• Course 1: Elisabeth Weber – Violin

    Elisabeth Weber is one of the most versatile violinists of her generation:passionate chamber musician and soloist, experienced concertmaster, distinguished pedagogue and, last but not least, enthusiastic specialist for historical performance practice. She has been inspired by chamber music collaboration with musicians such as Boris Pergamenschikow, Martin Helmchen, Tabea Zimmermann, Martin Spangenberg or in a duo constellation with cymbalist Luigi Gaggero.

    She is a member of the Orphelian Quartet, which is dedicated to string quartet literature on historical instruments.Chamber music concerts have taken Elisabeth Weber to the Wigmore Hall London, Gewandhaus Leipzig, Brigdewater Hall Manchester and Concertgebouw Amsterdam.

    As a concertmaster of the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Zurich Chamber Orchestra and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Elisabeth Weber has worked with conductors such as Christian Zacharias, Claudio Abbado, András Schiff and Daniel Harding.She also enthusiastically conducts chamber orchestra projects from the concertmaster’s position.The constant expansion of her repertoire, her interest in contemporary music, but also her passion for historical performance practice – inspired by specialists such as Frans Brüggen, Rachel Pdger and Jesper Christensen – enriches her musical perspectives.

  • Course 2: Florian Richter – Viola

    Florian Richter, born in 1985 in Oschatz, received his first violin lessons at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University of Music and Theatre in Leipzig under Prof. Klaus Hertel. In 2000 he switched to the viola, and in 2001 he went to the Belvedere Castle Music High School in Weimar in the class of Prof. Erich Wolfgang Krüger.

    From 2004 to 2014 the multiple national prize winner of “Jugend musiziert” studied at the Franz Liszt University of Music in Weimar under Prof. Ditte Leser / Prof. Erich Krüger and completed his training with a concert examination.

    He also received important musical inspiration from master classes with Prof. Alfred Lipka, Prof. Dietmar Hallmann, Prof. Hartmut Rohde, Prof. Martin Spangenberg and Prof. Norbert Brainin, among others. Florian Richter was a scholarship holder of the Hans and Eugenia Jütting Foundation, the German Foundation for Music Life and the Carl Flesch Academy. As a soloist, he has played under the direction of Johannes Klumpp, Helmuth Rilling, Stefan Solyom, Michael Sanderling and Marek Janowski, among others. In January 2020, Florian Richter made his solo debut with the “Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden” under the direction of Bruno Weil. From 2010 to 2012, Florian Richter was principal viola player of the Staatskapelle Weimar, and from 2012 to 2017 he held the same position with the Stuttgart State Orchestra. From 2010 to 2017, he was also involved in the viola department at the Belvedere Castle Music High School in Weimar. Florian Richter then accepted the call to the Nuremberg University of Music as Professor of Viola from 2017 to 2024. Florian Richter has been principal viola player of the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden since August 2017. Since April 1, 2024, he has been the new professor for viola at the Franz Liszt University of Music in Weimar. The 39-year-old, who had already taught as a viola professor in Nuremberg since 2017, is following a call to his former alma mater.

  • Course 4: Frithjof-Martin Grabner – Double Bass

    Frithjof-Martin Grabner studied in Leipzig with Prof. Achim Beyer and Prof. Konrad Siebach double bass and chamber music with Prof. Gerhard Bosse.

    He has won prizes at international competitions and has performed in numerous symphony concerts as a soloist and continuo player of the great oratorios. Grabner was committed 18 years as a principal bass player in various orchestras: Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, State Opera “Unter den Linden” Berlin. As a guest, he played at the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bamberg Symphony, the Berlin Opera Houses, the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin, the Dresden Staatskapelle, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic, the Dresden Philharmonic, and many others. Frithjof-Martin Grabner is a member of renowned ensembles such as the Bach-Collegium Stuttgart, the Chamber Orchestra “Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach”, the Leipzig Consort, the New Berlin Chamber Orchestra, the Berlin Bach Academy and the “Skyline Symphony”. He played at radio, television and CD recordings.

