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Schedule

Daily Schedule 

NOTESubject to Change

                 * Please check for changes in next day’s schedule each evening*

ARRIVE BRATISLAVA

 

ARRIVAL (Sunday July 23)

ALL DAY Hotel IBIS check-in 

18:50   Meet front lobby of Hotel IBIS

19:00   *WELCOMING SUPPER for Participants, Families, and Staff 

  Information and Festival overview 

DAY 1 (Monday July 24)

08:50   Meet front lobby Hotel IBIS for walk to State Music Conservatory 

09:00   ORIENTATION TOUR.  Bratislava State Conservatory of Music 

09:30 - 12:30 Practice (assigned) 

09:30 - 12:30 Individual Lessons  

LUNCH - TBA

13:30- 16:00 Practice

13:30- 16:00 Individual Lessons   

16:00  Meet in front lobby of Conservatory 

16:00 - 18:00 *GUIDED WALKING TOUR

  Historical & Musical Highlights.

  Hummel Museum 

DAY 2 (Tuesday, July 25)

09:00 - 12:30 Practice (assigned) 

09:00 - 12:00 Individual Lessons   

LUNCH - TBA

13:00 - 15:00  Practice

13:00 - 14:30 Individual Lessons  

15:00 - 16:00  *LECTURE-DEMONSTRATION.    Part 1.  

       “Papageno at the Piano: Those mini-Operas Mozart Called Piano Concerti” 

        Professor Robert Ward

DAY 3 (Wednesday, July 26)

09:00 - 4:00  Practice (assigned) 

09:00 - 12:00 Individual Lessons  

LUNCH - TBA

13:00 - 14:30  Individual Lesson 

15:00 - 16:00 *LECTURE-DEMONSTRATION.    Part 2.  

       “Papageno at the Piano: Those mini-Operas Mozart Called Piano Concerti” 

        Professor Robert Ward

DAY 4  (Thursday, July 27)

08:00 - 14:00   Practice (assigned)

09:00 - 12:00   Individual Lessons

LUNCH

13:00 - 16:00  Individul Practice

14:00 - 16:00 *MASTER CLASS.   Performing Concerti with Orchestra

Conservatory. Concert Hall                       Professor Robert Ward

DAY 5  (Friday, July 28)

08:00 - 16:00       Practice (assigned)   Conservatory

10:00 - 13:00 ***ORCHESTRA REHEARSAL***  

    Zichy Palace

LUNCH

14:00 - 17:00  ***ORCHESTRA REHEARSAL***  

  Zichy Palace

DAY 6  (Saturday, July 29) 

08:00 - 12:00 Practice (morning only) 

FREE DAY 

*CULTURAL EXCURSION.  (Optional, but highly recommended!)

  VISIT picturesque villages along Lake Neusiedler on Hungarian border

12:15  Meet Hotel lobby. Travel by bus. (Optional: box lunch pre-ordered)

VISIT:  Haydn’s home/museum in Eisenstadt.

TOUR: Esterhazy Palace

  Supper in typical Hungarian restaurant in Mörbisch. cymbalom. folk music

 Local Options if remaining in Bratislava: Visit museums in Bratislava, Bratislava Castle 

DAY 7  (Sunday, July 30)

08:00 - 14:00 Practice 

LUNCH

14:00 - 16:00  Mozart’s CADENZAS un-masked!

DAY 8  (Monday, July 31)

08:00 - 16:00 Practice (assigned) 

10:00 - 13:00 *** ORCHESTRA REHEARSAL*** 

LUNCH

13:30 - 16:00  *** ORCHESTRA REHEARSAL*** 

DAY 9  (Tuesday, August 1)

08:00 - 14:00  Practice (assigned) 

10:00 - 13:00 *** ORCHESTRA REHEARSAL*** 

LUNCH

14:00 - 17:00  *** ORCHESTRA REHEARSAL*** 

DAY 10  (Wednesday, August 2)

 08:30  Meet hotel lobby 

 09:00 Travel by Train to Vienna 

*** CULTURAL EXCURSION TO VIENNA 

    All-Day Walking Tour: Musical Highlights 

    Heurigen supper in Vienna Woods. Austrian folk music. 

   22:00   Train return to Bratislava  

DAY 11  (Thursday, August 3)

08:00 - 16:00 Practice. Conservatory (Assigned)

LUNCH

13:00 - 16:00  Continue Practice. Conservatory

DAY 12  (Friday, August 4)

08:00 - 16:00 Practice Conservatory

*** 17:00 DRESS REHEARSAL  NOTE: Bring concert clothes with you. Store in backstage dressing rooms.

               Primaciálny Palac. Hall of Mirrors 

***19:00 ORCHESTRA CONCERT 

                Primaciálny Palac. Hall of Mirrors

DAY 13  (Saturday, August 5)

09:00 - 12:00 Practice (assigned) 

*12:00 Bus departs for Vienna, Austria

  13:30 - 16:30   On-your-0wn.  Shopping in Vienna  

***17:00 - 18:00   DRESS REHEARSAL  

***19:00 ORCHESTRA CONCERT.  Eroica-Saal.  Lobkowitz Palace

21:00  Farewell Supper in Viennese Garden Restaurant “Amerlingbeisl'

    Certificate Awarding Ceremony 

23:00  Bus departs for Bratislava

END OF FESTIVAL

DAY 14  (Sunday, August 6)

Depart Bratislava

Aufwiedersehen! 

*Note: Times and other details subject to change.

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