{"id":13181,"date":"2024-05-15T15:55:50","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T13:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/virtual-brass-acacemy-for-composers\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T12:54:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T10:54:55","slug":"virtual-brass-academy-for-composers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/academy\/conservatories\/virtual-brass-academy-for-composers\/","title":{"rendered":"Academies for Composers & Performers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Where vision meets performance<\/strong><\/h5>\n

What does the untried sound like? Where are the limits of extended instruments, and how do you get complex microtonal ideas precisely onto the page? Ensemble Musikfabrik opens its doors to anyone who wants to push the language of contemporary music further. In our focused academies, curious composers and performers meet musicians who have spent decades stretching the boundaries of what is playable.<\/p>\n

Our current programme offers three platforms \u2013 from fully online intensive courses to hybrid practice-based workshops.<\/p>\n

Composing with Tuning (Hybrid) \u2013 29 September 2026 \u2013 5 October 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

This one-week academy for composers and performers explores the creative potential of tuning systems in contemporary music. Led by guest composer Wolfgang von Schweinitz<\/strong> and members of Musikfabrik, the programme covers topics such as just intonation, HEJI notation, acoustics and practical notation strategies. Lectures, hands-on workshops and open rehearsals interweave theory and artistic practice. The week culminates in a closing concert featuring Schweinitz\u2019s Plainsound Forest Song, where participants can follow a piece\u2019s journey from conception through rehearsal to performance at close range.<\/p>\n

Listener fee: on-site 50 \u20ac \/ online 40 \u20ac
\nRegistration deadline: 21 Sep 2026<\/p>\n

Virtual Brass Academy for Composers (Online) \u2013 15 December 2026 \u2013 7 January 2027<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Virtual Brass Academy dives into the wide spectrum of timbres, techniques and modes of expression available on modern brass instruments. In close online exchange with composers Hannah Kendall<\/strong> and George E. Lewis<\/strong> and the brass players of Ensemble Musikfabrik, participants focus on hands\u2011on, practical work. The central task is to compose a short acoustic miniature for Musikfabrik\u2019s brass quartet. All pieces will be premiered and recorded in a live-streamed closing concert from our Cologne studio.<\/p>\n

Participation fee: 250 \u20ac
\nApplication deadline: 15 Oct 2026<\/p>\n

Virtual Woodwinds Academy for Composers (Online) \u2013 15 February 2027 \u2013 1 March 2027<\/strong><\/p>\n

For the first time, we are offering an online academy devoted to the rich possibilities of contemporary woodwind playing. Composers from around the world are invited to explore new techniques, test compositional limits and develop their own miniature works for the digital stage, in direct dialogue with the ensemble\u2019s woodwind players and composers Milica Djordjevi\u0107 and Aaron Cassidy.<\/p>\n

Participation fee: 250 \u20ac
\nApplication deadline: 15 Dec 2026<\/p>\n

Where appropriate, reduced participation fees can be arranged after acceptance.<\/p>\n

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Ensemble Musikfabrik<\/b> has been presenting an online academy exploring contemporary composition to composers worldwide since 2020.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0 learning from instrumentalists and composers who can draw from a wealth of experience.<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span><\/p>\n

The <\/span>Virtual Academies<\/b> 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.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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The fourth Virtual Brass Academy for Composers featured Sarah Nemtsov<\/a>, Alex Paxton<\/a><\/strong> as tutors and the brass players of Ensemble Musikfabrik Christine Chapman<\/a>, Stephen Menotti<\/a>, Maxime Morel<\/a><\/strong> and Marco Blaauw<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Participating composers:<\/p>\n