Welcome to Master in Music and Episode nr 10!

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For today’s episode we are going to meet a living composer, Vykintas Baltakas.

He is an intriguing and fascinating composer and conductor. He origins from Lithuania, studied in Karlsruhe with Wolfgang Rihm and Conducting with Andreas Weiss. He has conducted the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Ensemble Modern, and Klangforum Wien. 

He has participated in competitions and had amazing results, Peter Eötvös describes him like this:

“What is remarkable about Vykintas Baltakas is his own brusque, harsh, very attentive and confident demeanour, his personal musical language, sometimes amusingly brittle, always explorative, always active and professional. His constant development, the versatility of his artistic creativity and his permanently progressive musical stance have encouraged me to nominate him for this prestigious prize.” Conservatorium Maastricht, where he is the composing teacher, describes him as musical Scheherazade. His music keeps pulling you in and referencing itself, sometimes branching off and reinventing itself, and sometimes returning to where it started. He weaves musical stories that are linked with a delicate interconnected web. Peter Eötvös

In this episode we talk about how to compose music. How to find your inner personality, what makes good music and great musicians. What he thinks are the keys to composing. We also talk about the future and what it will bring, how to communicate and much more. I didn’t want this interview to end because It was so thrilling.

Ladys and gentlemen now we are going to dive into the musical universe of Vy...

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To celebrate the holiday season I have of course an amazing Christmas present for everyone! An episode with Morten Ryelund, the man that changed my life and the way I look at music forever.

I am honoured to present to you the man that has played a big role in a lot of professional musicians life: the conductor and violinist Morten Ryelund.  He is conducting professional orchestras, playing concerts as a violinist and creating the next generation of top musicians. With his DUEN orchestra (the Danish youth ensemble) which is a group of dedicated young musicians that Morten manages to create a musical level equal to well-known professional orchestras.

“Morten is a rare great musical endowment. His insight into and interpretation of the music is always thoroughly worked out, personal, innovative and extremely compelling. Furthermore, Morten possesses a rare ability to gather the positive and creative energy that always arises in his presence and use it to bring out the best in the musicians.”Johannes Søe Hansen, concertmaster in the DR Symphony Orchestra

Get ready for an episode with not only a man of music but also philosophy. Morten is the conductor that can make musicians at a very early age understand orchestra music and have the ability to make them play with the highest quality. How he does it? Listen and try it out for yourself. We talk about how to make an orchestra play in tune, how to only rehearse 4 h a day and get amazing re...

Today's episode is inviting us to the little village of Mersele in Belgium. Next to Antwerpen, the city of diamonds, lies the atelier of Anton Somers. It is a magical place where wood transforms to a singing work of art. Anton Somers, born in 1986, is a young violinmaker with an enormous passion for wood. He studied to become a furniture maker but then one day his family led him into the fine work of instrument making and Anton studied violin making in Antwerpen and now he is a violin maker and a teacher in violin making at the ILSA violin making school in Antwerp. His instruments are sold in Paris at Guy Coquoz or in London at Sean bishop.

Anton shares some of his best trade secrets and his passion for varnishes and making different kinds of pigment on the wood in this episode. We also talk about how to take good care of instruments. Anton Somers' instruments are played on by many great instrumentalists.  You can hear the cellist Wojciech Fudala, playing a live recording of Antonín Dvořák : Rondo in G minor op. 94in this episode. You might know him from the Elisabeth competition in Brussels.  Wojciech also released a new CD with cello and piano music by Mieczyslaw Weinberg (Wajnberg: Sonatas for Cello and Piano; DUX1545). It is a first Polish recording of these works, so that we can't miss this. But first Episode nr 8, with Anton Somers.

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Stephan Braun the cellist, composer and jazz artist

I am proud to present our first Jazz man in Master in Music - the Podcast.

It is Master in Music's one year birthday and this episode with Stephan Braun is the greatest gift. He is a one man orchestra, who can create music that sounds like a whole jazz band on his single cello. It is just fantastic.

He has also won first prize at the international jazz competition with his trio in Bucharest and he has travelled the world playing in the most incredible concert halls like Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Vienna Opera house, Paris Olympia theatre, Rutesheim Cellofestival of course and many, many more, because once you hear this amazing cello phenomena you just want more. Since 2014 he is teaching at the “Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien” in Hannover in Germany and he is giving masterclasses in Rutesheim. He is preforming with different ensembles and one of my favourites is Deep strings which is a cello duo with his amazing wife who sings and plays the cello. After the episode I added extra material with a student from Rutesheim cello festival. Jordan Hamilton who is rapping and playing the cello, is going to give his view of the festival and share some rap on the cello.

