2026 SUMMER

 

Euro Arts Academy Summer 2026
    Szczecin, Poland
    July 03 ~ August 25

        Each course will be open with 5 day class schedule. 
        1. July 3 - 7
        2. July 8 - 12
        3. July 14 - 18
        4. July 19 - 23
        5. July 25 - 29
        6. July 30 - August 3
        7. August 5 - 9
        8. August 10 - 14
        9. August 16 - 20
        10. August 21 - 25

         [Application and Inquiry]

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Anna Korondi

Teaching Dates : August 5 - 9
Teaching Languages : German, English, Hungarian

Anna Korondi was born 1969 in Budapest, Hungary. She pursues voice studies at Béla Bartók Conservatory of Music Budapest from 1987, and then subsequent studies at Vienna Conservatory as soloist with Prof. Margarete Bence and in Lied and oratorio with Prof. David Lutz from 1989. She graduated with honors in 1993.

She obtained then simultaneous engagement with the Österreichischer Rundfunk Choir Vienna with solo duties focusing on contemporary music from 1989 to 1993, and she became also ensemble member at Komische Oper Berlin until 1997 as well as at Bonn Opera until 1999.

Anna Korondi has been invited to perform at renowned festivals such as Salzburg Festival (“Die Fledermaus”), Schwetzingen Festival (“Figlio del selve”), Bayreuth Festival (“Parsifal” under the direction of Christoph Schlingensief), Budapest Wagner Festival (“Das Rheingold”, Götterdämmerung“), Herrenchiemsee Festival (“Falstaff”) and Vienna Schubert Festival (“Alfonso and Estrella”), as well as at numerous theaters such as Bavarian State Opera (including “The House of Bernarda Alba“ under Zubin Mehta, “Arabella”), Theater Münster (“Der Rosenkavalier“),Turku Concert Hall (“Don Giovanni”), Komische Oper Berlin (eminent Mozart rolls) and Teatro di San Carlo in Naples (“Parsifal”).

She is a regular guest at prominent European orchestras such as Chapelle Royal, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Westdeutscher Rundfunk Symphony Orchestra, Hessischer Rundfunk Symphony Orchestra, Concentus Musicus Vienna, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Royal Flemish Philharmonic amongst others.
She also performs diverse concerts and Lied performances throughout Europe, Asia and South America.

She collaborates with directors such as Christoph Schlingensief, Harry Kupfer, Christine Mielitz, Hans Neuenfels, Manfred Beilharz and Andreas Homoki, and with conductors Zubin Mehta, Pierre Boulez, Philippe Herreweghe, Helmut Rilling, Nicolaus Harnoncourt, Adam Fischer, Peter Schneider and Herbert Blomstedt amongst others.

Anna Korondi has been invited to perform on numerous radio, television and CD productions with labels Farao Classics (“Vineta – Ein Liederabend” by J. Brahms, “Requiem” by W.A. Mozart, “Matthäuspassion” by J.S. Bach), Hungaroton (first recording “Il Gelsomino” by G.F. Händel with solo cantatas, “Z. Kodály – Complete Edition for Voices and Piano”), Capriccio (“Athalia” by F. Mendelssohn Bartholdy, “Die letzten Dinge” by L. Spohr), BIS Records AB (“Forest of the Amazon”) amongst others.

She was awarded 3rd prize at Erkel-Kodály Singing Competition Budapest in 1990, the International Prize at Mary Garden Singing Competition Aberdeen in 1991, 2nd prize at Grand Prix Franz Schubert Vienna in 1991 and winner of the ARD International Music Competition in 1996.

Anna Korondi is lecturer at master courses in Stavanger 2004, Sao Paulo 2007 and at Liszt School of Music Weimar in 2012.

Since 2007, she has been a lecturer at the Academy of Music Hanns Eisler of Berlin and since 2010 at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar in Weimar.
Since winter semester 2013, she is also Professor for Voice at Berlin Hanns Eisler Hochschule für Musik, where she also leads a contemporary music course in addition to his vocal class.

