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Fee:    Active Participants 400 Euros            Passive Participants 100 Euros Application Deadline: 1 August 2008 Application quota:     Active Participants 10 persons                                   Passive Participants 5 persons Level Requiered: The Participants should be qualified in playing at least the sonatas and concertos of the classical Viennese school or higher. Documents Required:      Application Form Reference Letter Detailed curriculum vitae Recent Repertoire

General Information:
The cello masterclass Under the Direction of Maria Kliegel will accept 10 active and 5 passive participants. The candidates willing to participate to the masterclass should mention in the application form whether they wish to be active or passive.
The masterclass will begin on the 11th of September 2008 in the morning. The participants are kindly asked to arrive in Ayvalik one day before, i.e. 10th of September. The night of the 10th of September is included to the fee. The masterclass will end on the 18th of September in the afternoon, the participants should leave the academy on the 18th of September in the evening. The night of the 18th of September is not included to the fee.

Active Participants should send the complete documents required until 10 July 2008. The documents will be examined and the definitive participants will be declared via email. Definitive participants should pay the 100Euros registration fee to the bank account mentioned until 1 August 2008.
The remaining 300Euros application fee should be paid to the bank account mentioned until 20 August 2008. This fee includes accommodation and breakfast. The active participants will be accommodated in Ayvalık Dr. Nejat F. Eczacıbaşı Haluk Barutçuoğlu House Ayvalık Music Center. The classes will be held in Dr. Nejat F. Eczacıbaşı Haluk Barutçuoğlu House Ayvalık Music Center.

Passive Participants should pay the 100Euros registration fee to the bank account mentioned, and send the complete documents required until 10 July 2008. This fee does not include accommodation and breakfast. The place and expenses of accommodation for Passive participants will be at their own responsibility.

Maria Kliegel

After studying with Janos Starker at Indiana University in Bloomington, USA, Maria Kliegel won, amongst others, the 1st Grand Prix of the “Concours Rostropowich Paris” (in 1981). Mstislav Rostropowich thereupon engaged the services of his prize winner as a soloist with the Orchestre National de France for several tours through France and invited her to his orchestra in Washington D.C. He became one of her most important mentors.

Maria Kliegel – La Cellissima – since then an artist in demand throughout the world -started an unusually successful record career on the Naxos label in 1991 alongside her stage triumphs.In this way, her recording of Dvorak’s and Elgar’s cello concertos with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra London has been maintaining its success as a bestseller for many years now. Also, the composer Alfred Schnittke declared her recording of his 1st cello concerto his reference work in 1992. In reviews and essays, the international press is constantly confirming the top quality of the violoncellist and praises many interpretations as exemplary and directional.

Frequent honours followed, including 2 Grammy nominations. In the meantime, Maria Kliegel leads the market in cello literature with some 1 million CDs sold throughout the world. In her multimedia book and DVD project Schott Master Class– Cello With technique and phantasy for artistic expression about cello techniques and “famous – infamous” passages (played and analysed) published in 2006, she pursues completely new paths; and within the shortest time received 2 prestigious prizes for it: in February 2007 in Düsseldorf the special Digita prize (best German educational software) and in June 2007 in Berlin the European Media Prize Comenius EduMedia – Siegel.

Contemporary composers like to dedicate their works to the cellist. Wilhelm Kaiser Lindemann, for example, composed at her request Hommage á Nelson M. for cello and percussion. This musical reference to the civil-rights activist Mandela finds great attention internationally. After the premiere of this work in Capetown, South Africa in 1997.
Since 1986 she has been professor at the Cologne Academy of Music and in 2001 established with Ida Bieler (volin) and Nina Tichman (piano) the Xyrion Trio, which undertook the artistic supervision of the Andernach Music Festival at Namedy Castle in 2007. Maria Kliegel plays the Stradivari cello Ex Gendron from 1693, on loan from the Artistic Endowment of North-Rhine Westphalia.

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