REGISTRATION PERIOD NOW OPEN FOR THE SUMMER COURSES OF THE PRINCE OF ASTURIAS FOUNDATION´S INTERNATIONAL MUSIC SCHOOL
The Prince of Asturias Foundation´s International Music School has now opened the registration period for its 13th annual Summer Courses, which will take place at the "Eduardo Martínez Torner" Advanced Conservatory of Music and the Prince Felipe Auditorium, both in Oviedo, from 22nd July to 2nd August.
Students can enrol via the School´s website
www.escuelainternacionaldemusica.org or by filling in the application form available at the Prince of Asturias Foundation´s the offices: C/ General Yagüe, 2 / 33004 Oviedo. The deadline for enrolment in the course is 11th July.
Classes will be taught by a teaching staff of international acclaim that has included amongst its guest teachers some of the most prominent musicians from around the world. Thirty-eight professors from eleven different countries will be giving lessons, which will encompass the range of symphony orchestra instruments in addition to ensemble classes such as chamber music, string quartet, wind ensemble, folk music ensemble, youth orchestra and junior orchestra. This year, the School expands its department of traditional Asturian music by including traditional Asturian voice (tonada) classes in addition to bagpipe classes and for the first time the subject of comprehensive health in music will be taught.
Yuri Nasushkin, the artistic director of the School, is a professor at Oviedo´s "Eduardo Martínez Torner" Advanced Conservatory of Music. He has also been the director of the Principality of Asturias Youth Symphony Orchestra (JOSPA) and of the Youth Orchestra of the Community of Madrid. Nasushkin arrived in Spain in 1990 as a professor of the Soviet chamber orchestra The Moscow Virtuosi.
The Prince of Asturias Foundation´s International Music School
The Prince of Asturias Foundation International Music School is the result of an ambitious project that was launched in 1990. The relocation to Oviedo of the permanent residence of the prestigious Chamber Orchestra "The Moscow Virtuosi" and six famed music professors, sparked an idea that once developed, significantly changed the region´s artistic and musical scene and help lay the foundations for quality training, not only for Asturian youths with a talent for music, but also for youths from other parts of Spain and from abroad.
Since then, the Prince of Asturias Foundation´s backing of orchestral and musical training activities has intensified, supporting numerous pedagogical initiatives, some of which have been directly designed by The Virtuosi's team of professors.
In 2005, on the occasion of the 25th Anniversary of the Prince of Asturias Awards and after years of collaboration, sponsoring and funding, the Foundation took on entirely the permanent management and coordination of the International Music School. Maestro Yuri Nasushkin is responsible for its artistic management.
The activities of the Prince of Asturias Foundation´s International Music School encompass the entire year by offering seminars, conferences and master classes with the participation, as guest professors, of some of the most outstanding musicians in the world, including Teresa Berganza, 1991 Prince of Asturias Award Laureate for the Arts, who gave voice lessons in Oviedo and Juanjo Guillem, teacher and first percussionist of the Spanish National Orchestra, who gave master classes at the city´s Advanced Conservatory of Music. Likewise, conferences for the School have been given by such figures as Krzysztof Penderecki, 2001 Prince of Asturias Award Laureate for the Arts; Isabel de Falla, president of the Archivo Manuel de Falla Foundation; and Yvan Nommick, doctor in Music History and Musicology by the Paris-Sorbonne University. Thus the School is committed to turning the Principality into a national and international lodestar centre in the field of musical training by bring young talents and the best music and instrument specialists to Asturias.
REGISTRATION PERIOD NOW OPEN FOR THE SUMMER COURSES OF THE PRINCE OF ASTURIAS FOUNDATION´S INTERNATIONAL MUSIC SCHOOL
