CELLO

Ádám Jávorkai

Jul 1-7, 2024

Piano: Nao Huang (Jul 5-7)

Fee for active participants
€ 420 (€ 120 application fee, € 300 course fee)

Fee for passive participants
€ 100

Optional supplementary package (Please book before 10th of May!)
€ 530

The spplementary package covers
1) Full board at Gasthaus Moser
2) accommodation at Gasthaus Moser or Frühstückspension Mariahilfberg 
3) transfer (Vienna Hilton or airport / Jul 21 to Gutenstein and back / Jul 29).
4) All shuttles and transports in and around Gutenstein will be provided for you! Please book the supplementary package till June 15!

The application-and course fee is NOT included in the package and must be payed EXTRA!

Teaching language
German, English, Hungarian

Application deadline
June 15, 2024 (provided there are still free places)

Program

• First meeting: Monday, July 1, 11.30 a.m. at the Meierhof Gutenstein, Markt 2, 2770 Gutenstein (introducing of applicants, schedule of classes, house rules)

• Monday evening, July 1: Welcome dinner for all students of the Masterclasses cello & piano, 6:30 p.m. at the Meierhof! (changes will be announced in time!)

• Adam Javorkai will work every day with every single participant approx. 45-50 minutes. Please let Mr. Javorkai and Mrs. Nao Huang know till June 10th which repertoire you chose for the Masterclass: adamjavorkai@gmail.com and ciaccona200210@gmail.com.

• Thursday, July 4 – Sunday, July 7: You will have the chance to rehearse your concert program with the pianist Nao Huang.

• Sunday, July 7, 2024
  11:00 a.m.: Sunday mass: students of the Masterclass Cello will perform 2-3 pieces at the church Mariahilfberg
  At the stagepiano: Nao Huang/David Hausknecht
  at about 1 p.m.: General rehearsal, Refektorium Servitenkloster Mariahilfberg (changes will be announced)
  4 p.m.: Final Concert, Refektorium Servitenkloster Mariahilfberg (Shuttles will be provided to and from Mariahilfberg).
  After the concert drinks and snacks for everyone at the Servitenkloster.

About Ádám Jávorkai

Ádám Jávorkai, renowned Hungarian cellist living in Vienna, is a musician of worldwide reputation and laureate of many international competitions. Critics all around the globe admire him already for decades. This artist ungrudgingly shares his exceptional technical and musical capabilities as an inspiration for young talents, showing them new creative ways to express their enthusiasm for music. 
Ádám Jávorkai teaches the methods of David Popper, Pablo Casals and André Navarra. His teaching approach is based on developing new musical ideas in different artistic styles, with an accent on harmonious unity of expression, technique and movement.

Ádám Jávorkai, born in Györ, attended the Hans Richter Conservatoire in his native city and the Béla Bartók Conservatoire in Budapest, which he completed with distinction. From 1996 to 2004, he studied in the classes of Prof. Angelika May and Prof. Reinhard Latzko at the University of Music and the Performing Arts in Vienna. He completed his M.A. with unanimous distinction. Currently, he is pursuing a doctorate in musicology in Vienna. For further perfection, he has attended master classes held by Miklós Perényi, Ina-Esther Joost, Tobias Kühne, Ferenc Rados and Anner Bijlsma.

Ádám Jávorkai has finished many competitions with honours. As a teenager, he won the Hungarian Emil Vajda Stringed Instruments Competition for three years in succession after 1991 and the first prize of the National Cello Competition in Hungary in 1990, 1993 and 1996. 1998: Bohuslav Martinu Prize of the International Summer Academy Prague-Vienna-Budapest; 2000: Appreciation Prizes ‘Cellist of the Year’ and ‘Best Interpreter of Slovenian Compositions’, awarded by the Association of Slovenian Composers; 2002: Bartók Prize, Semmering, Austria; 2003: Kodály Prize for the duo with Sándor Jávorkai, Austria; 2008: in a duo with Clara Biermasz first prize at the international competition ‘Premio Città di Padova’, Italy, category chamber music, and at the same place awarded the ‘Primo Premio assoluto’ together with Clara Biermasz as the overall winners of all categories; the same year, first prize at ‘Soloist and Orchestra’, Italy.

In 2009, Sándor and Ádám Jávorkai were together honoured as ‘Artist of the Year’ by Jeunesse and Bank Austria.

From 2001 to 2003, Ádám was a scholarship-holder of the Annie Fischer Foundation in Budapest, in 2002 he received a scholarship from the Herbert von Karajan Centre in Vienna and scholarships from the Nippon Foundation, Tokyo, in 2003 and 2004. Ádám Jávorkai regularly holds master classes in different countries, e.g. at the Asahikawa International String Seminar in Japan, at the Orpheus Academy in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, at the Judenburg Summer in Austria, at the Music University in Bogota, Colombia, and at the Kodály Society in Wales.

As a soloist, Ádám Jávorkai regularly appears with the Budapest Philharmonic, the Philharmonia Györ, the North Hungarian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Youth Symphony Orchestra in Genoa, the Sinfonietta Baden, the Savaria Symphony Orchestra, the Szeged Symphony Orchestra, the Sofia Soloists, the Orchestra of the Arena di Verona and other orchestras as well as with the concert organizer National Philharmonia Budapest. As a cello soloist, he has worked together with conductors such as Marcello Viotti und Mariss Jansons.

He has made many recordings for international radio and television stations (including for the Austrian classical channel Ö1 and Radio Stephansdom and for the Hungarian Radio Bartók). He has also collaborated in an ORF television production. In 2002, he produced a CD with works by Brahms (Double Concerto), Saint-Saëns and Tchaikovsky with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Györ under Ádám Medveczky. In 2009, he made a second CD with the Concerto for Cello op. 104 by Dvořák (Gramola 98865) and in 2011 a further CD with duos for violin and cello by Bartók, Kodály etc. (Gramola 98916). In 2013, a third CD was released under the aegis of the Mozarthaus String Quartet with two string quartets by Mozart (Gramola 99000) and in 2014 a further CD with cello sonatas by Brahms and Grieg.

Ádám was a representative of Austria at the International Jeunesse Festival in Brussels in 2005 and at the EU Music Festival in Warsaw on the occasion of the EU’s eastward expansion. In 2003, he followed an invitation from the Tokyo Foundation and took part in the Sylff Africa/Europe Regional Forum in Cairo in 2003 as a representative of Vienna Music University.

As a soloist or chamber musician, he has held concerts in Tokyo Opera City, the ‘Forbidden City’, Beijing, the Suntory Hall, Tokyo, the Vienna Musikverein, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Berlin Konzerthaus, at the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, in the New Philharmonia in Luxembourg, at the ‘Settimane musicali al Teatro Olimpico’ in Vicenza, at the Chopin Festival in Gaming, at the Liszt Academy in Budapest, at the Cello Festival in Dordrecht, in the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest and many other places. Concert tours have also taken him to the Czech Republic, Hungary, Oman, Colombia, Austria, the UK, Belgium, Denmark, Kosovo, France, Turkey, Japan, Norway, Egypt, Germany, Spain, China, Siberia, Italy, Israel, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Greece and Russia.

In 2014, in recognition of his work against discrimination and for international understanding he was awarded an Honorary Membership of the Raoul Wallenberg Foundation by Baruch Tenembaum.

What the cellist got out of his instrument bordered on wizardry. (Franz Patocka, Festival der Klänge Vienna, 2009)