SEMINARI DE SOLSONA - C/ Pujada del Seminari, 15-16, 252380 - Solsona - Espagne

AIMS WIND ACADEMY

After 17 years of our successful AIMS String & Piano Academy, and a very successful 1st Wind
Academy, we are now offering contrabassoon and a bassoon reed making workshop. A faculty
from leading opera houses and some of the most prestigious international music schools offer
the opportunity to work intensively both operatic and symphonic repertoires, as well as
repertoires for soloists and chamber ensembles.
In the Wind Academy, masterclasses of flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, contrabassoon and
French horn, as well as chamber music groups will be offered. The AIMS Wind Academy faculty
will be:
CLAUDIA STEIN_flute
Berlin State Orchestra, Germany
Barenboim Said Akademie Berlin, Germany
CÉSAR ALTUR DE LOS MOZOS_oboe
Orquestra Simfònica del Gran Teatre del Liceu Opera House, Barcelona, Spain
JUANJO MERCADAL_clarinet
Orquestra Simfònica del Gran Teatre del Liceu Opera House, Barcelona, Spain
NICHOLAS CARPENTER_clarinet
Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, Cardiff
MIRIAM GUSSEK_bassoon
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
MARTIN FIELD_contrabassoon
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
Royal College of Music, London
RICHARD BISSILL_French horn
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London

AIMS STRING & PIANO ACADEMY

AIMS String Academy invites young talented music students from around the world and offers
individual and group master classes. This program provides extensive training and guidance for
young people, especially those who have little access to skilled professional training.
At the AIMS Academy students receive intensive lessons in violin, viola, cello, double bass,
piano, chamber music and chamber orchestra. The classes extend and deepen the training of
the participating students under the instruction of highly recognized international pedagogues.
Since 2002 about 1000 students from 50 different nationalities have come to the AIMS
Academy.
The AIMS String & Piano faculty will be:
SERGEY OSTROVSKY_violin
Aviv Quartet, Switzerland
Haute École de Musique de Genève, Switzerland
SIMONE ZGRAGGEN_violin
Basel Sinfonietta, Switzerland
Hochschule für Musik Freiburg, Germany
ANNA BLACKMUR_violin
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
ANDRIY VIYTOVYCH_viola
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
Royal London College, London

NOÉMIE BIALODROBA_viola
Aviv Quartet, Switzerland
Conservatoire de Musique de Genève, Switzerland
Conservatoire de Lausanne, Switzerland
PETER THIEMANN_cello
Orquestra Simfònica del Gran Teatre del Liceu Opera House, Barcelona, Spain
Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu, Barcelona, Spain
HILLEL ZORI_cello
Israel Piano Trio
Tel Aviv University/Buchmann–Mehta School of Music, Israel
CHRISTOPH RAHN_bass
Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona, Spain
Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu, Barcelona, Spain
SEON-HEE MYONG_piano
Solista internacional de piano

AIMS FESTIVAL

2019 is the year of the first AIMS FESTIVAL SYMPHONIC ORCHESTRA. From August 7th to 11th
winds and strings will join to make great music.
Prestigious conductor RICCARDO FRIZZA, one of the most important conductors of his
generation will conduct Beethoven’s 2nd symphony and accompany the AIMS Concerto-
Competition winners. Maestro FRIZZA went on to conduct in the leading opera houses of
Europe and the United States, including La Scala, La Fenice. the Paris Opera, and New York's
Metropolitan Opera.
The AIMS Festival is the only pedagogical music festival in the country. Nurtured by the AIMS
Academy, the Festival responds to the pedagogical aim of the project: musical interpretation.
Therefore, the AIMS Festival, is a wonderful opportunity for young people from all over the
world to show their talent to the audience, and for the audience to get to know those students
who will surely become protagonists of the most important stages in the upcoming years.
During AIMS Festival 2019, students and teachers will offer 46 performances. 23 of them are in
classic format, in churches and concert halls. 8 are part of AIMS in the Street, where artists
offer their music in the old city of Solsona, and the rest are part of AIMS Social, approaching
hospitals, elderly homes, associations for the disabled and mentally ill, drug addicts and private
homes.