    He has toured throughout Europe, Asia, North and South America, and Israel. Grabner taught at the Academy of Music “Hanns Eisler” in Berlin and is now a professor of double bass at the University of Music and Theatre “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” in Leipzig. He gave Masterclasses in Denmark, Italy, Norway, Poland, Portugal, and the Czech Republic and at several international festivals. www.grabner.de

  • Ludmilla Kogan – Correpetition Viola

    Ludmilla Kogan began piano lessons at the age of 6 and became a junior student at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin at the age of 12 in the class of Prof. Galina Iwanzowa, where she also began her regular studies in 2007. From 2009-2010, her Erasmus studies took her to the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, where she studied in the class of Prof. Martin Hughes. From September 2011, Ludmilla Kogan continued her studies at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Academy of Music and Theater in Leipzig in the class of Prof. Gerald Fauth and graduated in February 2014 with top marks and distinction and the two titles of Diploma Pianist and Diploma Music Teacher. This was immediately followed by a chamber music master’s degree in piano trio at the UdK Berlin with the Artemis Quartet. The final concert of this course in February 2017 was also rated top marks.

    Ludmilla Kogan is the first prize winner of national and international competitions (e.g. international Brahms competition) in various categories (solo, duo, trio, accompaniment), and has received various special prizes. Major solo and chamber music performances, including with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Symphony Orchestra and the Frankfurt/Oder State Orchestra, have taken her to well-known stages such as the Berlin Philharmonic, the Berlin Konzerthaus, the Komische and Deutsche Oper Berlin and also the Chorin Monastery. Ludmilla Kogan can also be heard regularly at Glienicke Palace in Berlin with her duo partner Alexander Malter (piano). Concert tours have taken her to Poland, Japan, Spain, Italy, Finland and Switzerland.

    Ludmilla Kogan is a former scholarship holder of the German Foundation for Music Life, the Karl and Else Wilke Foundation and the YEHUDI MENUHIN Live Music Now Berlin and Leipzig association. Since 2016, Ludmilla Kogan has been employed as a répétiteur for high strings, with a focus on viola, at the Franz Liszt University of Music in Weimar.

  • Anja Kleinmichel – Correpetition Double Bass

    Anja Kleinmichel studied piano with Alan Marks and Gabriele Kupfernagel at the University of Music “Hanns Eisler” in Berlin as well as chamber music and song composition at the Leipzig Academy of Music and Theater “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy”.

    She is a sought-after piano accompanist and performs mainly chamber music in various ensembles. Their special interest is in New Music.
    Master classes, among others, at the Ensemble Modern and a stay as a scholarship holder of the Forum Neues Musiktheater of the Staatsoper Stuttgart, were among the important artistic suggestions.

    Anja Kleinmichel completed an additional study for improvisation and created in the duo “track of the sounds” music to silent films. In addition to her work as a pianist and lecturer at the Leipziger Musikhochschule, she writes texts about music.

  • Facundo Hernán Barreyra – Tangochambermusic

    The bandoneonist Facundo Hernán Barreyra comes from Quilmes, a small town near Buenos Aires in the province of Buenos Aires on the banks of the Río de la Plata, studied music at the Universidad Nacional de Quilmes and now lives in Kraiburg a. Inn.

    From 1996 to 2002 he studied at the Municipal Music Institute in Avellaneda (IMMA) in Argentina. At the same time he also studied from 1996 to 2002 for the Bachelor of Media Electroacoustic Composition at the National University of Quilmes. From 2001 he studied with various drummers and percussionists such as Norberto Minichilo (Argentina), Phil Maturano (USA), Pete Lockett (Great Britain), Frank Briggs (USA), Gustavo Meli (Argentina).

    In September 2006, he began studying at IMMA Instrument Bandoneon with Roberto Chamorro and from 2011 Eleonora Ferreyra. From 2014 to 2017 he studied bandoneon with Nestor Marconi, “Society of Composers from Argentina” (SADAIC). In 2015 and 2016, he studied arrangements for typical tango orchestras with director and composer Ariel Pirotti at the Polo Bandoneon Cultural Center in Buenos Aires.

