Activities
VIOLANET, a three-year project supported by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union, is a network of viola da gamba professors and students from universities and institutes of higher musical education that promotes the exchange of teaching methods and research. The project is promoted by the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole (Italy) and involves the Koninklijk Conservatorium in The Hague (Netherlands), the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon (France), the Mozarteum in Salzburg (Austria), the Conservatoire Supérieur de Musique de Vigo (Spain) and the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt in Weimar (Germany).
Main activities of VIOLANET are:
- meetings in Vigo (2019), Salzburg (2019), Den Haag (2021), Fiesole (2021) and Lyon (2021) with masterclasses, conferences, teacher and student trainings events, luthiers’ workshops;
- specialisation laboratories on the Viola da Gamba on special topics of instrumental technique, didactics, reading technique, interpretation and composition for the viola da gamba, within the single institutions and in collaboration with other of its classes;
- creation of a Digital Resource Centre, in order to increase the knowledge on the Viola da Gamba and to promote the research on its repertoire;
- creation of the European Union Youth Viol Consort;
- dissemination events on early music focusing on performances with the Viola da Gamba: concerts, concert lessons, events, etc;
- development of Guidelines for a European curriculum of academic studies in viola da gamba.
Read more on the outlines of VIOLANET.
European Youth Viol Consort. Vigo 2019
Antonio de Cabezón Diferencias sobre el canto de madama le demanda
European Youth Viol Consort. Vigo 2019
Diego Ortiz, Un giorno felice
European Youth Viol Consort Concert Presentation
Henry Purcell Ascolta la mia preghiera, Oh Signore Z.15
Henry Purcell Fantazia in C minor Z.738
Den Haag 2021
Vigo 2019
Vigo. Teaching to teach
A project by Sara Ruiz and the Viola da gamba class of CSMVigo. It trains viol students in pedagogy and offers free musical lessons to children in order to create an academy of young violists in Vigo.
Den Haag “Composing for viola da gamba”
Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag: Class of composition coached by Trevor Grahl; Class of viola da gamba coached by Mieneke van der Velden
Lyon “Searching how to sing words on a viol”
Live performance of the Violanet laboratory “Searching how to sing words on a viol”, held on December 3th 2019 at the Musée des Tissus (Lyon)
Salzburg “TIC TAC with the bow in the air”
A historical and practical tutor for Viola da Gamba bow technique by the Viola da Gamba Class of Mozarteum University Salzburg and Prof. dr. Vittorio Ghielmi Supported by the Violanet European Project