Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp

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(from left to right) Jan Boon 1998 after 18th-cty Italian models | Ivan De Halleux 1980 after Mietke 1710 | Michael Johnson 1994 after Goermans-Taskin 1783 | Walter Maene 2017 after Bull 1779
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Joannes Daniël Dulcken 1747 at Museum Vleeshuis

ENTRANCE EXAMS 2022 (online or live):
28 April & 1st September
HARPSICHORD & BASSO CONTINUO
Students with a more soloistic profile (rather than foremost ensemble playing, since there is no early music department in Antwerp) are welcome to enroll at Bachelor, Master or Postgraduate level.
The programme consists of harpsichord, basso continuo (taught by Frank Agsteribbe), partimento (taught by Ewald Demeyere) and historical performance practice as compulsory subjects, next to chamber music and some collective courses. Counterpoint is highly advised to take as an optional course.
Lessons alternatively take place at Museum Vleeshuis and at the conservatoire campus, on the original Dulcken 1747 harpsichord and on fine replicas by Jan Boon, Ivan De Halleux, Michael Johnson, Walter Maene, Cornelis Bom and Jean-Pierre Hemmeryckx, next to Korneel's personal instruments by Augusto Bonza, Alan Gotto and Walter Maene.

International Opera Academy Gent

ENTRANCE every two years through international screening and application.
HARPSICHORD FOR REPETITEURS
The pianist-repetiteur acquires a thorough understanding of the harpsichord: how the instrument works, what types of harpsichords there are and how to play them, how one can obtain a maximum degree of expression by using certain techniques, what the differences are in approaching the harpsichord keyboard and literature as opposed to the piano, etc.
These technical aspects are put into practice through playing baroque and classical opera repertoire on the harpsichord (orchestral overtures, arias etc. as well as smaller solo pieces); through accompanying recitativo secco; and through finding a musically convincing alternative by using these ‘early music solutions’ on the modern piano.