Norwegian Academy of Music20 - 24 April

European Chamber Music Academy Oslo Session 2017

Chamber music as a culture of co-operation

We are delighted to welcome you to Oslo for another ECMA session. Enabling European ensembles and top teachers to come together here at the Norwegian Academy of Music is a highly worthwhile exercise. It makes us part of the incredi-bly rich European tapestry.

Certain fundamental elements need to be in place for a young ensemble to develop. The most important is the focus on music itself and on its qualities as “language”. Throughout his long career, ECMA founder Hatto Beyerle’s big pas-sion has been to promulgate the funda-mentals and linguistic qualities inherent to music.

Another important aspect is the specific skills required for ensemble performance. Without them, the music will not sound right. We are loo-king forward to Johannes Meissl introducing us to the subtle challenges of ensemble performance. Important, too, is developing the chamber musi-cians’ ability to communicate: gaining awareness of psychology, creating a culture of co-operation, establishing how to best complement each other and work together to prepare to achieve on a high level. That is where the Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Confederation of Sports comes in. For many years, the organisation has helped athletes perform at the very highest level. More recently it has started to provide advice and practice schemes for dancers and musicians, as well. We are proud to be able to present some of their work to our ECMA colleagues.

Are Sandbakken - Artistic director Oslo session

Opening Concert

Thursday 20 April 7:30 pmLindemansalen

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): String Quartet No. 6, Op. 18 in B flat majorI. Allegro con brioII. Adagio ma non troppoIII. Schezo: AllegroIV. La Malinconia: Adagio - Allegretto quasi allegro

Animato Quartet: Shin Sihan (Violin I), Tim Brackman (Violin II), Elisa Karen Tavenier (Viola), Pieter de Koe (Cello)

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897): Piano Trio No. 3, Op. 101 in c minorI. Allegro energicoII. Presto non assaiIII. Andante graziosoIV. Allegro molto

Quasi Trio: Roman Hranička (Violin), Judita Škodová (Cello), Kateřina Ochmanová (Piano)

Final ConcertMonday 24 April 6:00 pmLevinsalen

Joseph Haydn (1732-1809): String Quartet No. 66 in G major, Op. 77, No. 1, Hob.IIII:81 «Lobkowitz» I. Allegro moderato II. Adagio III. Menuetto: Presto IV. Finale: Presto

Ergo String Quartet: Brage Sæbø (Violin I), Brage Blix (Violin II), Stinius Maurstad (Viola), Bjørn Sanders (Cello)

Dmitrij Sjostakovitsj (1906-1975): Piano Quintet in g minor, Op. 57I. Prelude: Lento II. Fugue: Adagio III. Scherzo: Allegretto IV. Intermezzo: Lento V. Finale: Allegretto

Meteoros Quintet: Stepan Folov (Violin I), Alexandre Guy (Violin II), Kai Shun Lin (Viola), Johannes Borchgrevink (Cello), Marina Kan (Piano)

ConcertSaturday 22 April 6:00 pmLevinsalen

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791): String Quartet No. 18, KV 464 in A majorI. Allegro

Alegrar Quartet: Oda Holt Günther (Violin I), Inga Våga Gaustad (Violin II), Gustav Rørmark (Viola), Brage Botn Seim (Cello)

Béla Bartók (1881-1945): String Quartet No. 3 in c sharp minor, Sz 85I. Lento - attaccaII. Poco a poco accelerando - AllegrettoIII. Introduzione - Allegro - attacca: - Allegro vivace

Cosmos Quartet: Helena Satué Cuixart (Violin I), Bernat Prat Sabater (Violin II), Lara Fernández Ponce (Viola), Oriol Prat Sabater (Cello)

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): Piano Trio No. 5 in D major, Op. 70, No. 1, «Ghost»I. Allegro vivace e con brio II. Largo assai ed espressivo III. Presto

Trio Gaon: Jehye Lee (Violin), Samuel Lutzker (Cello), Tae-Hyung Kim (Piano)

Lecture: ‘The Culture of Achievement - The reciprocal gain in group related collaboration and individual achievementAlexander Stöckl og Jarle Aambø from the top of Olympics Games in Oslo

Workshop: We are all in the same boat - Learning by teachingMorten Carlsen, NMH

Lecture: Music, language, reflection and realityHatto Beyerle

Lecture: Ensemble Technique - With a special focus on intonationJohannes Meissl

Lectures and Masterclasses

Masterclasses

Experience the Masters at Work

Masterclasses with the ECMA ensembles are held every day (Thursday - Monday) from about 9:30am till the afternoon.

