2016 – the organ and pianoforte academy

Organ academy of Saessolsheim 2016 (organ, improvisation, clavichord)

 

Detailed program (sorry, in French), (You can download it with that link) :

depliant SAESSOLSHEIM stage ORGUE PIANOFORTE Saessolsheim 2016 1

depliant SAESSOLSHEIM stage ORGUE PIANOFORTE Saessolsheim 2016 2

Concerts in link with the academy : « Keyboards in all manners », 7 concerts by the 6 teachers of the academy in 7 days on 8 different instruments, in severall places of Alsace.

❀  Thursday July the 21th at 19:00 in Saessolsheim, salle polyvalente, pianoforte concert by Michel Gaechter, Mozart, Beethoven

❀  Friday, July the 22th at 19:00 : Molsheim (Silbermann organ 1781), concert by Jan Willem Jansen

❀  Saturday July the 23th at 19:00 : Haegen, Benjamin Righetti, organ and clavichord : Bach and Italy

❀  Sunday July the 24th at 17:00 in Marmoutier (Silbermann organ  1709), concert by Claude Roser : french baroc music

❀  Monday July the 25th at 19:00 in Kintzheim. Concert by Benjamin Righetti and Francis Jacob :  french symphonic organ music

❀  Tuesday July the 26th at 17:30 in St-Paul in Strasbourg, organ concert by Freddy Eichelberger (Marc Garnier meantone organ, 1976).

❀ Wenesday July the 27th at 19:00 in Saessolsheim : concert : J. S. Bach : art of keyboard : concerts transcriptions, inventions, sinfonias

The instruments :

Concerts on following instruments :
Two 18th century organs :
• a « big » one : Marmoutier (Andreas Silbermann, 1709, 28 stops)
• a « middle » one : Molsheim (Johann Andreas Silbermann, 1781, 22 stops)

An organ partly from the 18th century :
• Haegen : organ by Verscheider 1853, Roethinger 1905, Michel Gaillard 2005

A sinfonical organ early 20th century :
• Kintzheim (by Sélestat) : Stiehr organ (1846) — the case is from that time —, Rinckenbach (1926 reconstruction, pneumatic), 2010 : restauration and enlargement by company Bernard Aubertin (Michel Gaillard).

Two organs in historical styles, built end of 20th century :
• the Bernard Aubertin organ of Saessolsheim (1995) in german baroc style
• the choir organ Marc Garnier of the reformated church of St-Paul in Strasbourg (1975), in early 17th nordic style, meantone.

A clavicord with pedal :
• a clavicord with pedal

A pianoforte :
• copy from a pianoforte from Anton Walter from 1795/1800, realised by par Theo Kobald in 2011

We rejoice to meat you around those magnificent instruments for thse concerts !

les instruments des concerts du stage d'orgue de Saessolsheim 2016 HD

The concerts of the festival « Le clavier dans tous ses états », (5 of june, july 21 to 27), are organised with the sponsoring of the SPEDIDAM  ; the SPEDIDAM is a society who percepts and distributes the right of the artists and interprets  in topics of recording, diffusion and use of recorded prestations
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• Organ and pianoforte-academy from july the 20th to july the 27th, 2016 in Saessolsheim (Alsace, France), around the B. Aubertin organ.

Theme of the academy : Repertory from baroc to romantic ; improvisation ; clavichord. New : pianoforte section (Mozart, Beethoven). Detailed program : see the document (written in French, but that should not be a problem for people to understand the days, and the titles of the pieces proposed : please click on following link to download that document : dépliant du stage). Most days are organised that way : morning, 4 groups, each one with one teacher, afternoon : all participants together. Monday : all together.

• Organisaded by the Association des Amis de l’Orgue de Saessolsheim (Association of the friend of the organ of Saessolsheim), this academy is open to organists of every level.

– Begining Wenesday, July the 20th at 5 PM in the church of Saessolsheim. For the persons coming by train, a member of our association can take them at the station (there isn’t one in Saessolsheim) : choose best the station of Wilwisheim (5 km from Saessolsheim), or Hochfelden (8 km), or Saverne (10 km) or Strasbourg (25 km). Possibility to come from the airport also. There are also bus from Strasbourg to Saessolsheim.

Study organs are available in villages around Saessolsheim. Some solutions for sleeping are also outside of Saessolsheim. So it will be good if the participants who come by car could help to transport other participants. The association will organise exactaly those deplacements and give some money to the drivers for the cost. For pianoforte : the instrument (copy byTheo Kobald of an instrument from Walter 1795) will be in the salle polyvalente of Saessolsheim.

The lessons will be mostly in French. Translation can be given if asked.

– the lessons are described in the specific document. For a good organisation, the participants are asked to give on a separated paper, with their inscription the complete list of the groups they want to integrate (specialy for the organists, or people wanting to have lessons on both instruments) and the pieces they want to play.

