L'Académie
L'Académie
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The academy in historically informed performance practice with teachers from the orchestra is aimed at instrumentalists: Younger, older and timeless amateurs, students and professionals.
Baroque instruments are preferred, but players of modern instruments are also welcome. Without fear of contact, we dive side by side into practical performance questions, whether in individual or chamber music lessons and at our orchestra as well.
This year we are delighted that the renowned English baroque violinist Rachel Podger will be lecturing as part of our Académie. Sabine Stoffer will lead the academy orchestra.
Course dates:
18.08. - 23.08.2025
Accompanying events:
Sat · 16.08.2025 · 5.00 pm
Teachers' concert, Zentrum Paul Klee Bern
Fri · 22.08.2025 · 7.30 pm
Participants' concert, Zunftsaal zu Pfistern Bern
Sat · 23.08.2025 · 5.00 pm
Final concert of the Académie Orchestra, Konservatorium Bern
REGISTRATION
In 2025, «L’Académie des Passions» will be held from August 18th to 23rd. You can register via the links below:
Individual registration
Registration for chamber music ensemble
For more information, see the brochure.
Scholarships
Les Passions de l'Âme can award partial scholarships on application. For this purpose, please send an email with the following information to academie@lespassions.ch:
- short curriculum vitae
- a short letter of motivation explaining why you wish to attend the course
- the amount you can pay for the course
OUR LECTURERS
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Violin (only 18th and 19th August 2025)
«Rachel Podger, the unsurpassed British glory of the baroque violin,» (The Times) has established herself as a leading interpreter of the Baroque and Classical. A creative programmer, Rachel is the founder and Artistic Director of Brecon Baroque Festival and her ensemble Brecon Baroque; is Principal Guest Director for Tafelmusik; Patron for The Continuo Foundation and an Ambassador for the Learned Society of Wales. A dedicated educator and inspirational coach, she holds the Micaela Comberti Chair for Baroque Violin at the Royal Academy of Music and the Jane Hodge Foundation International Chair in Baroque Violin at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Rachel also has a regular relationship with The Juilliard School in New York.
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Violin • Chamber music • Conducting
In addition to her active concert activities in Switzerland and abroad (Ensemble Il Caravaggio, Les Passions de l'Âme, Ensemble Meridiana, Rachel Podgers Brecon Baroque, Ensemble Otium, Le Concert de la Loge and others), Sabine Stoffer is also a teacher and organiser. She teaches baroque violin at the Musikschule Konsi Bern egularly invited to teach masterclasses, orchestra academies and chamber music courses. She was awarded the «Coup de Cœur» prize of the Canton of Bern.
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Viola • Violin • Chamber music • Orchestra coaching
Jonas Krebs studied baroque violin/viola at the Bern University of the Arts and then at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with S. Sato, A. Lohmann, S. Yamagata and E. Resche-Caserta. He plays regularly with Les Passions de l'Âme, 18th Century Orchestra, Concerto Köln, Anima Eterna and Holland Baroque. He is particularly interested in 19th century repertoire. Jonas runs a course in the Netherlands with individual lessons/chamber music/orchestral coaching with the amateur orchestra Leids Barokensemble.
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Violoncello • Chamber Music • Orchestra coaching
Bulgarian cellist Linda Mantcheva grew up in a family of musicians. She studied music in Sofia and at the Cologne University of Music. This was followed by postgraduate studies in historical performance practice, baroque cello and baroque chamber music in Cologne and at the Berlin University of the Arts. She has won awards at chamber music competitions in Germany, Italy and Bulgaria. Linda plays in ensembles such as Les Passions de l'Âme, Harmonie Universelle (Cologne), Musica sequenza (Berlin), Berlin Baroque and Sofia Baroque Arts Ensemble, with whom she performs in and outside Europe. In 2021, she founded the ‘Crossing points collective’, with which she creates concert programmes with baroque and jazz music and performs regularly.
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Historic transverse flutes and woodwinds • Chamber music • Orchestra coaching
Anne Parisot studied modern and historical flutes in Paris, Germany and Switzerland with P. Gallois, R. Aitken, K. Kaiser and M. Hantaï. She performs with Les Passions de l'Âme, the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Le Cercle de l'Harmonie, Les Siècles, Ensemble Pygmalion, Ensemble Ausonia, Les Musiciens du Prince and others.
She has also participated in several CD productions for Deutsche Grammophon and Harmonia Mundi. As a professor for historical flutes, she teaches at the Conservatoire in Avignon.
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Harpsichord solo • Correpetition • Orchestra coaching
Ieva Saliete is a lecturer for harpsichord and fortepiano at the Latvian Academy of Music in Riga. She received her musical training with Prof. Dr Robert Hill at the State University of Music Freiburg i. B. and at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with Jörg Andreas Bötticher. Since then, she has performed as a harpsichordist with international ensembles and orchestras throughout Europe - with Les Passions de l’Âme since its founding in 2008. In addition to historical performance practice, she also specialises in new music and has commissioned compositions and had numerous compositions dedicated to her. In 2018, she received the highest honour in Latvian musical life for her musical activities: the «Grand Music Award», for which she was nominated again in 2023.
A look back at the Académie des Passions 2024
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