Hatto Beyerle, Johannes Meissl, Ralf Gothóni, Kathryn Stott, Lars Anders Tomter and Morten Carlsen will be giving masterclasses.

Detailes and schedule are available at the Academy.

Open to the public.

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Hatto BeyerleViola

Hatto Beyerle is the founder and cur-rent artistic director of the European Chamber Music Academy ECMA. He is also artistic director of the Europäis-ches Kulturforum Grossraming in Austria.

As violist and chamber musician, Bey-erle tours worldwide with the Vienna Soloists, the Alban Berg Quartet and the Vienna Chamber Ensemble. In ad-dition to his performing activities he holds teaching posts in Vienna (MDW), Cincinnati (CCM), Hanover (HMTMH), Basel (MAB) and Fiesole (Florence) and is much in demand for master clas-ses in both viola and chamber music in Europe, Australia, Canada, China and the USA.

Among his present and former stu-dents are many prize winners of inter-

national competitions, including the Hagen Quartet, Artis Quartet, Wihan Quartet, Szymanowski Quartet, Itur-riaga Quartet and Meta4 Quartet, the Quatuor Ysaye, Quatuor Debussy, Qua-tuor Manfred, the Quartetto di Cre-mona, the Trio Jean Paul and the Trio Ernest Chausson.

Hatto Beyerle lives in Benthe, Germany.

Friday 21 April 3:00pm Levinsalen

Saturday 22 April 3:00pm Levinsalen

Sunday 23 April 3:00pm Levinsalen

Monday 24 April 3:00pm Levinsalen

Johannes MeisslViolin

Johannes Meissl is professor for string chamber music and vice director of the Joseph Haydn Institut for Chamber Music at Vienna’s University of Music and Per-forming Arts. Artistic director of isa (Inter-national Summer Academy Prague-Vienna-Budapest), he also gives masterclasses at numerous renowned schools and summer academies such as CNSM Paris, Guildhall School of Music and Drama London, Tokyo Geidai and Casals Festival Prades, to name a few.

Born in Austria, J. Meissl studied at A. Bruckner-Conservatory Linz (violin and composition ) and at the Academy of Music in Vienna with W. Schneiderhan and G. Hetzel and got strong artistic impulses by Hatto Beyerle. He graduated with distinc-tion and special award. In 1982 he joined the Artis Quartet. As a member of this ensemble he took the opportunity for fur-ther studies with the LaSalle Quartet in the USA. After several prizes at international competitions the quartet became a regu-lar at the world’s most important music

centres and festivals from New York to Tokyo. Numerous prizes for more than 30 recordings (such as Grand Prix du Disque, Diapason d’Or, Deutscher Schallplatten-preis Echo etc.), and the «Artis series» at the Gesellschaft d. Musikfreunde in Vienna, now running its 19th season, also prove the international position of the quartet.

Beside the quartet work J. Meissl appears in recitals and as a soloist and at numerous chamber music festivals.

J. Meissl is co-initiator of numerous inter-national projects in the field of chamber music and shares with Hatto Beyerle the function of artistic director of ECMA.

Having done regular coaching with several orchestras and youth orchestras for many years he has recently sucessfully taken up conducting.

Ralf Gothóni Piano

Ralf Gothóni has a many-sided and world-wide career as pianist, chamber musician, conductor, composer and pedagogue. He became well-known for his unconventional way of music-making and about the whole-ness of his musicianship. His tight concert schedule have included major festivals (Berlin, Edinburgh, Salzburg, La Roque de Antheron, The Proms etc.), orchestras (Bayerischer Rundfunk, Berlin and War-saw philharmonics etc.) and recording studios (c. 100 recordings for international labels). Gothóni appears regularly both as a soloist and conductor, conducting often from the keyboard. He has premiered more than a dozen piano concertos (Tavener, Sallinen, Rautavaara, Curtis-Smith, Glick, Segerstam etc) and as a conductor he worked a.o. as the principal conductor of the English Chamber Orchestra in 2001-2009 and as the musical director of North-west Chamber Orchestra in Seattle. In 2004 he was appointed as the guest con-ductor of Deutsche Kammerakademie. As chamber musician he performs regularly at the important festivals.

