European Chamber Music Academy
The ECMA - European Chamber Music Academy is an Austrian association that promotes young chamber music ensembles .
Main areas of activity
The ECMA was founded in 2004 on the initiative of Hatto Beyerle and, as a cooperation between European training institutions and festivals, offers a two-year training program for selected chamber music ensembles. In particular, ECMA promotes string quartets and piano trios . Within the program, the various partner institutions hold one-week sessions at regular intervals. The ECMA ensembles are supervised by lecturers. In this conception, cultural-historical, practical performance, philosophical, etc. lectures and focus workshops form the background for the in-depth artistic work. Legally, ECMA is an association under Austrian law. Mathias Deichmann is president of the association. The artistic directors of the ECMA are Hatto Beyerle and Johannes Meissl .
Partner institutions
- mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (Austria)
- Paris Conservatory (France)
- Scuola di Musica di Fiesole (Italy)
- Music and Theater Academy of Lithuania Vilnius (Lithuania)
- Norwegian Academy of Music Oslo (Norway)
- Royal Northern College of Music Manchester (Great Britain)
- Bern University of the Arts Bern (Switzerland)
- Koninklijk Conservatorium The Hague (Netherlands)
Associate members
- Festival Pablo Casals (France)
Ensembles
- Acros Trio (Venezuela / Germany / Ecuador)
- Arcis Saxophone Quartet (Germany)
- ClariNord (USA / China / South Korea)
- Giocoso string quartet (Germany / Romania / Netherlands)
- Mettis String Quartet (Lithuania)
- Pacific Quartet Vienna (Japan / Hungary / Taiwan / Switzerland)
- Quartetto Lyskamm (Italy / Germany)
- Quatuor Akilone (France)
- Stefan Zweig Trio (Japan / France / Bulgaria)
- Stratos Quartet (Austria / Finland / Czech Republic)
- Trio Metral (France)
Alumni ensembles
- Apollon Musagète Quartet (Poland)
- Arcadia Quartet (Romania)
- Berolina Trio (Poland / Germany)
- Boulanger Trio (Germany)
- Cuarteto Quiroga (Spain)
- Galatea Quartet (Switzerland)
- Kamus Quartet (Finland)
- Meta4 (Finland)
- Minetti Quartet (Austria)
- Paul Klee Trio (France)
- Streeton Trio (Australia)
- Quartetto di Cremona (Italy)
- Quatuor Girard (France)
- Quatuor Zaïde (France)
- Trio Atanassov (France)
- Trio Chausson (France)
- Trio FortVio (Lithuania)
- Trio Gaspard (Germany / Albania / Greece / Great Britain)
- Trio Imáge (Germany)
- Trio Karénine France
- Trio Métabole (France)
- Wu Quartet (Great Britain)
Individual evidence
- ^ Carsten Dürer: A new culture for chamber music , In: ensemble. Chamber music magazine. Edition 03/2004. Retrieved from www.ensemble-magazin.de on February 8, 2013.