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INTRODUCTION     HISTORY     SUMMER MUSIC CAMP    INSTRUMENTAL COURSES     YOUTH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
ETHNO SEMINAR     INTERNATIONAL YOUTH FEMALE CHOIR     CEI TRAINING COURSE

Summer music camps are one of the most attractive forms of youth gatherings, broadening their humanistic horizons and deepening their music education and experience. Contacting new professors, the direct communication with the teachers, completely free of the usual academic surrounding, the numerous music friendships gained, the possibility of obtaining new stage routine in a completely new environment – all those things which open new perspectives, encouraging the curiosity and the creativity among the young people. 

INTRODUCTION 

The JMM Summer Music camp has been enlisted as part of the Jeunesses Musicales International Summer Music Camps all over the world on annual basis. For more information on those camps, please contact the JM International or the JMM National Secretariat. 

OHRID SUMMER MUSIC CAMP - HISTORY 

History

The JMM Summer Music Camp exists for already fifteen years and comprises all together and so far, the following individual segments (organized according to the participants interests):

• JMM CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, since 1986;

• PIANO SEMINAR (prof. Boris Romanov), since 1996;

• PIANO FOR YOUNGSTERS (prof. Ljudmila Romanova) since 1996;

• VIOLIN SEMINAR (prof. Blagoja Dimcevski) 1997-1999;

• BAROQUE SINGING prof. Gillemette Lorains, France in 1994 and prof. Sofie Boulain, France in 1996;

• TROMPET SEMINAR (prof. Blagoj Angelovski) 1998;

• TROMBONE SEMINAR (prof. Dimitar Momcilov, Bulgaria) 1998;

• ETHNO Camp since 1997;

• MODERN AND CLASSICAL BALLET with prof. Elisaveta Kusovska, (classical ballet) and prof. Francine Depoit, France (modern ballet) 1997 in co-organization with the INTERART Center Skopje;

• MODERN BALLET on 1994 (prof. Michelle Mengual, France) and on 1998 (Josiko Cuma, USA and Tanja Vuisic Todorovska);

• INTERNATIONAL CHOIR WEEK with prof. Zapro Zaprov 1998-1999;

• “CULTURAL PROJECTS MANAGEMENT” TRAINING COURSE in 1984-1990 and 1999.

Public Music Quiz For Youngers 1988

All those workshops were visited by more than 1000 young musicians and animators from 16 countries. Their closing concerts are most often part of the Ohrid Summer Festival official program.

OHRID SUMMER MUSIC CAMP 2001 

Aims and objectives of the Camp

• To bring young musicians in order to play together, learn from each other and compare various music styles, techniques and interpretation methods;
• To meet different cultures, helping the young people to get familiar with and aware of other people's opinion, behaviour, traditions and cultures;
• To effectively train youth leaders and young cultural managers to be able to undertake international youth cultural projects and youth exchanges.

Young people aged 15 - 25 (8 - 14 for the Piano Seminar for Youngsters) and residents in one of the member states of the Central European Initiative are eligible for participation. Residents of other countries are also encouraged to apply.

Level I Musicians with basic training who have studied for about three years:
Level II Experienced amateur musicians with more than three years of tuition;
Level III Music students preparing for professional careers;
Level IV Students in the final year of professional training, young professional musicians, "master-class" standard;

Financial settlements
(unless otherwise indicated on the program in question!)