    He is a sought-after bandoneon virtuoso in Argentina, who participated, among others, in the “Bandoneon Viajero”, the 2014 European summer tour under the auspices of the Argentine Foreign Ministry. Numerous performances throughout Europe and regular guest appearances in Buenos Aires testify to a busy concert schedule. The tango chamber music course features Argentine tangos, milongas and vals in the Bandoneon & String Quintet line-up.

  • How does it work?

    You can only enrol in written.
    Please open the registration form  (under pdf forms), print it and send it to:

    Mühldorfer Sommerakademie e. V.
    c/o Thomas Breitsameter, Musikschulleitung
    Luitpoldallee 23
    D-84453 Mühldorf a. Inn

    It is also possible to send the registration by mail as Pdf to the following address:
    breitsameter.thomas@muehldorf.de

    Fees

    Active participation: € 425.-
    Passive participation: € 50.-
    Day ticket for guest students: € 10.-

    Ensembles (from trio): € 375.- per participant. The registration is valid by paying the registration fee of € 100.- (€ 50.- passive participation). Sees itself as the application fee payment of the course fee.

    Accommodation and meals during the master classes are not included in the course fee!

    If there are more applications received students may be accepted as the selection is made by the relevant course instructors. This may be necessary for us to request a recording of you.

    Account

    Please transfer the registration fee with the description “Mühldorfer Summer Academy 2025, registration fee” to:

    Account Name: Mühldorfer Sommerakademie e. V.
    Bank: meine Volksbank Raiffeisenbank eG
    IBAN: DE14  7116 0000 0005 7454 03
    BIC: GENODEF 1VRR

    Cancellation

    In case of cancellation of a participant before the registration deadline (07/25/2025), the deposit less an administration fee of € 25.- will be refunded.

    After the registration deadline is a refund of the course fee paid is no longer possible.

    In case of cancellation by the organizer or overfilling of the course booked, the entire amount of € 100.- is refundable.

  • Course outlines

    Class 1: Violin & Chamber Music – Elisabeth Weber
    Class 2: Viola & Chamber Music – Florian Richter
    Class 3: Violoncello & Chamber Music – Jan Ickert
    Class 4: Double Bass & Chamber Music – Frithjof-Martin Grabner

    Additional courses: tango chamber-music; Basic cultural knowledge management; stage presence

    The accommodation takes place during the master classes in own direction and is not included in the course fee!

    There is a limited possibility to stay with host families. Please, direct inquiries to the academy management!

    Tango chamber music conducted by Facundo Hernán Barreyra.
    The Argentine bandoneon virtuoso Facundo Barreyra works with selected students on tango, milonga and vals in the constellation Bandoneon & string quintet.

    Basic cultural knowledge management – Thomas Breitsameter

    To the schools and colleges of music training as instrumentalists is the central, dominant theme. Unfortunately, this is an existentially important issue often neglected: the marketing of their own abilities in the arts. The course provides an insight into a successful self-management, there are tips in dealing with concert promoters and concert agencies and outlines based on case studies, the organization of a concert in their preparation phase. The lecturer Thomas Breitsameter is complemented by his work as a music school director, project manager of the Inn-Salzach-Euregio Youth Orchestra, organizer of the Mühldorfer Summer Academy and managing committee member of the “Förderverein Musikfreunde Mühldorf e.V.” an experienced practitioner in the profession, he has completed his know-how by studying at the University of Hagen in cultural management.

    Stage Presence – Frithjof-Martin Grabner

    Reflection of the personal effect on the stage. (Speaking voice, body language, audition situation, concert dress, applause assumption). There are also formal and content aspects of application forms.

    Participants: Open to soloists and ensembles, advanced music pupils, music students, professional musicians, music teachers and serious amateurs who want to develop a program of their choice intensive. The minimum age to attend the courses is 16 years. Exceptions may be made in consultation with the artistic director.