 Are you ready to discover the extend of what a cello can do? this is the episode. Enjoy!

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A musician by training and entrepreneur by accident! Ladies and gentlemen buckle up I give you Peter Powell or Peter Power as I like to call him. Peter is the man that can make your dreams as a musician come true in the sense that he has the knowledge that makes a musician get concerts. Going from studying music to working as one takes more than just musical knowledge. In this episode we talk about how to get concerts from the practice room to the stage and having an audience that listens to you and how to get to play in festivals, we also talk about Team Academy that is the new school model of learning business here in Maastricht and all over the world. We talk about Peters blog where he writes about how to set goals and reach them. Peter gives us some tips and tricks on Facebook management and poster making.

This episode contains lots of inspiration and knowledge that we wish we knew when we start our work as a musician. Peter was the man who kicked my butt out of the practice room and in to working as a musician and getting a lot of paid concerts. Now I like to share him with you.

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All My Life by yMusic All My Life by yMusic, yMusic is an ensemble of classical musicians who play extremely interesting modern music that’s still catchy and accessible. They’ve collaborated with the likes of St. Vincent, Sufjan Stevens and Bon Over. Which just goes to show what happens when you take classical music out of it’s stuffy little box.

https://open.spotify.com/track/1l8GdvJX9IgL3Ul7pdE87h?si=X9SUQCd3SZyaASM4brvtaQ

Vivaldi Spring 3 Recomposed by Max Richter Literally Vivaldi’s four seasons recomposed, which just opens up a whole new audience and realm of possibilities for this amazing music that’s been played the same for literally hundreds of years which makes no sense.

https://open.spotify.com/track/2p3JsaNGtY6ciMOwtmREyR?si=GSnv_CYFRLyExZ1N_YwJEA

Elena by Ernst Rijsiger He’s a cellist who has played with the likes of YoYo Ma but does everything from folk, to obscure traditional music around the world, to jazz, to rock. He thinks waaaay outside the box.

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Jakob Spahn: the young Solo cellist of the Bavarian State Opera, the Zlatan of the cello. He has won awards and travelled the world sharing his music and now he is a welcome guest in Master in Music.

Jakob is smart, charming and creative. With his new CD recording of Gulda cello concerto, he brings classical music to the next technical level with a innovative 3D recording. He tells us how an app is on the way where you can zoom in and listen closer to the different instruments in the orchestra, and as you zoom the sound of that instrument gets louder. Pretty awesome!

In this episode he also gives us his best advice in how to win an orchestra audition, what the difference is between winning that job or not. If you want to learn more from Jakob apply for this year’s masterclass in audition training at Rutesheim Cello Akademie, the highlight of the autumn.

You also have the chance to win his new CD with his autograph by sharing the post of this episode on Facebook and tagging a friend that should listen to the episode. You find the post on Master in Music the facebook page. Now I wish you all a fantastic day.

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In this episode of Master in Music we reveal the women behind the microphone, Petronella Torin. It is an interview where our own Podcaster get to answer questions instead of asking them. We talk about why she is making this podcast, how to start a company and how to get on the first page in the news papers and sell nineteen concerts in less than ten days. She is a Musician, Podcaster and Teacher and here are some of her tips on living a musicians life.

Who is interviewing, you wonder, since Petronella is being interviewed? Wiekie Stouten. She wrote to Master in Music and asked if she could interview Petronella and naturally, we said yes and why not make an episode out of it. Wiekie is currently making her first Master in Solo Singing at the Conservatorium in Tilburg as a Mezzo-Soprano. She has her first Master exam concert the 6th of June at 12.00 o'clock, singing an Opera of Janacek, Tillburg Conservatorium, Room A0016.

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I hope you

are doing well and I’d like to say thank you all for listening. It is a

pleasure to see that the Master in Music podcast is reaching ears all over the

world. Thank you for listening and please, if you want to share something or

give me some tips on which guests to interview or feedback don’t hesitate to

write me on my website or Facebook, A Swedish Cellist Petronella Torin.

