6-day intensive masterclass for Conductors with Prof. Rüdiger Bohn
and Prague Philharmonia (the professional orchestra)
This is a great opportunity to study and record mandatory pieces from the German music repertoire.

Program:

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Hebrides, Overture
Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 4 in C minor "Tragic", D. 417
Igor Stravinsky: Concerto in D
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 in B-flat major, Op. 60
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Each Active participant will be entitled to:

• 90 minutes podium time conducting Prague Philharmonia
• 60 minutes of podium time in four hand piano sessions with the soloist
• we expect that all active participants will conduct in the dress rehearsal and final concert as well as attend all meetings and rehearsals.

Each Semi-active participant will be entitled to:

• 90 minutes of podium time in four hand piano sessions with Maestro and the soloist.
• attending all meetings, classes, rehearsals and the final concert, without an opportunity to conduct the orchestra
There is no age limit for participation in the course. The Certificate of participation will be provided for all the participants who have completed this course for conductors.

ORCHESTRA

The Prague Philharmonia was founded in 1994 on the initiative of the conductor Jiří Bělohlávek (1946-2017) under the original name Prague Chamber Philharmonia, by the spring of 2024, it operated under the name PKF — Prague Philharmonialater. Today it is one of the most recognised orchestras, not only among Czech but also world ensembles. Regular invitations to tour abroad as well as recording projects with the most renowned international labels bear testimony to this. Since the 2015–16 season the orchestra has been led by the French conductor Emmanuel Villaume.
Freshness, energy and perfectionism are characteristics inscribed in the orchestra’s 'Birth Certificate', as well as a love of music expressed in each of their concerts. Behind the highly valued distinctive sound of the Prague Philharmonia is partly its key repertoire, which has been from the beginning Viennese Classicism, namely compositions by Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven, to which works from the period of Romanticism, as well the 20th and 21st centuries, are added.
Over the period of its existence, the orchestra has recorded over 90 CDs released by leading Czech and world music publishers, such as Deutsche Grammophon, Decca, Supraphon, EMI, Warner Classics and Harmonia Mundi. A number of them have been awarded prizes, such as the Gold Record RAC Canada in 2000, Harmony Award in 2001 and Diapason d’Or in September 2007. The CD Heroique with Bryan Hymel was in 2016 nominated for an International Opera Award and a recording of Bohemian Rhapsody with the trumpet player Gábor Boldoczki for Sony Classical was nominated at the Classical Music Award 2018.
You can read more about the orchestra here. Website of Prague Philharmonia is https://www.prgphil.cz/

MAESTRO

Maestro Rüdiger Bohn is a German conductor, pianist, and educator based in Düsseldorf. He studied piano (Günter Ludwig and David Levine) and conducting (Volker Wangenheim) at the conservatoires in Cologne and Düsseldorf, attended masterclasses with Leonard Bernstein, Sergiu Celebidache, and John Eliot Gardiner. He gained opera experience in several engagements at various opera houses (Brussels, Basel, Lübeck) and served as the Artistic Director of the Contemporary Opera in Berlin for more than ten years. As an orchestral conductor, he collaborated with orchestras all over Europe, as there are for example the RAI symphony orchestras in Rome and Turin, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the London Symphony Orchestra. He is a regular guest In Korea and Japan, working several times at the Tongyeong- and Takefu International Festival, with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra and regularly as principal guest conductor with the Kobe Chamber Orchestra. Rüdiger Bohn is a passionate educator. He teaches at several international masterclasses. Since 2005 he is a professor of conducting at the Robert-Schuman-Hochschule Düsseldorf. Read more about Rudiger Bohn here: https://ruediger-bohn.de/biographie/

Concert

The concert program will be divided among participants.
The final concert will take place on 19 February 2027.

Recording

All the sessions with the orchestra will be video taped with the camera in front of you, and each conductor will receive his/her videos via transfer link. If you wish to get your videos immediately, please, bring the memory card for copying.
Video recording of all the orchestra rehearsals and the concert is included in the price.
Edited videos from the concert will be ready in about a week after the the masterclass end.

Language

The masterclass/workshop will be taught in English. Maestro Bohn also speaks German.

Masterclass fees

Active participant fee is € 2000.
For more options, please, contact the Masterclass manager.

Semi-active participant fee is € 600
Daily Visitors' (passive participation) fee is € 40
There is no registration/application fee.
Payment schedule
- 25 % of the participant fee has to be paid as a deposit via bank transfer upon the organizers` confirmation of your participation;
- The payment deadline for the full participation fee is 30 days before the beginning of the course.
The masterclass fee is 100 % refundable only in case of cancellation or postponing of the masterclass by the organizer.
For an individual payment plan or more options, please contact the Course Manager

Venue

The course will take place in Prague, KD Ladvi - the base of the Prague Philharmonia.
Address: Burešova 1661/2, 182 00 Praha 8 - Kobylisy, the Czech Republic. Metro - line "C"
Travel and accommodation costs are not included in the masterclass fee, must be covered by each participant.
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