    Pricing Data: Beginning of the course is on Thursday, 09/04/2025 at 19:30 in the municipal music school Mühldorf a. Inn with welcome and course schedule. End of the course is on Sunday, 09/14/2025 after the final public concert at the Hans-Prähofer House (concert starts at 11:00). In addition to the concert, students will have the opportunity to play in internal literature lecture evenings.  The registration deadline is 07/25/2025. Because the master class is limited to a maximum of nine active participants, early registration is recommended.

    Course content: Per teacher only a limited number of participants will be allowed. This guarantees the best possible care of each participant. Each participant receive 5 lessons individual or ensemble lessons. The instructors prepare participants in single – and classroom instruction prior to future concert or audition situations and give valuable assistance in solving individual problems in the instrumental and artistic field. Any number of works are being prepared. Works please indicate on the registration form! There are practice rooms with either piano or grand pianos in the “Hans-prähofer-Haus” an in the parish center “St. Nikolaus” available.

  • Access route

    Mühldorf is a town of the Bavarian alpine upland with about 20,850 inhabitants. It is located about 80 km east of Munich, about 100 km west of Passau and about 75 km north-west of Salzburg.

    Travelling by car

    Leave the main road towards B12/E552 Mühldorf center. Follow the “Innstraße” until the end and turn right at the light onto the “Katharinenplatz”. At the traffic light turn right into the “Luitpold-Allee”. There you will find only 350 m, the Municipal Music School in the “Hans-Prähofer-House” on the right hand side (Art Nouveau Building).

    Citymap Mühldorf a. Inn

    Travelling by train

    Mühldorf is accessible from Munich, Regensburg / Landshut, Passau and Salzburg. (Timetables, etc., see at www.bahn.de)

  • Miscellaneous

    Akademiekonzert 2015

    Akademie 2014

    Violin Master Class Roland Baldini 2013

     

    Violin Master Class Friedemann Wezel 2013

     

    Viola Master Class Erich Wolfgang Krüger 2013

     

    Cello Master Class Markus Wagner 2013

     

    Double Bass Master Class Frithjof Martin Grabner 2013

     

    Children Class Violin / Viola Ulrich Schliephake 2013

     

    Audition  Children Class 2013 Minibass

     

    Minibass Class Claus Freudenstein 2013

     

    Auditions 2013

     

    Master Class 2012 at the “Hans-Prähofer-Haus”

     

    Concert 07/09/2012 in the Concerthall “Neuer Stadtsaal” (pictures by Ulrich Otto)

     

    JEGOG – bamboo gamelan

     

    Archive images from 2011

     

    Archive images from 2009

     

    Archive images from 2008

     

    Archive images from 2007

     

    Archive images from 2006

     

    Archive images from 2005

     

    Archive images from 2003

  • About us

    Patronage

    Michael Hetzl, First Mayor of the district town of Mühldorf a. Inn

    Claudia Hungerhuber, culture officer

    Senior Management

    Breitsameter Thomas, Director of the Municipal School of Music Mühldorf a.Inn.

    Artistic Director

    Frithjof-Martin Grabner, Prof. at the Academy of Music and Theatre “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” in Leipzig.

    Organiser

    City Mühldorf a. Inn; the Summer Academy is organized by the Club “Mühldorfer Sommerakademie e. V.”. The courses of the Summer Academy target advanced music pupils, music students, professional musicians, music teachers, rehearsed ensembles and soloists. We give all these target groups the opportunity to improve their playing over a period of 11 days under the guidance and supervision of international lecturers in order to prepare them for an exam, a competition or a concert, to practice for an audition and to improve their theoretical and practical musical knowledge.

    The Artistic Director of Mühldorfer Summer Academy, Prof. Frithjof Martin Grabneri and his lecturers will provide students with this addition to the individual one-to-one care in the field of ‘solo work’ and the opportunity to develop chamber music work. We try to form new ensembles. Existing chamber ensembles (from trio) will receive a course fee discount (of currently € 50,-) each participant. The Municipal Music School Mühldorf, which has its classrooms in the center of the historic town center, offers ideal conditions for an intensive and successful work phase.