• Geboren 1969 in Budapest, Ungarn  

• Ab 1987 Gesangsstudium am Bela Bartók Konservatorium Budapest, anschließend ab 1989 am Konservatorium in Wien in den Fächern Sologesang bei Prof. Margarete Bence sowie Lied und Oratorium bei Prof. David Lutz, 1993 Diplom mit Auszeichnung

• Studienbegleitendes Engagement im ORF-Chor Wien von 1989 bis 1993 mit solistischen Aufgaben und Schwerpunkt auf zeitgenössischer Musik, anschließend Ensemblemitglied an der Komischen Oper Berlin bis 1997 und an der Oper der Stadt Bonn bis 1999 

• Gastengagements bei renommierten Festivals wie den Salzburger Festspielen („Die Fledermaus“), den Schwetzinger Festspielen („Figlio del selve“), den Bayreuther Festspielen („Parsifal“ unter Regie von Christoph Schlingensief), den Budapester Wagnertagen (Ring), den Herrenchiemsee Festspielen („Falstaff“) und den Wiener Schubertwochen („Alfonso und Estrella“) sowie an zahlreichen Theatern wie der Bayrischen Staatsoper (UA „Bernada Albas Haus“ unter Zubin Mehta, „Arabella“), den Städtischen Bühnen Münster („Der Rosenkavalier“), dem Konzerthaus Turku („Don Giovanni“), der Komischen Oper Berlin (wichtigste Mozartrollen) und dem Teatro di San Carlo in Neapel („Parsifal“) 

• Regelmäßiger Gast bei großen europäischen Orchestern wie Chapelle Royal, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Rundfunkorchester des WDR und HR, Concentus Musicus Wien, Schwedisches Radio-Sinfonieorchester, Royal Flemish Philharmonic u.a. 

• Umfangreiche Konzert- und Liedtätigkeit in Europa, Asien und Südamerika 

• Zusammenarbeit mit Regisseuren wie Christoph Schlingensief, Harry Kupfer, Christine Mielitz, Hans Neuenfels, Manfred Beilharz und Andreas Homoki sowie mit den Dirigenten Zubin Mehta, Pierre Boulez, Phillipe Herreweghe, Helmut Rilling, Nicolaus Harnoncourt, Adam Fischer, Peter Schneider, Herbert Blomstedt u.a. 

• Zahlreiche Rundfunk-, Fernseh- und CD-Produktionen bei den Labels Farao Classics („Vineta – Ein Liederabend“ von J. Brahms, „Requiem“ von W.A. Mozart, „Matthäuspassion“ von J.S. Bach), Hungaroton (Erstaufnahme „Il Gelsomino“ von G.F. Händel mit Solokantaten, „Z. Kodály – Complete Edition for Voices and Piano“), Capriccio („Athalia“ von F. Mendelssohn Bartholdy, „Die letzten Dinge“ von L. Spohr), BIS Records AB („Forest of the Amazon“) u.a. 

• Auszeichnung mit dem 3. Preis beim Erkel-Kodály Gesangswettbewerb Budapest 1990, dem International Prize beim Mary Garden Gesangswettbewerb Aberdeen 1991, dem 2. Preis beim Grand Prix Franz Schubert Wien 1991 und Gewinnerin des Internationalen Musikwettbewerbes der ARD 1996 

• Dozentin bei Meisterkursen in Stavanger 2004, Sao Paulo 2007 und an der Hochschule für Musik FRANZ LISZT Weimar 2012 

• Ab 2007 Dozentin an der Universität der Künste Berlin und seit 2010 auch an der Hochschule für Musik FRANZ LISZT Weimar 

• Ab Wintersemester 2013 Professorin für Gesang an der Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin

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Dariusz Samol

     Teaching Languages : English, Polish

Dariusz Samol graduated from the Lemmens Instituute in Leuven, Belgium, where he studied under the supervision of Prof. Ed Bogaard.  He completed Doctoral Degree at the Academy of Music in Wroclaw under Prof. Mieczyslaw Stachura. In 2019 from he received Titular Professor of Musical Arts.

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Prof. Samol has performed concerts in Poland and abroad, including at the 13th World Saxophone Congress in Minneapolis, USA, 16th World Saxophone Congress in St. Andrews, Scottland, the Contemporary Music Forum, Warsaw, Poland; the Karol Szmanowski Festival, Zakopane, Poland; the Witold Lutoslawski Contemporary Music Festival, Szczecin, Poland; and the Laboratory of Contemporary Music, Warsaw, Poland, Saxophone Days in Hattiesburg (USA), ASEAN Festival (China). He performs solo recitals and chamber music as well as concert pieces with orchestra. 

