• Individual daily piano master classes with Prof. Jura Margulis in an encouraging atmosphere.
• Every participant will receive 4 lessons and access to all events, lectures, publications, excursions, and tickets to the PianoFest.
• Languages: English, German, Russian

• Lessons with guest artists: Bernd Glemser

• The unforgettable ambiance of the Historic Kaufhaus concert hall in a 15th century building on Freiburg’s medieval Central Square.

• A seminar examining the systematic development of virtuoso piano technique.
• Lecture: History and Fundamentals of pedagogical traditions from partimenti to Clementi. 
• A survey of pianistic traditions from Beethoven through Czerny to Liszt.
• Distribution of a compendium of etudes and exercises drawn from rare historical material made exclusively for participants of the IPAF12.
• Individual lessons in which various methods are applied to the participants’ repertoire.

• A seminar examining historical keyboard instruments.
• Excursion to the Fritz Neumeyer Collection of Historical Keyboard Instruments at the Schloss Bad Krozingen and presentation of more than 30 playable keyboard instruments from the 15th to the 19th centuries, with Christoph Kern, curator of the Fritz Neumeyer Collection and Instrument Builder.
• Lecture on understanding Urtext editions in relation to the capabilities of the instruments of the time period and their relevance to contemporary piano performance.
• Individual lesson time on historic instruments that match the time period of the participants’ repertoire.

• Demonstration of unique Welte-Mignon recordings on one of the last functional piano-roll instruments.
• The Welte-Mignon company was founded in 1872 and attracted such artists as Claude Debussy, Camille Saint-Saëns, Alexander Scriabin, Max Reger, Edvard Grieg, George Gershwin, Ignacy Paderewski, and Ferruccio Busoni to make piano-roll recordings in Freiburg, the company’s headquarters.

• Info-workshop with an associate of a major concert agency.
• Lecture and individual consultation with Mr. Andreas Vierziger, an artist manager formerly working at Mark Stephan Buhl Artists Management, Vienna.
  
• Distribution of information packet concerning career strategies made exclusively for participants of the IPAF12.

• Numerous public performance opportunities for all participants throughout the IPAF12.
• Active participants have the opportunity to perform in front of a wide audience in public recitals in and around Freiburg, including the City Hall of Bad Krozingen, the Dommusikschule, and the Kaisersaal of the Historic Kaufhaus. The selection of performers and repertoire is in the discretion of the IPAF organisation. 
• In the second week, participants enjoy a trip to Bad Krozingen, where they perform a concert and enjoy an invitational lunch. 
• Two recitals in Freiburg are followed by receptions and the opportunity to visit with the audience.  

• The PianoFest, a prestigious concert series.
• Since 1986 a recital series has taken place in parallel with the master classes. Over the years, many artists including Martha Argerich, Paul Badura-Skoda, Dmitry Bashkirov, Elizabeth Leonskaja, Vitaly Margulis, Bella Davidovich, Malcolm Bilson, Lylia Zilberstein, Bernd Glemser, Igor Kamenz, Sergey Babayan, Boris Bloch, Kirill Gerstein, Ingrid Fliter, Polina Leschenko, and Awadagin Pratt have performed in this series. The final concert of the participants is also the final concert of the PianoFest concert series.

• MO 7/16, 8:15 PM, Opening Recital, Jura Margulis
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• SA 7/28, 7:00 PM, Final Recital of the Participants of the IPAF12

• Download the PianoFest Programm 2011 as a PDF

• An audience-vote competition at the final participants’ recital:
• At the end of the master class, participants perform in a recital at which the audience votes for their favorites to receive cash prizes.

• Laureates of the audience-vote competition of the IPAF 2011:
• 1. prize: Julia Okruashvili
• 2. prize ex aequo: Anna Sarkisova and Dongjin Yang
• Special award: Full participation scholarship for the IPAF 2012: Rex Lewis
• Special award for youngest participant: Hannah Kaufmann (11)