music festival: the chamber music summer camp "Musiktage am Rhein" will bring together around 70 exceptional young talents from all over the world at the Landesmusikakademie in Engers from Sunday, 28 July.
Under the direction of Anne Shih, Professor of Violin at the Mainz University of Music, a team of international instructors will supervise the young musicians. Individual lessons are offered daily to prepare them for playing in an ensemble. There are also coaching sessions, joint rehearsals and daily concerts at inspiring venues such as Engers Castle, Namedy Castle and the casting hall at Sayner Hütte. Lecturers and course participants perform together with the "Mainzer Virtuosi" ensemble and international guests such as pianist Georgy Tchaidze.
The programme also includes a cross-over concert with young musicians from the iSchool in New York, who will combine classical pieces with popular songs together with members of the string chamber orchestra.
The programme offers the audience a broad spectrum of high-quality, easily audible music, while the participants can look forward to making music together with like-minded people and gaining concert experience in the land of many great composers.
Free
Friday, 02.08.2024
19:30 h
Mainzer Virtuosi & Friends
in the foundry hall of Sayner Hütte
A series of high-calibre concerts at historically significant locations along the Rhine and yet more than just a music festival: the chamber music summer camp "Musiktage am Rhein" brings together around 70 exceptional young talents from all over the world at the Landesmusikakademie in Engers.
Under the direction of Anne Shih, Professor of Violin at the University of Music in Mainz, a team of international instructors will supervise the young musicians. Individual lessons are offered daily to prepare them for playing in an ensemble. There are also coaching sessions, joint rehearsals and daily concerts at inspiring venues such as Engers Castle, Namedy Castle and the casting hall at Sayner Hütte. Lecturers and course participants perform together with the "Mainzer Virtuosi" ensemble and international guests.
The programme also includes a cross-over concert with young musicians from the iSchool in New York, who will combine classical pieces with popular songs together with members of the string chamber orchestra.
The programme offers the audience a broad spectrum of high-quality, easily audible music, while the participants can look forward to making music together with like-minded people and gaining concert experience in the land of many great composers.
At the first concert of this year's "Musiktage am Rhein" in the casting hall of the Sayner Hütte, the audience can expect works that honour the friendship and artistic affinity between Pablo de Sarasate and other composers such as Saint-Saëns, Lalo, Bruch and Liszt. The focus is on solo string instruments, accompanied by the Mainz Virtuosi, a top-class string chamber orchestra.
Free
Saturday, 03.08.2024
16:00 h
Sound of Cultures
in the market church Neuwied
A series of top-class concerts at historically significant locations along the Rhine and yet more than just a music festival: The chamber music summer camp "Musiktage am Rhein" will gather around 70 exceptional young talents from all over the world at the Landesmusikakademie in Engers starting on Sunday, August 6.
Under the direction of Anne Shih, Professor of Violin at the Hochschule für Musik in Mainz, a team of international lecturers will supervise the young musicians. Individual lessons are offered daily to prepare them for playing in an ensemble. In addition, there are coaching sessions, joint rehearsals and daily concerts at inspiring venues such as Engers Castle, Namedy Castle or the Sayner Hütte casting hall. Lecturers and course participants make music together with the ensemble "Mainzer Virtuosi" and international guests such as the pianist Georgy Tchaidze. Also on the program is a cross-over concert with young musicians from the iSchool from New York, who together with members of the string chamber orchestra will combine classical pieces with popular songs. The program offers the audience a wide range of high-quality, easy-listening music, while participants can enjoy making music together with like-minded people and gaining concert experience in the land of many great composers.
At the concert on Saturday afternoon in the Marktkirche, listeners can expect a program entitled "Bach's Sons - Bach's Heirs". Works by the Bach family from Johann Sebastian to Carl Philipp Emanuel and Johann Christian are on the program.
Free
Sunday, 04.08.2024
19:30 h
Concert of the Music Days on the Rhine
in the garden hall of Engers Castle
A series of top-class concerts at historically significant locations along the Rhine and yet more than just a music festival: from Sunday 28 July, the chamber music summer camp "Musiktage am Rhein" will bring together around 70 exceptional young talents from all over the world at the Landesmusikakademie in Engers.