Today I

present for you the second amazing episode from Rutesheim special. Rutesheim is

a village in Germany where the Rutesheim cello festival is taking place every

autumn right around my birthday. The applications have just been open for this

year’s festival and what better way to celebrate this, than an interview from

one of the eminent professors, Claudio Bohórquez. He is a soloist, a chamber

musician, teacher and very good at table tennis. One of Rutesheim’s champions

if you ask me. I was very nervous to ask him to participate in the podcast, I

mean it is almost to good to be true that he said yes. He is not only an

awesome cellist, he also has a warm personality.

Claudio

studied with the legendary cellist Boris

Pergamenschikow. On his

way to become a great cellist he was successful in a lot of fantastic

competitions like the Rostropovich competition in Paris, the Tchaikovsky youth

competition and he achieved three awards in the Pablo Casals competition.   A competition that was under the roof of the Kronberg Academy. Marta Casals Istomin presented Claudio

Bohórquez with the first prize, a special award for the best chamber music, and also

the use of Casals’ Gofriller cello for a period of two years. He also won first

prize at the International Music Competition in Geneva, an achievement that started his

career as a soloist.

Today he is

part of the competitions as a member of the jury. He is also a professor

and has taught at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart and is now

appointed to teach at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" in Berlin.

Claudio

still wins a lot of prices and awards but these days for his CD recordings.

He has also

recorded a soundtrack by Paul English to the

film "Ten Minutes Older - The Cello", which was shown in theatres

worldwide.

He travels

the world and plays as a soloist with orchestras like the Wiener Symphonic,

Tokyo Philharmonic orchestra, Los Angeles Symphonic and many, many more.

He is a

busy man, but we managed to get an interview with him and now we are going to

listen to his latest release, the Cello sonata by Johannes Brahms with his

friend and college on the piano Peter Nagy. Op 99 Sonata in F major Allegro

Vivace, enjoy.

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Spring has come to the Netherlands!  It is tulips everywhere and I just came home from a rainy Paris where I had the pleasure to play in the centre Wallonia Brussels. I hope where ever you are listening to this podcast, that the winds of spring have reached you as well.

In today's episode, my guest is a man who really loves to work. He started out as a Psychologist and then one day he and his brother, who is a violin player, started an orchestra and bought a church to practise in.

He has represented  big stars as a music manager and arranged concerts all over Europe. Right now he is managing the Drummers in Slagerij van Kampen. He is the musical coordinator of the music school Kumulus and works with the Bonnefanten museum here in Maastricht. Hold on this is not all, he is also owner, founder and director of ICON entertainment.

In this episode we talk about how to succeed in the music world. What does a manager look for in a musician, what to do and what not to do, we talk about success and failure. We also discuss how a good music school looks like and what makes a good teacher. What does he look for when he hires new staff?  

I love this episode and it is so interesting to listen to someone that dares to dream big and realises his dreams.

Before we start I like to thank my Partners for this episode:

* A Swedish cellist with take-away concerts. Order your own home concert - swedishcellist.com* Creative learning Maastricht with workshops in creative learning for children -creativelearningmaastricht.com

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This is an extra episode that I like to add in a special edition: the Rutesheim cello academy edition. I had the pleasure of attending for the second year in a row the "Akademie Rutesheim Cello Festival" in Germany and naturally I took my podcast equipment with me when I had some of the world's best cellists within my reach.

Today's guest in the Pod is no one else than Matthias Trück, a cellist and the festival leader and founder himself. He is an extraordinary person who has steered this festival for 10 years and built it up from zero to something that I like to call Cello heaven. It is seven days full of great concerts every evening with different constellations of chamber music and orchestral pieces for cello. The days are full of Masterclasses with eight different professors who are super cello stars. I had the pleasure to interview 6 of them and some of the great students attending the festival.  The festival also contains a Music fair with a lot of instrument builders, string companies and much much more. It is everything from Cello orchestra, classical cello to jazz masterclass. I was so happy that Matthias Trück let me interview some of the professors and himself in this interview. Where he tells some of the keys to a great festival, what is important and tips on how to create contacts.  

Before we start, I'd like to thank our Partners:

* A Swedish cellist* Student Radio Maastricht* Guest partner Rutesheim cello Akademie

Now let’s hear some music from Matthias cello quartet Quatrocelli in an arrangement from the quartet itself and after the interview, we can listen to what the students have to say about the festival and to one of the performances from the festival by 13-year-old cello student Jizheng Fang performing Elfendanze.

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