Very close to Gothónis heart is the contact with young musicians; his has been profes-sor for chamber music in Berlin, Hamburg, Helsinki, London, in Madrid at the Insti-tuto de Musica Camara, Reina Sofia and in Karlsruhe, Germany. He also gives master classes worldwide and is invited as juror at the major piano competitions.

Mr Gothóni’s repertoire as composer includes a chamber concerto for viola and orchestra, 1 hour chamber cantata for vio-lin, piano and orchestra, 3 chamber operas, chamber music and songs.

In the 80’s, during Gothóni’s artistic di-rectorship, the Savonlinna Opera Festival expanded to its format of today. In the 90-ties he was the initiator and artistic direc-tor of “The Forbidden City Music Festival” in Beijing and since 2007 he has directed “Musical Bridges” between Egypt, Aserbai-jan, Turkey, Jordan and Finland. He has also been successful as a writer of three books with essays about musical phenomenology.

Kathryn Stott Piano

Kathryn Stott, recognised as one of Britain’s most versatile and imaginative musicians, studied at the Yehudi Menuhin School and the Royal College of Music and was a prize-winner at the Leeds Interna-tional Piano Competition 1978. She is a Visiting Professor and an Honorary Mem-ber of the RAM, and International Chair (Piano) at the RNCM.

Recent highlights as a soloist have in-cluded return visits to the BBC Proms, Wigmore Hall, London, an extensive tour of Australia and New Zealand, per-formances with cellist Giovanni Sollima and appearances with JP Jofre and his Hard Tango Chamber Band in New York. To celebrate their 30th anniversary of performing together, Kathryn recorded ‘The Arc of Life’ with Yo-Yo Ma. Upcoming performances include concerts in Ger-many, France, Norway, Japan, the USA,

Turkey, the UK, Australia and a second tour of New Zealand.

Maintaining a keen interest in contem-porary music, she has had many works written for her, including seven by Gra-ham Fitkin. Latest recording releases in-clude Solitaires on BIS, her exploration of French works for piano, and an 8 CD box set re-release of her Conifer recordings on SONY.

Kathryn Stott has been the artistic vision behind several major festivals, chamber and concert series in the United Kingdom and in Italy, establishing a reputation as an astute programmer and she was ap-pointed a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres by the French Government for her ‘Fauré and the French Connection’. She joined the faculty at the Norwegian Academy of Music in September 2016.

Lars Anders TomterViola

Lars Anders Tomter is one of today’s most outstanding violists. The Giant of the Nordic Viola (The Strad) was born at Hamar, Norway. He studied violin and viola with Leif Jørgensen at the Oslo Music Conservatory and the Norwegian Academy of Music, and made his début on both instruments at the age of seven-teen. After continuing his studies with Max Rostal and Sándor Vegh, he was awarded a special prize for his inter-pretation of Bartók’s Viola Concerto at the International Viola Competition in Budapest in 1984, and won the Maurice Vieux International Competition in Lille in 1986. Since then his appearances as a viola soloist have been greeted with the highest public and critical acclaim throughout the world.

Tomter has performed with major orchestras throughout Europe, col-

laborating with the most distinguished conductors. He is a regular guest at festivals, including Schleswig-Hoistein, Lockenhaus, Kissingen Summer, BBC Proms, Mondseetage, Styriarte, as well as a number of Scandinavian festivals. His recordings include Walton’s Viola Concerto for Naxos (8.553402). In addi-tion, he is artistic director of the Nor-wegian Risør Chamber Music Festival. Lars Anders Tomter is a professor at the Norwegian Academy of Music. He plays a Gasparo da Salò viola dating from 1590.

Jarle AambøSports executive

Morten CarlsenViola

Morten Carlsen teaches viola and re-lated subjects (also violin) at the Nor-wegian Academy of Music, which he has been doing since 1989. He is a regular visiting teacher at the University of Mu-sic in Vienna, where he studied, and the Paris Conservatoire.

His career as performer involved or-chestral positions, top-level chamber music and solo performances and re-cordings. Carlsen is fascinated also by the more philosophic aspects of teaching and performing and has writ-ten smaller articles, and lectured on subjects such as instrumental practice, performer history and talent education.

