Master Classes | Musikfestspelen Korsholm

- Korsholm Music Festival Master Classes 2025
  Welcome to participate in our Master Classes!
  
  Master Class lessons are open to the public to follow. Please note that changes may occur in teaching schedules.
  
  Korsholm Music Festival arranges master courses in the summer of 2025. The courses are held in Vaasa, Finland July 22th until July 27th, 2025. The master class teachers are
  
  Piano: Tuija Hakkila
  
  Violin: Mari Tampere-Bezrodny
  
  Violin: Mi-kyung Lee
  
  Cello: Joona Pulkkinen
  
  Canto: Sirkka Parviainen
  
  Accompaniment: Mikael Kemppainen
  
  The Master Classes are mainly intended for professional students in Finland and abroad, as well as for music school students who have already advanced in their studies.
  
  The master classes are part of the Vaasa Summer University's course offerings. You can apply to the master class on Vaasa Summer University's website, see link below. Registration is open 1.3.-15.5.2025.
  
  The master classes are organized in cooperation with Vaasa Summer University and Kuula-opisto. Since the early years, there has been a tradition of arranging master classes during the festival. Many of the musicians are professors in their own genre and are giving master classes around the world.
- Learn more about the master classes
  The Master classes will take place at the Kuula-opisto in Vaasa. Two master class concerts are scheduled in the Music Festival program. Korsholm Music Festival reserves the right to change schedules and concert dates.
  
  Master class fee: 375 €
  The fee includes 4*45 minutes lessons. Additional lessons can be purchased for a fee of 70 € for each 45 minutes. Master class participants have free admission to the festival concerts, if there are seats available. The tuition fee will also cover one lunch buffet each day for the duration of the master class course.
  
  Accommodation is not included in the tuition fee. Course participants can book rooms from the GreenStar hotel, which is situated close to the teaching venue (approx. 950 m).
- Apply for the Master Classes before 15.5.2025! --> Apply here!
- Violin
  
  Mari Tampere-Bezrodny is professor of violin at the Estonian Music Academy and Sibelius-Academy in Finland. She has taught at Moscow Conservatoire, and she has held regular Master Classes in Madrid.
- Violin
  
  Mi-kyung Lee has been teaching as guest professor in Udk, Berlin and had professorship in Sibelius Academy Helsinki (1999–2004). She was appointed professor of violin at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich in 2004. She also serves as music director at MikyungLee International Music Academy (MIMA), which she founded in 2023.
- Cello
  
  Joona Pulkkinen worked as the 1st solo cellist of the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra in 2014–2023. In the fall of 2022, Pulkkinen started his work as a lecturer of cello at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki.
- Canto
  
  Sirkka Parviainen's impressive pedagogical skills manifest themselves in the finals of singing competitions in Finland and abroad as well as in the number of professional engagements of her students. She was the leader of the vocal department of the Sibelius Academy from 2014 to 2020 and is currently holding a tenure position in the University of Arts as a lecturer of vocal music.
- Piano
  
  Tuija Hakkila was appointed lecturer in piano at the Sibelius Academy in 1987, and became professor in piano in 2014. She regularly gives master classes and appears in international expert assignments. In late 2022 she was appointed visiting professor at the Malmö Music Academy.
- Accompaniment
  
  Mikael Kemppainen has been awarded in many piano and chamber music competitions, for instance first prize in the Jyväskylä Piano Competition in 2001. Nowadays, he works as a lecturer of accompaniment at the Turku Conservatory. He is also a familiar face as a pianist at master classes and competitions.