Magister Musicae
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Magister Musicae is an internet portal which hosts a digital catalogue of more than 3,000 hours of music classes, given by more than 200 of the world’s most renowned musicians.
Project
The project is promoted by the president of the Albéniz FoundationAlbéniz Foundation
The Albeniz Foundation , is a private non-profit organization promoting classical music in Spain through the Queen Sofía College of Music, the Paloma O'Shea International Piano Competition, the Isaac Albeniz library and research centre, the International Institute of Chamber Music in Madrid...
, Paloma O'Shea
Paloma O'Shea
Paloma O'Shea Artiñano, 1st Marquise of O'Shea, , is a pianist, patron of the arts, founder and current principal of the Queen Sofía College of Music and founder and president of the Albeniz Foundation....
. The aim is to preserve the classes that take place each day at the Queen Sofía College of Music and make them accessible to a wider audience.
In the year 2000, the Spanish Ministry for Science and Technology supported the project with a considerable donation under the aegis of the PROFIT programme. The resulting three years of research and development, which focused on the digitization, cataloguing, compression and high-quality broadcasting of the videos on the internet, gave rise to HTCMedia, a tool which manages large quantities of video information. This has been the cornerstone of the creation of Magister Musicae.
The master classes are recorded in the music schools. These lessons are scrupulously analyzed by music specialists, catalogued by work and by movement, then broken down into teaching units of no more than six minutes’ duration. This system of classification allows the visitor to the site to go directly to the section of the class that is of interest, and to be able to link with a number of classes given by various teachers.
Participating Organizations
The scale and ambition of the project led, in 2004, to six of the principal conservatoires and music schools joining Magister Musicae, through the European Harmos project. It offered access to their teachers and enhanced Magister Musicae’s international profile.- The Royal College of MusicRoyal College of MusicThe Royal College of Music is a conservatoire founded by Royal Charter in 1882, located in South Kensington, London, England.-Background:The first director was Sir George Grove and he was followed by Sir Hubert Parry...
in London - The Koninklijk Conservatorium in Brussels
- The Staatliche Musikhochschule in Stuttgart
- The Escuela Superior de Música do Porto in Oporto
- The Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya in Barcelona
- The Lithuanian Academy of Music in Vilnius
- The European Association of Conservatoires.
The project received the financial backing of the European Commission, who called it “the model project which impacts on the policies of the Union”.
Participants
The following are amongst the more notable participants in the project:- András SchiffAndrás SchiffAndrás Schiff is a Hungarian-born British classical pianist, who has won a number of awards including the Grammy and made numerous recordings.- Biography :...
- Zakhar BronZakhar BronZakhar Bron is a Russian violinist of jewish descent and violin pedagogue. He is considered one of the best.His students have included Vadim Repin, Gwendolyn Masin, Daniel Hope, Maxim Vengerov, Denis Goldfeld, Daishin Kashimoto, Tamaki Kawakubo, Mayuko Kamio, Mayu Kishima, Sayaka Shoji and Nikolai...
- Teresa BerganzaTeresa BerganzaTeresa Berganza, born on March 16, 1935), is a Spanish mezzo-soprano. She is most closely associated with the roles of Rossini, Mozart, and Bizet. She is admired for her technical virtuosity, musical intelligence and beguiling stage presence.- Biography :...
- Bruno CaninoBruno CaninoBruno Canino is an Italian classical pianist and composer.-Early life:Bruno Canino was born in Naples, Italy in 1935, where he studied piano with Vincenzo Vitale. He continued his musical education in Milan, studying both piano and composition. His teachers included Enzo Calace and Bruno Bettinelli...
- Silvia MarcoviciSilvia MarcoviciSilvia Marcovici is a Romanian classical violinist.Born in Bacău, Romania, she studied at the Conservatory in Bucharest. Her international debut was at the age of sixteen when she performed in The Hague under Bruno Maderna...
- Tom KrauseTom KrauseTom Krause is a Finnish operatic baritone particularly associated with Mozart roles.Born in Helsinki, he first studied medicine, while singing and...
- Natalia GutmanNatalia GutmanNatalia Gutman is a Russian cellist. She began to study cello at the Moscow Music School with R. Sapozhnikov. She was later admitted to the Moscow Conservatory, where she was taught by Rostropovich, amongst others....
- Gérard CausséGérard CausséGérard Caussé is a violist.He gave the first performance of the celebrated Ainsi la nuit quartet by Henri Dutilleux. The first movement of Gérard Grisey's celebrated work, Les Espaces Acoustiques , is inscribed "à Gérard Caussé." His discography amounts to thirty recordings...
- David GeringasDavid GeringasDavid Geringas is a world-renowned cellist and conductor who studied under Mstislav Rostropovich. In 1970 he won the Gold Medal at the International Tchaikovsky Competition...
- Veronika HagenVeronika Hagen-Biography:Born in Salzburg, she began to learn music at the age of six with her father, who was at that time concertmaster of the Mozarteum Orchestra of Salzburg. She then continued her studies at the Musik Hochschule of Salzburg with Professor Helmut Zehetmair and at the Musik Hochschule of...
- Lorin MaazelLorin MaazelLorin Varencove Maazel is an American conductor, violinist and composer.- Early life :Maazel was born to Jewish-American parents in Neuilly-sur-Seine in France and brought up in the United States, primarily at his parents' home in Pittsburgh's Oakland neighborhood. His father, Lincoln Maazel , was...
- Vitaly MargulisVitaly MargulisVitaly Margulis was a Ukrainian classical pianist.-Biography:Vitaly Margulis was born in the city of Kharkiv in the Ukraine. He took his first piano lessons from his father, whose teacher studied with the composer Alexander Scriabin...
- Zubin MehtaZubin MehtaZubin Mehta is an Indian conductor of western classical music. He is the Music Director for Life of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.-Biography:...
- Vladimir AshkenazyVladimir AshkenazyVladimir Davidovich Ashkenazy is a Russian-Icelandic conductor and pianist. Since 1972 he has been a citizen of Iceland, his wife Þórunn's country of birth. Since 1978, because of his many obligations in Europe, he and his family have resided in Meggen, near Lucerne in Switzerland...
- Sarah Walker