A collection of his advanced exercises for violin/viola, Vademecum, has been published. He contributes to the an-thology Philosophy of Music Education

challenged: Heideggerian Inspirations, Springer 2014 with an article called «Practice as Self-Exploration».

Morten Carlsen has a soloist diploma from the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Vienna

Professional experience:- Co-principal viola of Orchester der Beethovenhalle, Bonn 1982-84 and of RSO Stuttgart 1984-88.- Similar position in the Oslo Philhar-monic Orchestra 1988-94.- Engagements as principal viola in the orchestra of the Norwegian Opera and the Norwegian Broadcasting (KORK).

Jarle Alex Aambø is a Norwegian sports executive who has served as an alpine skiing coach, head coach at the Norwegian Ski Fed-eration and elite sports director of the Norwegian Olympic and Para-lympic Committee and Confedera-tion of Sports, where he has also held a number of other roles. He holds qualifications in hygiene and sports biology. In his role as elite sports director, Aambø launched a project with the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet which sought to develop a value-based performance culture. The project has since been extended to include high-performance organisations in all parts of society.

Alexander Stöckl Ski jumping coach

Austrian-born Alexander Stöckl moved to Norway in 2011 to be-come head coach of the Norwegian national ski jumping team. His ten-ure has been highly successful, and he was named coach of the year at the Norwegian national sports gala in 2015. Amongst his achieve-ments is the team gold won during the 2016 World Championships in Falun. A competent singer, Stöckl was the frontman of the a cappella group Harry and the Nicknames, a well known outfit in Austria.

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Alegrar Ensemble Oda Holt Günther (Violin I), Inga Våga Gaustad (Violin II), Gustav Rørmark (Viola), Brage Botn Seim (Cello)

Alegrar string quartet consists of mem-bers age 15-18. The quartet started in the talent development program “Young Talents” at the Barratt Due Institute of Music. Kari Ravnan has been their teach-er and mentor since ¾ of the current crew started playing together in 2013.The quartet has received instruction and inspiration through participation in mas-ter classes and mentoring programs, like the Oslo Quartet Series’ talent develop-ment program. Alegrar has also worked with a number of distinguished musi-cians from home and abroad, including musicians from Vertavo and Oslo String Quartet. As junior ensemble at Trond-heim International Chamber Music Acad-emy in September 2016, they performed and received master classes with among others Hatto Beyerle.

Alegrar has performed on several occa-sions at the Oslo Quartet Series. They have played in several venues and fes-tivals nationally, as well as in Wigmore Hall, London. In 2016 -17 Alegrar has performed in two collaborative project with Oslo Camerata and the Trondheim Soloists, both as soloists in concert with OC, and performed their own repertoire.

Alegrar has won several awards in national music competitions for youth and the bronze medal in the junior class in Fischoff Competition in Indi-ana, USA.

Individually, the members are active and ambitious solo musicians who can show a large collection of prices, awards and merits.

Shin Sihan (Violin I), Tim Brackman (Violin II), Elisa Karen Tavenier (Viola), Pieter de Koe (Cello)

The genre of string quartets offers the members of the Animato Quartet a unique opportunity for endless explora-tion. Playing the music is both a chal-lenge and a delight for them. The Anima-to Quartet aims for a vivid interpretation of traditional repertoire as well as new repertoire written for them. They have performed at the Dr. Anton Phillips Hall in The Hague, the Dr. Alem hall in Cam-pos Do Jordao Brazil, the Casa da Música in Portugal and the small hall of the Royal Concertgebouw Amsterdam. They took part in the International Chamber Music Festival Utrecht, The International Chamber Music Festival Schiermon-nikoog and Festival Classique The Hague. The Animato Quartet was a finalist of the National Conservatory Competition in 2014, which was held at the Concert-

gebouw in Amsterdam.

