Barenboim Said Academy
| Barenboim-Said Academy | |
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| founding | 2015 |
| Sponsorship | Barenboim-Said Akademie gGmbH |
| place | Berlin |
| country | Germany |
| director | Michael Naumann |
| Students | 59 (approx. 2018) |
| Website | barenboimsaid.de |
The Barenboim Said Academy (BSA for short) is a music college in Berlin - Mitte . It is named after the Argentine-Israeli pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim and the American-Palestinian literary critic Edward Said . Your building is the former set depot of the State Opera Unter den Linden ; it is located in the area adjacent to the rear on Französische Straße .
Music academy
Up to 100 scholars from the countries of the Middle East are to be taught in the music academy . Classes began in the 2016/2017 winter semester.
The course is aimed at students from Israel , the Palestinian Territories , Lebanon , Egypt and Turkey and is offered for two courses:
- Bachelor of Music (undergraduate degree; standard period of study four years)
- Artist Diploma (standard period of study two years)
The academy was initiated by Daniel Barenboim, who together with the literary critic Edward Said founded the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra with Palestinian and Israeli musicians in Weimar in 1999 . This international understanding ultimately led to the foundation of the academy, which is sponsored by the non-profit Barenboim-Said Akademie gGmbH . The project is funded by the Minister of State for Culture and the Foreign Office , which finances the scholarships. The founding director is the former Minister of State for Culture Michael Naumann .
orchestra
The orchestra ensemble consists of musicians from the Staatskapelle Berlin and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra of the two academy's founders.
Under the direction of Ole Bækhøj, more than 100 concerts, mostly with chamber music, are performed in the in-house Pierre Boulez Hall every year .
building
The building of the former scenery warehouse of the Lindenoper was built between 1952 and 1954 based on plans by the architect Richard Paulick and is a listed building. When it was first seeded in 2014 and 2015, so had the entire exterior, the building will be preserved while the interior according to the requirements of a music academy in pro bono started planning by the architect Frank Gehry and with the participation of Architects GmbH HG Merz completely rebuilt could be. The construction budget was 33.7 million euros, of which 20 million euros came from federal funds and the rest mainly from donations . Former Italian President Giorgio Napolitano was one of the first founders .
Since the renovation, the building has now had an auditorium, several seminar rooms, 21 rehearsal rooms and, since March 2017, a chamber music hall , the main hall of the house, named after the French conductor Pierre Boulez .
Pierre Boulez Hall
As the heart of the academy, the Pierre-Boulez-Saal (original spelling: Pierre Boulez Saal ) was opened in March 2017 . This chamber music hall is to be used as a venue for the students and as a commercial concert hall and has particularly good acoustic properties, which is due not least to the collaboration with the renowned Japanese acoustician Yasuhisa Toyota .
The cuboid-shaped hall for medium-sized orchestras, which can accommodate up to 682 visitors, was given elliptical built-in cabinets with the musicians sitting in the center. The rows of seats grouped around the parquet of the playing area can be extended and retracted in order to make more interior space or more spectator seats available. The 320-ton oval tier, designed as a double ring, is so shifted into one another that it seems to float weightlessly because it is barely visible anchored in only five places on the walls of the hall. The wall coverings are mostly made of light Canadian cedar wood.
Barenboim himself suggested naming the hall after the French conductor and composer Pierre Boulez , whose ideas architect Frank Gehry was inspired by, who loathed rooms like “shoeboxes” in which the orchestra appears to be parked .
According to Barenboim, the hall is:
- "A place where people meet to create an atmosphere of communication, listening and understanding."
At the opening of the hall on March 4, 2017, Barenboim finally conducted the orchestra in the presence of Federal President Joachim Gauck and worked as a pianist alongside the soprano Anna Prohaska and the clarinetist and composer Jörg Widmann .
financing
The building is leased to the Musikhochschule by the State of Berlin on a long-term lease for an amount of one euro per year for 99 years. The federal government has financed the operating costs with 5.5 million euros a year since 2017 and with seven million euros a year from 2019. [outdated]
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://studiengaenge.zeit.de/hochschule/502/barenboim-said-akademie
- ↑ Robert Jahrisch: "A House of Hope". The Barenboim Said Academy in Berlin. In: Franciscan Mission. 2014, issue 4, pp. 20–21.
- ^ Barenboim Said Academy: Study
- ↑ a b c d Pierre Boulez Saal '' In: ZEIT Reisen , accessed on September 17, 2018.
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Opening of the Pierre Boulez Saal in the State Opera , RBB. Retrieved March 4, 2017.
- ↑ Michael Naumann: Harmony in front of music stands. tagesspiegel.de, June 15, 2015, accessed April 8, 2016.
- ↑ Barenboim Said Academy: A Founding Vision (Eng.) Accessed March 10, 2017.
- ^ Opening concert at the Pierre Boulez Saal. In: ard.de. Retrieved March 4, 2017 .
- ↑ Information on the draft In: boulezsaal.de . Retrieved March 5, 2017.
- ^ Pierre Boulez Hall of the Barenboim Said Academy: Berlin's new concert hall. In: berliner-zeitung.de. Retrieved March 4, 2017 .
- ^ Inauguration concert in the Barenboim-Said Academy. The warm acoustics in the Pierre Boulez Saal inspire. In: tagesspiegel.de. Retrieved March 5, 2017 .
- ↑ Ronald Klein: In the Rhythm of the City In: morgenpost.de . Retrieved March 5, 2017.
- ↑ The warm acoustics in the Pierre Boulez Hall inspire. tagesspiegel.de, February 4, 2017, accessed February 5, 2017
- ↑ Music: Daniel Barenboim is proud of his Boulez-Saal - WELT. In: welt.de. Retrieved March 4, 2017 .
- ^ Opening of the Pierre Boulez Saal in the State Opera - "This is an acoustic miracle". In: rbb-online.de. Retrieved March 4, 2017 .
- ↑ Private music academy opened in autumn , Bayerischer Rundfunk BR-Klassik, July 9, 2016, accessed on July 10, 2016.
- ↑ The Barenboim Said Academy is almost finished , Tagesspiegel, July 8, 2016, accessed on July 10, 2016.
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 55.5 ″ N , 13 ° 23 ′ 46 ″ E