The String Instruments Department offers an innovative and diverse program of study for the orchestral instruments violin, viola, cello, and double bass in the bachelor’s program for orchestral instruments (8 semesters), master’s degree program for orchestral instruments (4 semesters), and concert exam (4 semesters).
The focus of the program of study is the artistic training in the major and minor subjects, supported by audition training, participation in various ensembles of the School of Music, master classes, and field trips. Mandatory music theory subjects ensure a solid training, which can be expanded through numerous courses at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.
The incorporated Guitar Department at the School of Music consists of the bachelor’s program in Guitar (8 semesters) and the advanced master’s degree program “Guitar” (4 semesters).
During the program of study, participation in the university orchestra is compulsory in phases.
- Philharmonic State Orchestra Mainz (Young Ensemble Philharmonie cooperation program)
- Barock vokal – College for Early Music at the Mainz School of Music
- Peter Cornelius Conservatory of the City of Mainz (PCK)
- Landesmuseum Mainz (event series such as BeziehungsWeise)
- Master classes (free for students) e.g. 2010 with Thomas Riebl, Wolfgang Boettcher, the Gryphon Trio, the Borealis String Quartet, Taras Gabora, Silke Aichhorn. 2009: Mihail Katev, Michael Dartsch, Katalin Szigetti. 2008: Joshua Epstein. 2007: Helmut Zehetmair.
- Field trips as part of the methodical-didactic training, including 2008/2010 to Prof. Marianne Petersen, Hamburg, 2008: Renate Bruce-Weber, Hamburg, 2010: Barbara Stanzeleit, Schwerte, Prof. Dr. Michael Dartsch Saarbrücken/Bonn.
The competition for students in the concert exam postgraduate course, which takes place every two years, offers the winner of the sponsorship award the chance to perform a solo concert with the Philharmonic State Orchestra.
More information about the Koblenz International Guitar Festival & the Academy:
Head of Department:
- Univ.-Prof. Anne Shih (Violin)
Further professorships:
- Univ.-Prof. Benjamin Bergmann (Violin)
- Prof. Claudia Bussian (Viola)
- Prof. Manuel Fischer-Dieskau (Violoncello)
- Univ.-Prof. Felix Koch (Early Music: Baroque Cello/Chamber Music)
- Univ.-Prof. Waldemar Schwiertz (Double Bass)
- Prof. Ervis Gega-Dodi (Violin)
- Prof. Karin Lorenz (Violin)
- Prof. Olga Nodel (Violin)
- Prof. Annette Seyfried (Violin)
- Prof. Hubert Käppel (Guitar)
- Prof. Georg Schmitz (Guitar)
Further teaching staff:
- Konstanze Bergmann (Violin)
- Monika Grabowska (Baroque Violin/Baroque Viola)
- Liisa Randalu (Orchestral Studies Viola)
- Markus Stein (Accompaniment Baroque Cello/Harpsichord)
- Mio Tamayama (Double Bass)
- Shirin Tashibaeva (Violoncello)
- Leonid Dorfman (String Accompaniment)
- Dr. Ye-Ree Kim (Viola/Violoncello Accompaniment)
- Shenzi Liang (Violin Accompaniment)
- Sora Yoo (Violin/Viola Accompaniment)
- Tatsushi Yamakawa (Double Bass Accompaniment)
- Stefan Hladek (Guitar, Chamber Music)
- Olaf van Gornissen (Guitar)
