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The Ruhr Piano Festival Education texts and photos. Come visit us by clicking on
Program www.klavierfestival.de/education.

With its award-winning educational activities, The Ruhr Piano Festival’s exemplary educational
the Ruhr Piano Festival encourages hundreds projects have been crowned with several
of children, teenagers, and young adults to important awards and prizes – most recently,
develop their creative talent by helping them First Prize at MIXED UP 2018, the German
discover the fascinating universe of piano National Competition of Cultural Partnerships.
repertoire and classical music. We lay special
emphasis on joint projects that contribute Music education in early childhood:
to long-term growth in our region (such as the Little Piano School and the KlavierGarten
the Little Piano School); we provide continual
support for children and teenagers living in A playful approach to music holds great
difficult social circumstances (with our potential for learning and development: that
engagement over the past eleven years in the is the main focus of our Little Piano School
borough of Duisburg-Marxloh), and we design project and its extension to nursery schools,
innovative formats to introduce classical music called KlavierGarten. In small groups, children
to new audiences, as on our Internet platform from ages two to six attend workshops that
www.explorethescore.org. are held twice a week and introduce them to
the great world of music via the piano. Guided
The following pages present our main areas of by specially trained teachers, the children
educational activity in 2019. The section discover the piano’s great variety of timbres,
“Unsere Konzerte” in this booklet provides learn notes by using a color scheme, move
further information on all public events that and dance to music, sing and make music
will take place during the Piano Festival. And together in ensembles. Much of this initiative’s
the Ruhr Piano Festival website offers an up- ongoing success stems from close cooperation
to-date overview of all our educational offers between the Ruhr Piano Festival, the Folkwang
and events. There you will not only find infor- Music School, the Folkwang University of
mation about current and past projects; you the Arts, the Protestant Church District of
can also gain concrete insight into our ongoing Gladbeck-Bottrop-Dorsten, and Kim Monika
educational activity through a series of videos, Wright, the founder of the Little Piano School.

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