Music is my first love
This workshop starts with a brainstorm and exchange session: what does “homeland” mean, and what does it mean to you? Is the term “Europe” important to you, is it part of your daily lives? Together with two docents, give voice to your thoughts and ideas and make them resound on five workshop days. You will do lots of experimenting: trying out, sketching, combining and creating. Songs, stories, videos and pictures will be combined in multi-media compositions and presented to your families, friends and festival visitors at the big Family Day at the Konzerthaus Berlin.
Age: 10-14 years
Time: 10-16 h
Location: Podewil Berlin, Klosterstraße 68, 10179 Berlin
Docent: Claas Krause and Philip Seybold
For approx. 20 participants
Have you always wanted to know what people sing in other European countries, and what kinds of music they listen to? At Young Euro Classic, every year there are many young musicians who come together because of their love for classical music. But of course there are other kinds of music too where they come from: folk songs and pop songs which reflect the heartbeat of their country, of their homeland. Get to know such melodies in this workshop, and start experimenting with them. Together with your docent, a band and the workshop “European Jam”, you will compose your own hymn in which your musical experiences during this work will be reflected. On the Family Day, you present your results, and of course, in a grand final performance, your own Hymn for Europe!
Age: 6-14 years
Time: 10-14 h
Location: Podewil Berlin, Klosterstraße 68, 10179 Berlin
Docent: Defne Şahin
For approx. 20 participants per group
This workshop is all about you and your musical instinct – you will learn how it feels to improvise and let something new arise – together, playfully. Guided by two docents, you will try out musical forms from different European countries, make music with the musicians of those youth orchestras who are present and thereby actively learn about the great cultural diversity of music. Together with the workshop “European Chorus”, you will compose a new hymn of your own, to be performed on stage on our Family Day in a grand finale. Furthermore, you will plan a musical performance for this day – a chance for you to show all the things you have learned during this week.
This workshop requires some instrumental skills!
Age: 10-14 years
Time: 10-16 h
Location: Podewil Berlin, Klosterstraße 68, 10179 Berlin
Docent: Maximilian Guth and Daniel Seminara
For approx. 20 participants
Does music work the same way all over the world? Why does music from elsewhere occasionally sound weird to our ears? And how might one big musical Europe sound? For five days, we embark upon a journey together. Accompanied by two docents, you will meet a composer, a journalist and an instrument maker, a set designer and a music and movement pedagogue. In a colourful, playful workshop full of experimentation, find creative answers to all these questions and build your own island of sound. The final result will be a big space where the visitors to our Family Day can experience your ideas.
Age: 6-10 years
Time: 10-16 h
Location: Podewil Berlin, Klosterstraße 68, 10179 Berlin
Docent: Rebekka Gebert and Mara Scheibinger
For 20 participants
If you’ve always wanted to know what the life of a festival reporter looks like, this workshop is for you. Together with an experienced music journalist, you will get to know the festival from a different perspective: you will attend orchestra rehearsals, have fascinating conversations with the musicians, and will learn in writing workshops how these experiences can be put into words – and so you will produce features by young people for young people. You will accompany the festival’s events, but will also report on the junior festival and the grand finale, the Family Day. All your contributions will be collected in a special festival blog which documents your work beyond the festival. Don’t miss this chance!
Age: 12-16 years
Time: 10-16 h
Location: Podewil Berlin, Klosterstraße 68, 10179 Berlin
Docent: Julia Kaiser
For approx. 12 participants
© Christina Körte
Lea Philippa Heinrich studied music pedagogy (piano and jazz saxophone) as well as Spanish / Latin American Studies at the Berlin University of the Arts, Berlin’s Free University and at the Universidad de Granada in Spain. She was a fellow of the Second Masterclass on Music Education of the Körber Foundation and holds a certificate in Culture and Media Management from the Hamburg Academy of Music and Theatre. Since 2012 she has managed the music education programme of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, coordinating activities such as the Symphonic Mob, among others.
From 2015 to 2019 she was a guest docent and member of the academic staff for music education, management for musicians and interdisciplinary professionalization at the Hanns Eisler Music Academy in Berlin. She also taught at the Detmold Music Academy.
Lea Philippa Heinrich has worked on the artistic, conceptual and organizational aspects of various music projects, e.g. for the Berlin Philharmonic’s education department, the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and the Umculo Cape Festival in South Africa. In 2015 she chaired the audience jury for the European Composer Award of the Young Euro Classic festival.
She has moderated concerts at the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Music Festival, the Kulturförderpunkt Berlin and as a music curator for the sculpture composition series at the Bode Museum in Berlin.
© Marc Wilhelm
Claas Krause studied musicology, jazz guitar and composition in Heidelberg, Hamburg, Munich and New York. As a composer, musician, producer and DJ, he writes acoustic and electronic works for formations ranging from string quartets to punk bands, from solo tuba to symphony orchestra. Together with Christopher Verworner, he led the Verworner-Krause-Kammerorchester (VKKO), with which he won the D-Bü Competition of the German Music Academies in the category “originality” in 2017. Claas Krause has held fellowships from Cité Des Arts Paris and the Toepfer Foundation in Hamburg, and has received commissions for compositions from the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra and the Neukölln Opera. He also gives interactive music workshops in schools, kindergartens and family centres.
