52nd ESTA Conference in Porto 2024
52nd International ESTA Conference Porto 2024 We are happy to announce that ESTA Portugal will...
51st ESTA Conference in Cardiff 2023
Held in the historic capital of Wales The conference main theme was the celebration of...
50. ESTA Conference in Graz 2022 is finished
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49th ESTA Online Conference 2021
49th International ESTA Conference OnLine 2021 Articles and videos Click here for full details.
48th International ESTA Conference Porto 2020
48th International ESTA Conference Porto 2020
47th ESTA International Conference in Cremona 2019
47th ESTA International Conference in Cremona 26.4.-1.5.2019 On the first day, Friday 26th the congress...
The 46th ESTA International Conference took place in Malta from Tuesday 10th to Saturday 14th April 2018.
The theme of the Conference was "Cross-Strings II", a reminder of the previous Conference in...
Report on the 45th ESTA International Conference
The ESTA International Conference was held in Kazan from 26th to 30th May 2017. This...
The 44th ESTA International Conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia, 26th – 30th April 2016
STRINGS European Heritage The 44th ESTA International Conference was held in the most prestigious area...
43rd ESTA International Conference in Middelburg, The Netherlands, 22nd – 26th May 2015
Theme: Do-it-yourself The 43rd ESTA International Conference was held in the pretty town of Middelburg...
42nd International ESTA Conference, Dresden, 8 – 13 April 2014
The “Carl Maria von Weber” music academy in Dresden made its huge, atmospheric concert hall...
The 41st ESTA International Conference: Oxford, UK, 28th August – 1st September 2013
This Conference was held in - to quote Bruno Giuranna - 'the most ideal, prestigious...
The 40th ESTA International Conference Strings Attached: Porec, Croatia, 16th – 20th October 2012
This Conference was held in the 2000-year-old town of Poreč, situated on the Istrian peninsula...
The 39th ESTA International Conference, 1-5 June 2011, Falun, Sweden: Back to The Future
This Conference was called BACK TO THE FUTURE. The title can be seen as an...
38th International ESTA Conference in Bruges Belgium, 30. 4 – 4. 5.2010
“Cultural Polyphony” The board of ESTA Belgium-Flanders had its headquarters in the beautiful medieval town...
37th ESTA International Conference in Vienna, 3rd – 8th April 2009
This Conference had as its motto Haydn's words: “my language is understood throughout the world”...
The 36th ESTA International Conference, in Bern, Switzerland, 30th April – 4th May 2008
The content of this Conference was very well organised and thought out by a committee...
35th International ESTA Conference in Cremona, Italy, April 27th – May 2nd 2007
Dalla Foresta alla Musica String teachers from all over Europe, interested in furthering their own...
34th International ESTA Conference in Tallinn, Estonia, August 8th – 13th 2006
The old Hanseatic port of Tallinn, shaken up for centuries by strong occupying forces, was...
33rd International ESTA Conference in Valletta, Malta, March 19th – 24th 2005
This time, the Conference took place on the southern edge of Europe, on a Mediterranean...
32nd International ESTA Conference in Rotterdam, NL, August 16th – 21st 2004
The conference took place in several available halls within the Doelen Concert Hall building, home...
31st International ESTA Conference in Paris, April 14th – 19th 2003
The renowned Conservatoire Supérieure de Musique, housed nowadays in an ultra-modern building in the north...
30th International ESTA Congress in Middelfart, Denmark from 15 to 19 October 2002
This time ESTA met at Hindsgawl castle, a most picturesque conference venue on the island...
29th International ESTA Congress together with the Kodály Society from 6 to 11 August 2001 in Helsinki/Finland
The "super father" of Finish music, Jan Sibelius, has dominated the education of string players...
28th International ESTA Congress in Odessa/Ukraine 7 – 11 June, 2000
This Congress was held at a venue of great historical significance for all string players,...
27th International ESTA Congress “Strings 99” in Portsmouth/UK, 6 – 10 April, 1999
This Congress was overshadowed by the unexpected death of Lord Yehudi Menuhin. The social programme...
26th International ESTA Congress in Trieste/Italy, 12 – 17 September, 1998
One of the reasons for the choice of this venue was to make it easier...