The quartet was invited to give con-certs during the HARMOS festival in Portugal and the “Festival International de Inverno de Campos do Jordao” in Brazil. During this festival the Animato Quartet received an award for “Artistic Excellence” for their performance. The quartet follows lessons with Eberhard Feltz, Gerhard Schulz, Johannes Meissl, Anner Bylsma, Hatto Beyerle, Dimitri Ferschtman, Ásdís Valdimarsdóttir, Jan Willem de Vriend, David Dolan, Michel Strauss, Vera Beths, the Escher Quartet and the Quiroga Quartet. Recently they attended their first European Chamber Music Academy which they will attend more often as an nominated ensemble. All members of the quartet are currently studying at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague. The quartet received their instruments on loan by the Dutch Na-tional Music Instrument Foundation.

Animato Quartet

Cosmos Quartet

Helena Satué Cuixart (Violin I), Bernat Prat Sabater (Violin II), Lara Fernández Ponce (Viola), Oriol Prat Sabater (Cello)

The Cosmos Quartet was established in 2014 from the friendship and mutual in-terests of four young Spanish musicians. They have received coaching from pro-fessors such as Rainer Schmidt, Johannes Meissl, Hatto Beyerle, Krzysztof Chor-zelski and Quartetto di Cremona among others.

Despite the fact that it is a recently formed ensemble, the Cosmos Quar-tet has already gained an international career winning Third Prize at the “Carl Nielsen International Chamber Music Competition”, and the “Kammermusik Preis” and “Artis Quartet Preis” both at the “isaMasterClass” in August 2014. Recently has been semifinalist in the

string quartet discipline of the prestig-ious “Concurs de Genève” celebrated in Geneva last November.

Since the beginning, they have played at venues such as “Fundación Juan March” in Madrid, “Auditorio Miguel Delibes” in Valladolid, and “ORF Kulturhaus” of Vienna. They have been invited to partic-ipate at the “East Neuk Festival” in Ed-inburgh and the “Académie Musicale de Villecroze” in France, held by Johannes Meissl in 2015.

The quartet is based in Barcelona with the support of “Residència d’Investigadors de Catalunya” and Dr. Francesc Farré i Rius.

Ergo String Quartet

Brage Sæbø (Violin I), Brage Blix (Violin II), Stinius Maurstad (Viola), Bjørn Sanders (Cello)

Ergo String Quartet is a young, aspir-ing and award-winning ensemble from Norway. They started originally as a trio in 2011. After winning their class of ensembles in the National music com-petition for youth, they moved on and started to play the wonderful repertoire of string quartets.

During their time as a quartet and trio, they have won many national competi-tions, notably the Sparre Olsen competi-tion and two first prices, as a quartet, in the National music competition for youth. In 2013 they also won in the finals, being nominated as “Musician of the Year”. The ensemble has been play-ing with various renowned chamber

musicians from Norway, England and Austria, notably Are Sandbakken and Geir Inge Lotsberg (Oslo String Quar-tet), Johannes Meissl, Tim Fredriksen, Hatto Beyerle, Patrick Jüdt, and Corina Belcea. They have also played at several national and international concerts, notably: chamber music concert in the Norwegian National Opera, Oslo; Malta International Music Festival; European concert in Helsinki, Finland (Temppe-liaukion kirkko); Oslo Quartet Series; Horten Chamber Music festival and Trondheim Chamber Music Festival.

Quasi Trio Roman Hranička (Violin), Judita Škodová (Cello), Kateřina Ochmanová (Piano)

Quasi Trio has been formed in 2014 in order to achieve the level of the best chamber ensembles of its generation in the country and beyond. In its origi-nal women formation, the trio received 2nd prize at The Bohuslav Martinů Foundation Interpretation Competi-tion and a special prize for the best interpretation of Bohuslav Martinů’s work. The final concert was recorded and then telecasted by Czech Radio. All three members are either students or alumni of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and have been awarded many prizes at national and interna-tional both solo and chamber music competitions. The trio has been taking classes with Václav Bernášek, Miroslav Petráš, Mirko Škampa, Jan Talich, Ivan Štraus, František Malý and Ivo Kahánek in Prague, Peter Schuhmayer in Vienna and Arkadi Zenzipér in Dresden. In May

