Piano*Fest*Austria

SCHEDULE OVERVIEW

July 2007

 

 

 

Friday, July 13

Arrival

Transport from Vienna Airport to Stift Altenburg

Registration at AMA Office in Abbey

Hotel check-in

 

All Day                         Practice

5:00 pm                        Informal Orientation Meeting

 

 

 

Saturday, July 14

Arrivals continue

Registration

Hotel check-in

 

All Day                         Practice

10:00 am                      Private Lessons (Professor Ward)

12:00 pm                      Lunch: Restaurant Eisenhauer

1:00 pm                        Private Lessons (Professor Ward)

5:30 pm                        Walk in the Forest

Evening                        Dinner

Practice

 

 

 

Sunday, July 15

Morning                       Attend Organ Mass (optional)

12:00 pm                      Excursion to Castle Rosenburg

Picnic on castle grounds

Tour

Falconry demonstration

6:00 pm                        Opening Faculty Concert

Celebration of 25th Anniversary of AMA

Performances in Church (organ)

Marmor-Saal (voice, piano, orchestra)

Garden (guitar)

8:30 pm                        Champagne Reception

Theater-Saal

 

 

 

Monday, July 16

All Day                         Practice and attend Lessons

10:00 am                      Private Lessons (Professors Lehrbaumer and Ward)

12:00 pm                      Lunch: Restaurant Eisenhauer

1:00 pm                        Private & 2-Piano Lessons (Professors Lehrbaumer and Ward)

4:30 pm                        Lecture: Professor Ward

“Papageno at the Piano: Those Mini-Operas Mozart Called Piano Concerti”

Evening                        Free for Dinner

Practice

 

 

 

Tuesday, July 17

All Day                         Practice and attend Lessons

10:00 am                      Private & 2-Piano Lessons (Professors Lehrbaumer and Ward)

12:00 pm                      Lunch: Restaurant Eisenhauer

1:00 pm                        Private & 2- Piano Lessons (Professors Lehrbaumer and Ward)

4:30 pm                        Lecture: Professor Ward

“Mozart’s Cadenzas Unmasked!”

Evening                        Free for Dinner

Practice

 

 

 

Wednesday, July 18

All Day                         Practice and attend Orchestra rehearsals

10:00 am                      2-Piano Lessons

12:00 pm                      Lunch: Restaurant Eisenhauer

1:00 pm                        Orchestra Rehearsal

Wiener Residenz Orchester

4:00 pm                        Dinner break

6:00 pm                        Orchestra Rehearsal

 

 

 

Thursday, July 19

All Day                         Practice and attend Orchestra rehearsals

9:30 am                        Orchestra rehearsals

12:00 pm                      Lunch: Restaurant Eisenhauer

2:00 pm                        Orchestra Rehearsal

5:00 pm                        Dinner break

6:00 pm                        Orchestra Rehearsal

 

 

Friday, July 20

All Day                         Practice and attend Orchestra rehearsals

9:30 am                        Orchestra rehearsals

12:00 pm                      Lunch: Restaurant Eisenhauer

2:00 pm                        Orchestra Rehearsal

6:00 pm                        *Festival Concert No. 1*

Marmor-Saal, Stift Altenburg

Wiener Residenz Orchester. Robert Ward, conductor

                                    Soloists

                                    Concerto K 459           Melanie Chen (Los Angeles)

                                    Concerto K 453           Michelle Santoso (CSULA)

                                    Concerto K. 595          Lukas Schachamayr (Vienna)

                                    Concerto K 488           Tiffany Chung (Rutgers University)

                                    Concerto K 466           Luka Oida (Northwestern University)

                                    Concerto K 466           Steffi Chen (Stanford University)

 

 

Saturday, July 21

Morning                       Practice

Guided Tour of 11th century Abbey Stift Altenburg and Baroque Library

12:00 pm                      Lunch: Restaurant Eisenhauer

1:30 pm                        Travel to Vienna for Sightseeing

Mozart “Figaro Haus”

Hofburg Palace

St. Stephen’s Cathedral

Demel’s

7:00 pm                        *Festival Concert No. 2*

Schloss Halbturn, Chapel

Wiener Residenz Orchester, Robert Lehrbaumer, conductor

Soloists

Concerto K488            Claire Kan Chiu (Eastman School, Yale, Paris, UCLA)

Concerto K467            Young Hee Lee (Indiana University, USC)

 

Additional compositions by Josef and Johann Strauss, Thomas Schlee

Reception & Dinner: Schloss Restaurant

 

 

Sunday, July 22

11:15 am                      *Festival Concert No. 3*

Marmor-Saal, Stift Altenburg

Wiener Residenz Orchester, Robert Lehrbaumer, conductor

Soloists

Concerto K271            David Susi (University of Kansas)

Concerto K450            Angela Chang (California Institute of Technology)

Concerto K503            Dr. Cha-Lin Liu (Berlin Hochschule, UCLA)

Additional compositions by Josef and Johann Strauss

1:30 pm                        Lunch: Restaurant Eisenhauer

4:00 pm                        Travel to Vienna

Hotel check-in

Additional sight-seeing.

7:00 pm                        *Festival Concert No. 4*

Fest-Saal, Wiener Börse

Wiener Residenz Orchester, Robert Lehrbaumer, conductor

Soloists

Concerto K456            David Kim (Cornell, Yale, Hannover Universities)

Concerto K466            Jovanni de Pedro (Vienna Conservatory)

Concerto K488            Dr. Min Kwon

(Curtis Institute, Juilliard School, Salzburg Mozarteum)

 

Additional compositions by Josef and Johann Strauss

Farewell Dinner in Vienna

Diplomas

 

 

Monday, July 23

Auf Wiedersehen!