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Maestro Diemecke

Artistic General Director of the famed Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires and award-winning Music Director of the Buenos Aires Philharmonic and the Flint Symphony Orchestra in Michigan, will select 8 aspiring conductors and 10 auditors for the intensive two-week program focusing on repertoire of the 19thcentury. The First week’s activities will be an unprecedented week of remote webinar score analysis led by Maestro Diemecke, followed by one week of rehearsals and concerts in Mexico City by the participants with the Carlos Chávez Orchestra in the Centro Cultural Los Pinos.

Application Deadline:

June 1, 2021

Webinar Dates:

August 30 – September 3, 2021

Rehearsals in Mexico City:

September 6 – 10, 2021

Concert:

September 12, 2021

In 2021 Maestro Enrique Diemecke will present master classes and workshops for orchestral conductors with the Orquesta Escuela Carlos Chávez of the Sistema Nacional de Fomento Musical of México, focusing on orchestral romantic repertoire of the 19th Century, including works of Beethoven, Brahms, Wagner, Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, Dvorak, Sibelius, and Grieg.

Program details

Eight aspiring conductors will be selected as Full Participanting conductors in workshops and master clases with two pianos, rehearsals with the orchestra, one dress rehearsal and one public concert in the new Centro Cultural Los Pinos, located in the beautiful, historic Chapultepec Park in Mexico City. (September 6 to September 12, 2021.)

In advance of the workshops and master clases, Maestro Diemecke will prepare the orchestra for one week in sectional rehearsals (August 23 to 29.) The following week he will rehearse the full orchestra and lead them in a concert of the repertoire selected for the master clases (August 30 – September 5.)

The podium time for each Full Participating conductor will be as follows:

Workshops with two pianos, totalling 55 minutes.
Rehearsals with orchestra, totalling 75 minutes.
Dress rehearsal, 11 minutes.
Concert, work of 10 minutes to be assigned by Maestro Diemecke from the list below.

Previous to the workshops and master classes in México City, the Full Participanting conductors will receive a 3 hour daily webinar session with Maestro Diemecke (from August 30th to September 3rd), in preparation of the live sessions.

Tuition for Full Participanting conductors includes shared hotel accommodations in a double room, breakfast for 8 days, and local transportation to and from all sessions.

In addition to the 8 Full Participanting conductors, there will be 10 Auditor conductors selected, who will attend all of the sessions with the Full Participating conductors. In addition, Auditor conductors will have two 15 minute sessions with two pianos.

All sessions will be professionally recorded by the organizer and offered to the participants.

Interested Applicants

The Master Classes and Workshops are open to aspiring conductors of all nationalities. The organizers will advertise internationally for participants. Applicants will submit cvs, letters of reccomendation and video recordings. Participants and auditors will be selected by Maestro Diemecke.

Fees

Full Participanting conductors: USD $3,700
Auditor conductors: USD $350
Application fee: USD $65

Focus of the Sessions

Preparation and Score Analysis.
Baton Technique.
Body Expression and Communication.
Preparation and Rehearsal Technique.
Preparing a Season (Programming).
Performance Practices.

Repertoire

Beethoven Egmont Overture 9’

Brahms Academic Festival Overture 10’

Dvorak Carnival Overture 9’

Grieg Peer Gynt, selections (Morning Mood, The Death of Ase, In the hall of the Mountain King) 10’

Mendelssohn The Hebrides 11’

Sibelius Finlandia 10’

Tchaikovsky Waltzes from The Nutcracker or Swan Lake 9’

Wagner The Flying Dutchman, Overture 10’

Administration team

Enrique Arturo Diemecke, Artistic Director and Master Class Director

Isabel Wolf,, Admissions and International Affairs

Enrique Arturo Diemecke, Music Director

Maestro Diemecke has been a teacher of the leading Mexican conductors of recent years, including: Jesús Medina, Director of the Jalisco Philharmonic; Carlos M. Prieto, Director of the Louisville Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra of México; Juan Carlos Lomónaco, Director of the Yucatán Orchestra; Alondra de la Parra, former Director of the Queensland Symphony; Christian Gohmer, Director of Solistas Ensamble Choir of the National Fine Arts Institute of Mexico (INBA); Rodrigo Sierra Moncayo, Director of Zapopan Youth Orchestra of Jalisco; Abdiel Vázquez, pianist and Artistic Director of Opera of Morelia.
From 2016 to 2019 Maestro Diemecke received the financial support “Creadores escénicos con trayectoria” from the Federal Culture Secretary of México to give Master Classes and Workshops throughout the country to more than 70 conducting students, culminating in Maestro Diemecke’s forthcoming book of his experiences as conductor and teacher.
From 2018 Maestro Diemecke has been the head of the Seminars of Orquestal Conducting of the prestigious Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires, Argentina, belonging to the Superior Art Institute and the Academic Orchestra.
From 2007 to 2011, Maestro Diemecke was both teacher of Music Direction and Music Director of the Academic Orchestra of the Superior School of Music of the National Fine Arts Institute of Mexico.
During the 2020 quarantine, Diemecke was invited to give two webinar conducting Master Classes for the Seminar “Eduardo Mata” of the National University Autonomous of Mexico (UNAM).

Schedule / Week No. 3

SCHEDULE	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday	Monday
09:00-12:00	Welcome / Introduction	Workshops / 2 pianos	Workshops / 2 pianos	Workshops / 2 pianos	Workshops / 2 pianos	Feedback		Feedback
10:00-13:30					Dress rehearsal
12:00-14:00	Lunch Break	Lunch Break	Lunch Break	Lunch Break	Lunch Break	Lunch Break / Feedback	Lunch Break / Feedback	Lunch Break / Feedback
14:00-17:30	Workshops / 2 pianos	Rehearsal with orchestra	Rehearsal with orchestra	Rehearsal with orchestra	Rehearsal with orchestra		Concert	Closing Ceremony.
18:00-20:00		Feedback	Feedback	Feedback	Feedback

Workshop and Master Class with

ENRIQUE ARTURO DIEMECKE

and the Carlos Chávez Symphony Orchestra in historic Chapultepec Park in Mexico City

August 30 – September 12, 2021

Maestro Diemecke

Application Deadline:

Webinar Dates:

Rehearsals in Mexico City:

Concert:

Program details

Interested Applicants

Fees

Focus of the Sessions

Repertoire

Dates of the Program

Administration team

Enrique Arturo Diemecke, Music Director

Schedule / Week No. 3

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