Under the direction of Anne Shih, Professor of Violin at the Mainz University of Music, a team of international lecturers will be supervising the young musicians. Individual lessons are offered daily to prepare them for playing in an ensemble. There are also coaching sessions, joint rehearsals and daily concerts at inspiring venues such as Engers Castle, Namedy Castle and the casting hall at Sayner Hütte. Lecturers and course participants perform together with the "Mainzer Virtuosi" ensemble and international guests such as pianist Georgy Tchaidze.
The programme also includes a cross-over concert with young musicians from the iSchool in New York, who will combine classical pieces with popular songs together with members of the string chamber orchestra.
The programme offers the audience a broad spectrum of high-quality, easily audible music, while the participants can look forward to making music together with like-minded people and gaining concert experience in the land of many great composers.
Free
Monday, 05.08.2024
19:30 h
Music Days on the Rhine - Cross over
in the auditorium of the Heinrich House
A series of high-calibre concerts at historically significant locations along the Rhine and yet more than just a music festival: the chamber music summer camp "Musiktage am Rhein" brings together around 70 exceptional young talents from all over the world at the Landesmusikakademie in Engers.
Under the direction of Anne Shih, Professor of Violin at the University of Music in Mainz, a team of international instructors will supervise the young musicians. Individual lessons are offered daily to prepare them for playing in an ensemble. There are also coaching sessions, joint rehearsals and daily concerts at inspiring venues such as Engers Castle, Namedy Castle and the casting hall at Sayner Hütte. Lecturers and course participants perform together with the "Mainzer Virtuosi" ensemble and international guests such as pianist Georgy Tchaidze.
The programme also includes a cross-over concert with young musicians from the iSchool in New York, who will combine classical pieces with popular songs together with members of the string chamber orchestra.
The programme offers the audience a broad spectrum of high-quality, easily audible music, while the participants can look forward to making music together with like-minded people and gaining concert experience in the land of many great composers.
At the concert in the auditorium, the audience can look forward to an exciting crossing over with the Mainz Virtuosi and young musicians from the iSchool New York.
Free
Tuesday, 06.08.2024
19:30 h
Lecturer concert of the Music Days on the Rhine
in the garden hall of Engers Castle
A series of top-class concerts at historically significant locations along the Rhine and yet more than just a music festival: from Sunday 28 July, the chamber music summer camp "Musiktage am Rhein" will bring together around 70 exceptional young talents from all over the world at the Landesmusikakademie in Engers.
Under the direction of Anne Shih, Professor of Violin at the Mainz University of Music, a team of international lecturers will be supervising the young musicians. Individual lessons are offered daily to prepare them for playing in an ensemble. There are also coaching sessions, joint rehearsals and daily concerts at inspiring venues such as Engers Castle, Namedy Castle and the casting hall at Sayner Hütte. Lecturers and course participants perform together with the "Mainzer Virtuosi" ensemble and international guests such as pianist Georgy Tchaidze.
The programme also includes a cross-over concert with young musicians from the iSchool in New York, who will combine classical pieces with popular songs together with members of the string chamber orchestra.
The programme offers the audience a broad spectrum of high-quality, easily audible music, while the participants can look forward to making music together with like-minded people and gaining concert experience in the land of many great composers.
Free
Wednesday, 07.08.2024
19:30 h
Piano special
in the hall of mirrors of Namedy Castle
A series of top-class concerts at historically significant locations along the Rhine and yet more than just a music festival: from Sunday 28 July, the chamber music summer camp "Musiktage am Rhein" will bring together around 70 exceptional young talents from all over the world at the Landesmusikakademie in Engers.
Under the direction of Anne Shih, Professor of Violin at the Mainz University of Music, a team of international lecturers will be supervising the young musicians. Individual lessons are offered daily to prepare them for playing in an ensemble. There are also coaching sessions, joint rehearsals and daily concerts at inspiring venues such as Engers Castle, Namedy Castle and the casting hall at Sayner Hütte. Lecturers and course participants perform together with the "Mainzer Virtuosi" ensemble and international guests such as pianist Georgy Tchaidze.
