There’s music in everyone

A highlight of the celebration “10 Years of Education” was the taged production of Benjamin Brittenʼs opera for children “Noyeʼs Fludde”. 300 children, amateur musicians from high schools in Berlin and members of the Berliner Philharmoniker under the baton of Simon Rattle transformed in a production by Jasmina Hadziahmetovic the main auditorium into an ark.

A good stretch: in preparation for singing, warm-up exercises are a must.

The purpose of this project is to promote local partnerships and neighbourly coexistence in addition to arts education and equal opportunities. The aim and highlight will be musical encounters between the musicians of the Berliner Philharmoniker and the “vocal heroes” in joint projects.

Crowds are fascinating. The many different emotions and sounds that arise from crowds are incorporated by composer David Lang in his work “Crowd Out”. More than 1,000 choristers performed Crowd Out at the festival at the Kulturforum in the summer of 2014 – an exciting experiment that you can relive in this documentary.

To the documentation

On rehearsal: the battle with the monster

Jonathan Dove’s children’s opera “The Monster in the Maze”, commissioned by the Berliner Philharmoniker Foundation, the London Symphony Orchestra and the International Festival of Aix-en-Provence, involves around 200 amateur singers.

To the concert

Creative project 2002: Maurice Ravel “L'Enfant et les Sortilèges”

Tolerance and openness - the last things you would expect to find in a prison, but it was exactly these attributes that led to the great success of this creative project.

Dance Project, vocal workshops and percussion workshops for Igor Stravinsky's “Le Sacre du printemps” during the guest appearance by the Berliner Philharmoniker in New York in November 2007.

School project based on Karl Stockhausens “Groups”

This creative project was operated in association with the orchestra's Alla turca chamber music series. With musical support by Philharmoniker members of the ensemble Bolero Berlin, the choreographer Rosemary Neri-Calheiros – together with students – developed new forms of movement to tango music from Latin America, which was heavily influenced by the composer Astor Piazolla. For the performance, the choreography created was musically reinterpreted by the musicians.

“Feuer fängt mein Herz” was an educational project at the Salzburg Easter Festival in 2010. An extremely exciting 50 minutes in which pupils, students and adults, who had worked together over a period of three weeks, put their view of Richard Wagner's "Götterdämmerung" up for discussion.

The creative projects inspire not only the young participants but also the Berliner Philharmoniker themselves, here the violist Matthew Hunter.

Based on Schumann’s “Scenes from Goethe’s Faust”, pupils from Berlin secondary schools will use their own ideas to explore the literary masterpiece “Faust” by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Under the direction of orchestral members Thomas Leyendecker and Philip Bohnen, they will explore, develop and present their own musical and dramatic ideas.

Premiere in the Arena Treptow: 350 young Berliners discover Stravinsky's “Rite of Spring” together with the Berliner Philharmoniker and Sir Simon Rattle.

Horn player Sarah Willis shows a young concert visitor how a horn works.

“Meet the orchestra” – Family Concert with the 12 Cellists and the Brass Ensemble of the Berliner Philharmoniker

Children’s Concerts 3-2-1-GO! – 45-minute concert format with a captivating, entertaining programme is for children aged 2 to 5 years. The format features music that encourages children to sing along and join in, but also to sit quietly and listen. It is specifically tailored to the needs of little ones: Exciting, but not too complicated. Imaginative, but not intimidating. Entertaining, but not simplistic.

A children’s opera is being written in Baden-Baden based on the great opera “Der Rosenkavalier” by Richard Strauss, in cooperation with the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden and the Deutsche Bank
Foundation’s “Akademie Musiktheater heute”. The story will be told for children in a completely new way on the basis of a new musical arrangement, musically accompanied by the musicians of
the Berliner Philharmoniker.

Weekend workshop on “whirling dervishes”

The Songs of the Brothers: Turks, Kurds, Armenians – Choir project with the Turkish folk music group Kardeş Türküler

The education programme's creative studio – musical fun for participants of all ages.

Brazilian Rose Calheiros has rhythm in her blood, and she intends to convey it to interested amateur dancers at this Creative Studio, which is about contemporary dance. After an introduction into the various forms of contemporary dance she developed with her guests dance movements to certain rhythms, moods and specific works of classical music.

The winner of the composition competition in 2007 in discussion with musicians after the premiere of his award-winning work.

In the creative orchestra, participants also have the opportunity to compose.

The musicians of the Berliner Philharmoniker pack their bags to take kindergarten children on a musical journey. For half an hour, the childcare centre revolves around music: the children can meet the musicians and their instruments and hear all about the instruments and the life of a professional musician.

EXPLORE CLASSICAL MUSIC! is an education initiative of the Berliner Philharmoniker. It aims to give young people and students around the world access to Classical music - regardless of social background. For this purpose, 500 schools and universities per year are provided with access to the Digital Concert Hall, the virtual concert hall of the Berliner Philharmoniker.

In the “Concerts to go” series, musicians of the Berliner Philharmoniker in chamber music formations pay visits to various social institutions in Berlin and on tour to performance venues in order to make the musical activities of the orchestra available to those who can not attend concerts in the Philharmonie.

The Education Programme for the current season can be found here.