VOICE

KS Univ. Prof. Linda Watson

Piano: Maximilian Schamschula, Manfred Schiebel   

We offer 3 possibilities to book:

1) VOICE 6-Days-Masterclass

Jul 20 - 25, 2026

Concert: Sat, Jul 25, 2026

Fee
€ 530 (€ 120 registration fee, € 410 course fee)

Fee for passive participants
€ 120

Requested information and documents for the registration:

• Fill in and send the application form from the website online or per email to the organization: office@meisterklassen-gutenstein.at

• If KS Watson does not know you already, please send a demo to office@meisterklassen-gutenstein.at. A few days later you will get an answer from the organization if Mrs. Watson will accept you in her class.

• Pay the application and course fee to our account: 
  Arbeitsgemeinschaft Meisterklassen Gutenstein
  Volksbank Wien AG, Filiale Pernitz, Hauptstraße 106, 2763 Pernitz
  IBAN: AT67 4300 0403 1571 0109
  BIC: VBOEATWWXXX

• Send a short bio (maximum 7 sentences) for the concert program!

Requested further information

• Please send your course program before July 7, 2026 to office@meisterklassen-gutenstein.at

Accommodation
Due to the Raimundspiele taking place at the same time, we kindly ask you to book your accommodation as early as possible!!
Here you will find our cooperation partners.

Application deadline
July 4, 2026 (provided there are still free places)

Shuttles
All shuttles from the accommodation to the teaching location and back in and around Gutenstein will be provided free of charge for you between 9 a.m. and 7:30 p.m., except Monday, July 20, 2026 (welcome dinner!) between 9 a.m. and 9:30 p.m. 

Arriving Gutenstein by train
From Vienna you have a train connetion to Gutenstein or Pernitz with a changing of the train in Wr. Neustadt. From the train station Gutenstein or Pernitz you will have a free shuttle from us to your accommodation. Please contact the organisation 7 days before your arrival. office@meisterklassen-gutenstein.at or 0664 230 20 93 (Gabriele Korn)

Shuttle from and to Vienna City or airport
We offer a shuttle service on July 20 in the morning at about 9 a.m.  from Vienna to Gutenstein (costs: € 50.- per person and one way, siblings or student with 1 parent € 75.-) and a shuttle back to Vienna/Vienna Airport on July 26 at about 10.a.m. Please book your travel accordingly!

Restaurant and catering options

• The place where we offer practicing rooms and where most of the lessons will take place is called “Meierhof”. There we have a big kitchen where students may cook and prepare their individual food (except on the day of the concert).

• A few meters away there is a supermarket called “Nah und Frisch”. (Monday - Wednesday: 7:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. and 3 p.m. - 6 p.m., Thursday: 7:15 - 12:15 a.m, Friday: 7:15 - 12:15 a.m. and 3 p.m. - 6 p.m, Saturday: 7:15 - 12.00 a.m.)

• Restaurants in Gutenstein: 

• Gasthaus Moser, Mariahilfberg
  (Monday 8:30 a.m - 5 p.m., Tuesday - Sunday 8 a.m. - 8 p.m.)

• Lio Pizzeria Restaurant & Kegelbahn, Markt 100 (a few meters away from Meierhof)
  (Tuesday - Saturday: 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., Sunday 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.)

• Brandstätterhof, Längapiesting 7
  You need a shuttle or a car to go there.                      

• Cancellation conditions
  In the event of cancellation for whatever reason, the course fee will be refunded till July 10, later only if you can provide a substitute participant! Once you have completed the registration process, the registration fee (€ 120.-) will no longer be refunded!  

Classroom language
German, English

If you have any questions or if you need help, do not hesitate to contact the artistic and administration manager Gabriele Korn under office@meisterklassen-gutenstein.at or +43 664 230 20 93.

2) VOICE 3-Days-Masterclass without concert

KS Univ. Prof. Linda Watson
Jul 20-22, 2026

Fee
€ 265 (€ 60 registration fee, € 205 course fee)

Fee for passive participants
€ 120

Optional supplementary package
€ 290

The supplementary package covers

1. Full board at Gasthaus Moser

2. accommodation at Gasthaus Moser or Frühstückspension Mariahilfberg from Jul 21 till Jul 23/Jul 24

3. Transfer (Vienna Hilton or airport / Jul 21 to Gutenstein and back /Jul 23/Jul 24) Transfer shuttles are only available between 9a.m. and 8p.m, please book your flight accordingly!!! Shuttles outside of shuttle times are chargeable with € 40.- per shuttle!

4. All shuttles and transports in and around Gutenstein will be provided for you twice a day for free between 9 a.m. – 8 p.m., except Monday July 21 (welcome dinner!) between 9 a.m.-9.30p.m.

Please book the supplementary package till May 30!
The application-and course fee is NOT included in the package and must be payed EXTRA!

Application deadline
Jul 12, 2025 (provided there are still free places)

Cancellation conditions
In the event of cancellation for whatever reason, the course fee will be refunded till July 16, later only if you can provide a substitute participant! Once you have completed the registration process, the registration fee will no longer be refunded!

General shuttle options !!!
Shuttles within Gutenstein and the surrounding area from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. are free twice a day. Shuttles outside of shuttle times must be registered 2 days in advance and are subject to a charge of € 13 per shuttle.  Shuttles to Vienna or the airport are also subject to a charge (exception: participants with a supplementary package) and must be registered at the first day of masterclass!!!: € 40.- per shuttle.

