Musikfest Bremen Atelier
Musikfest Bremen Atelier – with these international summer academy projects, the festival has been promoting young talent since 2021. World-renowned artists connected to the festival work on specially selected repertoires with hand-picked young musicians from all over the world in week-long Ateliers.
supported by NORDMETALL and the EWE Stiftung
Atelier I:
»Katharinas Hofmusik – Petersburger Nacht«
The Atelier »Katharinas Hofmusik«, led by a team headed by Alfredo Bernardini and Alessandro Quarta, returns to cast an eye on Italian composers whom Catherine II lured to her court in St. Petersburg. With this move, the highly educated tsarina, who herself wrote Russian libretti to music by Italian composers, wanted to elevate her residence to the same level as other cultural centres – with a repertoire that could also be heard at other European courts.
Tutors: Alessandro Quarta (Vocals, Continuo), Veronika Skuplik (Violin), Ira Givol (Violoncello), Alfredo Bernardini (Oboe and artistic direction)
Atelier II:
»Wege zu Bach«
After 2022 and 2024, Franco-Belgian bass and conductor Lionel Meunier and members of his ensemble Vox Luminis will once again lead the Atelier »Wege zu Bach«. As the closing concert of the Arp Schnitger Festival, it will focus on how the composer was influenced by his own Thuringian dynasty of church musicians. It is not least thanks to Bach himself and his passion for collecting that magnificent vocal works by his ancestors have been preserved to this day in what is now known as the »Altbachisches Archiv«.
Tutors: Florian Sievers (Vocals). Tuomo Suni (Violin), Marcin Szelest (Organ), Lionel Meunier (Vocals and artistic direction)
Atelier III:
»Feldeinsamkeit«
The new Atelier »Feldeinsamkeit« refers to a musical setting by Johannes Brahms of a poem by Hermann Allmers, a writer who was born in Rechtenfleth and became known as the »Marshland poet«. Brahms had a distinct literary taste, focussing on texts that reflected his own feelings and allowed room for musical experimentation. Baritone Georg Nigl and pianist Olga Pashchenko, an expert in historical keyboard instruments, explore the romantic art songs of Johannes Brahms and his contemporaries with the participating Lied duos.
Tutors: Georg Nigl (Vocals), Olga Pashchenko (Fortepiano)