Program Preview 2024
Program Preview 2024
Winter Seminar:
31. December 2023 - January 6, 2024 -
Ancient Greek
The seminar will run for 1 week, with two 2 hr sessions a day (Monday-Friday, 11-13 and 17-19). The sessions consist of reading and discussing an Ancient Greek text together, using Ancient Greek as the vehicular language. The theme of the readings will be winter as described in select Ancient Greek texts (Xenophon, Longos, and others). The discussions will regard the philological, linguistic, and historical aspects of the text. The seminar will be led by Federico Aurora (University of Oslo).
Participation: The seminar is aimed at students and teachers, but open to anyone with some previous knowledge of Ancient Greek. It is not necessary to have spoken Ancient Greek previously to participate in the seminar.
Location: The Hellenikon Idyllion is a cultural center located in the village of Selianitika on the northwest coast of Peloponnese, between Patras and Aigion. The main building and the accommodations are located in a beautiful garden covered by grape pergolas and 10 meters from the beach. To register, please contact:Contact Frederico Aurora
Tel.: +47 410 77 719
Room in the Idyllion with Andreas Drekis
Tel 0030 26910 72488 or0030 6972263356 WhatsApp
E-mail: info@idyllion.eu
Workshop: February - March 2024
FLOW artist Christian Pietschiny
Visiting for the sixth year: Pietschiny helps you turn something good into something great and experience happiness in life.
Workshop 2 - "Abstract Painting in FLOW" from February 13th until February 17, 2024
Workshop 3 - "TileMosaic and FLOW" from February 20th. until February 24, 2024
Workshop 4 - "FLOW philosophy of life, user course" from March 6th. until March 10, 2024
Workshop 5 - "Creativity for Entrepreneurs" from March 13th until March 17, 2024
The workshops take place in small groups and are free of charge for overnight guests at the Hellicon Idyllion cultural center. However, for organizational reasons, registration is important as the respective workshop only takes place with at least 5 participants. The course time is determined by the participants themselves in each course. As a guide, 2 hours in the morning and 2 hours in the afternoon are planned.
PS.: The creative workshops are also ideal for those interested who hardly enjoyed art lessons at school. All material is provided or collected on site. The workshop languages are German and English.
To the course leader: Christian Pietschiny (58) is an internationally known pioneer in bringing together science, creativity and spirituality. According to the principle of lifelong learning, you benefit from Pietschiny's holistic skills from philosophy, psychology, creativity and wisdom teachings. He studied civil engineering and architecture, then worked in project management of large construction projects until he was 30.
Life as a FLOW artist began at the age of 30, initially with abstract painting, later expanding his field of activity to include designs for large-scale energy-generating sculptures, organic architecture and writing.More about the artist HERE
Music seminar: March 23 - 30, 2024
Piano course jazz & classical
with university lecturers Ellen Kaufmann (piano) and Sam Hylton (jazz piano/improvisation) in their seventh year
Course program
Fine on prepared pieces of solo literature
Piano accompaniment for singers
Jazz piano for beginners and advanced players
Individual and group lessons
Garden concert with invited guests
Leisure activities
Exploring the coastal and wine-growing region with local citrus and olive plantations. Visiting the mountain villages and monasteries in the hilly hinterlandRelax in the Garden of the Muses
Joint excursion to one of the nearby important centers of history
(Delphi, Mycenae, Epidavros, Olympia) with the Greek expert Dr. M.A.Newid (LMU)
Concert with all participants in the Hellenikon Idyllion in the Garden of the Muses and in the city of Egion
Contact:
31. March - April 7th, 2024
Youth Jazz Orchestra NRW
We welcome 30 young musicians under the direction of Thomas Haberkamp to the Hellenikon Idyllion for the second time.
The Youth Jazz Orchestra of North Rhine-Westphalia (JJO NRW) has existed since 1975 to provide appropriate support for young artists in the field of jazz. The repertoire of the JJO NRW is determined by both the jazz tradition and contemporary trends. It mainly includes the leaders' own compositions and arrangements, which are tailored to the band's line-up and playing abilities.
Painting week with freelance artist Miriam Vogt
“People who enjoy differentiated language, play and the unexpected find themselves in my pictures.”
Painting week course 1:
15. April - April 20, 2024
Landscape as a starting point for free painting
We set off with our backpacks packed. The area surrounding the Idyllion offers us motifs and good seats within walking distance. Since it is still early season, the bar owners are looking forward to the first guests. Experience has shown that we were allowed to spread out with our painting supplies anywhere on the still empty tables, so that we will always have a fairly comfortable working environment - including our first coffee by the sea.
We work on paper using mixed media. Because the watercolor box is always easy to handle, it should be there without us pursuing watercolor painting in the true sense.
Being inspired by nature and enriching your own design language is always the idea when you work outside. In addition, our perspective is sharpened and expanded through different perspectives/restrictions.
