Mozarteum Foundation, Salzburg, Austria
Today, working with children and young people is a standard part of every music institution. Often, when young people are introduced to concert halls and opera houses, they are able to win over future generations as audiences.
For the Mozarteum Foundation, the approach is clearly based on its eponymous multi-talent Mozart, with whom children and young people of all ages can identify and whose biography provides endless ideas for the most diverse approaches to music education. By combining in-depth musical study and joyful musical experiences the Mozarteum Foundation program is a recipe to success.
Objectives
Building bridges between the established music sector and the field of Music for Social Change
Promoting the Mozarteum Foundation’s youth program and children
Project description
The aim of the cooperation between the Mozarteum Foundation Salzburg and the Hilti Foundation is to promote and further develop the Mozarteum Foundation’s comprehensive children and youth program. This includes the `Klangkarton´ program, which offers age-appropriate concert experiences for children and young people of different ages, as well as the Mozart Children Orchestra which was founded in 2012 and has become a fixed component of the annual Mozart Week program. In this orchestra, young musicians between the ages of 8 and 13 years gain fundamental experience of playing in an orchestra and are familiarized with the repertoire of their great role model W.A. Mozart. Many talented young musicians find their way to further education through this orchestra.
The partnership with the Mozarteum Foundation also includes regular collaboration with the Iberacademy Medellin, through which musicians from Colombia participate in the annual Mozart Week and benefit from master classes and lessons with the leading musicians of the classical music scene. In return, teachers from Salzburg travel to Colombia and give lessons at the universities there.
Impact
In addition to the intensive work of the Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg, from which numerous children and young people benefit, around 80 young musicians from Colombia have been able to travel to Salzburg since the beginning of the collaboration. Once there, they have been able to gain insight into the Foundation's archives in addition to professional training, while Austrian guest professors in Colombia reached out to students of two universities in Medellin through master classes and individual instruction.
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