24-28 April 2025
Chamber music, Violin, and Viola Masterclasses
Marc Danel and Juliette Danel
The Masterclasses will take place from 24 to 28 April 2025 in Trani (Italy, Puglia). The program for the lessons of the masterclass is free.
Requirements:
The Masterclasses are open to chamber music groups, violinists, and violists of any age and nationality.
Every student can choose between the categories listed below:
1. Marc Danel violin masterclass
Assistant Ayaka Ishiwatari
– inscription fee: 100 euros
– masterclass tuition fee: 300 euros
2. Juliette Danel viola masterclass
– inscription fee: 100 euros
– masterclass tuition fee: 300 euros
4. “Il Solista e l’Orchestra”
-In addition to the masterclass, every student has the possibility to play a concert as soloist with orchestra. The students can choose among various concerti with a Mozart Organic, the cost for playing an entire concerto as a soloist with orchestra: 400 euros.
The cost for playing a movement of a concerto as a soloist with orchestra: 200 euros.
OTHER INFORMATION:
The deadline for sending an application to the Masterclass is the 31st of March 2025.
STAYING AND EATING in TRANI:
The organization of the Masterclass will give you the possibility to sleep and have full meals with
very cheap costs.
HOW TO GET TO TRANI:
– Airport in Bari (40 km far from Trani) and transfer to Trani with train
– Rome airport and train from Roma Termini station to Trani
HOW TO PAY:
All the payment fees must be made when you send your application to attend the Masterclass by transfer to this account
IBAN IT79 C360 9201 6000 9579 9232 960
BIC (SWIFT) QNTOITM2XXX
ASSOCIAZIONE CULTURALE E MUSICALE HERMES
If the applicant is not admitted to Masterclass the fee will be refunded.
If the application is successful but the student withdraws from the Masterclass, there will be No refund.
For other information you can call
+39 3468296657
Or send e-mail to accademia.filarmonica.med@gmail.com
Marc Danel
Marc Danel grew up in Lille, France, where both he and his sister learned violin with Jezdimir Vujicic. He continued his studies with Prof Igor Ozim in Cologne graduating with high hours in 1992. In 1991, he founded the Danel Quartet, studying extensively with the Amadeus and Borodin Quartets, as well as with Pierre Penassou, Hugh Maguire, Walter Levin and Fiodor Druzhinin.
As leader of the quartet, he was major prizewinner of all the six competitions they entered between 1991 to 1995, including Evian, London and St Petersburg.
Since 1991, Marc Danel has performed 2500 concerts with the quartet including 25 performances of the complete cycle of Shostakovitch quartets and numerous performances of the Beethoven, Weinberg and Bartok cycles in the major halls in Europe, USA, Russia, China, Japan, Taiwan, South America and Central Asia. The quartet have recorded more than 20 CDs, garnering numerous awards in Europe and the US.
The quartet have championed the great but neglected soviet composer Mechtislav Weinberg, playing his quartets extensively since the ‘90s and recording the all of his 17 string quartets, (2009). For Weinberg’s centenary this year, the quartet will give 7 performances of the complete cycle of quartets, some of which the quartet have premiered.
The quartet residence at Manchester University.
Marc Danel is artistic leader of the Dutch National String Quartet Academy (NSKA), many students of which have won major competitions. A highly sought-after teacher, he teaches at CNSDM Lyon and IMEP Namur, and at Manchester University where the quartet are artists in residence. He has also given Masterclasses in Europe, USA, Japan, Taiwan, Bielorussia and has a regular collaboration with the National Youth Orchestra of Chile.
Ayaka Ishiwatari
Ayaka Ishiwatari was born in Tokyo (Japan). She begins the violin at the age of 5, and entered to the Toho Gakuen Music High School and then, in 2016, at Tokyo Tokyo Toyo Toho, in Yoshiharu Kubo’s class. In 2020, she joined Marc Danel’s class at the CNSMD of Lyon. She participated in many masters-class of violin and string quartet with Alexis Galperine, Johannes Meissl, Keith Robinson, Sibbi Benhardsson and Eric Wong. She has a very supported activity as a chamber, first of all in the Lylisis Quartet, then from the Quartet Cong. She has participated in many festivals and played in important concert series in Japan and France, the United States, Italy, the Nederlands and Hong Kong.
Juliette Danel
Juliette Danel studied music at the Lille Conservatory, in the class of Michèle Moulin, then at the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris and at the Musikhochschuhle in Cologne, before founding the Danel Quartet with her brothers.
With this training, she benefits from the teaching of the greatest quartets (Amadeus, Parrenin, Borodine, Lasalle, etc.), and is a winner of the Evian International String Quartet Competition, the London International String Quartet Competition and the International String Quartet Competition. “D. Shostakovich” from St. Petersburg.
She performs in numerous concerts around the world and participates in festivals such as those of Radio-France, Aldeburgh (England), Salzburg (Austria), Nijni Novgorod (Russia) and Orlando (Netherlands). She won the Grand Jury Prize from the Académie du Disque Charles Cros for the recording of the chamber music of Manuel Rosenthal.
Following these years devoted to the quartet, she participated in various orchestral groups in the North of France and in Belgium such as the National Orchestra of Lille, the Royal Chamber Orchestra of Wallonia, the contemporary music ensembles Musiques Nouvelles and Champ d ‘Action, the great Stable and the Millenium set. She also regularly joins her musician friends around chamber music. Since its creation, she has participated in the activities of the Belgian non-profit organization “Chamber music for Europe”.
With these different ensembles, she participated in numerous contemporary creations, opportunities for meetings and work with composers: Kurtag, Rosenthal, Bacri, Royé, Swinnen, Brewaeys, Dusapin, Raskatov, Dereugnaucourt, etc.
Alongside her activity as a violist, Juliette Danel has always been passionate about teaching.
She is currently a professor of viola and chamber music at the Lille Conservatory and at the Ecole Supérieure Musique et Danse (ESMD) Hauts de France – Lille.