About LMFL
Language and Music for Life
was born in Spring 1997 and is committed to
providing training in both music and foreign languages to students of all
ages, with a lower age limit of 10 years old for the main Summer course, from 4
to 10 years old for the Junior
Course and no upper age limit.
The first LMFL summer course was held in
1997 and has grown in size and quality ever since.
While remaining a partnership in the UK, on December 15th
2011, LMFL became a n on-profit
organisation in Shengen Continental Europe
We organise:
Residential and non
residential courses: the
Musical Summer Courses
In Venice
course for Advanced students
In Wales, UK,
in
Ordino Andorra
Language and music summer course for young children (4 to 10 inclusive)
Residential and
non-residential Spring and Autumn small Languages and Music Course
Our approach to learning:
Our music and language project functions in
a context which is rich in individual ability, motivation, language,
culture and generations.
Learning is not to be restricted to its
manifestation in performance, though this is an essential part, but is to
be intimately linked to the dynamics of the whole individual who is able to
learn while changing, and able to change while learning.
Our linguistic premise: a language is
learned not just for its own sake but also for a purpose. Language is used
to communicate, to organise music making with others, to facilitate
professional development and because we want to enjoy exchanges with those
whom we have chosen to be with, and like, and because we don't want to live
like a "foreigner" in an English speaking environment.
We learn a language to live and, as the
name of our organisation puts it, to survive.
Our music project:
We have a dual approach
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· Music for keen amateurs: participants are required to
have a minimum of Grade 7 in one instrument, while the second or third
instrument can be of a lower grade.
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· Music for future professionals: we prepare
young instrumentalists for entrance auditions for the Higher Music Schools
(Royal College of Music, Trinity College of Music, Royal Academy,
Guildhall, or Conservatoires Supérieurs de Musique etc…
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Please note that for
non-English speakers, who wish to enter the Royal
College of Music, Royal Academy, Guildhall, acquiring an acceptable level of spoken
English is a must. We
provide this sort of coaching during the course
Our Annual International Language and Music Courses
 The
Founder and organizer
of the course is music lover, pedagogue and psychoanalyst, Arlette Herrenschmidt.Moller
She prepares each course with great care
and passion in conjunction with the Artistic Directors, Jean-Luc Borsarello, Matthias Dulack (conductor) , William Godfree, our choir master , and the Director of
Language, Dr Alan D Moller.
She is bilingual in French and English and
has some knowledge in German, Spanish, Telugu and Hindi
She is the mother of 6 children
Anne-Sophie, Marine, (voice) Axelle
(clarinet) Grégoire (voice), Fleur Herrenschmidt,
barrister, singer and pianist and Ashley Herrenschmidt-Moller,
Airbus engineer, oboist, singer and composer.
They all play an instrument, some two, and
they all sing. All are bilingual (English and French) most have German as a
foreign language, one speaks Telugu and Tamil, and
one some Hindi and Bahasa Melayu.
She
is grandmother to 15 grandchildren.
We have in alternate two Artistic Directors
Jean-Luc Borsarello and Matthias Dulack
 Jean-Luc Borsarello, Violinist Artistic Director
Jean-Luc
Borsarello obtained his first prize for violin at
the Conservatoire National Regional de Toulon at the age of 14 and entered
the Conservatoire National de Musique de Paris
where he won a medal for violin (first class) in June 1968.
He is a member of the Orchestre
de Chambre de Versailles and of the Orchestre Lyrique in the
Paris Opera.
He is leader of the Borsarello
String Trio, which has performed in France, Japan, New
Caledonia, Malaysia, Australia, Germany and U.S.A and made numerous CDs. He has also
given interpretation classes in Japan and at the Flaine
Summer Academy in France. Jean-Luc Borsarello is
on the permanent staff of the official music school in Montgeron
and has recently been appointed to the Conservatoire National Regional de
Versailles.
Jean-Luc is a born teacher. His rich, warm
and gentle personality is reflected in his music as well as in his
paintings.