The programme also includes a cross-over concert with young musicians from the iSchool in New York, who will combine classical pieces with popular songs together with members of the string chamber orchestra.
The programme offers the audience a broad spectrum of high-quality, easily audible music, while the participants can look forward to making music together with like-minded people and gaining concert experience in the land of many great composers.
At the concert in the Hall of Mirrors at Namedy Castle, listeners can expect piano music at its finest.
Free
Thursday, 08.08.2024
19:30 h
Symphonic Rock / New York iSchool & Mainzer Virtuosi
in the foundry hall of Sayner Hütte
A series of high-calibre concerts at historically significant locations along the Rhine and yet more than just a music festival: the chamber music summer camp "Musiktage am Rhein" brings together around 70 exceptional young talents from all over the world at the Landesmusikakademie in Engers.
Under the direction of Anne Shih, Professor of Violin at the University of Music in Mainz, a team of international instructors will supervise the young musicians. Individual lessons are offered daily to prepare them for playing in an ensemble. There are also coaching sessions, joint rehearsals and daily concerts at inspiring venues such as Engers Castle, Namedy Castle and the casting hall at Sayner Hütte. Lecturers and course participants perform together with the "Mainzer Virtuosi" ensemble and international guests.
The programme also includes a cross-over concert with young musicians from the iSchool in New York, who will combine classical pieces with popular songs together with members of the string chamber orchestra.
The programme offers the audience a broad spectrum of high-quality, easily audible music, while the participants can look forward to making music together with like-minded people and gaining concert experience in the land of many great composers.
At the second concert of this year's "Musiktage am Rhein" in the Gießhalle of the Sayner Hütte, the audience can expect a programme in which young rock musicians from New York and the Mainz Virtuosi, a top-class string chamber orchestra, dare to cross over and present symphonic rock.
Free
Friday, 09.08.2024
19:30 h
The Invention of Romanticism - Music Days on the Rhine
Mainz Virtuosi & Friends in the Marktkirche Neuwied
Programme:
Franz Schubert Rondo in A major, D.438
Ludwig van Beethoven Violin Concerto in D major, Op.61
Ludwig van Beethoven's compositions, such as the Ninth Symphony, tell epic stories from beginning to end. His contribution to the development of the Romantic style is particularly evident in his ability to create narrative plots within symphonic works. His music became a powerful narrative that traversed emotional highs and lows, laying the foundation for the Romantic understanding of music as a means of depicting stories and feelings
In his compositions, Franz Schubert experimented with rich, nuanced harmonies that created new soundscapes. Schubert also introduced the genre of the fairy tale into music. Schubert gave his works a narrative quality, bringing stories of love, loss and experiences of nature to life with the help of lyrical texts.
These innovations enriched the Romantic musical landscape and influenced numerous composers after them.
Free
Saturday, 10.08.2024
19:30 h
Music Days on the Rhine - Final Concert
in the church of St. Martin in Engers
A series of top-class concerts at historically significant locations along the Rhine and yet more than just a music festival: from Sunday 28 July, the chamber music summer camp "Musiktage am Rhein" will bring together around 70 exceptional young talents from all over the world at the Landesmusikakademie in Engers.
Under the direction of Anne Shih, Professor of Violin at the Mainz University of Music, a team of international lecturers will be supervising the young musicians. Individual lessons are offered daily to prepare them for playing in an ensemble. There are also coaching sessions, joint rehearsals and daily concerts at inspiring venues such as Engers Castle, Namedy Castle and the casting hall at Sayner Hütte. Lecturers and course participants perform together with the "Mainzer Virtuosi" ensemble and international guests such as pianist Georgy Tchaidze.
The programme also includes a cross-over concert with young musicians from the iSchool in New York, who will combine classical pieces with popular songs together with members of the string chamber orchestra.
The programme offers the audience a broad spectrum of high-quality, easily audible music, while the participants can look forward to making music together with like-minded people and gaining concert experience in the land of many great composers.
