In­ter­na­tio­nal En­sem­ble Mo­dern Aca­de­my (IEMA)

The IEMA was foun­ded in 2003 as a trai­ning cen­ter for the En­sem­ble Mo­dern with the aim of pas­sing on the mu­si­cal he­ri­ta­ge and pro­mo­ting new ways of con­tem­pora­ry ar­tis­tic crea­ti­on. The IEMA of­fers a wide va­rie­ty of trai­ning pro­grams for dif­fe­rent tar­get groups: Edu­ca­ti­on pro­jec­ts, in­ter­na­tio­nal mas­ter clas­ses, the In­ter­na­tio­nal Com­po­si­ti­on Se­mi­nar and - as a fo­cus of the edu­ca­tio­nal for­mats - the Mas­ter's de­gree pro­gram In­ter­na­tio­nal En­sem­ble Mo­dern Aca­de­my - Con­tem­pora­ry Mu­sic Per­for­mance (MA IEMA CoMP) in coope­ra­ti­on with the HfMDK Frank­furt.

Pro­fes­sio­na­li­za­ti­on in the field of con­tem­pora­ry mu­sic

The one-year Mas­ter's cour­se is ai­med at al­rea­dy trai­ned in­stru­men­ta­lists, con­duc­tors, com­po­sers and sound di­rec­tors. The aim is to teach con­tem­pora­ry play­ing tech­ni­ques, the hand­ling of no­ta­ti­on and in­ter­pre­ta­ti­on of con­tem­pora­ry mu­sic, the un­der­stan­ding of ae­s­the­tic con­cepts in­herent in the work and, as a re­sult, com­pre­hen­si­ve know­ledge of the re­per­toire of 20th and 21st cen­tu­ry mu­sic. The cour­se ends with the de­gree "Mas­ter of Mu­sic (M. Mus.)".

In the Mas­ter's pro­gram, young ar­tists work as an IEMA en­sem­ble work for a year with the mem­bers of the En­sem­ble Mo­dern as tea­chers on the di­ver­se re­per­toire of con­tem­pora­ry solo li­te­ra­tu­re, cham­ber mu­sic and con­duc­ted en­sem­ble works. Coope­ra­ti­on with va­rious in­sti­tu­ti­ons also en­ab­les in­ter­di­sci­pli­na­ry pro­jec­ts.

In ad­di­ti­on, re­now­ned com­po­sers and con­duc­tors such as Mark And­re, Ca­ro­la Bauck­holt, Pe­ter Eöt­vös, Bri­an Fer­ney­hough, Hei­ner Go­eb­bels, Heinz Hol­li­ger, Hel­mut La­chen­mann and Lu­cia Ron­chet­ti as well as Ste­fan As­bu­ry, Lu­cas Vis and Mi­cha­el Wen­de­berg are re­gu­lar guests.

Di­rec­tors of the MA IEMA CoMP pro­gram

• Prof. Dr. Ul­rich Krepp­ein
• Prof. Esa Ta­pa­ni
• Diet­mar Wies­ner (En­sem­ble Mo­dern)
• Jag­dish Mistry (En­sem­ble Mo­dern)

Con­certs, fes­ti­vals, net­works

The IEMA en­sem­ble pres­ents the re­sults of its work in around 30 con­certs a year at home and ab­road, in­clu­ding at re­now­ned fes­ti­vals such as the Wit­te­ner Tage für Neue Kam­mer­mu­sik, the Gau­dea­mus Mu­zie­kweek and the Kurt Weill Fest Des­sau. In­ter­na­tio­nal per­for­mance op­por­tu­nities also ari­se through the "Ulys­ses Net­work", of which the IEMA has been a part­ner sin­ce 2012 along­si­de 13 other Eu­ropean mu­sic in­sti­tu­ti­ons. The Kunst­stif­tung NRW has been a key fun­ding part­ner of the cour­se sin­ce its in­cep­ti­on. Thanks to its and other fun­ding, every place on the cour­se has been en­do­wed with a scho­l­ar­ship to date.