The first edition of the « Klangakademie Hamburg » will take place from the 16th to 22nd of July 2018 in the « Klangmanufaktur » in Hamburg, Germany. This summer academy’s mission is to bring together pianists of all stripes under the motto « the sound of the piano is a collaborative art between pianists, concert technicians, instruments and the acoustics of the venue itself ».
One of the biggest challenges for today’s pianists is to create the expected sound with an instrument that differs with each concert. The « Klangakademie Hamburg » is dedicated to pianists wishing to prepare a concert or a competition. The academy proposes to explore the maximum expressive potential of each concert piano through masterclasses and piano lessons, tuning, making this instrument as well as a concert academy.
This academy is the initiative of Jongdo An, a concert pianist, Piano lecturer and winner of the Marguerite Long-Thibaud-Crespin international piano competition in Paris. In addition, two famous names from the classical music scene were invited. Winner of the New York Young Concert Artist, the Queen Elisabeth Competition and the Beethoven piano competition in Bonn, Rémi Géniet will hold masterclasses with Jan Kittel, who is in charge of the concert piano of the most famous piano competitions such as Reine Elisabeth, Tchaikovsky, Chopin as well as many pianists around the world like Maurizio Pollini, Grigory Sokolov, Andras Schiff, Martha Argerich, Lang Lang, Arkady Volodos, Evgeny Kissin and Murray Perahia.
Pavel Gililov, as a professor at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg and President of the Beethoven International Piano Competition in Bonn, is the the honory professor of this first edition of the « Klangakademie Hamburg »
The Klangakademie Hamburg has two main parts : Masterclass and Piano Festival
In the masterclass, we learn two languages of sound through 4 piano lessons, 3 piano tuning lessons and 2 piano manufacturing seminars with French pianist Rémi Geniet, Jongdo An and concert technician Jan Kittel.
Firstly, the artistic language : to understand how to interpret and express the piano music
Secondly, the technical language : to understand how a piano is designed acoustically and mechanically and how to prepare a best possible concert piano with piano technicians.
Creating sounds with a new piano on a new stage every time is truly the challenging of the Pianist.
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