Free
Saturday, 31.08.2024
17:00 h
Free Voices - Gospels and more
in the church of St Martin Engers
The gospel choir Free Voices e.V. Schillingen was founded in 1996 in a rather unconventional way. In the absence of a gospel choir in the region around Schillingen, Günter Blatt agreed to start a project that he himself was initially not convinced would be successful. After a first successful rehearsal, he founded Free Voices with 15 ladies who were keen to sing. After a short time and the first musical successes, the choir was enlarged by numerous singers.
For more than 25 years, the Free Voices, which now has over 50 singers, has become a permanent fixture in the region. It is remarkable that singers, even the choirmaster, travel up to 65 kilometres to sing in this choir or to conduct it. The addition "Gospels and more" means that the choir is primarily dedicated to gospel music, but also likes to include pop songs and modern church songs in its repertoire.
Patrick Jungels, whose enthusiasm for choral music was awakened and encouraged by Günter Blatt, has been the choirmaster of Free Voices since 2015. Patrick Jungels studied music education at the University of Koblenz-Landau, specialising in singing and piano as well as German studies. He attended choral conducting seminars with Werner Ciba and university music director Ron Dirk Entleutner, among others. He supplemented his training with workshops (e.g. with Carsten Gerlitz) and choral experience in pop and jazz. He also took part in several workshops at the Landesmusikakademie Engers. With this experience, the choir still fulfils the original requirements today: high motivation, (choral) voice training, a broad spectrum of literature and a visible joy in making music.
Free
Friday, 20.09.2024
19:30 h
SAGO - The Songwriting School
in the garden hall of Engers Castle
Trusting in the long-term impact of art, even if the market favours quick results - that is the message of SAGO, the Academy for Poetry and Music. It was founded in 1989 by Christof Stählin, for whom aesthetic positions were always more important than political ones. He created a collegial meeting place for all those who do not fit neatly into the classical, pop and jazz pigeonholes - analogous to odds and ends that ended up in the unused "sago compartment" of old kitchen buffets. Precision of observation and subtlety of musical expression - this is the focus of the school, which has already hosted celebrities such as Judith Holofernes, Eckart von Hirschhausen, Bodo Wartke and Sebstian Krämer. SAGO offers a unique opportunity to work intensively and creatively together for a week.
You can see this for yourself again on Friday, 20 September at 7.30 pm.
Every year, the graduates are given the task of composing a song on a given theme. The results will be heard in the first part of the concert. In the second part of the concert, the freestyle follows: everyone can show what else they have to offer. The best-known Sago annual task song is probably Judith Holofernes' "Denkmal". The theme of the same name also inspired Bodo Wartke's "Ein Denkmal denkt".
Since Stählin's death in 2015, his long-time assistant Martin Betz and his colleague Matthias Binner have continued to run SAGO. Martin Betz is an author, musician and comedian living in Berlin. In addition to studying historical keyboard instruments, specialising in harpsichord, he has a master's degree in German and musicology. He has received awards including the Esslinger Bahnwärter and Stadtschreiber von Ottendorf. Matthias Binner studied German language and literature and history at the FU Berlin. Even during his studies, he worked professionally as a pianist for well-known theatre, cabaret and show productions. One of his compositions, the operetta "Der Geizhals" - loosely based on Molière - was staged at three German theatres. He has been performing on stage as a singer-songwriter for 18 years and has been a participant in the Sago seminars since 2012. His first solo CD was released in 2015.
Free
Wednesday, 30.10.2024
18:00 h
Final concert of the Federal Youth Aid Music Project
in the Krupp Hall at Sayner Hütte
For 34 years now, the Bundesjugendhilfemusikprojekt (Federal Youth Aid Music Project) has been providing musical support for disadvantaged children and young people from all over Germany with a great deal of commitment and many volunteers. Following the anniversary event at Ehrenbreitstein Fortress in 2015, the Federal Youth Aid Music Project has once again been invited to the region. The Federal Youth Aid Project will present its entire repertoire - choir, rock and pop bands, hip-hop, beatboxing and drumming - which is created during project days at the RLP State Music Academy in Engers. As a highlight, the young people will be supported by the band Stingchronisity, which has come a long way in the band competition "The Tribute", which will be broadcast by Sat 1 in summer 2024.
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