AKADEMIE VERSAILLES

6.–9. 11. 2025, Prague, Czech Republic

International Masterclasses for singers and instrumentalists

Dear friends and lovers of early music,

we are writing to inform you about the Akademie Versailles, International Masterclasses of French Baroque Music and its period performance practice organized by Collegium Marianum in collaboration with the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles (CMBV).

For further information, see the details below.

Thank you for forwarding the information to those who might be interested.

Yours faithfully,

Monika Václová

COLLEGIUM MARIANUM

Centre of historical performing arts

Vodičkova 700/32, 110 00 Prague, Czech Republic

e-mail: monika@collegiummarianum.cz

BAROQUE ORCHESTRA 

violin, viola, cello, viola da gamba,

flutes, flauto traverso, hautbois,

theorbo, bassoon, double bass, harpsichord

Lenka TORGERSEN – orchestra, concert master

PROGRAMME

Georg Phillip Telemann Ouverture-Suite „L´Omphale“, TWV 55:e8

George Frideric Handel Hercules, HWV 60 (Sinfonie)

Michelle Mascitti Concerto grosso in A Major (Passacaglia)

Jean-Philippe Rameau Suite from Les Fêtes d᾿Hébé

Jean-Baptiste Lully and Jean-Philippe Rameau arias from various operas

Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, Jean-Baptiste Stuck, Michel Pignolet de Montéclair 

cantatas

VOCAL CLASS

Chantal SANTON JEFFERY – vocal interpretation 

Benoît DRATWICKI – rhetoric, declamation and pronunciation of the French language

PROGRAMME 

Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, Jean-Baptiste Stuck, Michel Pignolet de Montéclair 

cantatas

Jean-Baptiste Lully, Jean-Philippe Rameau

arias from operas
Atys, Armide, Hippolyte et Aricie, Les Indes galantes, Castor et Pollux, Dardanus, ...

The specific aria for interpretation with Baroque orchestra will be selected in the consultation with lecturers. 

The masterclasses are aimed at students of music conservatories and universities, professionals and pedagogues. The classes are taught through English.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: 15 June 2025
The result of the application procedure will be announced to the applicants by 11 July 2025.

ATTENDANCE FEE

Baroque orchestra

5000 CZK / 200 EUR (VAT incl.)
Vocal class

7500 CZK / 300 EUR (VAT incl.)

REGISTRATION ONLINE and free of charge

www.akademie-versailles.cz

Akademie Versailles is organized by the centre of historical performing arts Collegium Marianum with the participation of the Municipal District of Prague 1, in collaboration with the French Institute in Prague and the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles and with the financial support of Ministry of Culture and the City of Prague.

Vodičkova 700/32, Praha 1
monika@collegiummarianum.cz

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