master class for advanced amateur singers led by. Manuela Okhakovsky and Heleen Vegter
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€ 275.00 per person / maximum 6 participants
Registration is possible until Sunday 2 February.
Before the start of the festival in May, you will receive one free ticket for the recital on Saturday evening, 17 May The Past and the Future by James Newby and Malcolm Martineau and a passport to the public master classes for professionals.
Søren Kierkegaard said: 'Life is lived forward, but understood backwards.' And the same is true in music. Many great composers*es, whose names we still know today, were innovators. With their music, they turned their gaze forward. But sometimes there was no future for them and they had less opportunity to write innovative music. They died young, were women or homosexuals, or had to flee the ruling regime. By studying precisely their music, you can literally look from the past and present for a future that has music in it.
During this master class, you will explore songs by composers*es with little, or no, future prospects. By performing two of their 'hidden gems', we will give them a stage once again. These could be songs by composers and composers who fled from Germany or were banned by Nazi Germany, such as: Alma Mahler, Gustav Mahler, Felix Mendelssohn, Henriette Bosmans, Kurt Weill or Hanns Eisler. Or songs by female composers such as Liza Lehmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis, Rebecca Clarke, or the sisters Lili and Nadia Boulanger. They did not always write easy music, but with beautiful sound worlds. For composers who had to leave their countries, you can think of George Enescu, Béla Bartók or Antonín Dvořák, for instance.
Manuela Ochakovski and Heleen Vegter invite you to search for 'hidden pearls' in the broadest sense of the word yourself, and think with you if you can't figure it out. The songs should not exceed 9 minutes together.
This masterclass for six advanced amateur singers will start on Friday 16 May with a private masterclass in which each participant will work on their chosen song repertoire, with teacher Heleen Vegter at the piano. On Saturday 17 May, you will work during a public master class led by singing teacher Manuela Okhakovsky. On Tuesday 20 May, you will conclude the masterclass with a presentation in the Small Hall of the Evangelical Brotherhood Church. You will name the title and composer and sing your 'hidden pearls', with Heleen Vegter at the piano.
Sign up by no later than Sunday 2 February the registration form in which you indicate which two songs you want to work on. Together, the songs should last a maximum of 9 minutes.
Based on an audio recording, the teachers will select six singers for participation. In the week of 24 February, you will hear whether you have been placed. You will then coordinate your choice of repertoire with the teachers.
Cost
€ 275.00 per person
a maximum of 6 participants
You will receive an invoice for payment of the fees.
Participants who are not placed will have the first opportunity to take part in one of the three Open Podia. The Open Podia will be preceded by a practice workshop in which you will be coached by pianist Gilbert den Broeder or pianist Heleen Vegter.
Closed master class
Friday 16 May / 13.00 - 15.00 / location 4
Public master class
Saturday 17 May / 13.00 - 15.00 and 15.30 - 17.30 / location 5
Presentation recital
Tuesday 20 May / venue 2
16.35 -17.05 stage rehearsal
17.15 - 18.15 presentation recital
Manuela Okhakovsky / singing teacher
Manuela Ochakovski graduated cum laude from the Music Academy in Iași, Romania. Following her studies, she worked as an opera singer at the Timisoara State Opera. Concert tours took her to major concert halls in Italy, the United States, Canada, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. She collaborated on several radio and TV recordings at the invitation of Romania's leading symphony orchestras.
Besides her career as a performing musician, Ochakovsky is active as a singing teacher. Her singing studio Il Portamento has now gained an international reputation, attracting singers from Europe and even Canada. She coaches professionals and also teaches amateurs.
Heleen Vegter / piano
After her piano principal study with Frank van de Laar - at the ArtEZ Conservatoire - the song continued to hold a special attraction for Heleen Vegter. She took master classes with Elly Ameling, Robert Holl and Julius Drake, among others. As Britten-Pears Young Artist, she worked with Angelika Kirchschlager, Anne Sofie von Otter and Kristian Bezuidenhout, among others. She has been heard at international festivals and performed in Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ and the Concertgebouw, among others.
Vegter is initiator and artistic director of Stichting Leading Lied, which aims to make classical song accessible to a wider audience. Outside her well-filled concert schedule, she teaches piano in her private practice in Arnhem and is co-organiser and board member of the national graded examinations of the European Piano Teachers Association (EPTA).
location 4 / closed master class
The Klinker ArtsHouse Idea
Markt 3, 3701 JZ Zeist
location 5 / public master class
Tower Avenue Theatre
Torenlaan 38, 3701 VK Zeist
location 2 / presentation recital
Small Hall Evangelical Brethren Church
Zusterplein, 3703 CB Zeist
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