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Currently, approx. 350 children are able to The Festival’s special engagement in a local
attend workshops organized by the Little Piano neighborhood: Duisburg-Marxloh
School and the KlavierGarten. This is possible
because these modules, initiated in 2006 by Marxloh is a socially disadvantaged neigh-
Prof. Franz Xaver Ohnesorg, are not only on borhood located in the north of the city of
offer at Folkwang Music School, but also at Duisburg. The Ruhr Piano Festival has devoted
21 nurseries and kindergartens in the cities eleven years to the creation of a project in
of Bottrop, Dorsten, Essen, Gladbeck, Marl, Marxloh that is widely regarded as a benchmark
and Recklinghausen. All project partners are in terms of cultural engagement. Six schools
strongly committed to providing socially have gathered their forces under the auspices
disadvantaged children with long-term support. of the Festival in order to provide disadvan-
For this purpose we have established an equal- taged children and teenagers with long-term
access fund that allows all children to attend access to quality cultural education. This
the KlavierGarten workshops independently encourages them to develop their creative
of their parents’ economic status. In order abilities and reinforces their character. In the
to ensure the project’s long-term success, course of the 2018 – 2019 school year, over
we will start training the sixth generation of 600 pupils of primary, secondary, and special
Little Piano School teachers in early 2019. They schools will participate in workshops where
will follow a two-year training syllabus that they work and play with short piano pieces by
qualifies them to apply this special pedagogical composers ranging from Beethoven to George
method. Moreover, a new kindergarten in the Benjamin; another prominently featured work
city of Essen will likewise serve as a training is Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. On the basis of
institution for young teachers. those pieces, they develop their own original
compositions and choreographies. In the work-
Are you interested in learning more about the shops, they are encouraged and motivated by
Little Piano School and the KlavierGarten? their own teachers, by university students, and
We look forward to hearing from you. Don’t by the choreographers Petra Jebavy, Erika Pico,
hesitate to write us: lps@klavierfestival.de Bianca Pulungan, and Yasha Wang, along with
renowned music educator Richard McNicol.

Abschlusspräsentation
der Schüler der Regenbogenschule

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