The ZêzereArts Festival presents a course for advanced wind instrument students, in the Médio Tejo region of central Portugal. Seven days in an idyllic location with an intense program of chamber music and integrating the ZêzereArts Festival Orchestra.
Two wind quintets will be formed to rehearse and perform, at the same time that the ten players, in rotating positions, make up the wind section of the Festival Chamber Orchestra and Orchestra.
This is an magnificent opportunity to learn with experienced musicians and pedagogues while, in parallel, undertaking intensive musical activity in the ZêzereArts Festival.
Katharine Rawdon | Chamber Music – Sectional Coaching
Brian MacKay | Conductor – Sectional Coaching
Advanced students of flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn with special interest in chamber and orchestral music. Spaces to 2 of each instrument.
Note: Applicants will be requested to present a CV/bio and a recording (approximately 10 minutes) with their application. The recording can be audio or video, it may include solo, solo with piano, solo with orchestra, orchestral excepts, and/or chamber music performances. It may be a compilation of recordings from different moments (you do not have to prepare a new recording only for this application). Participants will be chosen on a selective basis according to their complete application, due to the limited openings.
Our home base will be the historic and picturesque city of Tomar, of Knights Templar fame. Here you will have the opportunity—along with musicians from the four corners of the world—to rehearse and perform. You’ll appreciate and enjoy the famous Convento de Cristo, beyond its touristic interest, as a workplace and hub of focussed musical activity. Students will have lodging in the Convent itself. Rehearsals, lessons, and concerts will take place in Tomar and in Ferreira do Zêzere in several venues.
— Preparation of concert repertoire of the two wind quintets (repertoire such as the quintets by Harbison, Schoenberg, Maslanka, Vila-Lobos, Barber, Carter, etc.…).
— Both quintets will be presented in concert as part of the ZêzereArts Festival
— Rehearsal and Performances with the ZêzereArts Chamber Orchestra and Festival Orchestra (all players will rotate positions)
— Detailed Sectional Rehearsals
— Daily warm-up and work based on the Alexander Technique and Integrated Practice
Chosen from:
Stravinsky – Suites 1 e 2 para pequena orquestra
Ravel – Le Tombeau de Couperin
Sibelius – Pelléas et Mélisande
Debussy (orq. Ravel) – Sarabande e Danse
Fauré – Masques et Bergamasques
Respighi – Trittico Botticelliano
Lennox Berkely – Sinfonietta
Falla – Suite El Amor Brujo
Michael Tippett – Divertimento
Beethoven – Sinfonia no 2
Mozart – Sinfonia no 39
Haydn – Sinfonias nos 95 e 97
09:00 – 09:45 – Group warm-up and workshops
10:00 – 13:00 – Wind Quintet rehearsal/coaching
13:00 – 14:00 – Lunch
14:30 – 16:45 – Wind Section reheasal/coaching
17:00 – 19:30 – Orchestra rehearsal
20:00 – 21:30 – Dinner
Período noturno – Concertos e outras actividades
Fees cover all expenses of lessons and room and board (full board). They do not cover transportation to Tomar.
450€* – Course fee including full board
420€ – applications on or before the 21st of April
Applications will only be accepted until July 1, 2024.
At the time of acceptance of your application 50% of the fee will be charged, non-refundable.
The IBAN for payment will be sent as soon as the application is accepted.
Registrations made after June 15th must pay the full fee.
Students under the age of 18 will have to present a declaration of authorization from their guardian and sign up for personal accident insurance which will have an additional cost of €10.