International Masterclasses for Orchestral Conducting

1st PRIZE: The BEST CONDUCTOR will be invited as a guest conductor with a Russian orchestra in the next concert season.
2nd PRIZE: The participant showed THE BIGGEST PROGRESS DURING THE COURSE will be entitled to 50% discount for one of the next Masterclasses.

Conditions of the Conducting Course:
The course is open to active participants and auditors and to all levels from beginners to professionals!
There is NO AGE LIMIT.
The master class is open until filled.
Please fill out the online application form that you can find at the webpage www.philharmonie.com
The course language is ENGLISH.
Free choice of repertoire (subject to confirmation by the Orchestra).
Participants of conducting competitions are very welcome. We will find the music for you.

There will be a final workshop concert where all active participants can conduct.

Further Information:
Active participants should fill in the application form. Participation will be confirmed after receipt of application. 
The course language is English, so if you do not speak English please let us know.
After the course, each participant, whether active or auditor, will receive a certificate of participation signed by the Maestro Teacher

Pricing: by request

The price includes video recording of all rehearsals and the concert. In addition to that there will be extra rehearsals, technical exercises, and a video session with the Maestro.

Travel to Reutingen:
The Reutlingen city is situated in the South of Germany. Thís place is known since 11th century and now encounters over 100 000 inhabitants.
Nowadays Reutlingen is the city which combines Middle Age monuments and modern life trends.
To read more about this place, please visit the web-page www.reutlingen.de

The closest large city is Stuttgart (about 50 min by train).
To learn more about the train schedule please follow the link www.bahn.de

Accommodation Information:
We organize accommodation at a special low rate for all participants of the course.

German visa:
we can offer you assistance in getting the visa supporting documents which are needed to get the German VISA. Contact us for more details, we will be happy to help you.


Michail Jurowski
was born in 1945 as son of the composer Wladimir Jurowski. At the age of 25 was already assistant of Gennady Roshdestwensky in the Great Symphony Orchestra of the State Radio & TV in Moscow. His studies at the Moscow Conservatoire were determined by Leo Ginsburg (conducting) and Alexej Kaminski (music history).

After successful activities in Moscow, in 1990 Michail Jurowski moved to the reunited Germany. Within a short time he became one of the most popular conductor of operas, ballets and concerts, at the opera houses in Berlin, Hamburg and Leipzig. He had also very successful concerts with Staatskapelle Dresden, Czech Philharmonic orchestra, Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin and Stuttgart. In 1992/1993 he was appointed music director and permanent conductor of the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie Herford.

Besides concerts and productions for the Radio in Stuttgart, Cologne and Berlin Michail Jurowski is recording more and more CDs, among other film music, the Shostakovich' opera The Gamblers, Rimsky-Korsakov's opera The Night before Christmas, the complete vocal music by Shostakovich, symphony music by Tchaikovsky and Kanceli, furthermore works by swedish compser Ture Rangström. For two of these recordings he received the award of "Deutsche Schallplattenkritik".

Concerning his opera activity, among his past performances it's worth mentioning Tchaikovsky's Jolanta in Sir Peter Ustinov's production and Rachmaninov's Francesca da Rimini at the Dresdner Music Festival in 1993.

In 1996 he conducted Boris Godunov at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and was immediately re-engaged. Since the season 2001/2002 he has been the Principal Guest conductor at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

The Opera House Leipzig invited him for the première of Shostakovich's The Nose in November 1997 and his enormous success led to the position of permanent Guest Conductor. Subsequently was appointed Chief Conductor of the Opera Leipzig where he conducted such operas as Rigoletto, Macbeth, La Traviata, Falstaff, ballet music A Midsummer Night's Dream, Bruckner's Sinfonia n. 8 and the world première of Levins Mühle by Udo Zimmermann.

In June 1998 he led the new production of Prokofiev's The Love to the Three Oranges at Komische Oper Berlin which was highly acclaimed by both the critics and public. He continued this collaboration as Guest Conductor with Zar Saltan, Die Zauberflöte, Merry Widow and Czardasfürstin, Ballets - Swan Lake, Romeo and Juliet.

Permanent Guest Conductor at the Opera Frankfurt with beginning of the season 2002/2003, he also appeared in Italy, at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, to conduct the première of Wagner's Parsifal staged by Harry Kupfer. He has just appeared in Genova with The Love to the Three Oranges.

From 1997 to 1999 Michail Jurowski was the Music Director of Volkstheater Rostock and Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock. The Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin has also chosen him to its permanent Guest Conductor from season 1998/1999. With beginning of the season 2003/2004 Michail Jurowski is permanent Guest Conductor at the Tonkünstlerorchester Wien and from 2004/2005 he is Guest Conductor at the Odense Sinfonie Orchestra. From 2006 Michail Jurowski is Chef Conductor of the WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln. Furthermore he gets regular invitations from the leading orchestras of Deutschland, Scandinavia as the Oslo Philharmonic, Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra, Odense Symphony Orchestra, orchestras of Spain, Hungarian, Russia.

Highlights of the last season include a concert with the London Symphony Orchestra im Januar and Prokofjew's "The Love to the Three Oranges" at Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa and a concert with the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in February.

His future engagements include concert tours in Europe with such orchestras as WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Orchestra, Orchestra of the Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova, Tonkünstlerorchester Wien, Dresdner Philharmonie, Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig.
www.michail-jurowski.com

Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen
Established in 1945, the Wuerttemberg Philharmonie Reutlingen, a public foundation, has developed into an orchestra sought after both nationally and internationally. The orchestra has acquired a respected international reputation on its numerous concert tours in Japan, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Spain and in the Netherlands. 

The orchestra plays with such acclaimed soloists as Gidon Kremer, Daniel Hope, Radu Lupu, Tzimon Barto, Frank Peter Zimmermann, Natalia Gutman, Sabine Meyer, Anatol Ugorski and Shlomo Mintz and concertizes under the baton of such renowned guest conductors as Richard Bonynge, Philip Ellis, Leonid Grin, Alessandro de Marchi, Arild Remmereit, Yoav Talmi, Jaap van Zweeden and Jac van Steen.  The Wuerttemberg Philharmonic is also distinguished by regular collaborations with prominent ballet companies such as the Royal Birmingham Ballet. 

In recent years, Salvador Mas Conde, Roberto Paternostro and Norichika Iimori have served as the orchestra’s artistic directors. The Swedish conductor Ola Rudner will be chief conductor from 2008/2009 season on. Recent CD productions have been recordings of the symphonic choral works of Bruckner and Mendelssohn under the Brilliant Classic label, two CDs with recordings of works by Astor Piazzolla unter the direction of Gabriel Castagna (Chandos Records), the CD Orientalische Märchen with Ottorino Respighi’s Ballet Suite Belkis, Queen of Sheba and Nikolai Rimski-Korsakov’s Sheherazade under the baton of Norichika Iimori, as well a recording of Antonín Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9 “From the New World” and “Czech Suite” under the baton of John Axelrod (both GENUIN Music Production).

Official internet site of the Orchestra: www.wuerttembergische-philharmonie.de

Michael Zukernik
PHILHARMONISCHES
KAMMERORCHESTER BERLIN
Artistic Director Michael Zukernik
Akazienstraße 3
D-10823 Berlin
Tel.: +49 (0)30 720 111 0
Fax: +49 (0)30 720 111 29
Mobil: +49 (0)172 320-5261
conducting@philharmonie.com
www.philharmonie.com