© KS Linda Watson
VOICE
KS Univ. Prof. Linda Watson
Piano: Maximilian Schamschula, Almog Aharoni
We offer 3 possibilities to book:
1) VOICE 6-Days-Masterclass
Jul 21 - 26, 2025
Concert: Sat, Jul 26, 2025
Fee
€ 530 (€ 120 application fee, € 410 course fee)
Fee for passive participants
€ 120
Optional supplementary package
€ 580
The supplementary package covers
Full board at Gasthaus Moser
Accommodation at Gasthaus Moser or Frühstückspension Mariahilfberg from Jul 21 till Jul 26/Jul 27
Transfer (Vienna Hilton or airport / Jun 20 to Gutenstein and back / Jul 7) Transfer shuttles are only available between 9 a.m. and 8 p.m., please book your flight accordingly!!! Shuttles outside of shuttle times are chargeable with € 39 per shuttle!
All shuttles and transports in and around Gutenstein will be provided for you twice a day for free between 9 a.m. – 8 p.m., except Monday Jul 21 (welcome dinner!) between 9 a.m. - 9.30 p.m.
Please book the supplementary package till May 30!
The application-and course fee is NOT included in the package and must be payed EXTRA!
Application deadline
Jul 12, 2025 (provided there are still free places)
Cancellation conditions
In the event of cancellation for whatever reason, the course fee will be refunded till July 16, later only if you can provide a substitute participant! Once you have completed the registration process, the registration fee will no longer be refunded!
General shuttle options !!!
Shuttles within Gutenstein and the surrounding area from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. are free twice a day. Shuttles outside of shuttle times must be registered 2 days in advance and are subject to a charge of € 13 per shuttle. Shuttles to Vienna or the airport are also subject to a charge (exception: participants with a supplementary package) and must be registered at the first day of masterclass!!!: € 40.- per shuttle.
Teaching language
German and English
2) VOICE 3-Days-Masterclass without concert
KS Univ. Prof. Linda Watson
Jul 21 - 23, 2025
Fee
€ 265 (€ 60 registration fee, € 205 course fee)
Fee for passive participants
€ 60
Optional supplementary package
€ 290
The supplementary package covers
Full board at Gasthaus Moser
accommodation at Gasthaus Moser or Frühstückspension Mariahilfberg from Jul 21 till Jul 23/Jul 24
Transfer (Vienna Hilton or airport / Jul 21 to Gutenstein and back /Jul 23/Jul 24) Transfer shuttles are only available between 9a.m. and 8p.m, please book your flight accordingly!!! Shuttles outside of shuttle times are chargeable with € 40.- per shuttle!
All shuttles and transports in and around Gutenstein will be provided for you twice a day for free between 9 a.m. – 8 p.m., except Monday July 21 (welcome dinner!) between 9 a.m.-9.30p.m.
Please book the supplementary package till May 30!
The application-and course fee is NOT included in the package and must be payed EXTRA!
Application deadline
Jul 12, 2025 (provided there are still free places)
Cancellation conditions
In the event of cancellation for whatever reason, the course fee will be refunded till July 16, later only if you can provide a substitute participant! Once you have completed the registration process, the registration fee will no longer be refunded!
General shuttle options !!!
Shuttles within Gutenstein and the surrounding area from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. are free twice a day. Shuttles outside of shuttle times must be registered 2 days in advance and are subject to a charge of € 13 per shuttle. Shuttles to Vienna or the airport are also subject to a charge (exception: participants with a supplementary package) and must be registered at the first day of masterclass!!!: € 40.- per shuttle.
Teaching language
German and English
3) VOICE 3-Days-Masterclass with concert
KS Univ. Prof. Linda Watson
Jul 24 - 26, 2025
Concert: Sat, Jul 26, 2025
Fee
€ 265 (€ 60 registration fee, € 205 course fee)
Fee for passive participants
€ 60
Optional supplementary package
€ 290
The supplementary package covers
Full board at Gasthaus Moser
Accommodation at Gasthaus Moser or Frühstückspension Mariahilfberg from Jul 24 till Jul 26/Jul 27
Transfer (Vienna Hilton or airport / Jul 24 to Gutenstein and back /Jul 26/Jul 27) Transfer shuttles are only available between 9a.m. and 8p.m, please book your flight accordingly!!! Shuttles outside of shuttle times are chargeable with € 40.- per shuttle!
All shuttles and transports in and around Gutenstein will be provided for you twice a day for free between 9 a.m. – 8 p.m., except Monday July 21 (welcome dinner!) between 9 a.m.-9.30p.m.
Please book the supplementary package till May 30!
The application-and course fee is NOT included in the package and must be payed EXTRA!
Application deadline
Jul 12, 2025 (provided there are still free places)
Cancellation conditions
In the event of cancellation for whatever reason, the course fee will be refunded till July 16, later only if you can provide a substitute participant! Once you have completed the registration process, the registration fee will no longer be refunded!