Teaching language
German and English

3) VOICE 3-Days-Masterclass with concert

KS Univ. Prof. Linda Watson
Jul 23-25, 2026

Concert: Sat, Jul 25, 2026

Fee
€ 265 (€ 60 registration fee, € 205 course fee)

Fee for passive participants
€ 120

Application deadline
Jul 4, 2026 (provided there are still free places)

Shuttle from and to Vienna City or airport
We offer a shuttle service on July 23 in the morning at about 9 a.m.  from Vienna to Gutenstein (costs: € 50.- per person and one way, siblings or student with 1 parent € 75.-) and a shuttle back to Vienna/Vienna Airport on July 26 at about 10.a.m.  Please book your travel accordingly!

All other information please see 1) VOICE 6-Days-Masterclass!

Program

• First meeting for 1) and 2):
  Monday Jul 20 at 10 a.m. at the Meierhof Gutenstein, Markt 2, 2770 Gutenstein (introducing of applicants, schedule of classes, house rules, transfers and shuttles a.o.) 

• Monday evening: Welcome dinner for all students of the class
  KS Watson and Prof. Ochsenhofer (Viola), 6:30 p.m. at the Meierhof!

• First meeting for 3): Thursday Jul 23 at 10 a.m. at the Meierhof Gutenstein, Markt 2, 2770 Gutenstein (introducing of applicants, schedule of classes, house rules, transfers and shuttles a.o.) 

• KS Linda Watson will work daily
  approx. 30 minutes with every single singer

• Further each participant is guaranteed 30 minutes daily accompaniment with Manfred Schiebel or Maximilian Schamschula.

• If you want to perform a trio (voice, piano and viola), please let us know: office@meisterklassen-gutenstein.at. We are very much interested in interactions between the voice and viola class!

• Wednesday, July 22, 2026 at 6 p.m.
  Salonkonzert Meierhof
  „Nix als Weibergschichtn-Mozart und die Frauen“
  Meierhof Gutenstein, Markt 2, 2770 Gutenstein
  Musik: Studierende der MK Gesang/KS Watson und der
  MK Bratsche/Univ. Prof. Ochsenhofer
  Klavier: Wakana Katsumoto, Maximilian Schamschula
  Text: Chris Pichler
  Please let us know, if you want to participate!

• Saturday, Jul 25, 2026

  • 11 a.m.: mass at the church Mariahilfberg
    Who wants to sing a song, please let us know in time (office@meisterklassen-gutenstein.at)
    at the stage piano: Manfred Schiebel/Maximilian Schamschula

  • General rehearsal at the Refektorium Servitenkloster Mariahilfberg, time will be announced by Prof. Watson in time.

  • 4 p.m.: Concert of the voice class (optional interacting with some viola students)

About KS Linda Watson

The world-famous American singer Linda Watson is one of the best Wagnerian sopranos of our time. In addition to her incomparable dark timbre the conductors particularly appreciate her enormous flexibility and musicality, which has led her to collaborating with such artists as Leonard Bernstein, Claudio Abbado, Zubin Metha, Antonio Pappano, Christian Thielemann, Placido Domingo and many others.  KS Watson was named Professor of Voice at the Music and Art Private University of the City of Vienna (MUK) in 2017.

This year KS Watson will share her valuable knowledge and artistic experience as part of a joint Masterclass with Prof. Gerhard Kahry. The Viennese opera - and concert singer was director of the Department of Voice and Music Theatre from 1986 to 1990,  later he became Dean at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. After his successful singing career as a tenor Prof. Kahry has established himself as a prominent singing teacher. Through his pedagogical work numerous young talents found engagements at renowned opera houses.

They will be accompanied by Manfred Schiebel (Univ.Prof. MUK and MDW Vienna) and David Hausknecht (MDW Vienna).

About Manfred Schiebel

Manfred Schiebel was born in Vienna. At the age of seven, he started to join the "Mozart-Sängerknaben, Vienna", where his first music lessons began. Piano studies with Prof. Thomas Kreuzberger, as well as studies for conducting at the "Hochschule fuer Musik" in Vienna with Prof. Karl Oesterreicher, studies for accompaniment and coaching with Dr. Harald Goertz.

Since 1991 he has been teaching at the MUK University of Vienna (former conservatory) and since 2002 also at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna. He has repeatedly worked as an accompanist and coach with famous artists as E. Gruberova, E. Garanca, G. Bumbry, M. Zampieri, M. Erdmann, I. d’Arcangelo, F. Bonisolli, G. Taddei, L. Nucci, F. Furlanetto, S. Ramey, J. Botha, G. Tichy, R. Trost, W. Fink, Miroslav & Peter Dvorsky, Viennese Boys Choir, and many others with whom he gave already concerts on 5 differents continents. He also accompanied different masterclasses and worked with famous singing-teachers as Martha Eggerth, Helena Łazarska, Jewgenij Nesterenko, Krassimira Stoyanova, Leo Nucci, Walter Berry, Hilde Zadek, as well as he gave masterclasses himself for singers and pianists all over Europe and in Teheran and Havanna.

From 1994 to 2008 he was the musical director of the Choral Society „Young-Vienna“: Successful international concerts, as in Thailand for the Royal Family.

Some years ago he founded a piano four-hands duo with the polish pianist Marcin Kozieł, with whom he had concerts at different places in Austria, Poland, Italy and Latvia.

Since 2011 he has been the musical director of the chamber music festival „Klassik im Advent“ in Carinthia/Austria.

His extensive repertoire, reaching from the classical song and oratorio via opera to operetta and musical, but also including chamber music and the Viennese art and Austrian folk music, makes him a much sought-after accompanist. Since he was the musical director of the Nestroy-Festival at Burg Liechtenstein with late Elfriede Ott in 1993, he has been dealing with theater music and chansons more intensively.

Concerts, CD-recordings as choir director, pianist and organist, as well as appearances on TV and radio broadcasting in several continents are rounding off his activities.