1. Registration fee of 25 Euro is charged;
1. The participation fee of 300 Euro should be paid by bank transfer or upon arrival;
2. The participants are responsible for covering their return international travel cost to Macedonia;
3. The organiser covers the local travel costs, full board and lodging, including all other on-sight costs, except for phone bills, drinks and pocket money;
4. Scholarships, offering 50 % reduction of both the registration and the participation fees for the music courses and 90% for the training course are available upon request, priority given to the candidates from Central and Eastern European countries, members of the CEI;

1. The participants are obliged to take part in minimum two-thirds of the seminar in question;
1. The participants are not entitled to any kind of compensation for radio or TV broadcasting's during the rehearsals or the final concerts;
2. The organiser is entitled to cancel the seminar due to the lack of participants and inform the already applied candidates not later than 10 (ten) days after the closing date for application;
3. The organiser reserves the right to make on-going organisational changes where-ever necessary, thus preserving the interests and the needs of the participants;

Application procedure

Each candidate applying is supposed to submit the fulfilled application form, registration fee receipt of payment, short biography and a letter of motivation.
After the candidate has been admitted, the participants are expected to pay the participation fee, by bank transfer or directly by cheque, not later than five days before the start of the course.

INSTRUMENTAL COURSES AND YOUTH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA 

Solo Voice Seminar 1994 Struga

INSTRUMENTAL COURSES
The activities are organised as mutual training encounters between the students and the teachers, aim to deepen the knowledge and the professional skills that the participants are usually getting during their regular education at the universities and high schools.

The professors invited are well-known ad renowned pedagogues, which have build-up international careers in teaching instrumental music.

The courses are organised in morning and afternoon sessions, through individual classes with the professors, including group work on chamber music with other participants. The participants work on individually chosen program by themselves beforehand.

During the course, several public concerts are offered, on which the participants are checking their technical and performance skills. At the end of the courses, closing concerts are offered as part of the Ohrid Summer Festivals.

The participants also receive free entrance tickets for the Ohrid Summer Festival programme during the duration of the Course.

Individual Courses Summer Music Camp 2001:

1. PIANO, VIOLIN AND CELLO (Levels III and IV)
2. PIANO FOR YOUNGSTERS (Levels I and II)

For additional information, consult the information booklet.

YOUTH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Separate rehearsals (violin - viola - cello - double bass) take place with professors from the UKIM School of Music Skopje in the morning and tutti rehearsals in the afternoon. Team work is considered very important during the separate rehearsals.

The program prepared is presented on at least one public concert as part of the official Festival's program in Ohrid. The concert is recorded in live by radio and TV.

The participants shall get the unique opportunity of working into a semi-professional ensemble, a step forward towards their own professional careers as orchestra members. Further to that, the musicians have the opportunity of comparing their own level of professional readiness and skills development towards the other orchestra members. The participants enjoy free access to the Ohrid Summer Festival Program.

A special interest in 2001 will be given to the international character of the new contemporary ensembles, due to the increased mobility of the young musicians in the world.

Preliminary dates: July 24 - August 04 2001

Profile of the participants: young musicians aged 17-25, preparing for professional career as orchestra musicians, level III and IV, coming from the member states of the Central European Initiative (maximum two musicians per country). Candidates from other countries are also eligible for participation.

Financial conditions: local transport, full board and lodging plus full scholarship covering the participation fee are covered by the organiser, in cases where the participants come from one of the CEI member states.

INTER-CULTURAL COURSES 

The basis for organisation of this kind of activities as part of the Summer Camp is the intercultural encounter of the participants coming from different backgrounds and cultures, encouraging mutual interaction between the participants and understanding of their cultural traditions. The participants are requested to bring various things that are associated or represent their own culture or ethnic traditions, like instruments, pottery, food and drinks, folk-costumes, souvenirs, flags, etc.

Foundation New Names Russia 1998

ETHNO SEMINAR
 The participants are divided into Workshops, having the opportunity to work on individual program proposed by themselves, usually program which is comprising ethnic or national folk themes which exist in each cultural tradition of their own regions, countries and nations. They actually present their program to the other participants in the same workshop, teaching the others to play and sing the music of other cultures on their own national instruments. The musicians at the same, work on their own traditional instruments, teaching each other also how to play the instruments which a typical and common to other cultures. They also have the opportunity of presenting the cultural heritage, customs and folklore. Five elements are representing the core of the lectures (workshops) given: dance, songs, folk costumes, instruments and musical customs. There is also a separate workshop organised, targeting macedonian folklore and traditions.

