Classical Hugs Summer Music Festival 2025
Veranstalter
Kurs
Classical Hugs Summer Music Festival 2025
Format
Solo (Masterclass)
Chamber Music (Masterclass)
Orchestra (Youth Orchestra)
Fachrichtungen
Bassoon • Cello • Clarinet • Double Bass • Flute • French Horn • Oboe • Percussion • Piano • Trombone • Trumpet • Viola • Violin
Bewerbungsfrist
April 25, 2025 19:05
Veranstaltungsdaten
Juli 14 - Juli 27, 2025
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Location
Aia tn 12
10111 Tallinn, Estonia
Classical Hugs Summer Music Festival 2025
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Classical Hugs Strings Program😍 includes:
- Lessons & Masterclasses
- Possibility to play Solo with Orchestra
- Students' Concerts in as many as 5 cities
- Chamber Music
- Orchestra Mastery
- Trips and summer fun @pristine Baltics!
ABOUT
Member of the FestivalsFinder.eu by the European Festivals Association, 11th Classical Hugs International Music Festival is a critically acclaimed annual music event in Estonia. The festival explores cross-cultural and musical connections between Estonia and countries of Western Europe, Asia, The United States, and South America. Each year, the festival presents orchestral, chamber, and solo concerts at the most prestigious Estonian venues: Estonia Concert Hall, Tartu's Vanemuise Theater, House of Blackheads, and Narva's Geneva Keskus. Festival concerts also take place in Latvia, Lithuania, and Finland. The festival also presents masterclasses in piano, violin, viola, cello, double bass, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, French horn, trombone, and percussion by world-class musicians from Estonia, the United States, England, Germany, China, Poland, and other countries. The Festival's Artistic Director is Michael Bulychev-Okser (USA).
- Lessons & Masterclasses
- Possibility to play Solo with Orchestra
- Students' Concerts in as many as 5 cities
- Chamber Music
- Orchestra Mastery
- Trips and summer fun @pristine Baltics!
ABOUT
Member of the FestivalsFinder.eu by the European Festivals Association, 11th Classical Hugs International Music Festival is a critically acclaimed annual music event in Estonia. The festival explores cross-cultural and musical connections between Estonia and countries of Western Europe, Asia, The United States, and South America. Each year, the festival presents orchestral, chamber, and solo concerts at the most prestigious Estonian venues: Estonia Concert Hall, Tartu's Vanemuise Theater, House of Blackheads, and Narva's Geneva Keskus. Festival concerts also take place in Latvia, Lithuania, and Finland. The festival also presents masterclasses in piano, violin, viola, cello, double bass, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, French horn, trombone, and percussion by world-class musicians from Estonia, the United States, England, Germany, China, Poland, and other countries. The Festival's Artistic Director is Michael Bulychev-Okser (USA).
Cultural Message and Mission
A hug is a simple expression of human warmth. A Classical Hug is an expression of an affectionate feeling through music.
The festival's mission is to demonstrate how music can bring love and peace worldwide.
History: Then and Now
Since 2014, the Classical Hugs International Music Festival has presented concerts by the world's most acclaimed classical music artists: violinists Shlomo Mintz and Albert Markov, pianists Daniel Pollack, Mikhail Voskresensky, and Andreas Froelich, violists Paul Neubauer and Marco Miscagnia, cellist Raphael Wallfisch, and flutist Rita D'Arcangelo. Each summer, Classical Hugs Academy attracts students from over 50 countries to study with eminent musicians: pianists Olga Kern, Dmitri Alexeev, Piotr Paleczny, Grigory Gruzman, John O'Conor, violinists Shlomo Mintz, Pierre Amoyal, Pavel Vernikov, Boris Garlitksy, Felix Andrievsky, Lewis Kaplan, Michael Vaiman, Cho-Liang Lin, and Boris Vayner, violists Hartmut Rohde, Wilfried Strehle, Paul Neubauer, Alexander Zemtsov, and Isabel Villanueva, cellists Colin Carr, Raphael Wallfisch, and Maria Kliegel.
The festival also presents specialty orchestral masterclasses with the Co-Leader of the London Symphonic Orchestra, Carmine Lauri, and the principal violinist of the Royal Opera - Covent Garden, Sergey Levitin.
