{"id":16045,"date":"2025-01-20T17:22:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T17:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/?p=16045"},"modified":"2025-01-20T17:26:49","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T17:26:49","slug":"cancelled-conducting-course-pockets-applicants-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/2025\/01\/20\/cancelled-conducting-course-pockets-applicants-fees\/","title":{"rendered":"Cancelled Conducting Course Pockets Applicants\u2019 Fees"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Two conducting courses organized by Davide Cicchetti for June and November 2024 are still yet to take place. Applicants claim they have not been refunded their application fees.<\/p>\n

The scoop:<\/strong> The classical music website Musical Chairs reports<\/a> that two conducting courses organized by Davide Cicchetti for November and June 2024 have yet to take place. The clincher? The organization has pocketed applicants\u2019 application fees, although they promise to refund them at some point. Cicchetti published an online letter, citing financial difficulties and claiming not to be a pirate. He says that applicants have no right to accuse him of fraud.<\/p>\n

Digging deeper:<\/strong> During his performance career, the tenor Davide Cicchetti<\/a> appeared in productions with the Op\u00e9ra Comique, Op\u00e9ra Vichy and Op\u00e9ra de Lausanne, amongst other companies. As an organizer, he has produced competitions including the Dorati, Mendelssohn, Op\u00e9ra de Nice, the EU Conducting Competition, Almaty Conducting Competition, and numerous masterclasses.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, this isn\u2019t the first time<\/a> aspiring conductors have cried fraud over expensive masterclasses held in Italy. Many festivals are known for over-promising and under-delivering at high price tags for applicants. A cautionary tale for those hoping to train in an already precarious field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two conducting courses organized by Davide Cicchetti for June and November 2024 are still yet to take place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":16046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[488,3],"tags":[507],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/01\/Davide-Cicchetti.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16045"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16045"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16049,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16045\/revisions\/16049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16045"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=16045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}