Summer Music Tours in Europe & China Have Dec. 15 Registration Deadline
For release: Nov. 22, 2002
For press information, contact Gabrielle Maxey

The Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music at The University of Memphis will offer two opportunities to tour and perform abroad next summer. The school will offer the European Summer Music Institute and Tour May 11-27 and the Orchestra Tour to China June 1-16.

The European Institute, which will take place in Germany and Austria, will offer instruction in vocal and instrumental chamber music, as well as a music history seminar covering the Romantic period. The Institute is housed in Bayerische Musikakademie in Marktoberdorf, Germany, a Bavarian castle located near the foothills of the Alps. Students will attend lectures, rehearse and perform student recitals. They also will give concerts in Salzburg and Vienna. The academy has a large number of instruments, including keyboard and percussion instruments, Renaissance and Baroque instruments, brass, plucked and folk music instruments and synthesizers.

Students on the China tour will hear lectures by faculty members from the Beijing and Shanghai music conservatories. They will perform the works of Professors Liqing Yang and Xiaogang Ye, who visited The U of M for last spring's Imagine New Music Festival. Participants will attend two symphony concerts in Beijing and Shanghai and visit the Eastern Musical Instrument Museum and the Instrument Factory in Shanghai. Other stops will include Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden City, the Great Wall, the Temple of Heaven and the Oriental Pearl Tower.

Students may receive undergraduate or graduate college credit, or take the tour as a non-credit course.

Participants may make payments in installments or in a lump sum. The first non-refundable deposit payment of $100 is due by Dec. 15. For more information, contact Dr. Randal Rushing at 901-678-3774 or rrushing@memphis.edu.

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