Courses

After performing a preliminary recital, students are divided up into two groups on the first day and receive instruction by each of the two professors (Schmeiser, Boucly) on the following – alternate – days in the form of a master class with piano accompaniment. In addition, each student has lessons with one of assistant (Ostrý, Beaumadier) to work out special technical problems.

Depending on the resources available, students can prepare pieces of chamber music for flute with the instructors or pianists. The international background of the instructors and students provides participants with the opportunity to compare different schools of thought and interpretations with each other.

Since 2007 E.F.Fiss has also offered a programme of specific breathing and movement exercises (Skov) which has gone down very well with the students. The aim is to relieve unnecessary tension and blockages and find new sequences of movement that impact positively on resonance, sound quality, fluency and the ability to deal with stage fright.

The musical side programme begins with the instructors’ opening concert, to which participants enjoy free admission. After the instructors’ second concert, students will perform two concerts towards the end of the Academy at which all active participants can perform extracts from their prepared repertory. Students will also arrange and perform music for the Sunday church service.

The Flute Academy courses will be held at Kulturhaus Fiss.

The artistic director of the European. FluteAcademy. Fiss. E.F.Fiss is Hansgeorg Schmeiser (hgschmeiser@gmail.com).

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