Classic
The Neuburg Summer Academy has been taking place since 1978 and undoubtedly makes an immeasurable contribution to comprehensive exchange, networked communication and mutual understanding, which is a necessity in today's era of globalization, as overcoming ethnocentrism is a prerequisite for understanding culturally different people. It is all the more gratifying that the Summer Academy has attracted more and more participants from abroad in recent years and thus has an impact not only across regions but also internationally. In this sense, inspiring our participants to take global responsibility for their artistic activities seems to me to be a particularly important task. In a world that seems to be losing all empathy, it is all the more important that the arts do not unite regionally, but work well together to counteract this apocalyptic phenomenon. With its long-standing summer academy, the city of Neuburg also sets an example for intercultural communication every year, with no limits to interdisciplinary integration in the individual departments and courses. Here, everything is conceivable and everything imaginable is possible. There are no limits to ideas. Interdisciplinary communication and spontaneous action are desirable, also because we want to give improvisation more space and it cannot pretend that it is just a musical phenomenon. With this in mind, I wish us all enough stubbornness and freedom at the 47th summer academy so that the “Neuburg Summer Academy” does not become too academic.
Prof. Alexander Suleiman Artistic Director Classical Music
Dear friends of the Neuburg Summer Academy,
We look very much forward to the upcoming Neuburger Sommerakademie which will take place from August 3th until August 16th in 2025 and will celebrate its 47th anniversary.
Courses are open for registration - once more with exceptional artists from all over the world.
Don’t miss the early bird special with our 10% discount when you register before April 1, 2025.
We look forward to another creative and inspiring Summer Festival in Neuburg!!
Whether on the concert stage or as a teacher, working with modern and baroque instruments is equally important to cellist Kristin von der Goltz.
She is in international demand as a solo cellist, chamber musician and artistic director of numerous concert and ensemble projects, but also as a teacher and lecturer. Her musical partners have included Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Marc Minkovski, Kristian Bezuidenhout, Isabelle Faust, Gerold Huber, Dorothee Oberlinger and Hille Perl.
The course leader Yu Chuan is a master of the erhu, a traditional Chinese two-stringed string instrument that is not only used to perform traditional Chinese music, but is now also used to play transcriptions of works by Bach, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Saint-Saens, and other composers.
His compositions and transcriptions of well-known works in various configurations, which are now part of the standard repertoire in Asian concert halls, attract particular attention.
In addition to his concert appearances as a soloist and chamber musician in Asia and the West, Yu Chuan teaches erhu, conducting, and composition at the University of Beijing and is the musical director of the Beijing Wujie Chamber Orchestra.
The premiere of his children's musical “If instruments could speak” took place in 2023.