2015 Quasi Trio took part in chamber music masterclass in Grafenegg. The session was held by ECMA with the Johannes Meissl (MDW), Hatto Bey-erle (MDW), Jerome Pernoo (CNSMD Paris), Peter Cropper (Lindsay Quar-tet) and Avedis Kouyoumdjian (MDW). In June 2016 the ensemble members performed as soloists with Vinohrady Symphony Orchestra (L. van Beethoven: Triple concerto C major). In summer 2016 Quasi Trio took part in prestig-ious International Summer Academy in Reichenau an der Rax (Austria), tak-ing masterclasses of Johannes Meissl, Jan Talich, Petr Prause, Josef Klusoň, Evgenia Epshtein, Peter Nagy, Gábor Csalog, Avedis Kouyoumdjian and Anita Mitterer. They were awarded a prize for the best piano ensemble and performed at the prize winners‘ concert in Vienna ÖRF Radio. Since September the trio has been taking classes of the well-known Trio Wanderer in Paris within their two-year study program at Conservatoire à rayonnement régional.

Trio Gaon Jehye Lee (Violin), Samuel Lutzker (Cello), Tae-Hyung Kim (Piano)

The Munich-based Trio Gaon was formed in 2013. Together the three mu-sicians completed their chamber music degrees at the Conservatory of Munich, and were taught by Ana Chumachenco, Friedemann Berger and Christoph Pop-pen. As participants of the European Chamber Music Academy (ECMA) they are continuing to refine their chamber music education.

The young ensemble has won prizes at influential competitions, such as the renowned international Joseph Haydn Chamber Music Competition in Vienna and the Music Prize of Kulturkreis Gasteig e.V. where they achieved the highest ranking of the entire competi-tion.

The acclaimed musicologist and mu-sic critic of the Sueddeutsche Zeitung,

Harald Eggebrecht, wrote in a recent review of one of their concerts: “Along with the extraordinary soloistic capa-bilities of the three players, one was also astounded by their highly refined sense for transparency and balance of sound, as well as by the presence of that very spirit of what playing chamber music together can mean.”

ECMA Partners

MEMBERSAUSTRIA, Vienna - mdw - Universität für Musik und darstellende KunstAUSTRIA, Grafenegg - Grafenegg Kulturbetriebsgesellschaft m.b.H.FRANCE, Paris - Conservatoire national supérieur de musiqueITALY, Fiesole - Scuola di Musica di Fiesole – Fondazione OnlusLITHUANIA, Vilnius - Lietuvos muzikos ir teatro akademijaNORWAY, Oslo - Norges musikkhøgskoleSWITZERLAND, Bern - Hochschule der KünsteTHE NETHERLANDS, The Hague - Koninklijk ConservatoriumUNITED KINGDOM, Manchester - Royal Northern College of Music

COOPERATING PARTNERS AUSTRIA, Großraming - Europäisches Kulturforum GroßramingAUSTRIA, Horn - Allegro Vivo Kammermusik FestivalAUSTRIA, Vienna - isa - International Summer Academy of the mdwAUSTRIA, Graz - Steirisches KammermusikfestivalBELGIUM, Flandern - Gent Festival of FlandersFRANCE, Prades - Festival Pablo CasalsFRANCE, Paris - Centre de Musique de ChambreITALY, Ravenna - Ravenna FestivalUNITED KINGDOM, London - Wigmore Hall

ECMA - The European Spirit

ECMA has a vision: The “ECMA-spirit,” with its approach to music and music-making, ought to become a “matter of course” for musicians and audiences alike. By constantly re-evaluating the treasures of our cultural heritage and developing new creative potentials in interpretation based on research into the philosophy and musical language of the 17th and 18th centuries, ECMA se-eks to contribute to a society and future that are worth living in.

ECMA was founded in 2004 at the initia-tive of Hatto Beyerle. It is an association of European music universities, con-servatoires and festivals in the field of chamber music that, together, provide ongoing training for chamber music en-sembles. Within this program, the part-ner institutions host regular sessions (lasting one week each; seven or more weeks per year). Renowned tutors work intensively with the ensembles, impar-ting to them new impulses for their artistic work. The young musicians will

receive aditional impulses from lectures and focused workshops on topics inclu-ding cultural history, historically infor-med performance, and philosophy. In addition to helping participants explore the importance and impact of cultural knowledge such as rhetoric and Greek verse in order to gain a more profound understanding of European music, ECMA also collaborates with academic partners on research projects in various fields. And of course, ECMA also works to develop new networks by bringing together people from different back-grounds and cultures.

ECMA – Next Step is an Erasmus+ stra-tegic partnership programme in cham-ber music.

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