Concerts, Lessons & Exhibitions

Lessons for Portative Organ

We will be offering new lessons on how to use the portative organ (organetto).  Location and dates are to be announced; please see below.  These lessons are for beginners, and/or individuals who already know how to play the portatif or those with piano basics that would like to learn how to play the organetto.  Instruments will be available in limited numbers. Course language: German/English

If you are interested in these or other advanced or masterclasscourses, please contact us. 
We will notify you once all the details have been worked out.  Invitations will be mailed out.

Course for Portative Organ / Organetto
Oktober 26 - 28, 2012, D-Schwaebisch Hall (Germany)

Catalina Vicens & Stefan Keppler

Being a quite unknown keyboard instrument,
this small portative organ is one of the most expressive keyboards ever alive.
This course is oriented for beginners who want to get  basic knowledge and technique for playing the instrument, and for advanced musicians who want to get  an overview of the possibilities of the organetto in terms of repertoire, expression resources, phrasing and composing an accompaniment line.
 
We are going to discuss and experience practically the following question:
How to play... How can I develop the organetto technique?
What to play... When and where was this instrument used?
Playing with one hand... Can we only play monodies?
Playing with others. ...Was it played alone or accompanied by other instruments.?
Playing with the soul... How to discover the expression possibilities with the bellow?
 
We are going to answer all these question by individual work, and by playing together.
You don´t need to own a portative organ to come to this course. Instruments, if necessary, are going to be provided in limited numbers by "Wolkenstayn Portative Organs".

info & application (pdf)

Lessons, Exhibitions & Concerts

Listed below is a small selection of interesting events about portative organs and traditional and ancient music. 

Please feel free to try out my instruments during the instrument exhibitions.