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