He is father of 6 children Hugues,
professional violinist, Delphine, professional
cellist) Mathilde (professional
violinist), Camille (professional violist), Gauthier professional double
bassist and Baptiste actor student and oboist.
He is the doting grandfather of Fée Capuçon and India Hermann
Matthias Dulack,
Artistic Director
Matthias Dulack is member-founder and cellist of the
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
 Dutch-born conductor Mathis
Dulack began as a cellist and pianist.
He took up conducting
at the Musikhochschule in Vienna where
he studied under Otmar Suitner,
and later with Celibidache and Franco Ferrara.
A finalist in the International Toscanini
Conducting Competition in 1986, he kept up his instrumental skills as first
cellist with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe (of which he was also a
founder member), having the opportunity to play under conductors such as
von Karajan, Bernstein, Solti, Maazel and Abbado.
During his formative period as a conductor in the early 1990s, Mathis
Dulack co-founded and conducted the well-known ensemble Klangforum Wien and
was appointed to the Cleveland Orchestra as assistant conductor to
Christoph von Dohnanyi. Dulack moved on to conduct several productions at
the opera houses in Frankfurt, Darmstadt and Aachen. His involvement in an
operatic version of Schoenberg's song cycle Pierrot
Lunaire was a great success at the Salzburg
Festival, repeated in New York.
From 1999 till 2002 Mathis Dulack was Principal Conductor of the Budapest
Chamber Symphony Orchestra and from that point onwards he has appeared with
- among other orchestras - the Vienna Kammerorchester,
the Vienna Pro Arte Orchestra, the Hungarian Radio Symphony, the Leipzig Gewandhaus, Sofia Philharmonic and the Basel Symphony
Orchestra, as well as at Gidon Kremer's Lockenhaus Festival. In September 2008 Dulack led the Orchestre National de Montpellier in a remarkable
première of an elaborated sketch of Wagner by Borstlap
at the opening concert of the season.
In 2009 Mathis Dulack
decided to take a sabbatical for cultural studies and deepening of his
repertoire, in combination with developing his country estate in Hungary
for cultural events. Since 2011 he is again available for concerts and
opera.
Between 1999 and 2004 Matthias Dulack taught conducting in the LMFL
Summer Courses and is now back to us
He is father of one.
Liguistic Director Dr.Alan
D. Moller
Dr Alan
Dallas Moller
 A British applied linguist
specialized in language testing, Alan D Moller, Ph.D
and Dip App Ling (Edinburgh), MA (Cantab), PGCE
(London).
Dr Alan Moller, a retired British Council Officer, has been Director of the
English Language Services Department of the British Council incorporating,
among other tasks, inspecting and advising language schools worldwide. He
wrote many of the BC Tests for English as a Foreign Language (mini platform
tests) still in use nowadays. He was actively involved with the
introduction of the ELTS (now IELTS) in 1989.
Alan was posted in Africa, Singapore, and Malaysia and was Cultural Attaché
at the New Delhi British High Commission in charge of organising the Henry
Moore Exhibition.
After retiring from the British Council, Alan has been full time Chief
Examiner for Trinity College London. Duties included academic
responsibility for the Certificate in TESOL, for the Diploma in TESOL, and
for the suite of Spoken English tests. On his departure from TCL in 1999,
these responsibilities were assigned to three different professionals.
In 2003, he was appointed Chair of Examiners for the London Tests of
English by the main British Examinations Board, EDEXCEL (London).
His Ph.D "A study in the validation of
proficiency tests of English as a Foreign Language" (Edinburgh 1981)
He Is Academic
Director for IATQuO
Its current activities are to validate the training of teachers of English as a Foreign Language in the various training centers for
teachers in Europe and Asia
He is the father of Dawn Bellino-Moller, linguist and organiser of events, mother of Mathis, cellist, of Dr; Joanne Arghiros-Moller, social
anthropologist ethnologist, mother
of three, and Ashley Herrenschmidt-Moller, Airbus engineer,
oboist, amateur singer and composer, father of two Adash and Alicia
Alan has 6 grandchildren
; some bilingual English, French and two trilingual English/French/Polish
Choir Director / Composer William
Godfree
 William
was born in London and was a student at the Guildhall School of Music and
Drama where he learned piano and composition. A musician for all seasons he
plays cello as well and jazz is also amongst his talents.