– thursday 28th of july (or wenedsay evening) : back-travel of the participants.

• the teachers :

Freddy Eichelberger. Organist and harpsichord-player, he plays concerts as solist and as member of ensembles, and likes very much to do events which link music, theater, humour («Les Witches»). He likes to do and to teach improvisation.

Francis Jacob. Organist and harpsichord-player, he plays concerts as solist and as member of ensembles (ricercar, Gli Angeli). He was winner of several organ competitions (Boulogne s/ Mer, Brugges). He is professor at the Conservatoire of Strasbourg, and does organ building with Bernard Aubertin.

Jan Willem Jansen (professor at the Conservatoire of Toulouse). He plays with the best barock-ensembles : La Chapelle Royale, EBL (Christophe Coin), Hesperion XX (Jordi Savall)…

Benjamin Righetti. After his studies in Switzerland and in Toulouse, he won several prices in international competitions, under those Freiberg and la Ville de Paris (both first price). Next organ, he plays clavicord.

Claude Roser. Diplomed of the regional conservatoire of Paris, teacher at the music-school of Saverne, C. Roser won the first prize of the Guilmant-organ-competition of Boulogne s/ Mer (1989).

Michel Gaechter. Pianoforte. Professor in the Conservatoire de Strasbourg. For many years, he took a groving interest in historical pianos, coming to play them as well in solo-concerts as in chamber music.

• Program

The lessons of Claude Roser, Jan Willem Jansen and Benjamin Righetti are given on the program indicated, and on works on free choice, if there is some time left (normally not so much). Francis Jacob will also wok on improvisation.

Pianoforte : works of the late Mozart and haydn, and by the first Beethoven

• Price : Pedagogical costs 200 Euros (50 Euros prepayed with the inscription). This price doesn’t include sleeping and eating.

Sleeping : possibilities night and breakfeast for cheap (exact price given after inscription : about 15/20€ a night), in a center, 15 km from Saessolsheim (single rooms). This possibilities are proposed in the limit of the available places. The association will organise the deplacements with the cars of the participants for the lessons. Lunch and dinner organised : about 8 Euros pro eating (with some exceptions). The association will give back : 0,15 Euros pro km to the participants for the deplacements of the academy (lessons and going back to the rooms for the one outside Saessolsheim, but not for the participants who find an other solution for sleeping, by friends for example).

In particular cases (financial difficulties), the Association can diminue the price of the participation. Ask for it wanted.

• Inscription

Please send the following form (you can download it with following link : inscription formular in pdf) ; same in word compatible format : inscription pages format). Please fill out and send one of those two documents to AS.AM.O.S (= Association des Amis de l’Orgue de Saessolsheim), 3 rue Neuve F-67270 Saessolsheim, as soon as possible and before the 21th June of 2016. For a good organisation, it is asked to the participants to give the groups they want to participated to, and the works they want to play in each lesson (of course, it is not waited, and not possible, that each participant plays in each lesson). Make a cross in the right « ◊ »

◊ Mr. ◊ Mrs ◊ Miss Surname : …………………………………………………

Name : ………………………………………. Tel. : …………………………………

E-mail : ……………………………………………………………….

Adress : …………………………………………………………………………………….

Postal code : ……………….. Town : ……………………………………………..

Land : …………………….

◊ wants to participate to the organ and pianoforte academy 2016 of the Association des Amis de l’Orgue de Saessolsheim.  I send with this inscription 50 Euros, part of the total of 200€ for the participation (not including lodging and meals). If it’s too complicated to send money from a foreign country, it’s possible to pay in full in Saessolsheim; however,  our Association requests that, in the eventuality of a cancellation, that the participant notify us as soon as possible. If the association agrees to  a participant  paying in full upon arrival, registration can be done by email rather than by regular land mail

◊ wants to participate as an organist

◊ wants to participate as pianist

◊ wants to participate as an organist and a pianist

◊ wants to participate as an organist and want to discover the pianoforte

◊ wants to participate as pianist and want to discover the organ

◊ (for the clavichord, see the indicated lesson on this instrument in the timetable)

◊ if available, I would like to have a room provided by the association. (exact price given later).

◊ I will arrange my own lodging

◊ I will come by train/plane (Time and station : …………………….)

◊ I will come by bus (Time : ……………

◊ I will come by car.

◊ I agree to take my car and to take with me other participants for the academy.

◊ I will go back on following day : …………………….

◊ I will go back with following train : time and station : …………………….

◊ My age on July the 20th of 2016 : ………………………………………………

◊ For  participants under 18 years of age : parents must write and send a letter which clears the association of any responsibility for their son or daughter outside the times of the normal activities of the academy.

◊ for the organists : I indicate the groups I want to participate to (with the name from the pieces I will play).