Festival 2017 presented the Opera Gala with Singers from 10 Major European Theaters performing on the summer stage in Presidential Kadriorg Park. Festival 2023 featured a concert tour in 4 Estonian cities: Tallinn, Tartu, Pärnu, and Narva. 6 concerts featured 3 orchestras, 4 conductors, and soloists from Germany, the United States, England, Japan, China, Denmark, and Albania. The 2024 edition presented masterclasses for all instruments with Professors from the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, China, and Estonia as well as 11 sold-out Gala Concerts in various locations in Tallinn, Tartu, Kohtla-Järve, and Helsinki. Participants came from 32 countries.
Masterclasses-2025 will be offered by world-class musicians: pianists Gülsin Onay (Turkey) and Graham Scott, violinists Philippe Graffin (France), Christian Altenburger, Alexander Markov, Yuri Zhislin, and Lewis Kaplan, violist Wilfried Strehle (Germany), cellist Denis Severin, etc.
For details, please see, Professors section below.
For details, please see, Professors section below.
Concerts-2025
Festival concerts-2025 will take place in 4 Estonian cities of Tartu, Tallinn, Pärnu, Kohtla-Järve as well as in Riga, Latvia and in Helsinki, Finland. Students will be offered performance opportunities in several prestigious halls, including the Town Hall, History Museum, House of Blackheads (Tallinn), Tubin Hall (Tartu), Great Guild Hall in Riga, Latvia and the Rock Church in Helsinki, Finland. Students can perform solo repertoire (strings performing with piano accompanist), as part of a preformed chamber group, or as part of the Classical Hugs Orchestra. Selected students will also receive an opportunity to perform a solo with the festival orchestra.
Perform with orchestra
Classical Hugs Music Festival-2025 will present 3 orchestral concerts with soloists. Selected students can sign up to perform solo with Classical Hugs Orchestra and receive multi-camera recordings of their performance - this opportunity is open during the festival and throughout the year.
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Join us this summer for masterclasses with world-famous violinist, Philippe Graffin! Only @ Classical Hugs Summer Music Festival in Tallinn, Estonia, July 18-23.
Don't miss a rare chance to receive exquisite interpretations from one of the foremost musicians! Violin Professor at @conservatoire_de_paris and @kcbrussel , Philippe is in high demand as violin pedagogue. He also is a jury member of many prestigious violin competitions, including Queen Elizabeth. APPLICATION DEADLINE IS APRIL 15. THOSE APPLYING BEFORE APRIL 10 WILL BE OFFERED PARTIAL SCHOLARSHIPS.
French Violinist Philippe Graffin graduated from the Paris Conservatoire and furthered his studies with Josef Gingold at Indiana university. Other teachers include Miriam Fried and Philipp Hirschhorn. Upon hearing Philippe in the Fritz Kreisler competition, Lord Yehudi Menuhin invited him to make his debut recording under his baton.
Since then, Philippe has never stopped performing, researching, questioning the repertoire. He has made almost 50 recordings, with repertoire ranging from Mozart to new works written especially for him. His ever-questing mind has brought many discoveries to our attentions including Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Violin Concerto, the Fauré concerto, works of Joseph Canteloube or Joseph Jongen and the pre-Kreisler version of Elgar’s Concerto. He recently premiered the Sonate posthume Op 27bis by Ysaÿe, which he also completed for publication by Schott, as well as, more recently, a recording of two previously unknown concertos by Ysaye, with the Liverpool philharmonic orchestra.
Philippe has performed on major concert stages around the world, from New York’s Alice Tully Hall to Tokyo, St. Petersburg, Johannesburg, London’s Albert Hall at the BBC Proms, or Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw.
Don't miss a rare chance to receive exquisite interpretations from one of the foremost musicians! Violin Professor at @conservatoire_de_paris and @kcbrussel , Philippe is in high demand as violin pedagogue. He also is a jury member of many prestigious violin competitions, including Queen Elizabeth. APPLICATION DEADLINE IS APRIL 15. THOSE APPLYING BEFORE APRIL 10 WILL BE OFFERED PARTIAL SCHOLARSHIPS.
