Master Classes | Musikfestspelen Korsholm

- Korsholm Music Master Classes 2021
  Welcome to participate in Master Classes!
  
  Last year the Master Classes were cancelled because of the Corona pandemic. This summer we hope to arrange Master Classes that are safe to attend by aspiring musicians. This summer the festival is held between 28.7.–4.8. and the Master Classes will be held during the same time.
  
  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.
  
  This year master classes will be held in violin by Cecilia Zilliacus, in viola by Vicki Powell, in double bass by Rick Stotijn, in clarinet by Lars Wouters van den Oudenweijer, in flute by Sara Hammarström, in bassoon with Bram van Sambeek, in horn by Tero Toivonen and in song by mezzosoprano / soprano Christina Daletska (only on Monday 2.8.). The Master Class Concert will be held on 2.8.2021, where the students have an opportunity to perform.
- The Masterclasses are being held in Festival Center, in Vaasa city center. Students receive individual tutoring in 3 sessions (à 60 minutes). One master class concert is scheduled in the Music Festival program. The schedules will be ready in June but can change.
  
  Master class fee: 300 € / pers.
  The fee includes free admission to the festival concerts, if there are seats available, and lunch on the teaching days.
- Apply for the Master Classes 2.7.2021 at the latest! --> Apply here!
- Violin
  
  Cecilia Zilliacus is professor in violin at the Royal Music College in Stockholm. She is also an aftersought soloist and interpreter of old and modern chamber music. She gives master classes regularly at festivals and is also a teacher within the Musethica organisation
- Viola
  
  Vicki Powell is passionate about using music to engage communities from diverse backgrounds in order to strengthen social ties, as well as to raise awareness for humanitarian efforts across the world. As Director of the Verbier Festival Academy's "Reaching Out" program, she helped enable musicians to harness and broaden their outreach, business, networking, and leadership skills in order to be innovative and active participants within their own communities.
- Double bass
  
  Rick Stotijn is currently principal double bass in the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Mahler Chamber Orchestra. He is also a double bass professor at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf. He performs on a Raffaele & Antonio Gagliano double bass, generously loaned by the National Musical Instrument Foundation.
- Clarinet
  
  Lars Wouters van den Oudenweijer studied at the Rotterdam Conservatory and at the Juilliard School of Music in New York. In 2009 and 2011 Challenge Records released his CD with the Reger and Brahms sonatas, which received outstanding reviews by the international music press. Lars has been teaching at Academy of Music and Performing Arts Tilburg since 2004.
- Flute
  
  Sara Hammarström is one of Sweden’s most wanted flute players, with a versatile repertoire of solo and chamber works. She has worked with many composers and ensembles, both in Sweden and abroad, and her keen interest in contemporary music has resulted in more than 200 first performances.
- Bassoon
  
  Bram van Sambeek is one of the few bassoonists with a prominent international solist career. He performs regularly as a soloist with different orchestras in Europe. In 2017, after teaching years in several Dutch music universities, he started a professorship at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne.
- Horn
  
  Tero Toivonen has worked as a French horn lecturer in the Sibelius-Academy since 2016. He gives masterclasses on a regular basis. He just visited The Hong Kong University of Performing Arts and recently gave masterclasses to students at the Manhattan School of Music and the Royal Danish School of Music.
- Song
  
  Christina Daletska is one of the most impressive young singers of her generation and stands out thanks to her extraordinary enthusiasm and talent for works from the 20th and 21st centuries. The unique expressivity of her voice and her musical intelligence make her an ideal interpreter of the song repertoire and recitals.