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Mit Farben Töne lernen Musik-Workshop
The following pages present a general overview he thus decided together with Richard McNi-
of our education and youth activities in 2016, col to bring the Little Piano School to the Ruhr
the year of their 10th anniversary. You will find Area. Over the following years, the Ruhr Piano
a current overview of all our activities and of- Festival continued to collaborate intensely with
fers on the Ruhr Piano Festival website. It not the Folkwang University of the Arts and the
only contains information about our current Folkwang Music School on this concept. Soon,
and past projects, but you can gain concrete what had started out as an open experiment
insight through a series of videos, texts and fledged into an internationally acclaimed,
photos. Simply click on www.klavierfestival.de/ award-winning model project in the area of
education or on our interactive education plat- early musical education. One of the keys to its
form www.explorethescore.org. success has been the method’s expansion and
adaptation to the needs of German kinder-
The Ruhr Piano Festival has received sever- garten level, and the concept has thus been
al outstanding public service awards for its correspondingly named KlavierGarten. Starting
Education Projects: the YEAH!-Award, Kinder in 2009, these workshops have not only been
zum Olymp, Junge Ohren, and twice the project on offer at Folkwang Music School, but also at
award Deutschland – Land der Ideen. Protestant kindergartens in the church dis-
tricts of Gladbeck-Bottrop-Dorsten and, most,
A musical playground! Little Piano School & recently, in Marl.
Klaviergarten
Approximately 300 children ages two to six
The Ruhr Piano Festival embarked on its first currently attend the Little Piano School or
specifically educational activity when it intro- KlavierGarten sessions twice a week. Our work-
duced the Little Piano School ten years ago to shops inspire these children to develop a play-
the Ruhr Piano Festival. Festival Director Franz ful approach to music, which, in turn, will have
Xaver Ohnesorg was looking for an approach beneficial effects on their learning capacity and
that would introduce preschool children to overall psychological development. Divided
music, using the piano in an imaginative, play- into specific age groups, the children explore
ful way – and he found what he was looking the piano, sing and move around together,
for in the method conceived by the Italian thereby learning to grasp music in a creative
music pedagogue Kim Monika Wright. The first way. An equal-access fund ensures that chil-
workshop in early 2006 was quite promising; dren from every kind of social background can
participate; the KlavierGarten is deliberately
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The following pages present a general overview he thus decided together with Richard McNi-
of our education and youth activities in 2016, col to bring the Little Piano School to the Ruhr
the year of their 10th anniversary. You will find Area. Over the following years, the Ruhr Piano
a current overview of all our activities and of- Festival continued to collaborate intensely with
fers on the Ruhr Piano Festival website. It not the Folkwang University of the Arts and the
only contains information about our current Folkwang Music School on this concept. Soon,
and past projects, but you can gain concrete what had started out as an open experiment
insight through a series of videos, texts and fledged into an internationally acclaimed,
photos. Simply click on www.klavierfestival.de/ award-winning model project in the area of
education or on our interactive education plat- early musical education. One of the keys to its
form www.explorethescore.org. success has been the method’s expansion and
adaptation to the needs of German kinder-
The Ruhr Piano Festival has received sever- garten level, and the concept has thus been
al outstanding public service awards for its correspondingly named KlavierGarten. Starting
Education Projects: the YEAH!-Award, Kinder in 2009, these workshops have not only been
zum Olymp, Junge Ohren, and twice the project on offer at Folkwang Music School, but also at
award Deutschland – Land der Ideen. Protestant kindergartens in the church dis-
tricts of Gladbeck-Bottrop-Dorsten and, most,
A musical playground! Little Piano School & recently, in Marl.
Klaviergarten
Approximately 300 children ages two to six
The Ruhr Piano Festival embarked on its first currently attend the Little Piano School or
specifically educational activity when it intro- KlavierGarten sessions twice a week. Our work-
duced the Little Piano School ten years ago to shops inspire these children to develop a play-
the Ruhr Piano Festival. Festival Director Franz ful approach to music, which, in turn, will have
Xaver Ohnesorg was looking for an approach beneficial effects on their learning capacity and
that would introduce preschool children to overall psychological development. Divided
music, using the piano in an imaginative, play- into specific age groups, the children explore
ful way – and he found what he was looking the piano, sing and move around together,
for in the method conceived by the Italian thereby learning to grasp music in a creative
music pedagogue Kim Monika Wright. The first way. An equal-access fund ensures that chil-
workshop in early 2006 was quite promising; dren from every kind of social background can
participate; the KlavierGarten is deliberately
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