For the ninth year in a row, the Montenegro Summer Camp for Chamber Music will take place at Ivanova Korita. This year\u2019s camp will run from July 30 to August 7.\u00a0 Our preparatory work has been taking place in changed circumstances, obviously, because of the uncertainty caused by the global health crisis.\u00a0 Accordingly, we have examined the conditions and the possibilities for our participants \u2013 students, mentors, associate, and the audiences at the concerts at the end of camp. <\/p>\n
That means thinking about mitigation measures with respect to physical distance, freedom of movement, and travel. Chamber music by definition involves proximity \u2013 and our goal remains to provide the optimal conditions, under these circumstances, for our participants to continue to share their love of music in the beautiful natural surroundings at Ivanova Korita in the Lovcen National Park, as in previous years.\u00a0 We are working closely with our partner, J.U. Lovcen-Becici, which manage the Lovcen Recreational-Educational Center, to provide a safe environment for all.<\/p>\n
As in previous years, cooperation between students and teachers is at the heart of the camp, and that includes respecting both the musical wishes of the participants and the suggestions of the mentors and associates. Among the proposals so far for works to be studied and played, we will include several by Beethoven, thereby joining in the worldwide celebrations marking the 250th<\/sup> year since his birth.<\/p>\n We also want to encourage a focus on contemporary music \u2013 both by encouraging composers to write new music for our camp and by having participants delve into works that are new to them.\u00a0 Yet another possible theme for choosing repertoire this year will be opening our hearts in memory of those who have fallen victim to the coronavirus pandemic and in honor of those who have confronted the crisis through their work in healing.<\/p>\n It is not an empty clich\u00e9 to say that music has healing properties. The history of music is full of examples of great composers writing masterpieces despite severe illness and emotional pain.\u00a0 Music\u2019s power to effect spiritual recovery and emotional uplift will be very much on our minds this year.<\/p>\n We invite applications for this year\u2019s camp from ensembles and individuals from Montenegro, from our region, from elsewhere in Europe, and indeed from anywhere in the world.\u00a0 Strings, wind instruments, and pianists are the essential participants at camp. Other instrumentalists should feel free to contact us and let us know of their interests in chamber music.\u00a0 Participants will find themselves playing in standard and novel ensembles \u2013 duets, trios, quartets, quintets, sextets, septets, etc.\u00a0 (In acknowledgement of the special conditions and circumstances that apply this year with regard to mitigating risks from the coronavirus, there will likely not be a chamber orchestra for this year\u2019s camp \u2013 only chamber music ensembles.) \u00a0As in previous years, the schedule will be seven days of coaching, rehearsal, workshops, and master classes, all of which will be capped by outdoor concert performances at the Biljarda in Cetinje on August 6 and at the Risto Stijovic Gallery in Podgorica on August 7.<\/p>\n Dear musicians, whether you come by yourself or as part of a pre-formed group, we will be happy to accommodate your wishes and match you with fellow participants to share music-making and learn from our outstanding mentors and associates.\u00a0 In the unique natural surroundings of Ivanova Korita beneath Mt. Lovcen, you will experience friendship and growth and beauty.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For the ninth year in a row, the Montenegro Summer Camp for Chamber Music will take place at Ivanova Korita. This year\u2019s camp will run from July 30 to August 7.\u00a0 Our preparatory work has been taking place in changed …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3365,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/summercampforchambermusic.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/summercampforchambermusic.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/summercampforchambermusic.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/summercampforchambermusic.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/summercampforchambermusic.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3364"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/summercampforchambermusic.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3403,"href":"https:\/\/summercampforchambermusic.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364\/revisions\/3403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/summercampforchambermusic.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/summercampforchambermusic.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/summercampforchambermusic.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/summercampforchambermusic.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}