French Violinist Philippe Graffin graduated from the Paris Conservatoire and furthered his studies with Josef Gingold at Indiana university. Other teachers include Miriam Fried and Philipp Hirschhorn. Upon hearing Philippe in the Fritz Kreisler competition, Lord Yehudi Menuhin invited him to make his debut recording under his baton.
Since then, Philippe has never stopped performing, researching, questioning the repertoire. He has made almost 50 recordings, with repertoire ranging from Mozart to new works written especially for him. His ever-questing mind has brought many discoveries to our attentions including Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Violin Concerto, the Fauré concerto, works of Joseph Canteloube or Joseph Jongen and the pre-Kreisler version of Elgar’s Concerto. He recently premiered the Sonate posthume Op 27bis by Ysaÿe, which he also completed for publication by Schott, as well as, more recently, a recording of two previously unknown concertos by Ysaye, with the Liverpool philharmonic orchestra.
Philippe has performed on major concert stages around the world, from New York’s Alice Tully Hall to Tokyo, St. Petersburg, Johannesburg, London’s Albert Hall at the BBC Proms, or Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw.
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Lewis Kaplan is a Violin Professor at the Juilliard School & Founder of Bowdoin Festival. 🎉❤️🎻
Don't miss your chance to play for a truly unique musician - July 22-27!
Classical Hugs Strings Program😍 includes:
- Lessons & Masterclasses
- Possibility to play Solo with Orchestra
- Students' Concerts in as many as 5 cities
- Chamber Music
- Orchestra Mastery
- Trips and summer fun @pristine Baltics!
Lewis Kaplan is currently artistic director of the Bowdoin Summer Music Festival and a senior member of the Faculty at the Julliard School in New York. He was a founding member of the Aeolian Chamber Players. His annual tours include visits throughout the U.S., Europe, and Asia and he has appeared with Michael Rabin, Jaime Laredo, Szymon Goldberg, Richard Goode, Rudolf Firkusny, Murray Perahia and many others. He has premiered more than 50 works and has made numerous television appearances across the world.
He has recorded for Columbia, CRI, Folkways and Odyssey Records and has served on juries of many international competitions, including Fritz Kreisler, Mozart, Naumberg, and Tokyo. He has been a member of the violin faculty of the International Summer Academy Mozarteum Salzburg since 1987, the Mannes College of Music since 1986 and a visiting professor at Royal College of Music, London since 1998.
Don't miss your chance to play for a truly unique musician - July 22-27!
Classical Hugs Strings Program😍 includes:
- Lessons & Masterclasses
- Possibility to play Solo with Orchestra
- Students' Concerts in as many as 5 cities
- Chamber Music
- Orchestra Mastery
- Trips and summer fun @pristine Baltics!
Lewis Kaplan is currently artistic director of the Bowdoin Summer Music Festival and a senior member of the Faculty at the Julliard School in New York. He was a founding member of the Aeolian Chamber Players. His annual tours include visits throughout the U.S., Europe, and Asia and he has appeared with Michael Rabin, Jaime Laredo, Szymon Goldberg, Richard Goode, Rudolf Firkusny, Murray Perahia and many others. He has premiered more than 50 works and has made numerous television appearances across the world.
He has recorded for Columbia, CRI, Folkways and Odyssey Records and has served on juries of many international competitions, including Fritz Kreisler, Mozart, Naumberg, and Tokyo. He has been a member of the violin faculty of the International Summer Academy Mozarteum Salzburg since 1987, the Mannes College of Music since 1986 and a visiting professor at Royal College of Music, London since 1998.
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Cello Masterclasses with great Denis Severin this summer at Classical Hus Summer Festival in Tallinn, Estonia!
We help cellists with cellos to borrow in Tallinn, no need to bring it on a flight!
Denis Severin is a professor of cello at the Geneva University of Music and the Bern University of Arts(Switzerland), where he teaches cello as a major, baroque cello as a minor and chamber music.
A coveted guest professor, he also teaches master classes and leads orchestra projects at the Centro superior de musical Katarina Gurska (Madrid, Spain), the Jāzeps Vītols Academy of Music (Riga, Latvia), the Central Conservatory of Music (Beijing, China), Franz Liszt Academy of Music (Budapest, Hungary) and the National University of Arts (Kharkov, Ukraine).
Regularly gives summer master-classes in Germany, France, Poland, Russia, Georgia and Brazil.
