Simply masterful
Weimar Master Classes attract with 19 concerts in the last two weeks of July
A cornucopia of concerts awaits the interested public at the "63rd Weimar Master Classes" at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar. From 14 to 29 July, participants in the various courses as well as their guest professors will present their artistic skills and the results of their joint work in a total of 19 concerts in the Festsaal Fürstenhaus, Saal Am Palais, Forum Seebach, Schießhaus and the Weimarhalle.
Around 100 participants from 19 countries around the globe are expected to attend the courses and concerts - from Canada to Taiwan and from Mexico to Ukraine.
A popular regular guest, the pianist Konstantin Scherbakov, will begin the programme. The long-time guest professor has put together a pure Rachmaninoff programme for the opening concert of the Weimar Master Classes on 14 July at 7:30 pm in the Festsaal Fürstenhaus: Preludes, Etudes-Tableaux and Fantasy Pieces will be performed, unique atmospheric pictures between passionate romanticism, technical refinement and melancholic emotionality.
Two other "masters in concert" will perform together on Sunday, 16 July at 7:30 p.m. in the Festsaal Fürstenhaus: violinist Tanja Becker-Bender and cellist Wen-Sinn Yang will interpret a kaleidoscope of works ranging from the early Romanticism of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy to the folklore of Zoltan Kodály, accompanied on the piano by Tatiana Chernichka and Alexei Petrov.
Another top-class guest professor of the Weimar Master Classes is Weimar horn professor Jörg Brückner, who worked for many years as principal horn of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. Together with pianist Cora Irsen, he will play a varied concert programme on Tuesday, 18 July at 7:30 pm in the Festsaal Fürstenhaus - from the characteristic preludes of Yehezkel Braun, which are gentle and melodious as well as rhythmic, to the refined harmonic structures of York Bowen's Horn Sonata.
After many more concerts, the Weimar Master Classes will conclude with "The Best at the End": the best participants of various instrumental courses will perform with the Jena Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Markus L. Frank on Saturday, 29 July at 7:30 pm in the Weimarhalle.
Tickets for all of the above concerts are available for 20 euros (reduced rate 15 euros) at the Weimar Tourist Information and at the box office.
→ The concerts and music films of the 63rd Weimar Master Classes at a glance
[5 July 2023]