    Club Founding

    In September 2014, the non-profit association “Mühldorfer Sommerakademie e. V.” was established to provide an even broader basis for the academy.

    Since 2015 this association, currently represented by its 1st chairman Franz Hanninger, his 2nd chairman Professor Frithjof-Martin Grabner, his treasurer Thomas Breitsameter an the board member Claudia Hungerhuber (City Council & Culture, Kreisstadt Mühldorf a. Inn) has been organizing the master classes.

    Bank:

    Account holder: Mühldorfer Sommerakademie e. V.
    Credit institution: VR-Bank Altötting-Mühldorf eG
    IBAN: DE14 7116 0000 0005 7454 03
    BIC: GENODEF 1VRR

    Sponsored by:

    Oberbayern

    Raiffeisenbank

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  • Jürgen Geise  († 09.01.2011)

    On Sunday, the 9th January 2011, the founder of the Mühldorfer Summer Academy Prof. Jürgen Geise has died after a long illness.

    Jürgen Geise studied at the Vienna Academy with R. Odnoposoff and with Franz Samohyl, whose assistant he became later. He continued his studies with Max Rostal and Sandor Vegh. He was a founding member of the “Vienna Soloists”, the “Austrian string quartet” and the “String Quintet Mozarteum.” From 1973 to 2007 Jürgen Geise was a professor of violin, viola and chamber music at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts “Mozarteum” in Salzburg. About many years he led the chamber orchestra “Collegium Iuvenale Salisburgense” (CIS), which exercises regularly performs with its own chamber music series in Salzburg. Jürgen Geise promoted talented young artists; a large number of his former students occupied senior positions in international elite orchestras or is teaching at conservatories. Jürgen Geise worked as a jury member at numerous international competitions.

    In 2003 he founded together with his former student, the Mühldorfer music headmaster Thomas Breitsameter the Mühldorfer Summer Academy, which has evolved as an internationally renowned master course for strings and chamber music, where every year 40 to 50 participants from all over Europe and Asia participate.

    The Mühldorfer Summer Academy loses  with Prof. Jürgen Geise an outstanding artistic personality, whose tireless work has significantly contributed to the success of the overall project “master classes for music in Mühldorf”.

  • Martin Hornstein († 27.10.2009)

    On Tuesday, 27.10.2009, cellist Martin Hornstein has died completely unexpectedly at the age of 54 years.

    Martin Hornstein studied at the Vienna University of Music and the Juilliard School in New York. While still a student began Hornstein his concerts as a soloist and chamber musician, touring in Europe and Japan. From 1985 to 1993 he was a cellist in the Vienna Schubert Trio and Trio from 1994 to 2004 member of the Altenberg Trio Vienna. In these formations, he was far more than a thousand concerts in all the major music centers of the world, including Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, at the Salzburg Festival, London’s Wigmore Hall, the Chamber Music Festival Lockenhaus, at the “styriarte” Graz and through regular subscription concerts of the Society of Friends of Music in Vienna.

    From 2005, the musical partnership with pianist Janna Polyzoides took a lot of space. Among the many performances of the duo in 2006 was also a sonata recital in the Brahms Hall of the Vienna Musikverein. The collaboration with the lyricist Semier Insayif led to many appearances with the solo suites by Bach and poetry and prose of the author. Hornstein was a lecturer of the International Music Festival  Bad Leonfelden and the Mühldorfer Summer Academy and initiated a chamber music class at the Vienna Conservatory.

    Martin Hornstein conducted from 2006 to 2009 the master class for cello and chamber music at the Mühldorfer Summer Academy. He was equally loved and appreciated among the students and faculty to share his immense knowledge and skills, without taking itself into the foreground. The Mühldorfer Summer Academy loses a good friend, a great musician and a brilliant music teacher.