Virtual Brass Academy for Composers

Ensemble Musikfabrik has been presenting an online academy exploring contemporary brass composition to composers worldwide since 2020. 

If composing is like painting, what could be better than having as many colors and techniques as possible at your disposal? Composing with extended technique for these instruments is a vast field, and the best way to approach it is by  learning from instrumentalists and composers who can draw from a wealth of experience.

One to one composition lessons will be led by renowned composers, and lectures on their instruments and rehearsals will be led by the Ensemble Musikfabrik brass section and guest soloists of other instruments.

The Virtual Brass Academy welcomes composers from all over the world to apply. There is no age limit and composers do not have to be currently studying to qualify. Participants will be selected by the tutors to participate in each course. During this intensive composition period, composers will create a short piece, a miniature, that focuses on developing a musical idea. The newly written pieces will be performed, presented, and recorded in a live-stream concert at the end of the course from the Ensemble Musikfabrik studios in Cologne, Germany.

Future announcements of the Brass Academy will be published here.

Past Virtual Brass Academies