exzellenz labor lied ®
(and mélodie)
‘THE FINISHING TOUCH –
PREPARE YOUR COMPETITIONS’
German Lied and French Mélodie
for duos
July 16 – 25, 2025
Académie Villecroze/France
Registration only through the academy until 16 April 2025
Work in individual lessons, team teaching and group lessons.
- Interpretation of song and mélodie
- singing and piano technique
- creating programmes for song recitals
- presentation (performance, development during the course of the song recital)
- working with texts (poems etc…)
Teaching team
Hedwig Fassbender, Artistic Director
singer, former professor of singing at the HfMDK Frankfurt, artistic director of ‘exzellenz labor’, regular workshops at the opera studios in Zurich, Paris, Frankfurt, Basel, the Berlin State Opera and Warsaw
singing technique, interpretation of German song, individual singers and song duos
Anne LeBozec
pianist, melody and song accompanist, professor of song interpretation at CNSMD Paris, also professor of French song in Karlsruhe for 5 years. Countless concerts and recordings of song and chamber music, worldwide masterclasses in song interpretation
piano technique, interpretation of French song, individual pianists and song duos
Götz Payer
pianist, song accompanist, lecturer in song interpretation at the universities of applied sciences in Cologne and Frankfurt, since 2022 professor of song interpretation at the HMDK Stuttgart, collaboration with the Hugo Wolf Competition in Stuttgart.
Piano technique, interpretation of German song, individual and duo lessons for singers and pianists
Mathias Hermann, director, actor, speaker, class for song interpretation and diction HfMDK Frankfurt, since 2000 text and language work with editors, speakers and journalists for the ARD, since 202o trainer for young journalists at the ZDF.
Work on text/content and pronunciation (German and French), performance training.
It is gratifying that the song is steadily holding its own and meeting with growing interest from the audience. Nevertheless, it must be said that the form of presentation of this art form is often still unchanged for centuries.
In addition to perfecting technical and stylistic issues, participants can try out and adopt new forms of presenting song recitals that better suit today’s audience.