Calling for Clarinettists - New Interpretation Course at the European Music Academy Bonn

09.12.2011

EMCY is glad to promote the new Interpretation Course organised by one of its partner organisations, the European Music Academy Bonn.
The European Music Academy Bonn promotes young winners of national and international competitions between the age of 16 and 25 years through annually changing musical interpretation courses with a focus on solo and chamber music. From 30th March 2012 to 6th April 2012 the EMB (Europäische Musikakademie Bonn e.V.) will organise its 19th Interpretation Course, this year addressed to young clarinettists.
The course will be led by Eduard Brunner and the accompanist will be Grigor Asmaryan.
Lessons will be held by them in German, French and English.
There will be 6 places available and EMCY prize winners will be given priority for the selection.
Please click here for the registration form and eligibility requirements: http://europaeische-musikakademie-bonn.de/Seiten/AApplication%20EMB.pdf
If you are interested in participating, please contact the EMCY Office!
The deadline to contact us is 15th January 2012.


Here some information about the musicians who will lead the course:

Eduard Brunner is a classical clarinetist. He began his musical education in Basel (Switzerland), where he was born, continuing his studies at the Paris Conservatoire with Louis Cahuzac. For thirty years he was the first Clarinet of the Munich's Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and now he is Professor of Clarinet and Chamber Music at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Saarbrücken (Germany).

His concert engagements as soloist and in chamber ensembles have taken him around the world and he regularly participates in Music Festivals at Löckenhaus, Vienna, Moscow, Warsaw, Schleswig-Holstein, Berlin, amongst others. He currently gives numerous Master Classes in different countries and has an extensive discography of over 250 works for Clarinet. He has edited and recorded the complete works of Carl Stamitz and Ludwig Spohr for Clarinet.

He is an eminent musician that has had an influence on various artists and has played at the premiere of a number of works that have become a part of the Clarinet repertoire, such as works by Helmut Lachenmann, Isanf Yun, Edison Denisov, Jean Françaix, Gia Kancheli, Krzysztof Meyer, amongst others.


Grigor Asmaryan
was born in 1979 in Yerevan, Armenia. He studied piano at the Music Academy of his native city with prof. Sergey Kechek and graduated in 2000. Afterwards he moved to France, to study further with the prof. Serguei Markarov at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris Alfred Cortot. In 2003 he received the Diplome superieur d’execution.
Grigor Asmaryan won many prizes at different competitions: he received in 1998 the Grand Prix at the International Pierre-Lantier-Competition in Paris, in 2002 the diploma as finalist at the International Francis-Poulenc-Competition Limoges and in 2006 the special prize at the International Competition Flame, in Paris.

He gave concerts as soloist in Armenia, Russia, Syria, Lebanon, Ukraine, Germany and France. He performed in Finland as a member of the Trio Afride and played also with the Armenia Philharmonic Orchestra, under the direction of Loris Tchgnavoryan.

In 2008 he started his postgraduate studies at the Academy of Music in Saarbrücken (Hochschule für Musik Saar) in the piano chamber music class of Prof. Tatevik Mokatsian and since then he has been accompanying many students of the classes of prof. Tanja Becker-Bender (violin), Prof. David Grimal (violin), Prof. Gustav Rivinius (cello), prof. Eduard Brunner (clarinet), and prof. Johannes Gmeinder (clarinet). In January 2011 he concluded his studies with distinction.