Denis Severin is Prize Winner of ECHO KLASSIK (2015) and GRAMMY AWARDS (2007), laureate of several international competitions in Greece, Italy and Spain.
Denis Severin serves as a jury member for a number of music competitions: International Chamber Music Competition (Illzach, France, March 2013), 7th International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians (Monteux, Switzerland, March 2012) and Young Swiss Musicians Competition.
He also became president of an international charitable organization Art Without Borders and an organizing committee member of the European String Teachers Association.
Performs as a soloist with: European Youth Symphony Orchestra (EU), Basel Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (Switzerland), “Feel Harmony” Chamber Orchestra Poznan (Poland), State Symphony Orchestra, Kiew Chamber Orchestra (Ukraine), among others.
We help cellists with cellos to borrow in Tallinn, no need to bring it on a flight!
Denis Severin is a professor of cello at the Geneva University of Music and the Bern University of Arts(Switzerland), where he teaches cello as a major, baroque cello as a minor and chamber music.
A coveted guest professor, he also teaches master classes and leads orchestra projects at the Centro superior de musical Katarina Gurska (Madrid, Spain), the Jāzeps Vītols Academy of Music (Riga, Latvia), the Central Conservatory of Music (Beijing, China), Franz Liszt Academy of Music (Budapest, Hungary) and the National University of Arts (Kharkov, Ukraine).
Regularly gives summer master-classes in Germany, France, Poland, Russia, Georgia and Brazil.
Denis Severin is Prize Winner of ECHO KLASSIK (2015) and GRAMMY AWARDS (2007), laureate of several international competitions in Greece, Italy and Spain.
Denis Severin serves as a jury member for a number of music competitions: International Chamber Music Competition (Illzach, France, March 2013), 7th International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians (Monteux, Switzerland, March 2012) and Young Swiss Musicians Competition.
He also became president of an international charitable organization Art Without Borders and an organizing committee member of the European String Teachers Association.
Performs as a soloist with: European Youth Symphony Orchestra (EU), Basel Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (Switzerland), “Feel Harmony” Chamber Orchestra Poznan (Poland), State Symphony Orchestra, Kiew Chamber Orchestra (Ukraine), among others.
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Don't miss your chance to take masterclass with truly spectacular violinist and wonderful pedagogue Christian Altenburger! ❤️🎻😍
Apply by April 15:
www.classicalhugs.com/application
Course cost includes:
Masterclasses, solo with orchestra, chamber music, concerts in 3 countries.
Professor at Vienna University of Music, Christian Altenburger is in high demand across Europe, Asia, and USA. He is Jury member at many international violin competitions!
At 19, he made his debut as a soloist at the Vienna Musikverein. This was soon followed by engagements with top international orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Concertgebouw orchestra Amsterdam, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and the Vienna Symphonic Orchestra under Claudio Abbado, Dennis Russel Davies, Christoph von Dohnányi, Bernard Haitink, James Levine, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Václáv Neumann, Dennis Russell Davies, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Franz Welser- Möst and others.
Apply by April 15:
www.classicalhugs.com/application
Course cost includes:
Masterclasses, solo with orchestra, chamber music, concerts in 3 countries.
Professor at Vienna University of Music, Christian Altenburger is in high demand across Europe, Asia, and USA. He is Jury member at many international violin competitions!
At 19, he made his debut as a soloist at the Vienna Musikverein. This was soon followed by engagements with top international orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Concertgebouw orchestra Amsterdam, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and the Vienna Symphonic Orchestra under Claudio Abbado, Dennis Russel Davies, Christoph von Dohnányi, Bernard Haitink, James Levine, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Václáv Neumann, Dennis Russell Davies, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Franz Welser- Möst and others.
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Masterclasses for Violin & Viola for great musician, Professor of Royal College of Music, Yuri Zhislin!
Apply before April 15 to receive a partial scholarship!
Yuri is a professor of violin and viola at the Royal College of Music in London and is in high demand as a visiting professor at the European Summer Academies & Competitions worldwide!
