The collaboration with the International Chant Academy in the USA continues: from 14 October to 18 November 2026 Marsja teaches six online study days on the music of Hildegard von Bingen. This autumn series takes a new form.
We work intensively with three chants, each one more challenging than the previous, approaching every chant from two directions. The A-sessions start from the manuscript: learning to read Hufnagel notation and to make it sound in the voice. The B-sessions explore the same chant in an interdisciplinary way, through language, imagery, musical gesture, modality, theology and the structure of the text. You can follow one track, one complete chant (A+B), or the entire series of six sessions.
Sessions are live via Zoom, with a maximum of four active participants each, plus additional auditor seats. Ideal for those who are unable to reach the Hildegard Study Days near ’s-Hertogenbosch due to distance or time constraints. For dates, times, tuition and registration see this page, or subscribe to the newsletter.
Marsja Mudde Muziek: experienced in giving experience
Experienced in giving experience is the motto of Marsja Mudde Muziek and what Marsja stands for as a person and musician. According to her, making music is really an experience profession. As a musician you are trained based on what the teacher experiences while listening to you. And through a lot of repetition and practice with the teacher’s feedback, or after a lot of experience, you master the subject.
Graduation is not the end of gaining experience. Time and time again, learning and experiencing remain paramount, for example when researching and practicing new repertoire.
Experience also helps to become better at teaching. Getting better at listening to the student, hearing what is going well and what isn’t going well, and guiding the student to learn through experience.
Performing music can also be described as letting the audience experience what the repertoire does to the musician and to them. And in the contact with the audience and with the content and experience intended by the text author and the composer, it is in that contact that Marsja experiences the greatest professional joy!
