Blind musicians Munich

Blind Musicians Munich is a German music ensemble . As a marching band , jazz band , recorder group and choir , it is the only professional orchestra in Germany that consists of blind members. The musical director is the full-time teacher Franz Ludwig Schachtner from Gauting .

history

The group emerged from a vocational training project for young blind people, which was initiated in 1991 by the Bavarian Association of the Blind and Visually Impaired (BBSB). From 1995 the Blind Musicians in Munich operated as a non-profit company with limited liability (GmbH). The repertoire includes more than 300 pieces. The ensemble members do not study their pieces with the help of Braille notation . They learn this through foreplay from their music teachers.

The group now performs up to 350 appearances throughout Germany a year, traditionally also at the New Year's reception of the Bavarian Prime Minister . In 2013 the filmmaker Jens-Tibor Homm realized a nearly thirty-minute film portrait about the ensemble, which was also shown on German private television .

Others

Oliver Möckel, pianist and trumpeter in the orchestra from 1997 to 2002, founded the self-help group Blind Musicians Frankfurt / Main in 2003 in Frankfurt am Main .

Discography

Albums:

• 2000: on a long journey
• 2007: Almost in New York
• 2009: Christmas with the Blind Musicians
• 2010: Des san mia ( Tyrolis )
• 2014: A journey through the year

The orchestra can also be heard on the CD SuperSounds - Ding A Dong (2007; EMI ).

Awards (selection)

The ensemble has already won several prizes, including:

• 2007: Social award from the Bavarian State Foundation

Literature / documentation

• Jens-Tibor Homm: Blind Musicians Munich - A portrait of Jens-Tibor Homm (documentary), 2014
• Who does not see, hears more - Blind Musicians Munich: one time, and 350 times a year ; in: Clarino , Edition 10/2003, September 29, 2011, pp. 26-27.

More ensembles for the blind

• Al-Nour Wal Amal , Symphony Orchestra of Blind Women in Egypt

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Blind Musicians Munich ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , German Association of the Blind and Visually Impaired .  
2. ^ Head: Franz L. Schachtner - The State Winners of the Bavarian Student Performance Writing 2004 ; in: Bavarian student performance writing 2004 in shorthand, text capture (PC / MS with correction) and text organization (author correction - category 1 and 2) , Bayerischer Stenografenverband eV, 2004. p. 14.
3. ↑ Blind Musicians Munich , view: chang - database integrative cultural work.
4. ↑ Sabine Letz: Escape from social welfare with music , Die Welt , January 4, 2001.
5. ↑ Blind musicians delight audiences in St. Verena , Schwäbische.de , November 10, 2008.
6. ↑ Blind Musicians Munich: New CD published ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Concert and CD announcement on November 4, 2010.  
7. ↑ T. Gautier: Controversy in the Blindenbund: discordant tones among the blind musicians , evening newspaper , January 12, 2012.
8. ↑ Challenge: Blind Musicians Munich - A Portrait , Kabel Eins , March 1, 2014.
9. ↑ Blind musician with a good memory , Wetterauer Zeitung , November 23, 2013.
10. ↑ Blind Musicians Munich "present new CD ; in: Gesundheitsmagazin , B5 aktuell , April 29, 2007.
11. ^ Bavarian State School for the Blind - A Journey Through the Year (1990) , January 11, 2014.
12. ↑ Ding A Dong in 2007 .
13. ↑ Planning and creation of a barrier-free website: Blind Musicians Munich , Pfennigparade Foundation .
14. ↑ Prime Minister Beckstein at the awarding of the cultural, environmental and social prize of the Bavarian State Foundation  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   , Bavarian State Government , February 6, 2008.