4Th European Summer Music Academy in Prishtina 19-30 JULY 2015 Sponsors Let’S Make Music Together

Let’s make music together. Here! Now! master classes chamber music concerts opera night composition competition festival string orchestra 4th European Summer Music Academy in Prishtina 19-30 JULY 2015 Sponsors Let’s make music together. Here! Now! 06 Editorial - Samuel Zbogar 08 Editorial - Pierre Weber 10 Editorial - Desar Sulejmani 14 About 16 Events Content 18 ESMA Composition competition Opera Project Festival String Orchestra 20 Professors 22 Biographies 58 Notes 06 Samuel Žbogar Head of the European Union Office in Kosovo and EU Special Representative 06 \ 07 Welcome to 2015 edition of European Summer Music Academy! It is for the fourth time already that music students and professors are meeting in Pristina not only to master their skills but also to enrich the spirit of the audience. The Red Hall of Youth and Sports Centre became a venue where you know what to expect if you go there one of those summer evenings in July: the finest sounds are mixed with strong emotions and thanked by sincere applauses. There is one major difference, In our other Culture for All projects though, from the previous years. you will see that our goal is not It may not be important for the only bringing the best professors audience, but it is essential for us, to Kosovo, but also to send the supporting this event. If during the best Kosovo musicians to different first three years funding was more of venues around Europe – as we have a symbolic gesture of EU member recently doneat the music market statesand our EU office to recognise Classical: Next in Rotterdam. With the importance of the initiative, each new edition of Esma and with this year the European Summer every trip abroad, new links between Music Academy consolidated and musicians, citizens, Europeans, are strengthened enough to apply for created, new relations born – and EU-funded Culture for All project new emotions experienced. And this grant – and persuaded experts to be is what Europe is about. selected! This is exactly our role in Kosovo: to recognize the quality, to help those Samuel Žbogar, who are capable to provide such Head of the European Union Office quality to the citizens – and insist on in Kosovo and EU Special Representative becoming sustainable in long term! 08 Pierre Weber Chargé d’affaires a.i. Embassy of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg to the Republic of Kosovo 08 \ 09 Dear music lovers, We all know that music is like a ladder that allows our spirits to climb up to higher realms. In order for this magic to happen, however, a musician will have to sacrifice unnumbered hours of hard work, practice and sheer search, until he or she will indeed be able to uplift our souls! Beethoven’s words come to mind here: “Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.” It is my sincere hope that ESMA advice.Appreciation is also due to will enable many young talents to the many other actors that have progress on this path, with the help made ESMA possible again: the and under the guidance of a select EU Office in Kosovo; the Faculty group of professional musicians, who of Arts; the Kosovo Philharmonics; will make up this year’s faculty. the Red Hall; the National Theatre; the Embassies of Austria, France, This summer will be ESMA’s Hungary, the Netherlands, Norway, fourth edition, and by now it has and Switzerland; the Liaison Office of established itself as one of the Romania; UNMIK; the Yunus Emre well-loved traditions in the musical Institute; Misbah & friends; and the scene of Kosovo. This time it isthe ProCredit Bank. honour – and pleasure – of the Embassy of Luxembourg to organize I wish all participants a successful the Academy, in cooperation with 10 days of studying and progressing the Music Art Centre DAM, our into the secrets of music! implementing partner. We are following the example of the Czech and the German Embassies, who organized ESMA in 2012 & 13 Pierre Weber and 2014 respectively, and to Chargé d’affaires a.i. whom we owe a lot of gratitude for Embassy of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg to the Republic of Kosovo supporting us this year with their 10 Desar Sulejmani Artistic Director of ESMA 10 \ 11 Dear young musicians, dear friends of music and art lovers At the beginning of 2012, when thoughts of establishing an international academy of music in Pristina were underway, Kosovo, the newest State in Europe, had just celebrated its 4th independence anniversary! The desire and spirit to bring together the European cultures, musical and academic traditions to Kosovo were part of all of our future plans until then. 12 It was in 2012 when we all, music in countries concerned by organizers, local administrator ESMA, I consider chamber music foundation ARS Kosovo, foreign – performing in an ensemble – as participating professors, led by the one of the most important features Czech Embassy in Kosovo