25th International ESTA Congress in San Lorenzo de El Escorial/Spain, 1 – 6 April 1997
In a former monastery, opposite the Escorial of Felipe IInd, ESTA was received for the...
23rd International ESTA Congress at Schloss Elmau/Germany, 15 – 21 April 1996
"Homo ludeus" — was a motto that opened up plenty of room to move or...
22nd International ESTA Congress in Budapest/Hungry, 6 – 11 April 1995
"Béla Bartók and His Compositions" - a programme like this was bound to focus on the...
21st International ESTA Congress in Salzburg/Austria, 9 – 16 April 1994
"On the Occasion of the 350th Birthday of Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber" the cover of the...
20th International ESTA Congress in St. Moritz/Switzerland, 3 – 8 October, 1993
It was tor the third time that Switzerland had organised an International Congress, and again...
Planned 19th International ESTA Congress in Lille/France, 6-11 May, 1992
Because of insurmountable financial difficulties Bernard Wacheux had to cancel the Congress at short notice....
18th International ESTA Congress in Arvika (Ingesund), Sweden/Oslo, Norway, 8-14 June, 1991
The idea of holding the Congress in thinly populated Värmland proved to be an excellent...
17th International ESTA Congress in Strasbourg/France, 4 – 6 May, 1990
"Strasbourg will be different," promised Fritz Händschke already in the invitation to this truly unique...
16th International Congress in Manchester/Great Britain 28 March – 2 April, 1989
R. Seiffert could not have put it more appropriately by describing this extraordinary Congress as...
15th International ESTA Congress in Rome/Italy, 9 – 1 May, 1988
In his opening address Giorgio Cambissa, Director of the Academia di Santa Cecilia in Rome,...
14th International ESTA Congress in Leeuwenhorst/Netherlands, 21 – 27 April, 1987
Already in 1980 the Congress Centre of Leeuwenhorst had proved to be an ideal venue....
13th International ESTA Congress in Copenhagen, Denmark/Malmö, Sweden, 28 April – 2 May, 1986
The motto of the Congress was: "Artistic and Pedagogical Aspects of Chamber music". Referring to this...
12th International ESTA Congress in Braunschweig/FRG, 30 March – 4 April, 1985
Inspired by the "European Year of Music", the general topic chosen by the Braunschweig organisers....
11th International ESTA Congress in Bern/Switzerland, 11-18 April, 1984
"Bern is located on the most beautiful road of the world" wrote Goethe once. Like...
10th International ESTA Congress in Dresden/GDR, 5 – 12 April, 1983
The “stepping out” of a solo string instrument from the orchestra at the beginning of…
9th International ESTA Congress in Graz/Austria, 13 – 20 April, 1982
I myself had put all my ambition into this Jubilee Congress and worked, together with...
8th International ESTA Congress in Edinburg/Great Britain 9 – 16 April, 1981
First of all, it should be mentioned that Max Rostal had received two high distinctions:...
7th International ESTA Congress in Leeuwenhorst/Netherlands 8 – 15 April 1980
“I wish I could describe every Congress and every lecture as appropriately as I do…
6th International ESTA Congress in Stockholm, Sweden/Helsinki, Finland 5 – 12 June, 1979
What was special about this Congress was that, for the first time, two cities were...
5th International ESTA Congress in Vienna/Austria, 28 March to 4 April, 1978
It was for the first time that an International Congress was held in a big...
4th International ESTA Congress in Appenzell/Switzerland, 30 March – 6 April, 1977
Apart from the picturesque village itself located ideally at an altitude of 800 m, th-e…
3rd International ESTA Congress at Schloss Elmau/Germany 22-29 April, 1976
The unique atmosphere of Schloss Elmau, which we still remember vividly from 1996, had captured...
2nd International ESTA Congress in Canterbury/Great Britain, 6 – 13 April, 1975
A brilliant development was experienced by British Branch of ESTA already in its 2nd year,...
1st International ESTA Congress in Klagenfurt/Austria, 1 – 6 April, 1974
It had been a great wish of Marianne Kroemer to organise the 1st International ESTA...