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Bassoon

Studio Johannes Schwarz

Two-week instrumental studio

Tutor: Johannes Schwarz

Course fee: 480€ (+16.50€ system and booking fees)

As the number of participants is likely to be low, Johannes Schwarz will not extend the lessons to a full two weeks, but will compress them into several time blocks. However, this will not mean that you will receive fewer lessons than in other instrumental studios, on the contrary. If you would like to find out more about the teaching dates before booking, please contact us at bassoon@darmstaedter-ferienkurse.de.
In addition to the bassoon studio, other workshops for instrumentalists or chamber music projects are of course also open to you at the Summer Course.

Registration opens on 15 January, 12.00 CET

Registration

The bassoon studio – individual and group lessons – is flexible and open to all levels: professionals, amateurs, composers who can play some bassoon, bassoon players from any genre. Participants should bring a selection of works that they would like to discuss and work on in class. All solo, duo and ensemble literature is welcome!

  • Solo literature: contemporary, improvisation, classical
  • Contemporary ensemble literature for bassoon: tips and tricks for dealing with the technical and musical demands of contemporary music with repertoire that is now established (Ligeti, Xenakis, Schönberg, Rihm, among others)
  • Special course areas for technique, sound, posture, mouthpieces
  • Workshop/lecture on the existing solo CDs by Johannes Schwarz: development of the new solo works, forms of notation, practicing techniques
  • Overview of the existing contemporary solo literature for bassoon in various levels of difficulty, solo, duo, ensemble, with electronics

Participants can get involved in other ensembles and combinations with composers on site, and also take part in concerts and other workshops if wanted/required!

Johannes Schwarz would like to get to know something about the participants in his studio beforehand and asks them to e-mail him (bassoon@darmstaedter-ferienkurse.de) ONE PDF containing the following documents as part of the registration process:

  • CV
  • A list of the most important works performed from the classical period (solo and ensemble) and contemporary music (solo and ensemble)
  • Links to video and/or audio examples (not absolutely necessary, but can be provided on a voluntary basis)

Thank you!