Summer Music Course Pellegrina in Czech Republic

August 17, 2006 at 11:10 AM

From 3-13 august I was on a music summer course of the Dutsh conductor Dirk Jan Horringa "La Pellegrina" In Bechyne, 100 km below Prague in the Czech Republic, where I met a lot of Dutch amateurs I know from different orchestra's from the Netherlands and a lot of foreigners like 5 Japanese, 2 French,a German, a Englisch musicians. This is the website for more information http://www.pellegrina.net if you are interested for next year.
In the morning we play 2 chambermusicprogramms with a coach. I played only one of the 2 programms, so half of the mornings I was free. I was in a group where we practise and later perfrom the Serenade of Dvorak for strings in E major op. 22. Our coach was Pavel Hula from the Kocian string quartet.

After lunch we played the orchestral part with conductor and also gave a concert at the end of the course. We played:
Dvořák, symphonic poem Holoubek (the Wood Dove) op. 110
Martinů, Sinfonietta la Jolla (soloist: Petra Matějová, piano)
Dvořák, Symphony nr. 5 in F major op. 76

In the evening all we fanatic amateurs play outside the course a lot of chambermusic. During the meals you try to from a chambermusicgroup and than tried to reserve one of the 18 rooms in the former monastery for an hour.
I manage to play with 2 pianists sonates from Vieuxtemps and 2 string quartets

With the above stringquartet I played Rosamunde and Tod und das Madchen from Schubert.
With another stringquartet I played the first 2 parts of string quartet "Aus Mein Leben" from Smetena.