Life in Summer

The Orchestral Academy's festival summer will be rounded off by a chamber orchestra project with the renowned violinist Kolja Blacher, featuring music by J. S. Bach, Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky.
The tour Every year, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival concerts held, for example, in Hamburg, Kiel and Lbeck are supplemented by guest performances. Thus in summer 2008 the Festival Orchestra will be giving a concert at the young.euro.classic festival in Berlin under the baton of Heinrich Schiff. In addition, starting in 2008 there will be an extra working phase of the Orchestral Academy each year in the run-up to the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, to which the previous year's orchestra will be invited. Thus in June 2008 the 2007 Festival Orchestra will rehearse an extensive programme of music in Salzau which it will then perform in eight concerts, with St Petersburg among the venues.

perform at the Salzau Chamber Concerts and also in the official main programme of the festival. In addition to popular standard chamber works, compositions for unusual combinations of instruments and less-known repertoire are also rehearsed. Before the actual summer academy begins, teachers, participants and also experts of the Orchestral Academy will submit suggestions for chamber music. In the course of the summer, different chamber ensembles will then form in Salzau. In view of the limited time available, the chamber groups will often rehearse and play single movements of larger works, so that the programmes of the chamber recitals will offer lots of variety.

Salzau Castle The official home of the Orchestral Academy is the state cultural center Salzau Castle 100 km to the north of Hamburg. The 19th- century building is located in the midst of an expansive park complex in Schleswig-Holsteins most beautiful vacation region, and offers ideal conditions for intensive work and diverse recreational activities. The big barn, which was refitted as a rehearsal and concert hall, is the center of all activity.

Great popularity with audiences and the musicians alike is enjoyed by the Sunday morning concerts at Salzau Castle, where chamber music is followed by the chance to chat to prominent conductors and soloists from the Academy. The Academy programme is rounded off by an exhibition, lectures on the works being studied and a special series of seminars for all musicians taking part (e.g. Alexander technique etc.).

Bed and Board Participants are lodged in small dormitories in the castle and nearby buildings. The Salzau kitchen team provides excellent food in the Academys own restaurant. Leisure Activities The rural surroundings of Salzau Castle, a big lake and the proximity of the Baltic Sea allow for a wide range of recreational activities. Staff of the Orchestral Academy rent out bicycles and cars, organize sightseeing and shopping tours, dance and movie nights as well as concert tickets. In Salzau, young people from around the world not only grow together as an orchestra, but they also form a social community. The experience of mutual understanding, the basic attitudes of respect and tolerance and the awareness that the world has become smaller in more ways than simply in terms of music all these lie close to the heart of the Orchestral Academy.

All the members of the 2008 Orchestral Academy will be invited to take part in a tour of Germany with the Festival Orchestra from 1st 14th June 2009, led by Christoph Eschenbach.
The Chamber Music In 2008, as every year, chamber music will play an important role at the Orchestral Academy alongside the orchestral work: all the participants will rehearse chamber music works with the teachers, which they will then