YOMA open course weekend November

Application deadline: 28 August. The course is aimed at wind and string musicians in the Open Programme. If you are already in the Talent Programme or want to apply for it, you can find information and application here. The course is given IRL, but we may have a few places for online participants. Accompanying educators are welcome. The course takes place at the same time as Polstjärnepriset part 1. 

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)

The course takes place 31 October-3 November; application deadline: 28 August

You apply for one lesson, a full day or several days. Instrumental teachers are welcome to accompany their own students or to observe the course for themselves, online or on site.

Info, benefits and enrolment

To join the Open Programme, you must send a link to a recording on YouTube or Vimeo to yoma@yomacenter.se and have it approved.

If you play oboe, bassoon, French horn, tuba, viola or double bass, we will pay for your travel (not flights) plus full board for one day, if you participate on site in Vänersborg.

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.

We have extensive experience in online teaching and will help you with the technology if you are invited to participate online.

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.

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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