Akademie Versailles 2025

Akademie Versailles is an international educational project aimed at the interpretation of French Baroque music and its period performance practice. The project is organized by Collegium Marianum in collaboration with the Prague Conservatoire, the French Institute in Prague and the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles (CMBV). It is part of a long-term partnership between the Summer Festivities of Early Music in Prague and the CMBV, whose task it is to preserve and promote French Baroque music.

BAROQUE ORCHESTRA MASTERCLASS
Led by Lenka Torgersen (concertmaster)
This course is designed for advanced instrumentalists interested in historically informed performance. Repertoire includes works by Telemann, Handel, Mascitti, and Rameau.

VOCAL MASTERCLASS
With Chantal Santon Jeffery (vocal interpretation) and Benoît Dratwicki (French rhetoric & pronunciation).
Vocalists will explore Baroque cantatas and arias by Lully, Rameau, Clérambault, and others. Arias for performance with orchestra will be selected in consultation with tutors.