Schedule
2021 Daily Schedule to be Announced
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.
