Youth Classics on the island of music
From July 16 to 26, around 80 young musicians from all over the world will deepen their playing in a training and further education seminar led by Philip A. Draganov. Highlights include concerts in Zurich and Schaffhausen.
For the seventh time, Youth Classics, the association for the promotion of young, highly talented classical music artists, is holding its International Music Festival and Masterclasses through. From July 16 to 26, around 80 students from Switzerland and all over the world are expected to come to the music island of Rheinau. New lecturers Philip A. Draganov, the artistic director of Youth Classics, has been able to recruit two representatives of the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, concertmaster Andreas Janke and principal cellist Thomas Grossenbacher, as well as viola lecturer Matthias Buchholz. As in the previous year, they will be joined by Louise Hopkins, Rebecca Firth, Dora Schwarzberg, Jose J. Flores and Tim Kliphuis.
The masterclasses are always a highlight of the annual Youth Classics program. These include public concerts in which the young talents prepare for examinations and competitions. They will be heard on July 23 at the Rathauslaube in Schaffhausen, on July 25 with the final concert at the Musikschule Konservatorium Zürich and finally on September 16 in the gala concert at the Toni-Areal in Zurich.
Youth Classics was founded as a non-profit organization in 2011. The founders Philip A. Draganov and Remo Schällibaum, President, want to provide long-term support for up-and-coming classical music artists. As the organization writes, they are "particularly concerned about those young artists who are sometimes unable to develop their talent and passion for real music as they would like due to a lack of financial resources."
