FLUTE

Foto: Sabine Hauswirth

Olivera Milovanovic

Jul 31-Aug 4, 2024

Fee
€ 330
(€ 80 application fee, € 250 course fee)

Inclusive lecture by Dr. med. Univ. Maria Eckert on the topic of sound work / Klangarbeit, Physiological basics for musicians / Physiologische Grundlagen für Musiker:Innen
Thursday, Jul 1, 2024 (time and place will be announced in time!)

At the piano: N.N.

Optional supplementary package
€ 370
The spplementary package covers
1) Full board at Gasthaus Moser (breakfast and one meal a day plus one drink)
2) accommodation at Gasthaus Moser or Frühstückspension Mariahilfberg 
3) transfer (Vienna Hilton or airport/Jul 31 (or Jul 30) to Gutenstein and back/Aug 5).
4) All shuttles and transports in and around Gutenstein will be provided for you! Please book the supplementary package till July 5!

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

Classroom language
German, English, Serb-Croat

Application deadline
Jul 1, 2024

Program

  • First meeting: Wednesday, July 31, 11 a.m. at the Meierhof Gutenstein, Markt 2, 2770 Gutenstein (intruducing of applicants, schedule of classes, house rules)

  • Wednesday evening: Welcome dinner for all students, 6:30p.m. at the Meierhof!

  • Olivera Milovanovic will work every day with every single applicant (except sunday). She speaks German, English and Serb-Croat

  • Friday, Aug 2 - Sunday, Aug 4: During class you will be accompanied by pianist  N.N.

  • Sunday, Aug 4    

  • 11:00 a.m.: Sunday mass at Mariahilfberg: students of the Masterclass flute will perform 2-3 pieces.
    At the stagepiano: N.N.

  • 4 p.m. Final Concert of the flute class at the Refektorium Servitenkloster Mariahilfberg (Shuttles will be provided to and from Mariahilfberg)

  • Interactive pieces with saxophone are performed on the Saturday concert (4 p.m.) as well as on the Sunday concert.
    Afterwards snacks and drinks for everyone at the Servitenkloster.


About Olivera Milovanovic

Olivera Milovanovic was born in Pancevo (Serbia). At the age of ten she took her first flute lessons at her home town's grammar school. Even at that time she appeared in numerous concert performances and received a number of first prizes at competitions in former Yugoslavia.

Since 1994 she studied with Professor Laura Levai-Aksin at the College of Art in Novi Sad (Serbia). Special attention was then given to the French School of flute-playing and its main representative Patrick Gallois. In parallel Olivera attended numerous master classes, among others with Irena Grafenauer, Meinhart Niedermayr and Janos Balint.

In 2000 she was admitted to the Conservatory of Vienna (today Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna) and entered the class of  Professor Meinhart Niedermayr, former principal flautist of the Vienna Philharmonic. She gained extensive experience in the field of chamber music and in many orchestral projects together with various members of the Vienna Philharmonic, e.g. IOIA (International Orchestra Institute Attergau). After only two years  she completed her academic studies with distinction.

Afterwards she was accepted into the class of Professor Robert Wolf (principal flautist of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra) at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna where she finished her additional training for a degree in music education (Mag.art.), again with distinction.

Olivera Milovanovic was the first to receive a scholarship from the "Werner Tripp Memorial Fund" and also got a scholarship from the " Tokyo Foundation" (both programmes to support  students at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna). She performed as a substitute in the Vienna Symphony Orchestra as well as in various other renowned orchestras in productions and programs conducted by Fabio Luisi, Vladimir Fedosejev, Bobby McFerrin, Peter Schneider and Mikko Frank at the Salzburg Festival and other prominent venues.

In the course of her career Olivera has been developing an intense involvement with contemporary music, e.g. as a result of her particular focus on the chamber music of Gottfried von Einem, the most often performed Austrian 20th century composer, or the compositions for flute by Wil Offermans, one of the most important flautists of our time. It is also a great pleasure for her to interpret  the multi-layered compositions of Johanna Doderer and Wolfram Wagner. Please listen to samples of Olivera Milovanovic's recordings of Wolfram Wagner's music for flute on our home page.

Quite apart from Olivera's artistic development and ambition she started as early as 2009 at the Vienna Music School to teach theory and practice of  playing the transverse flute. Moreover, she is, since 2012, spokes-woman of the Vienna section of teachers for transverse flute. Complying with this function she regularly has been organizing lectures, workshops and concerts with renowned artists and teachers from home and abroad. She has taken a special interest in furthering young, highly gifted talents as can be seen in her organization of exchange concerts between the Vienna Music School and the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna.

Furthermore she is most sought-after as judge in musical competitions at home and abroad.

Since spring 2019 she exercises another important and valuable responsibility as press officer and secretary within the executive committee of the Austrian Flute Association (www.oefg.net).

Olivera Milovanovic is alternately playing a 14K Muramatsu-Flute and a Johannes Hammig silver flute.

Physiologische Grundlagen für Musiker:Innen

Dr. med. univ. Maria Eckert

Einen beträchtlichen Teil ihrer Ausbildung und ihres alltäglichen Lebens verbringen Musiker:Innen mit KLANGARBEIT. Jeder Musiker entwickelt im Laufe seines Studiums, neben der Erlangung der grundlegenden Fertigkeiten des Spielens, eine sehr genaue, individuelle Klangvorstellung und versucht dieser Vorstellung mit seinem Instrument gerecht zu werden.

Oft liegt der Fokus allerdings auf dem Instrument
selbst und der eigene Körper wird nur als „mechanisch-
ausführendes Objekt
“ betrachtet, das scheinbar nichts mit der Klangentwicklung zu tun hat. In dem von mir konzipierten Seminar geht es vor allem darum, ein Bewusstsein dafür zu schaffen, wie sehr unsere körperliche Disposition an der Erzeugung sowie der Qualität des Klanges beteiligt ist.

Zu diesem Zweck sollen die Grundlagen der Anatomie und Physiologie des Bewegungsapparates, der Atmung sowie neurophysiologische Begrifflichkeiten gemeinsam mit den Studierenden erarbeitet werden.

Durch Bilder, Erklärungen, aber auch durch praktische Übungen soll ein Verständnis für das Zusammenspiel der einzelnen Komponenten unseres Bewegungsapparates entwickelt werden. Die Studierenden kommen in Kontakt mit modernen Bewegungsmodellen, in denen die sog. „Faszien“ und ihre Verbindungen eine zentrale Rolle spielen. Das „Begreifen“ des Körpers soll in diesem Workshop im Zentrum stehen.

Zur Person

Die Sopranistin Maria Eckert absolvierte neben ihrer Gesangsausbildung ein Medizinstudium und promovierte 2010 zur Doktorin der gesamten Heilkunde. Obwohl der Fokus immer auf ihrer künstlerischen Tätigkeit lag, war es ihr wichtig, stets in Kontakt mit der Medizin zu bleiben. Sie erlangte ein Diplom in Homöopathischer Medizin der ÖGHM (Österreichische Gesellschaft für Homöopathie) und befasste sich eingehend mit verschiedenen Verfahren der Körpertherapie.

Seit Februar 2020 ist sie als Lehrende für Anatomie, Physiologie sowie Spezielle Pathologie an der Fachhochschule für Allgemeine Gesundheits- und Krankenpflege sowie für Ergotherapie an der FH Wiener Neustadt tätig.