and of ESMA 2015, which will have its Artistic Director, Mr. Jaromir Klepac, impact not only in Kosovo, but in the sensed the extraordinary opportunity broader region. of establishing a real artistic and academic institution which would It would be one of our shared take place every summer in the heart responsibilities for today and the of South-East Europe: Kosovo. future to make chamber music, and orchestral work, too, a permanent As an ardent follower, advocate and tradition inside ESMA. participant of the European Summer Music Academy from its beginning, One of the originalities of ESMA I feel very honored and privileged to 2015 is the first ever ESMA Festival become the new Artistic Director of String Orchestra, which will gather all this important institution. string musicians. This new orchestra will perform in the closing concert on After the experience of three year July 29 2015. successful, in summer 2015, ESMA will be more complete, vibrant Following last year’s success of and will involve new musical and “Bastienne and Bastien”, “Cosi fan academic enhancements. tutte” is the opera which will be performed with charm and humor As a pianist and conductor, I by young singers for this year’s have always valued playing in audience. an ensemble, chamber music in particular, the same way as the The composition contest, already solo performance. Aware of the announced, intends to encourage lack of a long tradition in chamber young composers wherever they 12 \ 13 are to create a symbolic work for of the German federal Embassy; the Festival String Orchestra of the Music Art Centre DAM and its ESMA and bigger works for bigger director, Mr. Dardan Selimaj; all orchestras in the future. foreign embassies in Kosovo, whose financial and administrative support ESMA aims to be one of the most made the participation of well-known important artistic and pedagogical professors in ESMA possible. I events of Kosovo. We hope and also want to thank the EU Office wish that all of us, well-known in Kosovo; the government of the professors from different European Republic of Kosovo; as well as all countries, participating students, other agencies and sponsors for all organizers and devoted assistants, their support. would be eager to convey the artistic progress of ESMA step by step, thus And last but not least I would like become active supporters of this to invite each and every musician, year’s ESMA motto: instrument player, opera singer, and anyone else who loves, and is interested in,classic and contemporary music, to join the ESMA activities, participate in the Let’s make chamber music ensembles, become music together. an opera staff member, or simply attend our various concerts. Here! Now! See you soon in Pristina! I take the opportunity to thank in particular the Chargé d’affaires of the Embassy of the Grand Duchy of Desar Sulejmani Luxembourg, Mr. Pierre Weber, and his staff; the department of culture Artistic Director, European Summer Music Academy The fourth edition of the European Platform of European Summer Summer Music Academy (ESMA) Music Academy in Prishtina will take place from 19 to 30 The European Summer Music Academy July 2015 in Prishtina. Music (ESMA) in Prishtina is a project aiming students from Kosovo, Albania, at exchange of experience among Serbia, Montenegro, FYR of European pedagogues, artists and Macedonia and abroad will again students in the field of music both from have the opportunity of studying the European southwest region and from other countries. The project should with renowned professors from a contribute to foster mutual understanding number of European countries as in the region by bringing students and well as meeting their peers from pedagogues from different countries and other countries. communities together. ESMA 2015 will offer the following The working language of the ESMA instruments: piano, violin, viola, is English, therefore all students and pedagogues should have a good violoncello, contrabass, flute, command of English. oboe, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, trombone and singing. ESMA 2015 Students have the opportunity to work will also offer a numerous chamber with distinguished musicians with international level and experience, both music classes for string, wind and concert and pedagogic, in interpretative brass instruments. Like in 2014 master classes. Each student attends we will have again an opera class/ the same amount of lessons in his/ project with W. A. Mozart’s “Cosi her field, be it singing, instrumental, fan tutte”. or chamber music. Each student can participate in one or more master String students of ESMA are going classes depending on the number of to be part of the Festival String the other participants. During the ESMA, Orchestra of ESMA, which will be students continuously prepare for the established in 2015 for the first time following classes hence improving their skills.

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