Described by The Strad as a 'virtuoso with a truly Romantic temperament', Yuri Zhislin enjoys an active and illustrious career as soloist and chamber musician. In 1991, Yuri entered the Royal College of Music in London, where he studied with his father and later Dr Andrievsky, winning the title of the BBC Radio 2 Young Musician of the Year in 1993. The orchestras that Yuri performed with include the Oxford Philharmonic, the BBC Concert Orchestra, the London Mozart Players, the Lithuanian State Symphony and the Santiago de Chile Symphony, to name a few. Zhislin made his recital debut at the New York Carnegie Weill Hall in 2014 and appeared at the major concert venues throughout Europe, the USA, South America, Australia and Japan. His discography includes a recital CD released in 2005 on the SOMM label, a violin/viola Duos CD for the Naxos label in 2009, and a string trio CD for the Nymbus Alliance label with Dmitry Sitkovetsky on violin and Luigi Piovano on cello. A keen chamber musician, Yuri has worked with such artists as Maria-Joao Pires, Maxim Vengerov, Barry Douglas and Natalie Clein among many others. Formed in 2004 by Yuri, the Russian Virtuosi of Europe is an ensemble comprising outstanding string players based in Europe. They have recently completed tours to both South America and Russia and released a debut CD on Orchid Classics, which received great reviews and was chosen CD of the month in April 2016 by the BBC Music Magazine.
Apply before April 15 to receive a partial scholarship!
Yuri is a professor of violin and viola at the Royal College of Music in London and is in high demand as a visiting professor at the European Summer Academies & Competitions worldwide!
Described by The Strad as a 'virtuoso with a truly Romantic temperament', Yuri Zhislin enjoys an active and illustrious career as soloist and chamber musician. In 1991, Yuri entered the Royal College of Music in London, where he studied with his father and later Dr Andrievsky, winning the title of the BBC Radio 2 Young Musician of the Year in 1993. The orchestras that Yuri performed with include the Oxford Philharmonic, the BBC Concert Orchestra, the London Mozart Players, the Lithuanian State Symphony and the Santiago de Chile Symphony, to name a few. Zhislin made his recital debut at the New York Carnegie Weill Hall in 2014 and appeared at the major concert venues throughout Europe, the USA, South America, Australia and Japan. His discography includes a recital CD released in 2005 on the SOMM label, a violin/viola Duos CD for the Naxos label in 2009, and a string trio CD for the Nymbus Alliance label with Dmitry Sitkovetsky on violin and Luigi Piovano on cello. A keen chamber musician, Yuri has worked with such artists as Maria-Joao Pires, Maxim Vengerov, Barry Douglas and Natalie Clein among many others. Formed in 2004 by Yuri, the Russian Virtuosi of Europe is an ensemble comprising outstanding string players based in Europe. They have recently completed tours to both South America and Russia and released a debut CD on Orchid Classics, which received great reviews and was chosen CD of the month in April 2016 by the BBC Music Magazine.
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Cello Masterclasses with Indrek Leivategija - Celebrated Estonian cellist, Principal Cellist of Bamberg Orchestra (Germany), and Estonian National Symphony Orchetsra.
Indrek Leivategija started out aged five learning the cello with Reet Mets. From 2006 he studied under Prof. Wen-Sinn Yang at the Munich University of Music and Theatre. He also attended advanced classes with Prof. Troels Svane, Prof. Peter Bruns, Prof. Wolfgang Boettcher, Prof. Martti Rousi and Prof. Alexander Ivashkin, among others.
Indrek Leivategija started out aged five learning the cello with Reet Mets. From 2006 he studied under Prof. Wen-Sinn Yang at the Munich University of Music and Theatre. He also attended advanced classes with Prof. Troels Svane, Prof. Peter Bruns, Prof. Wolfgang Boettcher, Prof. Martti Rousi and Prof. Alexander Ivashkin, among others.
Indrek Leivategija won first prize at several international competitions, such as the Verona Salieri Zinetti Competition and Tallin ESTA Competition. He has held a Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now scholarship since 2011, and has been deputy solo cello in the Bamberg Symphony since 2012.
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Wilfried Strehle is a Professor at Berlin University of Arts and for many years Principal Violist of Berliner Philharmonic Orchestra.
Wilfried Strehle studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart and the Hochschule für Musik Detmold – with Emil Kessinger, Ulrich Koch and Tibor Varga, who also asked him to play in his Chamber Orchestra. At a little more than twenty years old he began his career with the Berliner Philharmoniker directed by Herbert von Karajan, from 1984 to 2013 occupying the post of solo violist.
