New Plans for Summer 2009

The Sieggraben Summer Workshops have been designed to help singers:

• who are just starting in their career and need to learn to audition
• who have been performing regularly and want to improve their stage techniques through new techniques in movement as well a broadening of ideas about singing and acting

Sieggraben gives them the opportunity to re-think and re-study audition arias, or roles they may have already performed.

In the peace of a small country town in near Vienna they can become physically and emotionally fit before the next season and its challenges.

The Sieggraben Summer Workshops are taking place for the 10th year*. New Course Fee is €650. Accomodation costs €15 per person, per night. Most accomodation includes a kitchen, and there is a general store and a bakery in the village, as well as a few restaurants and „Heurige“ which serve the local wine and meals.

The workshop lasts two weeks, beginning on Sunday evening, August 16 and running until and including August 29.

The course is structured so that every participant receives maximum individual attention. Each participant has 6 individual lessons with Andrea Mellis, 6 individual coachings with William Shookhoff, In addtion to this, there are group movement classes and acting classes, as well as ensemble coachings with Mrs. Wegge or Maestro Shookhoff. The work day usually runs from 9 am to 9 pm, every day except the middle Sunday, where lessons only take place in the afternoon.

Only 8-10 singers will be considered for this course. Participants will be selected on a first-come, first-served basis, age or nationality do not play a part in the selection process. Participants will only be officially registered for this workshop when the fee is paid in full. This must be done by the 30th of June, 2009. If the participant cancels after this date, for whatever reasons, the fee will not be refunded. The fees for accomodation are to be paid directly to the landlord/landlady at the end of the Workshop.

The workshop ends with a public concert on August 9th, and it is expected that all participants will take part in this concert.

*10th Anniversary Sieggraben Summer Workshops: a spezial course is being planned.
See „Workshops“ for details!