Internationale Sommerakademie

Anke Dill | Violin
was born and raised in Stuttgart (Germany) and studied with Nora Chastain, Shmuel Ashkenasi, Yair Klees and Donald Weilerstein. Winner of numerous awards and prizes, she performs as soloist and chamber musician in varying ensembles all over Europe, Japan, China and the United States.
She performs on festivals such as the „Schleswig Holstein Festival“, „Brahms Festival“, the „Salzburger Festspiele“, the „Rencontres Musicales de Haute-Provence“, in the USA at the „Aspen Music Festival“ in Colorado, in major concert halls such as the Laeiszhalle Hamburg and the Liederhalle Stuttgart. Concerts with fame soloists, CD productions and radio and TV recordings attest to her artistic versatility. With Jacob Leuschner she has played all Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert cycles for piano and violin several times. Dill started her teaching activity 2001 at the Musikhochschule Lübeck. She gives regular Masterclasses at the International Summer Academy Lenk (CH). 2004 she was called to become professor at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Stuttgart. 2009 she founded the Bartholdy Quintet together with Ulf Schneider, Barbara Westphal, Volker Jacobsen and Gustav Rivinius.

Gustav Rivinius | Cello
started his cello studies at the age of six with Hermann Dirr in Munich. Later he studied many years with Ulrich Voss and Claus Kanngiesser, with David Geringas at the Juilliard School New York and, finally, with Heinrich Schiff in Basel, where he completed his studies with a soloist diploma.
He has won numerous competitions, on both national and international level. In 1990 he was awarded a first prize and Gold Medal at the 9th International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. It was the first time this prize was awarded to a German musician, and the exploit was followed by a score of concert apparitions in all famed music capitals of Europe, Japan and the USA. Another side to Gustav Rivinius is his passion for chamber music. He appears regularly with leading colleagues such as Lars Vogt, Christian Tetzlaff, Antje Weithaas and Sharon Kam. In the meantime, his first CD was releases, featuring sonatas by Brahms, Boccherini and B.A. Zimmermann. 1993 he recorded all of Beethoven‘s cello sonatas for the WDR in Cologne, 1995 he produced the collo concert of Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari. In addition to interpreting the standard repertoire, Rivinius dedicates himself intensively to contemporary music. Gustav Rivinius is professor for violoncello at the Musikhochschule Saarbrücken. →https://gustavrivinius.com/

Florian Wiek | Piano
was awarded first prizes at the Concurso Maria Canals and the „Deutscher Musikwettbewerb“ and performs on numerous international podiums. Beeing at home in most musical areas from the Baroque period to the latest compositions, his focus is on Viennese classical music.
His interpretations have been recorded by numerous radio and television companies and published on CD. Wiek‘s pianistic studies began with Monika Twelsiek and Rose Marie Zartner and led him to the Cologne University of Music and the Conservatoire national superieur de musique de Paris in the classes of Prof. Günter Ludwig and Pierre-Laurent Aimard. He completed his studies with the concert exam at the University of Music in Hamburg. In 2004 he has been appointed professorship for piano and chamber music at the HMDK Stuttgart and leads a successful class with numerous international award winners. This activity is supplemented by master classes in Europe and worldwide. He has also been in demand as a juror at international piano and chamber music competitions. Since 2020, Florian Wiek directs the chamber music festival “Resonanzräume” in Stuttgart and, together with his wife Anke Dill, the Mozart Society Stuttgart.

Kosten/Fees: 730 Euro

Fees include:

• 8 days of classes (app. 40 min individual instruction each day)
• Piano accompaniment for classes and concerts
• Practice rooms available from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
• 9 x breakfast
• 6 x lunch
• A common dinner
• Administration fee

Application:

• Minimum age: 16 years
• Please send CV and video link(s) along with filled and signed →application form
• Application deadline: 21. June 2025

Please note:

• A first payment of 200 Euro must be credited to the organizer’s bank account within 14 days after confirmed participation. Otherwise the registration expires.
• This payment will be detracted from the overall amount.
• It is not to be refunded in case of withdrawel.
• Course fees are payable in full by 15. July 2025 at the latest. Reduced persence of a participant will not reduce the course fee.
• The organizer assumes no liability for losses or damages to instruments and personal belongings.