In 1976, after a period of study at Oxford, he
started teaching, and was until 2009 Head of Music at Highfield
School in Liphook. He now concentrates only on composing .
He has trained
various choirs in the South East, from Twickenham to Haslemere,
as well as conducting the Dolmetsch Summer School
Choir for some years.
When he is not teaching, he pursues a career as a composer, having written
music for television, theatre and the concert hall.
His ŒFolia Variations¹, commissioned by the organist
Christopher Herrick, were premiered in 1985 at the Newbury Festival and
broadcast on Radio 3; his Requiem
has been sung frequently in London, Paris, Norway and elsewhere.
His stage musical ŒInjuns¹, a wild-west
re-working of The Tempest, was published in 1994 and was recently revived.
He
has written several other stage musicals, cantatas for children, 3 suites
for school orchestras and the music for the BBC drama series, 'The Little
World of Don Camillo'. His piece for narrator and
orchestra, 'Aladdin and the Magic Lamp', a Southern Orchestral Concerts
Society commission, was premiered in Spring 2002. Last autumn he had an
opera and a choral symphony premiered within a fortnight of each other.
For relaxation he plays music of the Œ20s and Œ30s with the Add Hock trio
and performs in cabaret with Hampshire MP Michael Mates. He is father of two.
Each contributes to the course a wealth of
specialist knowledge and a shared caring for quality in their respective
fields.
For English-speaking students we offer opportunities
to learn or improve French (FFL), German (GFL), Spanish (SFL) Italian (IFL)
as well as Russian (conversational for advanced students only) as Foreign
Languages.
Classes are conducted by specialist
teachers, all of whom are native speakers.
We offer quality tuition in intensive
English by specialist teachers of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) who
are themselves native speakers.
The language classes can be taken in small
groups or one to one, according to the student's precise needs.
Group classes consist of 4 to 8 students.
The basic course,
consisting of one, two or three one hour sessions a day, aims to help
develop competency in oral communication,
to develop a more in-depth knowledge of grammar, and to enrich the
student’s vocabulary by using appropriate teaching material suited to
individual needs.
A range of different types of material is
used, including video and audio cassettes, but the accent is
always on improving listening and speaking skills.
The Music Tutors
The music tutors are all experienced
teachers and internationally known performers. During the course they
expect their students to  work
between each tutorial. An updated list of teachers with their
qualifications and CVs is o this website at Faculty
There are
master classes in harp, flute, piccolo, piano, violin, viola, double
bass, recorder for professional students
The Jazz
Programme is coordinated by Alex Forsyth
Alex Forsyth
has taught woodwind since 1989.
Saxophone flute and bass guitar
He works in
a variety of schools and colleges in Surrey and Hampshire, playing in his
own jazz quartet and folk groups and recording as a session musician for
several amateur and professional groups.
He has
played saxophone, flute, and bass clarinet for both amateur and
professional theatre groups,
recorded
for broadcasts on local radio and BBC Radio 2.
Alex has
conducted jazz workshops for organisations such as the Sidmouth
Festival, Hindhead Music Studios and South Hill
Park Arts Centre.Alex got his Licentiate Diploma
from London Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
The jazz
programme allows students to develop techniques of jazz improvisation
and to apply these skills within the context and disciplines of small jazz
groups. All students are given tuition in their own instruments and the
opportunity to play a variety of styles of music in small groups directed
by the tutors.
All tutors
are experienced teachers as well as skilled improvisers.
The Language Tutors
The language tutors have received
specialised training in foreign language teaching and are all native
speakers or true bilingual of the language they teach
Almost all of them are musician.
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