Dalcroze Symposium 2019 “Wanted: Émile Jaques-Dalcroze”

• Find out about his artistic oevre & celebrate 60 years of Music and Movement Education/Rhythmics at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1 1030 Wien, Austria
• Featuring Adalberto Maria Riva, pianist
• What you can expect: Presentations, workshops, Concerts from the oeuvre for piano, Opera concert: « Les jumeaux de Bergame, » a CD presentation and Choreographies on live music
• Don’t miss the opportunity to hear several important piano works, including:

• Sketches op 10
• Op 45,1-3
• Op 46,1-3
• Op 47,1-3
• 24 rythmes of the danse
• 16 plastic studies
• 20 Caprices et études rythmiques
• Musiques pour faire danser
• Trois entrées dansantes
• 6 Danses bigarrés

Program for the Dalcroze Symposium 2019

Friday, May 10th

·         Welcome by Paul Hille, Hanne Pilgrim and Angelika Hauser-Dellefant

·         Meeting of Jacques Tchamkerten: “The musical oeuvre of Émile Jaques-Dalcroze” (in French with translation)

·         Masterclass with Paolo Munaò and Adalberto Riva with piano music by Émile Jaques-Dalcroze

·         Masterclass: An overview of contemporary dance in the direction of the 20 gestures of Émile Jaques-Dalcroze’s plastique animée with Elisabeth Orlowsky and Jutta Goldgruber

·         Student compositions and pieces of improvisation, inspired by works by Dalcroze

·         Meeting of Paul Hille: The “Méthode Jaques-Dalcroze”

·         Concert and CD presentation by Paolo Munaò and Adalberto Riva

·         Choreographies to the music of Émile Jaques-Dalcroze

Saturday, May 11th

·         Masterclass with Paolo Munaò and Adalberto Riva

·         Elements of Dalcroze’s piano music as a source for contemporary improvisation and composition with Verena Zeiner

·         Student compositions and pieces of improvisation, inspired by works by Dalcroze

·         Meeting Jaques-Tchamkerten: “The piano music of Émile Jaques-Dalcroze” (French with translation)

·         Koncert: students of the master class and movement improvisation of students, inspired by works by Dalcroze

·         Choreographic approaches to piano music by Émile Jaques-Dalcroze with Hanne Pilgrim

·         Meeting with Gunhild Oberzaucher-Schüller: Émile Jaques-Dalcroze in Vienna

·         Chamber opera performance: “Les jumeaux de Bergame” (“The Twins from Bergamo”) by Émile Jaques-Dalcroze; with Michael Schnack, Elisabeth Orlowsky and Ensemble

Sunday, May 12th

·         Masterclass with Paolo Munaò, Adalberto Riva

·         The Dalcroze Approach: Exercises of 1906 with Paul Hille

·         Final Concert: Students of master classes and student compositions and improvisations related to pieces by Dalcroze

“For art is not merely meant to express or transcribe life. It is life itself!—and the means of experiencing it.”