Accommodation:

• Participants may apply for overnight stay free of charge at local host families.
• The rooms will be assigned according to order of registration. As the number of private accommodations is limited, there is no guarantee for this option.
• Alternatively accommodations may be booked at own initiative and expense. More information →www.radolfzell.tourism
• We highly recommend early reservations!

Scholarships:

• One scholarship for each class is presented by the →Freundeskreis der Sommerakademie e.V.
• Scholarships may be granted on request after registration is confirmed.

Please fill, sign and send →application form to: sommerakademie@radolfzell.de

• Application deadline: 21. June 2025 →application form
  
• Arrival: Tuesday | 05. August 2025 | by 4.30 p.m.
• Opening concert by the tutors: 05. August| 7.00 p.m.
• Final concert by the participants: Wednesday | 13. August | 7.00 p.m.
• Departure: Thursday | 14. August | app. from 11 a.m. | after the common goodbye breakfast

Organizer/Contact:

Musikschule Radolfzell
Guettinger Strasse 19
78315 Radolfzell | Germany
Tel. +49 (0) 7732 – 81 396
E-Mail: sommerakademie@radolfzell.de

Johannes Schlaefli
As professor for orchestra conducting at the Zurich University of the Arts Johannes Schlaefli since 1999 built up the most significant conducting department in Switzerland. It now is regarded as the most successful and appealing institute for conductors in Europe.
Schlaefli is much in demand as tutor at places all over the world: Invitations to the Juilliard School New York, Sibelius Academy Helsinki, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, to universities in Berlin, Vienna, Hamburg, Weimar, Oslo, to the Aspen Music Festival and as “Head of Teaching” at the Academy of the Menuhin Festival Gstaad do attest to this impressively.
Alongside to his engagement as conducting teacher he has been appointed Principal Conductor of the Collegium Musicum Basel.
→Johannes Schlaefli
→Conducting Academy Johannes Schlaefli

• W.A. Mozart: Symphony No. 38 KV 504, I. Adagio – Allegro
• M. Ravel: Ma Mère l’Oye, III. – V.
• G. Rossini: Guillaume Tell Ouverture
• P.I. Tschaikowsky: Symphony No. 6 (Pathétique), I. Adagio – Allegro non troppo
• N. Rimsky-Korsakow: Scheherazade, I. The Sea and Sindbad’s Ship
• J. Brahms: Symphony No. 2, IV. Finale. Allegro con spirito
• J. Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 7, F major (encore)

Program is subject to change!

Kosten/Fees: 1.500 Euro

Fees include:

• Approx. 150 minutes of podium time with orchestra
• Intense individual support in a group of only 6 participants
• Additional class teaching,
• Video reviews, feedback by orchestra members
• Performance at final concert
• A common welcome dinner
• Administration fee

Please note:

• A first payment of 200 Euro must be credited to the organizer’s bank account within 14 days after confirmed participation. Otherwise the registration expires.
• This payment will be detracted from the overall amount.
• It is not to be refunded in case of later withdrawal.
• Course fees are payable in full by 30. July 2025 at the latest.
• The organizer assumes no liability for losses or damages to personal belongings.

• Your application contains a photograph and CV with details concerning education, musical development, former masterclasses, latest concert repertoire and www links to video excerpts of various styles, where you as conductor are shown from the front.
• Please send these files along with your filled and signed →application form via email to: →sommerakademie@radolfzell.de
• Application deadline: 20. May 2025
• The announcement of active participants will be in June 2025

• You may apply for overnight stay free of charge at local host families.
• As the number of private accommodations is limited, there is no guarantee for this option.
• Alternatively you may book accommodations at own initiative and expense. More information →www.radolfzell.tourism

• Application deadline: 20. May 2025 →application form
• Announcement of active participants: June 2025
• Arrival: Sunday | 14. September 2025 | preferably by 5 p.m.
• Rehearsals take place patly in Radolfzell and partly in Konstanz
• Final concert: Thursday | 18. September | 7.30 p.m.
• Departure: Friday | 19. September

Organizer/Contact:

Musikschule Radolfzell
Guettinger Strasse 19
78315 Radolfzell | Germany
Tel. +49 (0) 7732 – 81 396
E-Mail: sommerakademie@radolfzell.de