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Im Sommer 2025 haben die Wiener Meisterkurse ihren 50. Geburtstag feiern können. 1975 von Günther Theuring gemeinsam mit der Stadt Wien gegründet, haben sie von Beginn an der geistigen Tradition die Musik der Wiener Klassik orientierte Meisterkurse für Studierende aus aller Welt mit hochkarätigen Lehrenden angeboten. Das durchgängig hohe und kritische Niveau der Sommerakademie wurde von 1975-2016 von Günther Theuring …
Arabella Fenyves im Gespräch mit dem künstlerischen Leiter der Wiener Meisterkurse, Jörg Birhance (27. Mai 2025):
An evening of Walter Bricht Lieder and American song, with lecture “Gepresst bricht die Freude” An evening of Walter Bricht Lieder and American song, with lecture July 27, 2022, 19:00, Laudon Palace, Vienna This lecture concert offers a glimpse into the life and Lieder of Austrian composer, pianist, and teacher Walter Bricht, who at the Anschluss of Austria emigrated …
The International Anders-Eliasson-Society Anders Eliasson (1946-2007)Symposion – Film – Konzert 24. Juli 2022, Beginn 14:30 UhrSchloss Laudon, Wien, Mauerbachstr. 43-45, 1140 Wien ‘I cannot fully capture the strange, entrancing quality of Eliasson’s works in words: its essence defies description. I can only express my enthusiasm for the music – there is nothing quite like it out there.‘ Nathan Faro …
Dear Friends! We are deeply convinced that music is a profound manifestation of our humanity, important for the present and indispensable for the future. In in the darkness of the war taking place in Ukraine, European Music Institute Vienna and its faculty is offering a number of full scholarships for the Summer Academy 2022 to music students from Ukraine who are affected …
Günther Theuring (1930-2016), founder of EMIV’s predecessor Wiener Meisterkurse, offered these words about the point of master classes in his unique way: “Look, someone sits down and plays like a tiger, and it sounds like he’s a puppet. Every sound is there but stands in space without a relationship to anything. Well, he got that from a teacher who said: …
European Music Institute mourns its great teacher, mentor and friend Paul Badura-Skoda. Everyone who has ever met him even once owes him deeply, including us. (Paul Badura-Skoda teaching at EMIV 2017, ©jbirhance)
Listen here to ORF-OE1 Radio Interview with Artistic Director Jörg Birhance about EMIV conducting course (Courtesy ORF): English transcript: Music: Egon Wellesz: Music for String Orchestra in one Movement, op. 91 (Edition: Doblinger). Orchestra: WienSinfonietta JB: “We are very fortunate to be able to expand here in the premises of Laudon Palace. We have six teaching rooms in …
Many thanks to Max Kromer and our professors Martin Hughes, Christa Bützberger, Uta Schwabe and Jörg Birhance. Video filmed and edited by Daniel E. McCarty. Special thanks to Bösendorfer! For information about our summer program, please click here.
À la recherche de la musique française 23 July 2018, 19:30 In this lecture concert we want to draw the path of French Music from Ravel and Debussy times to the present. All the great composers, whether from past centuries or today, have studied the repertoire that has marked the history of music. Everyone creates his oeuvre with an individual …