MA Academy is a new bien­ni­al ini­tia­tive in col­lab­o­ra­tion with B’Rock, Il Gardellino and Concertgebouw Brugge and offers young musi­cians the oppor­tu­ni­ty to work under the inspir­ing lead­er­ship of Bertrand Cuiller. The par­tic­i­pants are sup­port­ed and guid­ed by top coach­es from B’Rock Orchestra and Il Gardellino, such as Jan De Winne, Marcel Ponseele, Rebecca Rosen and Evgeny Sviridov. The work­shop will be con­clud­ed with a con­cert in Concertgebouw Brugge aspart of the MA Festival programme.

Initially Rameau was known pri­mar­i­ly as a philoso­pher thanks to his sci­en­tif­ic approach to music. So when he pre­sent­ed his operas, he did not receive a par­tic­u­lar­ly warm recep­tion from les Parisiens. The pub­lic did not expect him to be able to write such delight­ful music. Nothing proved fur­ther from the truth! He gar­nered his first suc­cess­es as an opera com­pos­er with Hippolyte et Aricie, Les Indes Galantes, and his mas­ter­piece Castor et Pollux