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Dear friends of the Neuburg Summer Academy,

we are currently planning the 47th Neuburg Summer Academy. You can register for our courses from December 18th 2024 at 5:00 p.m.

Your Neuburg Cultural Office

03 Aug
€460.00
5 free spaces
Sun 8/3/25 - 8/9/25
Volkshochschule Neuburg
Jazz / Pop
Guido May is one of the most popular drummers in Europe. Since 1996 he has been an established band member from Funk icon and James Brown’s saxophonist Pee Wee Ellis. Due to his funky beats, Guido May has already worked for Fred Wesley, Maceo Parker and Carleen Anderson. Performances with Jazz greats like Benny Golson, Chico Freeman, Paul Kuhn and Diana Krall reflect his deep connection with the tradition of Jazz.
03 Aug
€460.00
8 free spaces
Sun 8/3/25 - 8/9/25
Kongregationssaal Neuburg
Classical
The internationally renowned pianist Irma Issakadze was born in Tbilisi, Georgia, and comes from one of the most important musical families of the former Soviet Union. In Germany she studied with Ludwig Hoffmann and Vladimir Krainev and began her professional career at the age of 14. The outstanding artistic personality of the pianist has always caused great attention on international stages.
03 Aug
Meike Dölp - Collage - Object and material

Meike Dölp - Collage - Object and material

€300.00
10 free spaces
Sun 8/3/25 - 8/9/25
Obere Altstadt
Fine Arts
Everything can be art, BUT art cannot be everything. We need challenges of the real life in order to meet them artistically. Everything can be art: shopping lists, crosswords, old child’s drawings, city maps, fake eye lashes, construction plans… simply everything! It only depends on how we include the things into the artistical process and which issue we want to deal with. In this course, we use all things collected in our households and which are of no use any longer but are not to simply thrown away. This “stuff” can be reason, motive or material for pictorial working as it is analysed, changed, arranged or associated becoming meaningful. In this course, pictorial working is not limited to one technique or medium but crosses such borders so that every participant is accompanied to achieve his or her best possible realisation of his or her pictorial idea. We approach objects differently and create new connections at the same time. This course is suitable for beginners and advanced students.
03 Aug
€460.00
7 free spaces
Sun 8/3/25 - 8/9/25
Volkshochschule Neuburg
Jazz / Pop
Due to his wide-ranging musical direction, Martin Kursawe has worked as a guitarist in live and studio productions of diverse genres e.g. accompanying Claudia Koreck, Al di Meola, Till Brönner, Cory Henry (Snarky Puppy), Nik Kershaw, Helene Fischer, Midge Ure (Ultravox), Chris Thompson (Manfred Mann), Bobby Kimball (Toto), Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull), David Garett and Klaus Doldinger. Further recordings can be heard in cinema and TV productions like “Fünf Freunde”, “Elementarteilchen”, “Die wilden Kerle”, “SOKO Kitzbühel”, “Alarm für Cobra 11” or “Dahoam is Dahoam”. 
03 Aug
€560.00
2 free spaces
Sun 8/3/25 - 8/16/25
Obere Altstadt
Fine Arts
For my artistic approach, it is essential to transfer aesthetic concepts and experiences from one medium to another. For drawing and for the course, this means, among other things, starting from the question: How does the space get into the surface ¬– and the drawing into the space?
I would like to encourage and support the participants to develop a personal approach to this issue and their own forms of expression, using as wide a range of techniques and materials as possible, from classic drawing techniques to more unconventional means.
Individual and group discussions about the experiences gained in drawing experiments should also be accompanied by occasional excursions into art history and visits to exhibitions on the subject.
03 Aug
€460.00
7 free spaces
Sun 8/3/25 - 8/9/25
Volkshochschule Neuburg
Jazz / Pop
Wolfgang Mayer is a professor for practical school piano playing and the former vice chancellor of the University of Music Saar. He studied school music and piano at the University of Music in Karlsruhe. Besides, he studied Jazz in Boston and New York. He performs at many concerts and records numerous CDs with his trio and quartet “Wolf Mayer Dialects”. Furthermore, he works as a pianist, composer and arranger.
The art of creating songs of all kinds, pop songs, Jazz standards etc. when singing is combined with piano.
03 Aug
Sun 8/3/25 - 8/9/25
86633-neuburg-an-der-donau-franziskanerstrasse-b-200-volkshochschule-neuburg-an-der-donau-e-v
Classical
Until his Abitur, his father, the pianist Rudolf Stralendorff, was his piano teacher. During his studies, Heiko Stralendorff was taught by Vitalij Margulis in Freiburg and Klaus Schilde in Munich. After his master class diplomas in piano and piano chamber music, he attended a five year private study with Marina Horak which expanded his education to get additional holistic aspects. He took part in courses with Frédéric Gevers (Antwerp) and jazz piano with Wolfgang Mayer (Saarbrucken).
03 Aug
€560.00
12 free spaces
Sun 8/3/25 - 8/16/25
Obere Altstadt Neuburg
Fine Arts
My approach consists of drawings, pictures, photos, video recordings and own texts which are either unfinished or do not have an effect on the proper place. We breathe new life into them developing them further. Fears of contacts and blockades disappear by extending the medium. Perhaps a new process or form is needed in order to keep on working on the original ones. The new medium probably helps to realize that you were too restricted and that there are other forms which are more fun or which suit you better. What could you do with your own drawings or the many photos lying in a box or waiting on your hard disk? Perhaps there will be a new composition and connection with other materials, memories and images. I will offer a beamer and a camera so that we are able to experiment with projections, sound and light. Furthermore, I will provide a scanner and a printer (black and white).
03 Aug
€300.00
No free place
Sun 8/3/25 - 8/9/25
Obere Altstadt Neuburg
Fine Arts
Painting is as complex as life and the people who, for mysterious reasons, keep reaching for paint and brushes. What am I looking for with and in painting? This workshop offers space and time to continue on your own artistic path and to work on old and new motifs, methods, questions and insights with support. The focus is on individual painting projects, which are further developed and supported in individual and group discussions. There will be no recipes or set techniques, but instead numerous exercises and suggestions to immerse yourself in the diverse world of painting and to train your gaze, sensitivity, sense of color and space in a playful, exploratory way and to get ideas for your own work. For example, we will become aware of the possibilities of artistic principles such as series, individual works or groups of works or various approaches to image creation, experiment with painting surfaces, collections of materials and the inexhaustible fund of our own view of the world. Trust in what we do, mutual inspiration and the joy of the painting means themselves are at the heart of this workshop.

All those who want to embark on an intensive painting process and are open to playfulness and the unexpected along the way are welcome.
03 Aug
€460.00
No free place
Sun 8/3/25 - 8/9/25
86633-neuburg-an-der-donau-franziskanerstrasse-b-200-volkshochschule-neuburg-an-der-donau-e-v
Jazz / Pop
Florian Riedl, a saxophonist and composer based in Munich, is known for his versatile and successful career in the field of music. With a portfolio covering a wide range of styles, he has released records with his own projects (Hi-Fly Orchestra, Sonic Drei, Liquid Loop) nationally and internationally, as well as working with numerous bands of different genres. He is a permanent member of the band Dreiviertelblut, which tours successfully in German-speaking countries. A live album has been released as a cooperation with the Munich Symphony Orchestra. Florian's talent on a wide range of instruments, including saxophone, bass clarinet, clarinet and flute, underlines his versatility both as a soloist and as a sought-after sideman.
As a composer, Florian Riedl has worked on numerous cinema, film and television productions and has created numerous audio logos and show openers for national and international television stations.