CUBAN-EUROPEAN YOUTH ACADEMY

2020/2021

August 2021

Concert tour of the Havana Lyceum Orchestra through Germany with soloist Sarah Willis (horn)

Direction: José Antonio Mendez Paddron

February 2020

Postgraduate study course for Cuban and European students in Havana; masterclasses at the ISA

May 2020

Cancelled: Concerts with the creation “Cuba – a quest” featuring the Cuban quintet Caribe Nostrum and German actress Johanna Wokalek

January 2020

Project start of the cooperation project “Clasicismo”: intensive course on historical performance practice of the classical period for students of the Orchesterzentrum NRW

2019

October/November 2019

Concert for the 500th aniversary of Havana with Mozart’s “coronation mass”

Direction: Thomas Hengelbrock

May 2019

Transatlantic orchestra project with Brahms’ Requiem in Havana

Direction: José Antonio Mendez Padrón

July 2019

Transatlantic baroque orchestra project in Dortmund

Direction: Enrico Onofri

February 2019

Masterclasses and postgraduate study course in Havana

2018

October 2018

Masterclasses in Havana and auditions for the postgraduate study course

April 2018

Fourth week of the postgraduate study course and auditions for the transatlantic orchestra project

September 2018

Transatlantic orchestra project 2018 in Germany

Direction: Thomas Hengelbrock

February 2018

Third  week of the postgraduate study course

2017

December 2017

Second week of the postgraduate study course

August 2017

Transatlantic orchestra project in Germany

Direction: Duncan Ward

March 2017

Auditions in Dortmund for the transatlantic orchestra project 2017

January 2017

Masterclasses in Havana with teachers from the Balthasar Neumann Ensemble, auditions for the postgraduate study course and for the transatlantic orchestra project 2017

September 2017

First week of the postgraduate study course

April 2017

Masterclasses in Havana with teachers from the Balthasar Neumann Ensemble, auditions for the postgraduate study course and for the transatlantic orchestra project 2017

Februar 2017

Masterclass for composers in Havana

Direction: Simon Wills

Masterclass for French Horn in Havana

Direction: Sarah Willis

2016

November 2016

Transatlantic orchestra project on Cuba in cooperation with the Lyceum Mozartiano and the Federal Foreign Office

Direction: Thomas Hengelbrock
Soloist: Matthias Goerne

April 2016

Concert tour of Germany by the Cuban quintet “Caribe Nostrum”; school visit and work with the school orchestra of the Droste-Gymnasium in Freiburg

January 2016

Five Cubans join in Mendelssohn’s “Elijah”.

Direction: Thomas Hengelbrock

December 2016

Participation of four Cubans in the Christmas tour of the Balthasar Neumann Ensembles

Direction: Thomas Hengelbrock

August 2016

Participation of four Cubans in the summer tour of the Balthasar Neumann Ensembles in Germany and Spain

Direction: Thomas Hengelbrock

March 2016

Four Cubans play in the orchestra in Handel’s “Agrippina” at the Theater an der Wien. 

Direction: Thomas Hengelbrock

2015

August 2015

First transatlantic orchestra project as part of the Rheingau Music Festival

Direction Thomas Hengelbrock
Soloist: Arabella Steinbacher

April 2015

Organizational visit to Havana: presentation of donated instruments

Januar 2015

Auditions in Frankfurt for the orchestra project 2015: selection of 30 from some 180 musicians

December 2015

Chamber music workshop in Havana with teachers from the Balthasar Neumann Ensemble, Arabella Steinbacher and Cuban students plus four European students

May 2015

Three Cubans take part in the performance of Verdi’s “La Traviata” at the Festspielhaus in Baden-Baden.

Direction: Pablo Heras-Casado

Special concert in Freiburg: Mendelssohn’s Octet including four European and four Cuban music students

March 2015

Auditions in Vienna for the orchestra project 2015: selection of 5 musicians from some 30

2014

April 2014

Orchestra project in Havana; group rehearsals and individual classes

Soloist: Monika Leskovar
Direction: Thomas Hengelbrock

Autumn 2014

Auditions in Havana for the first transatlantic orchestra project 2015: selection of 30 musicians from some 100 applicants.