General shuttle options !!!
Shuttles within Gutenstein and the surrounding area from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. are free twice a day. Shuttles outside of shuttle times must be registered 2 days in advance and are subject to a charge of € 13 per shuttle. Shuttles to Vienna or the airport are also subject to a charge (exception: participants with a supplementary package) and must be registered at the first day of masterclass!!!: € 40.- per shuttle.
Teaching language
German and English
Only 8 places are available! Book early!
Program
First meeting: Monday Jul 21 and Thursday, Jul 24, 10 a.m. at the Meierhof Gutenstein, Markt 2, 2770 Gutenstein (introducing of applicants, schedule of classes, house rules, transfers and shuttles)
Monday evening: Welcome dinner for all students of the class
KS Watson, 6 p.m. at the Meierhof!KS Linda Watson will work daily
approx. 30 minutes with every single singerEach participant is guaranteed 30 minutes daily accompaniment with Manfred Schiebel or Maximilian Schamschula.
If you want to perform a trio (voice, piano and viola), please let us know: office@meisterklassen-gutenstein.at. We are very much interested in interactions between the voice and viola class!
Saturday, Jul 26, 2025
11 a.m.: mass at the church Mariahilfberg
Who wants to sing a song, please let us know in time (office@meisterklassen-gutenstein.at)
at the stage piano: Manfred Schiebel/Maximilian SchamschulaGeneral rehearsal at the Refektorium Servitenkloster Mariahilfberg, time will be announced by Prof. Watson in time.
4 p.m.: Concert of the voice class (optional interacting with some viola students)
About KS Linda Watson
The world-famous American singer Linda Watson is one of the best Wagnerian sopranos of our time. In addition to her incomparable dark timbre the conductors particularly appreciate her enormous flexibility and musicality, which has led her to collaborating with such artists as Leonard Bernstein, Claudio Abbado, Zubin Metha, Antonio Pappano, Christian Thielemann, Placido Domingo and many others. KS Watson was named Professor of Voice at the Music and Art Private University of the City of Vienna (MUK) in 2017.
This year KS Watson will share her valuable knowledge and artistic experience as part of a joint Masterclass with Prof. Gerhard Kahry. The Viennese opera - and concert singer was director of the Department of Voice and Music Theatre from 1986 to 1990, later he became Dean at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. After his successful singing career as a tenor Prof. Kahry has established himself as a prominent singing teacher. Through his pedagogical work numerous young talents found engagements at renowned opera houses.
They will be accompanied by Manfred Schiebel (Univ.Prof. MUK and MDW Vienna) and David Hausknecht (MDW Vienna).
About Manfred Schiebel
Manfred Schiebel was born in Vienna. At the age of seven, he started to join the "Mozart-Sängerknaben, Vienna", where his first music lessons began. Piano studies with Prof. Thomas Kreuzberger, as well as studies for conducting at the "Hochschule fuer Musik" in Vienna with Prof. Karl Oesterreicher, studies for accompaniment and coaching with Dr. Harald Goertz.
Since 1991 he has been teaching at the MUK University of Vienna (former conservatory) and since 2002 also at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna. He has repeatedly worked as an accompanist and coach with famous artists as E. Gruberova, E. Garanca, G. Bumbry, M. Zampieri, M. Erdmann, I. d’Arcangelo, F. Bonisolli, G. Taddei, L. Nucci, F. Furlanetto, S. Ramey, J. Botha, G. Tichy, R. Trost, W. Fink, Miroslav & Peter Dvorsky, Viennese Boys Choir, and many others with whom he gave already concerts on 5 differents continents. He also accompanied different masterclasses and worked with famous singing-teachers as Martha Eggerth, Helena Łazarska, Jewgenij Nesterenko, Krassimira Stoyanova, Leo Nucci, Walter Berry, Hilde Zadek, as well as he gave masterclasses himself for singers and pianists all over Europe and in Teheran and Havanna.
From 1994 to 2008 he was the musical director of the Choral Society „Young-Vienna“: Successful international concerts, as in Thailand for the Royal Family.
Some years ago he founded a piano four-hands duo with the polish pianist Marcin Kozieł, with whom he had concerts at different places in Austria, Poland, Italy and Latvia.
Since 2011 he has been the musical director of the chamber music festival „Klassik im Advent“ in Carinthia/Austria.
His extensive repertoire, reaching from the classical song and oratorio via opera to operetta and musical, but also including chamber music and the Viennese art and Austrian folk music, makes him a much sought-after accompanist. Since he was the musical director of the Nestroy-Festival at Burg Liechtenstein with late Elfriede Ott in 1993, he has been dealing with theater music and chansons more intensively.
Concerts, CD-recordings as choir director, pianist and organist, as well as appearances on TV and radio broadcasting in several continents are rounding off his activities.