Masterclass Media Foundation
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Masterclasses are considered one of the most effective teaching tools for aspiring classical musicians. The Masterclass Media Foundation seeks to make the benefits of masterclasses more widely available, by creating a unique archive of the world’s greatest musicians and music teachers filmed giving masterclasses. The Foundation intends that this archive, which will be made available to music colleges and students throughout the world, will ultimately be deposited with a leading academic institution for safe-keeping in perpetuity. This archive has the potential to be a priceless teaching resource and a means by which the insights and genius of the world’s great musicians can be preserved for posterity.
The Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation based in the UK
Masterclasses on DVD are available from the Foundation's website at www.masterclassfoundation.org They include masterclasses with great musicians such as: Andras Schiff, Maxim Vengerov, Steven Isserlis, Thomas Qhasthoff, Bernard Haitink, Evelyn Glennie, Hakan Hardenberger, Gabor Takacs-Nagy
[edit] Trustees
The Foundation's Trustees are eminent in the fields of music, banking and the law. They include David Challen CBE, former Chairman of Schroders’ Investment Bank, Peter Alward, former President of EMI Classics, John Grieves, former Senior Partner of Freshfields, the major international law firm. and John Spearman, former Chairman and Chief Executive of the advertising agency Collett Dickinson Pearce and Chief Executive of Classic FM.