As a soloist he has performed with the Pomorska Philharmonic, the Dolnoslaska Philharmonic, the Tarnow Chamber Orchestra, the Camerata Nova, the Orchestra of the Opera of the Castle in Szczecin, the Torun Symphony Orchestra, the Lomza Chamber Orchestra, Baltic Neopolis Orchestra and the Olomouc Philharmonic (Czech Republic). 

Many composers wrote pieces for him: Artur Cieślak, Alicja Gronau, Marek Jasiński, Jaromir Gajewski, Janusz Stalmierski, Piotr Grella-Możejko, Alicja Gronau-Osinska, Georg Andrix, Andreas van Zoelen, Zhong Juncheng, Vladimir Runchak and Say Brandon are among others.

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Dariusz Samol is actively involved in conducting saxophone master classes and clinics in Poland and abroad including Arizona State University, Northern Arizona University, Florida State University, University of Texas Pan-Am, University of Southern Mississippi, Mansfield University of Pennsylvania, Ithaca College, Bowling Green University, State University of New York (USA) and gave many concerts and master classes in China (Beijing, Nanning, Zhaoqing, Shenyang, Ningbo, Lanzhou, Liuzhou, Chengdu, Chongqing, Kanton, Lanzhou) and Europe.

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Prof. Dariusz Samol is teaching saxophone and chamber ensembles at the Academy of Art in Szczecin, Poland, and served the teaching saxophone as a Guest Professor at the Zhaoqing University, China. His students have won many competitions, including International Music Competition in Milano (Italy), Concorso Musicale Europeo Citta di Filadelfia (Italy), International Wind Competition in Ostrava (Czech Republic), International Music Competition in Vilnius, Lithuania.

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Dariusz Samol recorded two CDs with Polish saxophone music and published three books: „Muzyka saksofonowa w twórczości polskich kompozytorów. Dzieła wybrane”. (On history of Polish music for saxophone), also translated to English, 2014/2016

„Muzyka saksofonowa w twórczości kompozytorów amerykańskich polskiego pochodzenia” (On American composers with Polish roots who are writing music for saxophone), 2016, “Adolphe Sax i muzyka saksofonowa XIX wieku” (Adolphe Sax and saxophone music of XIX century), 2020.

He was award by Instytut Mickiewicza to the program Polish Culture Abroad (2003, 2009, 2014), and received the Grant from The Kosciuszko Foundation from New York (2015).

Prof. Samol is the founder of the International Saxophone Festival in Szczecin, Poland and International Festival for Winds Instruments “Etiuda.”

He is concertizing as chamber musician with the ensembles: The ArtSax Duo, Impression Saxophone Ensemble and Inventia Trio. Dariusz Samol is a member of North American Saxophone Aliance.

Web site of Dariusz Samol is: www.dariuszsamol.com

 

Some reviews:

„His performances are marked by a beautiful tone, flawless technical control, and a wonderful sense of musicality“.

Steven Mauk, Ithaca College, USA

 

„An extraordinary saxophonist and musician“.

Jan Krzywicki, composer, Boyer College of Music and Dance, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA

 

„I have observed number of traits common to all of his students: good, basic saxophone playing fundamentals, a rich quality of tone, intelligent,  imaginative phrase awareness...“

Patrick Meighan

School of Music, Florida State University, USA

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Hermann Stefánsson

 Teaching Languages : English, Swedish, Icelandic

Icelander Hermann Stefánsson has been principal clarinetist in the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and Stockholm Sinfonietta since 1995.

 

He previously held the same position with the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra. He is also member of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Wind Quintet and the Swedish Serenade Ensemble.

 

Stefánsson is professor at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and has previously been guest professor at the Academy of Music in Łódź, Poland and the Sarajevo Music Academy in Bosnia.

He has also worked as a teacher at the Malmö Academy of Music and Piteå School of Music, and has guest taught at several universities in Europe and the US. 

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Hermann is co-founder and artistic coordinator of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra Academy and is in the board of directors of the Martin Fröst Foundation.

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Harri Mäki

Teaching Languages : English, Finnish

Harri Mäki studied the clarinet mainly with Kari Kriikku and Reijo Koskinen in Finland. After having graduated from the class of Thomas Friedli at the Geneva Conservatory, he joined the Tapiola Sinfonietta as principal clarinetist. He also studied privately with Charles Neidich and Osmo Vänskä. 

