"The choir festival represents an important cultural highlight which enriches the city of Wernigerode, and exciting and top class cultural days are yet to come. One must simply become part of it, it is a memorable event as I know first-hand."
6th International Conductor‘s Seminar Wernigerode
July 17 - 20, 2021
Wernigerode, Germany
With Top-Class Choral Experts
This workshop will present top-class choral experts and take place in the week before the 12th International Johannes Brahms Choir Festival and Competition 2021 in the „colorful city in the Harz region“ Wernigerode, one of Germany’s most beautiful and inspiring small towns.
It is designed for international students, junior conductors, choir assistants and young professionals and represents an extension of INTERKULTUR‘s pedagogical offers.
Choir conducting, teaching and music students of the surrounding conservatories in Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, Saxony and Hesse as well as interested choir singers and conductors from these states are explicitly being invited to participate in the seminar.
Active participants have the opportunity to study and rehearse international choral literature intensively with one of Germany’s most famous youth choirs, the Radio Youth Choir Wernigerode, and to present the results during a closing concert. A passive participation as a guest student is also possible.
Participation
Registration deadline: February 28, 2021
Participation fee
Accommodation Package
INTERKULTUR scholarships
Organizer
Scholarship
INTERKULTUR awards scholarships to young, talented choral conductors who want to study selected choral literature intensively and refine their knowledge of choral conducting, together with top-class seminar leaders and the Radio Youth Choir Wernigerode.
The INTERKULTUR scholarship has a value of 570,00 EURO and includes the participation fee, accommodation in Wernigerode for 4 nights and the required sheet music package.
You conduct one or more choirs, have already participated in at least one choir competition with a choir, you are not older than 40 years and want to improve your conducting skills? Then apply online until November 30, 2020 with your CV, photo, a short letter of motivation and recordings of yourself conducting.
After the application deadline, the Artistic Committee will select suitable candidates and will inform the scholarship holders.
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Impressions
Destination
Wernigerode is a city with a special flair, as it is not only a gem of medieval architecture but also beautifully located at the edge of the Harz, a low mountain range in Germany. Hardly any other German city has so many gorgeous timber-framed buildings that compete for the visitor’s’ attention: the ideal setting for the parade and the opening ceremony as well as further open air events. And the narrow-gauge-railway also turns the discovery of the surroundings into a wonderful and charming experience.
There are several ways to get to Wernigerode by plane:
Berlin Schönefeld Airport (SXF) is located 244 km away from the center of Wernigerode and is regularly approached by the following airlines: airberlin, Belavia, Condor, Eurowings, Germania, Germanwings, Norwegian, Ryanair etc.
Berlin Tegel Airport (TXL) is located 236 km away from the center of Wernigerode an is regularly approached by the following airlines: airBaltic, Air France, Austrian Airlines, British Airways, Brussels Airlines, Eurowings, Germania, Germanwings, Lufthansa, Qatar Airways, Swiss, Turkish Airlines, United Airlines etc.
Hannover Airport (HAJ) is located 131 km away from the center of Wernigerode and is regularly approached by the following airlines: germanwings, Alitalia, Air Berlin, Air France, Lufthansa, Brussels Airlines, Aeroflot Russian Airlines, British Airways, Austrian, American Airlines, Iberia, Belavia etc.
Leipzig/Halle Airport (LEJ) is located 136 km away from the center of Wernigerode and is regularly approached by the following airlines: germanwings, Air Berlin, Ryanair, Lufthansa, Austrian, Iberia, Germania etc.
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