YOMA master class and course in Talent Programme November

Application deadline: 28 August. For Swedish and Nordic string and wind talents, online/IRL. Visiting educators are also welcome.
The course is given on site in Vänersborg, but we may have a few places for online participants. The course welcomes you (approx. 10-18 years) who are in the Talent Programme or who want to apply for it. You participate in part of the teaching with Polstjärnepriset – the course part 1, which takes place at the same time.

The course is also suitable for those who

• are too young for the Polstjärnepriset competition and course, but have a high level
• cannot participate in Polstjärnepriset (due to Polstjärnepriset’s attendance requirements in both November and January)

If you want to apply for the Talent Programme, you need to send a link to a recording on YouTube or Vimeo to yoma@yomacenter.se. You may then be invited to the course for trial lessons and/or an entrance exam.

All YOMA courses are free of charge. If you play oboe, bassoon, French horn, tuba, viola or double bass and participate on site in Vänersborg, we will pay for your travel (not flights) plus full board for one day.

Course content

• Individual and group lessons as well as master classes for prominent professors
• High-level orchestral playing
• Chamber music and ensemble playing
• Concertmaster and conductor training
• Concert performances 

Info, benefits and enrolment

If you participate on site, we can offer overnight accommodation and breakfast for 400 SEK/night in a shared room or 500 SEK in a single room. As a rule, all participants, except adults, are placed in shared rooms. We also offer lunch and dinner for 120 SEK/meal. If you wish to participate on site, you will be sent a link for booking and paying for meals and accommodation.

The application is now closed (since 28 August). Your enrolment is only valid once you have sent the scores for your individual lessons as an attached PDF file (no link) in an email to yoma@yomacenter.se. Please write YOMA November in the subject line. If you are applying for the Talent Programme, you will also need to send a link to a recording (see form).

Students apply here.

Visiting educators apply here.

Teachers of the course, more to come

• Gitte Marcusson, flute (Royal College of Music, London)
• Emil Jonason, clarinet (soloist and teacher at Royal College of Music, Stockholm)
• Gordon Hunt, oboe (former principal oboe of the London Philharmonic)
• Louise Pollock, trombone (Hanns Eisler School of Music, Berlin)
• Frøydis Ree Wekre, horn (Norwegian Academy of Music)
• Jonas Olsson, piano (Norrlandsoperan, Umeå)
• Lorenzo Soulès, piano (freelance)
• Simon Crawford-Phillips, piano (Västerås Sinfonietta)
• Alf Richard Kraggerud, violin (Barrat Due Musikkinstitutt, Oslo)
• Kristoffer Dolatko, violin (National Talent Centre in Aarhus, Denmark)
• Malin Broman, violin (concertmaster of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra)
• Sigurbjorn Bernhardsson, violin (Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Ohio)
• Soon-Mi Chung Barratt-Due, violin/viola (Barratt Due Music Institute)
• Toke Møldrup, cello (Royal Danish Academy of Music)

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