Schedule Example from Our Past Festival (2019)

 

ARRIVE BRATISLAVA

 

DAY 1 

 

ALL DAY Hotel check-in 

6:50 pm Meet at the front lobby of Hotel Falkensteiner 

7:00 pm *WELCOMING SUPPER for Participants, Families, 

and Staff 

Information and Festival overview 

 

 

DAY 2 

 

8:50 am Meet at the front lobby of Hotel Falkensteiner for 

walk to State Music Conservatory 

9:00 am ORIENTATION TOUR 

Bratislava State Conservatory of Music 

9:30 am-3:30 pm Practice (assigned) 

9:30 am-3:30 pm Individual Lessons 

3:50 pm Meet at the front lobby of Hotel Falkensteiner 

4:00 pm-6:00 pm *GUIDED WALKING TOUR: Historic Old Bratislava 

Musical Highlights. Visit: Hummel Museum 

 

 

DAY 3 

 

9:00 am-2:30 pm Practice (assigned) 

9:00 am-2:00 pm Conclude Individual Lessons 

2-Piano Coaching with Conductor 

2:30 pm-4:00 pm *LECTURE-DEMONSTRATION. “Papageno at the Piano” 

Professor Robert Ward 

 

 

DAY 4

 

9:00 am-2:00 pm Practice (assigned) 

9:00 am-12:00 pm Conclude 2-Piano Coaching with Conductor 

2:30 am-4:00 pm *MASTER CLASS: Performing Concerti with Orchestra 

Professor Ward 

 

 

 

DAY 5

 

9:00 am-12:00 pm Practice (morning only) 

*FREE DAY* 

*CULTURAL EXCURSION (optional) : Visit picturesque Austrian villages 

along Lake Neusiedler on Hungarian border

VISIT: Haydn’s home/museum. 

TOUR: Esterhazy Palace

Optional (Local): Visit museums in Bratislava, Bratislava Castle 

 

 

DAY 6 

9:00 am-3:00 pm Practice (assigned) 

3:00 pm-4:00 pm Unmasked! How to write your own Cadenzas 

Professor Ward 

 

 

DAY 7

 

9:00 am-4:00 pm Practice (assigned) 

10:00 am-1:00 pm ***ORCHESTRA REHEARSAL*** 

 

 

DAY 8

 

9:00 am-4:00 pm Practice (assigned) 

10:00 am-1:00 pm ***ORCHESTRA REHEARSAL*** 

 

 

DAY 9 

 

9:00 am-4:00 pm Practice (assigned) 

10:00 a m-1:00 pm ***ORCHESTRA REHEARSAL*** 

 

 

DAY 10 

 

9:00 am Travel by Train to Vienna 

*CULTURAL EXCURSION TO VIENNA 

All-Day Walking Tour: Musical Highlights 

Heurigen supper in Vienna Woods. Austrian folk music. 

10:00 pm Train to Bratislava 

 

 

DAY 11

 

9:00 am-4:00 pm Practice (assigned) 

 

 

DAY 12 

 

9:00 am-12:00 pm Practice (assigned) 

*12:00 pm Bus departs for Vienna, Austria  

5:30 pm-6:30 pm ***DRESS REHEARSAL  

7:00 pm ***ORCHESTRA CONCERT. Hall of Muses, Albertina, Vienna, Austria

Post Concert Dinner in Vienna

*10:30 pm Bus departs for Bratislava 

 

 

DAY 13

 

9:00 am-4:00 pm Practice (assigned) 

10:00 am-1:00 pm ***ORCHESTRA REHEARSAL*** 

 

 

DAY 14 

 

9:00 am-3:00 pm Practice (assigned) 

4:00 pm ***DRESS REHEARSAL Primaciálny Palac. Hall of Mirrors 

7:00 pm ***ORCHESTRA CONCERT Primaciálny Palac. Hall of Mirrors 

9:00 pm Farewell Supper & Certificates Ceremony. 

 

End of Festival 

 

*Note: Times and other details subject to change.