© Frank Rottmann
Having studied German literature and theatre studies and held various assistant positions in the film and television fields, Philip Seybold (b. 1988) worked in the theatre (e.g. under Meg Stuart and Nicolas Stemann). During this time, he developed his own musical theatre projects and began experimenting with live video. Together with the chamber orchestra VerwornerKrauseKammerOrchester, he won the D-Bü Prize for provocation and innovation in Berlin in 2017. Since 2017 he has been living and working in Vienna; there, his theatre and film work has been presented at the musical theatre festival Wien Modern, among others.
© Dovile Sermokas
Defne Şahin studied jazz vocals at the Berlin University of the Arts and at the Escola Superior de Musica in Barcelona. In 2014 she received a Master of Music in vocal jazz performance from the Manhattan School of Music in New York. As a jazz singer and composer, she has developed a musical idiom which reflects her life in different cultures and countries. Born and raised in Berlin, the young musician has lived in Turkey, Spain, Brazil and most recently in New York. Internationally, she has performed in numerous jazz clubs and at festivals. Both as a singer, band leader and composer, she has won the Studio Prize of Berlin’s Senate, the Popcamp award of the German Music Council and the Elsa Neumann Scholarship. Defne Şahin has led many children’s and adult choruses in Brazil, New York, Berlin and Potsdam. She has worked with the Sing! project of the Berlin Radio Chorus, the Academy of the Arts, the Manhattan School of Music and many church and school choirs. Defne Şahin currently lives in Berlin, where she teaches vocal jazz performance at the University of the Arts.
© Markus Wolter
Having completed his musical studies at the Institute for Junior Training at the Hanover Academy of Music, Theatre and Media (IFF) in 2009 with honours, Maximilian Guth studied music pedagogy with a focus on composition as well as protestant theology from 2010 to 2017. Since October 2017 he has been studying historical and contemporary composition at the Hanns Eisler Music Academy in Berlin. Maximilian Guth has received national and international awards for his compositions (e.g. a First Prize at the international composition competition of the Hamburg Camerata). Since 2015 he has been the artistic director of the Camerata Medica in Göttingen. He has worked with renowned ensembles, e.g. ensemble recherche, Staatskapelle Halle, the ensemble Horizonte, the Sächsische Bläserphilharmonie and the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie. The particular focus of his artistic work is on intercultural dialogue, with an active interest in other musical cultures. Apart from the Camerata Medica in Göttingen, he has also been the founder, composer and artistic director of the intercultural and international Asambura Ensemble since 2014. Both ensembles have joined forces to give several performances of his intercultural oratorio MessiaSASAmbura.
© Krystyna Bierek
Daniel Seminara was born in 1989 in Domodossola, Italy. In 2015, he completed his master’s degree with honors at the University of Music Theater and Media Hannover with Prof. Frank Bungarten and in 2018 Seminara obtained the Diploma in Discipline Musicali di II Livello at the Conservatorio “A. Boito “Parma completed. In addition he completed a bachelor’s degree in “Management for the Arts, Culture and Communication” at the Bocconi University of Milan. His artistic activity moves between old and contemporary music, with a special focus on chamber music and improvisation. As a guitarist, Daniel has undergone a wide variety of training in Italy and Germany, specializing in contemporary music, as well as premiering many works.Daniel is a successful winner of various competitions, e.g. 1st Prize at the Concorso di Stresa, 2nd prize at the Concorso Città di Voghera and 2nd prize at the Riviera della Versilia “D. Ridolfi”. Currently Daniel is a scholarship holder of the Fondazione Cini in Venice and an artist at Open Strings Berlin artist
© Tam Lan Truong
Mara Scheibinger trained as a women’s bespoke tailor and studied set and costume design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden with Barbara Ehnes, Kattrin Michel and Stefanie Wenner. During her studies at UQAM in Montreal, she created her first works for the theatre. She then worked as an assistant at the Frankfurt Opera and the Frankfurt Theatre. Since 2017 she has been a freelance set and costume designer. As part of the collective Emotional Labor Theater, she developed the piece Stollen. Work case scenario. Konferenztheater, which was performed in Dresden and Giessen. Most recently, she designed the sets and costumes for the world premiere of Mina at the Frankfurt Opera and the sets for Così fan tutte at the Aachen Theatre.
© Nari Hong
Julia Kaiser is a freelance journalist specialized in culture and cultural education. She regularly works for Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Deutschlandfunk, WDR, SWR and others. Since 2015 she has taught music education in the postgraduate department at the Detmold Music Academy. She has been developing the project www.jungereporter.eu for many years. As part of these journalistic academies for young people, she passes on her experience as a journalist and her fascination with her profession to children, teenagers and young adults. Julia Kaiser regularly leads JungeReporter projects at numerous music festivals in Germany and abroad, including the Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival, the Hitzacker Summer Music Days and the Davos Festival for Young Artists, at Ultraschall Berlin, MaerzMusik and the Musikfest Berlin. For the initiative “Rhapsody in School”, she presented the project RhapsodyReporters in Berlin, at the Rügen Spring Festival and at the festival Spannungen in Heimbach. In 2019 she worked with young people at the festivals Ultraschall Berlin and ECLAT in Stuttgart.
Workshops for children and teenagers aged 6 to 14. Join a European youth choir, compose your own hymn, sway with the groove during jam sessions and conduct fascinating interviews as music journalists. (All workshops held in German.) Workshop fee: 6 € per participant.
All workshops take place in parallel between Tuesday and Saturday. Therefore, you can only apply for one workshop.
On our Family Day on July 28, 2019, you can present your results – and there is plenty more to discover at the Konzerthaus, together with your parents, siblings and friends! For more information, click here.
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