International Summer Academy for Composition
10 - 16 August 2024
About
From 10 to 16 August, the first International Summer Academy for Composition of the Gustav Mahler Private University Klagenfurt, Austria, will take place at the Carinthian Music Academy on the idyllic Lake Ossiach. More than 20 young composers, selected from over 70 applicants, and six composition tutors will come together for an intense week of discussions, lectures, masterclasses, one-on-one sessions, rehearsals, concerts, and walks.
All participants have composed new pieces for the musicians in residence Florian Palier (guitar, GMPU), Aida-Carmen Soanea (viola, GMPU), and the Graz-based Schallfeld ensemble (Szilárd Benes, clarinet; Mirko Jevtovic, accordion; Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka double bass).
The tutors of the Academy are: Dániel Péter Biró (Grieg Academy of the University of Bergen, Norway), Chaya Czernowin (Harvard University, USA), Jakob Gruchmann (GMPU Klagenfurt, Austria), José María Sánchez-Verdú (Düsseldorf University of Music, Germany, and RCSM Madrid, Spain), Oliver Schneller (Düsseldorf University of Music), and Hakan Ulus (GMPU Klagenfurt, Austria).
The Gustav Mahler Private University for Music is Austria’s newest music university. It was transformed from a conservatory into the private university of Carinthia in 2019. Since then, the composition department has developed rapidly. It features international collaborations, workshops with renowned musicians and ensembles, opportunities to rehearse orchestral works, masterclasses, and lectures by internationally acclaimed composers, as well as international symposia. The composition forum (Kompositionsforum), where up to eight composers present their music each semester, has become a flagship of the university. Guests have included Patricia Alessandrini, Pierluigi Billone, Dániel Péter Biró, Annesley Black, Chaya Czernowin, Milica Djordjevic, Bernhard Lang, Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf, Tristan Murail, José María Sánchez-Verdú, Sergej Newski, Samir Odeh-Tamimi, and Pia Palme. In 2023, the symposium on Composition & Research was held. A symposium titled Composition & Crisis is planned for 2025.
