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KlavierGarten. In small groups, children from
ages two to six attend workshops that take
place twice a week and introduce them to the
great world of music via the piano. Guided
by specially trained teachers, the children
discover the piano’s great variety of timbres,
learn notes by using a color scheme, move
and dance to music, sing and make music
together in ensembles. Much of this initiative’s
ongoing success stems from close cooperation
between the Ruhr Piano Festival, the Folk-
wang Music School, the Folkwang University
of the Arts, the Protestant Church District of
Gladbeck-Bottrop-Dorsten, and Kim Monika
Wright, the founder of the Little Piano School.
Currently, approx. 350 children are able to
attend workshops organized by the Little Piano
School and the KlavierGarten. This is possible
because these modules, initiated in 2006 by
Prof. Franz Xaver Ohnesorg, are not only on
offer at Folkwang Music School, but also at
19 nurseries and kindergartens in the cities
of Bottrop, Dorsten, Essen, Gladbeck, Marl,
and Recklinghausen. All project partners are
strongly committed to providing socially dis­
advantaged children with long-term support.
For this purpose we have established an equal-
access fund that allows all children to attend the social and economic circumstances. Here is
KlavierGarten workshops independently of
their parents’ economic status. This is made
possible by energetic support from institutions
Tanzpädagogin Petra Jebavy mit Schülern der
Grundschule Sandstraße
such as the Association of Friends and Promoters
of the Ruhr Piano Festival and the Deutsche
Bank Foundation.
Are you interested in learning more about
the Little Piano School and the KlavierGarten?
We look forward to hearing from you. Don’t
hesitate to write an e-mail to the following
address: lps@klavierfestival.de.
The Festival’s special engagement in a local
neighborhood: Duisburg-Marxloh
What kind of fruitful long-term effects can cul-
tural education achieve in difficult neighbor-
hoods? What positive tendencies can we set in
motion when selected schools join forces and
work together in Ruhr Piano Festival projects
over a period of several years? What kind of
synergies can emerge when primary and secon­
dary schoolchildren dance and make music
with children who have special needs? Do
music and dance hold a potential that provides
concrete, effective support for children from
newly arrived immigrant families?
Marxloh is a borough of the City of Duisburg
where many children are growing up in difficult
where the Ruhr Piano Festival is searching for
answers to these questions in cooperation with
five local schools. Starting with just a few
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