Ayvalik International Music Academy (AIMA): About Ayvalik

Fee:    400 Euros (accommodation and breakfast included)
Application Deadline: 31 May 2010
Application quota:     violin: 18 persons
                                  viola: 6 persons

Level Requiered: The Participants should be qualified in playing at least the classical and romantic violin and viola repertoire.

Documents Required:
Application Form
Reference Letter
Detailed curriculum vitae
Recent Repertoire

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General Information:
The violin and viola masterclass Under the Direction of Lukas David, Bohuslav Matousek, Çiğdem İyicil and Vladimir Bukac will accept 18 participants for the violin classes and 6 participants for the viola classes.
The masterclass will begin on the 19th of June 2010 in the morning. The participants are kindly asked to arrive in Ayvalik one day before, i.e. 18th of June. The night of the 18th of June is included to the fee. The masterclass will end on the 26th of June in the afternoon, the participants should leave the academy on the 26th of june in the evening. The night of the 26th of june is not included to the fee.

Participants should send the complete documents required until 31st May 2010. 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 4th June 2010.
The remaining 300Euros application fee should be paid to the bank account mentioned until 14th June 2010. This fee includes accommodation and breakfast.

Registration fee 100.- euros.
Registration fee should be paid before4th June 2010 as "donation" to the bank account Garanti Bank Ayvalik Branch, Ayvalik-Turkey, Euro account number: 789-9099328. The name of the participant should be mentioned on the bank order. A copy of the bank order should be sent to the fax number +90 266 312 67 04.

Participation fee 300.-euros
Participation fee should be paid before14th June 2010as "donation" to the bank account Garanti Bank Ayvalik Branch, Ayvalik-Turkey, Euro account number: 789-9099328. The name of the participant should be mentioned on the bank order. A copy of the bank order should be sent to the fax number +90 266 312 67 04.

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Lukas David (violin)
Born in Austria, David is the son of the distinguished Austrian composer Johann Nepomuk David.
Studied at the Leipzig Conservatory and Salzburg Mozarteum with Nathan Milstein and Tibor Varga.
In 1959 he started teaching violin at the Musikhochschule in Vienna. In 1966 he became a Professor at the North West Germany Musikakademie in Detmold.
Since 1956 he has a very busy concert career as soloist, chamber musician and orchestra conductor in all European and Near Eastern countries, in USA, South America and South Africa.
He has been recording with Deutsche Grammophon, Elektrola and Supraphon. Lukas David is very much interested in contemporary music. He has given the first world performances of many new works dedicated to him. His repertoire includes almost all the classical, romantic and contemporary works composed for violin.

Bohuslav Matousek (violin)
Born in 1949 in Havlickuv Brod, Bohuslav Matousek is a leading representative of contemporary Czech music and violin playing. Between 1967 and 1972 he studied in the classes of Jaroslav Pekelsky and Vaclav Snitil at Prague's Academy of Music. In 1969, he attended for the first time Arthur Grumiaux's master classes in Zurich, completing the course with success that earned him an invitation for training with Nathan Milnstein. In 1970 he received the special prize of the jury at the Tibor Varga International Violin Competition along with a Swiss grant, which he used to sustain himself during a yearlong course of study with Wolfgang Schneiderhan in Lucerne. Another major success was winning first prize at the prestigious Prague Spring International Competition in 1972.
After completing his studies, Bohuslav Matousek concentrated on his subsequent career as a concert artist. In 1977 he was invited to Japan, for an engagement as a soloist and orchestra Leader with Tokyo's Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra. Here, he appeared under the batons of such prominent international conductors as Celibidache, Kurt Masur, Zubin Metha, Bernstein and others, performing an extensive violin concerto repertoire. After his return from Japan in 1980, he continued his soloist commitments with work as the Leader of the Stamic Quartet, an ensemble which he helped launch, over the ensuing fifteen years, onto a trajectory lined by many important international triumphs and distinctions. The Quartet has to its credit an impressive list of over 60 CDs recorded both at home and internationally, as well as two Grand Prix du Disque awards.
Since 1995, when he left Stamic Quartet Bohuslav Matousek has focused most of his attention on his solo concert performances. There, his extensive repertoire has encompassed works ranging from the early Baroque period through to contemporary music. In the domain of chamber music, he currently works chiefly with his stable partner, pianist Petr Adamec. In addition, he is a member of the Antonin Dvorak Trio.
Bohuslav Matousek is also a regular guest of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and the Prague Spring Festival.
www.bohuslavmatousek.cz

Cigdem Iyicil (violin)
Born in Istanbul, she started to study the violin with Tahir Sevenay, followed by Ekrem Zeki Ün, Gönül Gökdogan and Erdogan Saydam at the Istanbul Municipal Conservatory. Graduating both from the Conservatory and Bogaziçi University, she enrolled in Detmold Music Academy in Germany and began her studies there with Prof. Lukas David in 1980. She also became a member of the Tibor Varga Chamber Orchestra. Graduating from Detmold Music Academy, she returned to Istanbul and started teaching at the Mimar Sinan University State Conservatory. She was invited to Portugal by the Ministry of Culture to start a new Conservatory of Music in Lisbon with Prof. Tibor Varga, where she stayed a year.
Çiğdem Iyicil, is currently teaching violin at the Mimar Sinan University State Conservatory as the chair of the String Department of the and continues to perform both solo and with orchestras in Turkey and abroad.

Vladimir Bukac (viola)
Vladimir Bukac studied at both the Conservatory and the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague , and at the Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg , Germany .

Between 1990 and 1993 he lived in Japan where he was engaged both as a soloist and chamber musician where he appeared at prestigious concerts in Japan , Australia and New Zealand . During this period he started to work actively as a viola player. Since 1993 he is a member of the Talich Quartet and performs also as a viola soloist. He has made a rare recording of the complete Suites for Solo Viola of Max Reger (Calliope).

Since October 2002 he has been the leading viola professor at the Music University Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden . He plays a Lorenzo Guadagnini viola made in 1740.
http://www.talichquartet.cz


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