Wilfried Strehle studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart and the Hochschule für Musik Detmold – with Emil Kessinger, Ulrich Koch and Tibor Varga, who also asked him to play in his Chamber Orchestra. At a little more than twenty years old he began his career with the Berliner Philharmoniker directed by Herbert von Karajan, from 1984 to 2013 occupying the post of solo violist.
At the Universität der Künste Berlin Strehle has taught viola since 2001 (as well as at the Barenboim–Said Akademie in Berlin from 2017 to 2020), carefully preparing his students as soloists as well as members of chamber music ensembles and orchestras. For decades he was a teacher at the Karajan-Akademie of the Berliner Philharmoniker. Many of his students have succeeded in becoming members of the Berliner Philharmoniker as well as other important orchestras in Berlin, Vienna, Munich, Dresden and Hamburg. In Europe and overseas he is asked to conduct masterclasses, for example by the Summer Academy of the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the Yale School of Music, the conservatories in Moscow, Beijing, Shanghai and Tokyo.
Since the very beginning Strehle has loved to play as a soloist and performer of chamber music in various ensembles of his orchestra including with the Brandis Quartet which was founded in 1976 (he was a member of the quartet for 25 years), as member of the Philharmonic Octet Berlin, with the Trio Berlin which won the Award for Chamber Music of the European Parliament and with the Philharmonic Friends Vienna–Berlin.
Amongst many others his musical partners are Yefim Bronfman and David Geringas with whom in 2016 and 2019 Strehle was invited by Valery Gergiev to perform Richard Strauss’ Don Quixote as soloists with the Mariinsky Orchestra at the Stars of the White Nights festival in St Petersburg. For chamber music he is regularly invited by the Mariinsky Theatre.
Playing chamber music and as a soloist, Strehle has travelled to South America, Asia, Eastern Europe, Africa and the USA. A great deal of chamber music has been recorded by harmonia mundi, ORFEO International, Teldec, EMI, Deutsche Grammophon and Nimbus Records.
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Classical Hugs Piano Academy Presents Summer Masterclasses in Tallinn with Eminent musicians:
- Gülsin Onay, Turkey's top classical pianist and Chopin Interpreter.
- Michael Bulychev-Okser. Professor at Kaufman Music Center, New York and Founder-Classical Hugs.
- Graham Scott. Piano Professor and Head - Royal Northern College of Music - Manchester
- Bernardo Santos - Concert pianist & President from Portugal - World Federation Music Competition.
- Anthony Tam - Pedagogue, clinician, pianist (Hong Kong)
Periods of study:
1 week, 10 days, 2 weeks
Cost: Starting at 549 Euros.
Scholarships available for those who apply by April 15.
What's included into course:
- Lessons & Masterclasses
- Possibility to play Solo with Symphony Orchestra
- Students' Concerts in as many as 5 cities: Tallinn, Rig, Helsinki, Tartu, Kohtla-Järve.
- Chamber Music
- Orchestra Mastery course.
- Trips and summer fun @pristine Baltics!
- Gülsin Onay, Turkey's top classical pianist and Chopin Interpreter.
- Michael Bulychev-Okser. Professor at Kaufman Music Center, New York and Founder-Classical Hugs.
- Graham Scott. Piano Professor and Head - Royal Northern College of Music - Manchester
- Bernardo Santos - Concert pianist & President from Portugal - World Federation Music Competition.
- Anthony Tam - Pedagogue, clinician, pianist (Hong Kong)
Periods of study:
1 week, 10 days, 2 weeks
Cost: Starting at 549 Euros.
Scholarships available for those who apply by April 15.
What's included into course:
- Lessons & Masterclasses
- Possibility to play Solo with Symphony Orchestra
- Students' Concerts in as many as 5 cities: Tallinn, Rig, Helsinki, Tartu, Kohtla-Järve.
- Chamber Music
- Orchestra Mastery course.
- Trips and summer fun @pristine Baltics!