How far the work moves away from the motif will perhaps be decided in the evening when we go to the orange garden!!! discuss the works again.
Painting week course 2:
22. April - April 27, 2024
Conceptions of landscape
The following week is aimed at participants with good painting basics. The introduction and the different understandings of landscape will be brief. Then it's about finding my own drive, my own language, my own material in which I deal with the topic of landscape. Questions could be: what is the meaning of perspective? Do I set a horizon or not……do I look far away or close? Which color theme am I interested in? What statement does landscape make in shades of red etc.
It is an advantage if you know each other a little and know e.g. B. I always wanted to work on the canvas with needle and thread……or I imagine integrating sand into my work.
Equipping yourself accordingly and packing your own material backpack in addition to the watercolor paints supports a good, inspired process.
In the evening there will also be a round table discussion with picture viewing in the orange garden.
ORGANIZATIONAL: All course participants receive a packing list and should have a painting backpack that you can quickly throw on your back as well as a painting folder with a handle so that you can move around easily and change places easily. (The paths are never far.) We can have breakfast together in the Idyllion - in the orange garden -, take provisions with us (you can shop in the village) and in the evening we look forward to Till, who always treated us to very affordable Greek cuisine in his wonderful little restaurant 100m from the Idyllion, right on the beach Beach.
REGISTRATION & QUESTIONSMobile +49 (0)160/776 96 58
miriamvogt@hotmail.ch
More about the freelance artist Miriam Vogt
May 18th - 25th, 2024
School for Choral Art Munich
47 children + 6 adults under the direction of Maksim Matsiushenkau - artistic director, choir director, singing, piano, solfeggio lessons.
Singing for life - The School for Choral Art in Munich offers all children the opportunity to discover and develop their singing skills.
May 25th - 30th, 2024
Christophorus-Kantorei
For the third time in the Hellenikon Idyllion since 2009 and 2016 under the direction of Michael Nonemann
For over 50 years, the Christophorus-Gymnasium Altensteig with music profile - formerly: Youth Village Christophorusschule - has placed a particular focus on choral singing. The choral development work takes place according to a consistent system and leads from the choir class to the Christophorus children's choir to the Christophorus choir.
Here are a few more impressions from 2016
May 30th - June 11th, 2024
Waldorf School
June 17th - 29th, 2024
Waldorf School from Witten
June 22nd - 29th, 2024
Gewandhaus Children's Choir
from Leipzig under the direction of Frank-Steffen Elster
The choir's musical tasks are very broad. The children perform a cappella concerts together with the GewandhausChor, with the Gewandhausorchester, but also with other renowned ensembles - most recently even with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Seminar: July 13th - 27th, 2024
Speak and philosophize in ancient Greek, today
in the 32nd year
More information HERE
Here is our poster to forward (German PDF)
Registration and further information: Florian Feicht
Email: flofeicht@googlemail.com
Phone: +49 170-5835320
Concerts:
July 19th - 26th, 2024
The Böblingen Youth Jazz and Symphony Orchestra
The AEG Gymnasium is a guest in the Garden of the Muses for the 8th time
Here in 2022 under the direction of Stephan Bergtold at a concert in the historic site of Corinth.
Seminar: July 28th-09th August 2024
Learn ancient Greek through challenging dialogues
In the seventh year with us: Intensive courses in ancient Greek for advanced students are offered - large closed student group for English speakers from the U.S.A. Paideia Institute
11. - August 30, 2024
Amate Choral Society
under the direction of conductor Richard J. Sigmund for the 5th time with us in the Idyllion.
Photo: Rehearsals of Orpheus & Eurydice on August 28, 2023 in the Garden of the Muses.
To the Amaté Cultural Association website HEREConcert: September 7th, 2024 from 6 p.m.
Overtones and guitar sounds
Nico Steiner is known as an artist under the name Akampita Steiner. She is a musician, actress, director and author.
Akampita Steiner's performance spaces transform into a spherical sound world in which overtone singing and original compositions for concert guitar and vocals unfold their effect. The musician uses language consciously and never accidentally: in her sound compositions rich in overtones, which sound like the European equivalent of Mongolian throat singing with a horse violin, she invents a spoken language that makes her voice sound like another instrument. "Very impressive! Continue with your creative power, the world needs it more than ever.” Renate Helnwein 12/23
Overtone singing course September 7th - 11th, 2024
When the soul sings
As an expression of deep inner movement, soul, body and music are connected in overtone singing. It is not the person who is supposed to represent something that is asked to sing, but the inner part that wants to take a breath and express itself.
Overtone singing arises from vocal singing. In order to allow these bell and flute-like tones to vibrate above our fundamental tone, it is necessary to experience ourselves as a sound and resonance space. Physical, breathing and vocal exercises support this process, as well as exercises from biodynamic body psychotherapy according to Gerda Boyesen.
The course is suitable for beginners and advanced students and begins with a concert on Saturday evening. From Sunday to Wednesday we work 6 lessons a day. On the last day there is a final singing that we organize together.