The Seminar shall be organised in active co-operation with the Macedonian Folklore Institute, the Macedonian Radio Television' Folklore Division and the Department for Ethnomusicology- UKIM School of Music Skopje. At the end of the Camp, apart from the joint concert of the participants, participants give street or concert performances in several towns in Macedonia, presenting both the work and the knowledge gained during the Camp.

INTERNATIONAL YOUTH FEMALE CHOIR
 The Choir comprises 40 young and talented girls singers (sopranos and altos) who have at least several years of professional / amateur choir experience. The on-going preparations indicate that the Choir will be either conducted by the world-famous Macedonian choir-conductor Zapro Zaprov. Besides the regular program that the participants are rehearsing during the session, the choristers also have the opportunity to work and to present the choir traditions that exist in their own cultures and regions (countries), including the folklore traditions and the heritage expressed through the singing. Therefore, the participants are obliged to bring their own national folk-costumes (to be dressed in during the public performances), instruments and encouraged to bring traditional food, drinks, souvenirs, or anything else representing their national folklore, to be presented during the workshops and during the international evening. The program of the Choir (being under preparation) should comprise pieces and works from several out-standing choir composers with folklore background.

Youth Female Choir 1999 - Summer Music Camp

For additional information for both of the inter-cultural projects, please consult the JMM Skopje section at www.ethno.com.mk

Introduction: the need of such Training Courses

The youth exchanges projects between two or more youth cultural organisations existing in different countries, represent the basis for the development of mutual understanding and co-operation, tolerance and most of all peace based upon respect for the others and their needs. The role of those projects is to bring the young people together, and than step by step, build up relations of co-operation, trust and understanding so much needed in the world today. Especially in the region of Southeast Europe, where the recent crisis brought the states together in the fight for better future and where enormous number of cultures exist, it is most crucial to enforce projects of youth interaction and youth exchanges.

Therefore, this TC aims to enable the leaders of youth organisations to develop activities of multicultural encounter between the youth from different countries and regions.

Cultural Management Training Course 1999

• to gather youth leaders in order to provide them with the necessary information and to exchange knowledge, experiences and ideas about the existing and the future organisational and project management both on national and international (regional) level;
• to compare, define and evaluate the present international (regional) youth projects existing on the level of CEI;
• to effectively train the youth leaders to undertake international youth activities with multicultural character, especially in co-operation with other foreign partner organisations;
• to enable them to more competently prepare, run, fund-raise and evaluate projects with international dimension and to learn from each other.

• to set provisional guidelines for the future development of the international youth exchange projects on the level of CEI;
• to improve the communication between the youth organisations on CEI level;
• to train the youth leaders and therefore their youth organisations to take part in the creation of the international and regional youth exchange policy;
• to feed-back and influence the regional youth policy created by the CEI MS on governmental level.

Working language: English

Number of participants: 25

Program: Youth Culture; International Governmental policy and programs; International and European youth structures and policies; Regional youth co-operation and policies; CEI - role, activities and youth programs; Intercultural learning; Organisational and project management; Fund-raising.

Profile of participants

• are active members of youth organisations. be aged between 18 and 30 years and residents of one of the CEI MS;
• are prepared to represent the activities and share the experiences of their organisations including their personal opinion regarding the issues raised by this TC;
• to take active part in the program and to be able to work both individually and as a team;
• be capable of working on English to a good standard and be present for at least two-thirds of the duration of the Course.

Financial conditions:
Board and lodging including local travel costs are provided for by JMM. Participation fee of 100 Euro is charged.
Grants, covering the international travel costs are available to participants coming from the CEI Member States, maximum two participants per country.

Preliminary dates: September 2-9 2001

For more information and application please contact the National JMM Secretariat.