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Classical Hugs International Orchestra invites applicants to apply for the Summer Excellence Orchestral Program - 2025! Perform and Study with the best Concertmasters, including:
- Indrek Leivategija (Bamberg Orchestra - Bavaria, Germany)
- Sergei Tiutiunik (Kymi Sinfomietta, Finland)
- Tatiana Gashimova (Parnu Symphony)
- Yuri Zhislin (Oxford Philharmonic & Camerata Tchaikovsky, London)
- Rui Marques - Assistant Principal Conductor - Stavanger Symphony - Norway.
Dates - July 14-27.
Cost: 350 Euro for the entire 2 weeks - July 14-27.
Includes:
- Orchestra Mastery with section leaders and conductors from London, Bamberg (Bavaria), Kymi Symphony (Finland), Stavanger, other orchestras.
- As many as 9 rehearsals + sectional rehearsals.
- Students' Concerts in as many as 5 cities: Tallinn, Rig, Helsinki, Tartu, Kohtla-Järve.
- Chamber Music
* String Instrumentalists can travel with only bow - we can rent you an instrument in Tallinn for 50 Euros per course.
- Indrek Leivategija (Bamberg Orchestra - Bavaria, Germany)
- Sergei Tiutiunik (Kymi Sinfomietta, Finland)
- Tatiana Gashimova (Parnu Symphony)
- Yuri Zhislin (Oxford Philharmonic & Camerata Tchaikovsky, London)
- Rui Marques - Assistant Principal Conductor - Stavanger Symphony - Norway.
Dates - July 14-27.
Cost: 350 Euro for the entire 2 weeks - July 14-27.
Includes:
- Orchestra Mastery with section leaders and conductors from London, Bamberg (Bavaria), Kymi Symphony (Finland), Stavanger, other orchestras.
- As many as 9 rehearsals + sectional rehearsals.
- Students' Concerts in as many as 5 cities: Tallinn, Rig, Helsinki, Tartu, Kohtla-Järve.
- Chamber Music
* String Instrumentalists can travel with only bow - we can rent you an instrument in Tallinn for 50 Euros per course.
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Masterclasses with illustrious concert violinist, Miriam Davis (United Kingdom).
Acclaimed for her, “sensitivity, sophistication, warm tone and ability to connect with the listener through her intensity and emotional involvement”, (Fanfare Magazine 2024), Miriam Davis is a British concert violinist who has performed throughout the world as a soloist and chamber musician.
Acclaimed for her, “sensitivity, sophistication, warm tone and ability to connect with the listener through her intensity and emotional involvement”, (Fanfare Magazine 2024), Miriam Davis is a British concert violinist who has performed throughout the world as a soloist and chamber musician.
May 2024 saw the release of her debut album, “Ode to Lost Time”, on Convivium Records, with pianist Michael Bulychev-Okser, featuring a selection of music associated with the French novelist, Marcel Proust, for which they received a 4 Star review in BBC Music Magazine. Other 2024 highlights included Concerto performance in Estonia Concert Hall, recital at Gümüşlük International Festival Turkey, Bach Double Concerto with Alexander Markov, and her performance of Schindler’s List with Oxford Philharmonic and Marios Papadopoulos in Windsor Castle.
Lately Miriam has been featured by Classic FM and won 1st Prize in the Agimus Padova International Competition 2021. Her prize includes a CD recording which will be released later in 2025, featuring Strauss Violin Sonata.
Recent and upcoming performance venues as a soloist include Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Estonia Concert-hall Tallinn, Vanemuise Kontsertdimaja, Parnü Concert Hall, Częstochowa Philharmonic Concert Hall, Stoller Hall Manchester, Stavanger Konserthus Sommerkonsert Series, Temppeliaukio Church Helsinki, Parco Della Music Rome, St Martin in the Fields London, National Portrait Gallery London and Sage Gateshead Hall 1.
Miriam is a prizewinner in numerous International and National competitions, including 1st Prizes from Grand Virtuoso International Competition with invitation to perform at Royal Albert Hall London, IMKA competition, North Online International Competition & Virtuoso Belcanto International Competition dedicated to Paganini.
As a concerto soloist she has performed with conductors such as Peter Szilvay, Marios Papadopoulos, Anatoli Štšura, Lilyan Kaiv, Marc Moncusi, Jose Miguel Rodilla, and Oliver Weder, and orchestras such as Oxford Philharmonic, Narva Symphony Orchestra, Kaliningrad Symphony Orchestra, and Maarja Filharmoonia.