Harri has premiered dozens of works, including clarinet concertos dedicated to him by Juhani Nuorvala and Kirmo Lintinen. 

He is the Professor of Woodwinds at the Sibelius Academy and was principal clarinetist of the Tapiola Sinfonietta from 1988 - 2018. 

Harri Mäki has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician throughout Europe, the Far East, and in North and South America. 

Many of the students graduating from his teaching studio at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland have succeeded in both orchestral auditions and competitions around the world. 

In 2012, he was honoured to receive the Pro Musica Award for his merits as a performer and a teacher.

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Washington Barella

Teaching Languages : English, German

Teaching Period : July 14 (arrival) - 20 (departure)

Washington Barella studied from 1984 to 1986 at the Hannover University of Music with Ingo Goritzki and continued his training from 1988 to 1990 at the Hartt School of Music, Hartford with Humbert Lucarelli.

He was a first prizewinner at the Concert Artists Guild International New York Competition in 1990 and was awarded third prize at the “ARD Musikwettbewerb” in Munich, Germany in 1991.

Since then Washington Barella has performed with orchestras such as the Bayerischer Rundfunk, the Heilbronn Chamber Orchestra, the SWR Sinfonieorchester, the State Symphony of Sao Paulo (OSESP), the Annapolis Symphony an the Savannah Symphony, among others. As a chamber musician he has toured the United States, Japan, Brazil and most European countries.

He has served as jury member at important international competitions such as the ARD Musikwettbewerb, the Markneukirchen Musikwettbewerb, The Muri International Oboe Competition in Switzerland and the Internationaler Aeolos Bläserwettbewerb in Düsseldorf, Germany. Mr. Barella has given master classes in Germany, Sweden, the USA, Japan, Taiwan, Costa Rica, China, Russia and his own Brazil.

Washington Barella was Principal Oboist of the SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg from 1992 to 2016. In 2012 he was appointed at the University of the Arts Berlin in Germany as Professor of Oboe.

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Andreas Wehrenfennig

Teaching Languages : German, English, French

Andreas Wehrenfennig was Born in Freising, Bavaria, where he began to take harp lessons with Ranghild Kopp-Mues in Munich at the age of seven, even a pupil, he debuted as a soloist with the Münchner Symphoniker. Later he studied for several years with Germaine Lorenzini in Lyon. He continued his studies with Helga Storck at the Hochschule für Musik in München, where he also received a pedagogical degree. He completed his studies with Edward Witsenburg at the University of Music Mozarteum at Salzburg, where he graduated as Master Artium with honours.

 

Andreas Wehrenfennig has won many prizes at national and international competitions and was awarded with the “life music now” – scholarship of the Yehudi Menuhin foundation.

 

Already during his studies, he was appointed solo harp at the Philharmonisches Orchester bad Reichenhall, where he gained broad experience of orchestral practice.

In 1999 he was appointed harp at the Staatskapelle Halle, with this orchestra he attended concert tours and took part in numerous broadcast and CD-recordings. As a guest he played with many renowned orchestras such as Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Deutsches Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Staatsoper München, among others under the baton of Dimitri Kitajenko, Asher Fish, Rudolf Barschai oder Wayne Marshall.

Beside this he gets involved by historically informed performance, as a member of the Händelfestspielorchester Halle he plays the baroque triple harp as continuo and soloist.

With the modern harp he appears regulary as a soloist with the Staatskapelle Halle and other renowned orchestras.

 

As a soloist and chamber musician performing throughout Europe, his interest in developing the repertoire for his instrument leads him to close cooperation with composers like Paul Patterson. Beside many premieres of solo and chambermusic works for harp he appears frequently with the “ensemble avantgarde” at the “musica nova” series at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig and as a soloist at the IMPULS – Festival für neue Musik in Sachsen-Anhalt.

 

Andreas Wehrenfennig is professor for harp at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Rostock and the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt in Weimar and teaches at the Konservatorium Georg Friedrich Händel in Halle, his students are prize winners and hold positions in renowned orchestras. He is juror for international competitions and holds international masterclasses like the Talent Summer Courses and Festival in Brescia/Italy.

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