Registrations: info@akampitasteiner.de Tel.: 0049 (0) 177 43 43 569
Management: Akampita Steiner - musician, actress, director and author.
Accommodation (self-catering) and travel are not included in the course fee. Please book overnight stays in the Hellenikon Idyllion, the garden right by the sea.www.akampitasteiner.de
Concert September 8th, 2024
SOUNDS OF THE SOUL
Werner Schulze: “When I composed the CONCERTO RR-OBERTO-N for bassoon and three overtone musicians in 2007, the musical ideas flowed directly from my soul without any major interposition of rationality. The music film RR-OBERTO-N, made in 2022 with recordings from the Faroe Islands, captures this 'outflow' and even intensifies it. Regarding the ambiguous title: the bassoonist of the recording, made in 2009, is the dedicatee Robert Rönnes (hence ROBERTO), and the inclusion of overtones is expressed in OBERTON."
Sounds of the soul are at the center of the film HEALING SOUNDS, made in 2024, which will be shown for the first time in the Hellenikon Idyllion. Essentially, this film is about what Plato already pointed out in the dialogue “Charmides” (156 e – 157 a):
“Everything, the bad and the good, grows from the soul into the body and the whole person. Therefore, one must first and most carefully care for the soul if the head and the whole body are to be well."
Both films were made by Helmut Schwarz, and the “Harmonik Akademie”, founded by Werner Schulze, together with Helmut Schwarz’s “v.i.c productions” acted as producers. Schwarz and Schulze have a long-standing friendship that has manifested itself in numerous projects, nationally and internationally: from the film tour accompaniment of the European tour of the Indonesian theater-dance-music group “Teater Tetas” to the design of program booklets, from theater and music performances in Romania to complete editions of books.
Helmut Schwarz lives in Eisenstadt. He became the Austrian Filmmakers' State Champion in 2023 and appears with his films at film festivals across Europe.
Werner Schulze lives in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. Studies at the University of Vienna (philosophy, ancient oriental studies) and at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (bassoon, harmony) led to a happy coincidence in his professional life: Schulze is an author, musician, composer and scientist and was a university professor until 2014 (head of “International Affairs Harmonics Center” at the “University of Music and Performing Arts” in Vienna). In 1995 he spent a semester as a visiting professor at the “Institut Seni Indonesia” art college in Jogjakarta/Indonesia.
Schulze's compositions include works for orchestra, chamber music, solo and study works as well as music for (mostly his own) poetry and theater texts. Schulze was able to achieve success in 5 composition competitions and received awards and recognition prizes in composition, science and performing arts.
September 12th - 15th, 2024
Biodynamic body work
If you book both courses (overtone singing course - see above) together, you will receive them for a price of €450.
Photo: Roland Rossbacher - This course uses exercises from biodynamic body psychotherapy. These support contact with yourself and self-regulation. Sensing inner impulses is supported by perception exercises. There is space to move and be there. Movements are allowed to ebb and continue to change. Elements from dance and music therapy are incorporated, as is sitting in silence. Self-expression is encouraged in the sense of holisticness. This is about arriving in the present, alone and in a group, in the way that is right for everyone. .
There are 6 lessons every day from Thursday to Sunday. Biodynamic body work was developed by the physiologist and psychologist Gerda Boyesen. Her daughters Ebba and Mona Lisa continued her work in the second generation, with their own priorities.
Registrations: info@akampitasteiner.de Tel.: 0049 (0) 177 43 43 569
Management: Akampita Steiner - musician, actress, director and author. In adult education she works as a lecturer in creative writing, theater, overtone singing and biodynamic body work, in day and weekend seminars and educational holidays.
Accommodation (self-catering) and travel are not included in the course fee. Please book overnight stays in the Hellenikon Idyllion, the garden right by the sea.www.akampitasteiner.de
September 16th - Oct 16, 2023
Dances from all over the world
...Dancing is love... twice a week in the Garden of the Muses
The proximity to the sea, many hiking and excursion options, as well as the wonderful garden for relaxation, round off your vacation according to your wishes.
Dancing together with:
Frieda Schwanner
Dance teacher, BeBo trainer, retired midwife
Email:HERE
Mobile: 0160 1717 736
Room in the Idyllion with Andreas Drekis
Tel 0030 26910 72488 or0030 6972263356 WhatsApp
E-mail: info@idyllion.eu
22. until October 30, 2024
Holstein Chamber Orchestra
with 45 young musicians for the seventh year with us since 1991!
Under the direction of Luca Causenmann and Hajo Jobs
The around 40 instrumentalists between the ages of 14 and 24 rehearse around ten times a year at the Neumünster music school. The rehearsal work is divided into vocal rehearsals, which are carried out by experienced musicians, and subsequent overall rehearsals. Each semester of rehearsals ends with several concerts in Schleswig-Holstein.
To the website HEREMore Concerts are being planned and will be announced later.