Free music center

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Free music center
Logo Free Music Center 72dpi.png
type of school non-profit private academy
founding 1979
place Munich
country Bavaria
Country Germany
Coordinates 48 ° 8 '21 "  N , 11 ° 35' 56"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 8 '21 "  N , 11 ° 35' 56"  E
carrier Free Music Center e. V. (non-profit association)
student 2,500
Teachers 200
Website www.freies-musikzentrum.de

The Free Music Center e. V. is a non-profit academy for music , dance and music therapy in Munich . Since it was founded as an association in 1979, the Free Music Center has been a place for intercultural artistic encounters and creative exchange with international courses, training courses and concerts. With around 200 lecturers, around 1,700 courses, advanced training courses, workshops and seminars with around 2,500 participants are held annually (as of 2018).

Departments

General instruction

The Free Music Center offers lessons in these areas:

  • Children (1-12 years)
  • Youth (12-18 years)
  • Jazz (instrumental, voice, ensemble)
  • Voice (choir, singing, performance, voice training)
  • Instrumental lessons (including string, keyboard, wind instruments, ensemble)
  • Rhythm (including drum circles, body percussion, international percussion)
  • artistic dance (including modern, step, musical, contact, international dance, martial arts)

Jazz project

With its two-year compact study program, the JazzProjekt is one of the oldest well-known training centers for jazz musicians in Germany.

Music therapy

At the Institute for Music Psychotherapy of the Free Music Center, which is recognized by the German Music Therapy Society and the Bavarian Chamber of Psychotherapists , three and a half years of extra-occupational studies as well as specialist seminars and additional qualifications have been carried out since 1995 .

Since 1993 the institute has organized regular music therapy conferences .

The internationally recognized project method for preventing violence and promoting integration, "Drum Power", was created between 2006 and 2009 and has since been modified for use in all types of schools and with young refugees. DrumPower is used today in Germany , Austria , Switzerland and Great Britain .

Educational training

For pedagogical professions, one-year part-time pedagogical training courses and short training courses are offered (including elementary music pedagogy, rhythm pedagogy, dance pedagogy).

Concerts

Around 50 concerts of all genres are held every year.

Locations

The main building of the Free Music Center is located in Munich in a villa built by the builder Konrad Hainthaler in 1899 at Ismaninger Straße 29, on the border between the Bogenhausen and Haidhausen districts near the Villa Stuck .

In 1927, Auguste and Jakob Trapp founded the Trapp Conservatory in the villa , which became the Richard Strauss Conservatory in 1964 , before finally merging with the Munich University of Music and Theater in 2008. Since the Conservatory left in 1984, the Freie Musikzentrum e. V. at this location.

The dance studios of the Free Music Center are located at Max-Weber-Platz 2, also in Haidhausen.

history

In 1976 the musician and composer Peter Michael Hamel (see also Between ), Peter Müller and Gerd Kraus initiated the Free Music Center as an informal forum for an alternative approach to musical action and learning.

The Free Music Center e. V. was finally established as a non-profit association on January 27, 1979 with the founding members Peter Michael Hamel, Jan Dosch (see also Sparifankal ), Peter Müller, Gerd Kraus and other musicians and educators and with the support of Carl Orff, the cultural advisor of the state capital Munich Jürgen Kolbe, the head of the Munich Adult Education Center Franz Rieger and other personalities.

When the association was founded, there were additional essential objectives

  • the encounter with the non-European musical cultures
  • the maintenance of the oldest and newest music and the musical experiment
  • the development of new music pedagogical methods
  • the use of music as a medium for individual therapeutic experience as well as social and societal communication
  • Instrument making and harmonic basic research

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b Register of associations at the Munich District Court for VR number 9654.
  2. ↑ Monika Nöcker-Ribaupierre, Tonius Timmermann: In- service training in music therapy at the Free Music Center in Munich . In: Musiktherapeutische Umschau . tape 17 , no. 4 , 1996, ISSN  0172-5505 , pp. 338-344 .
  3. ↑ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trommelpower_Grusswort_OB_Ude.pdf
  4. ↑ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hamel_%C2%BBDurch_Musik_zum_Selbst%C2%AB,_DTV_1986.pdf
  5. ↑ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Musiktherapeutische_Umschau_Ausgabe_4_1983,_Seiten_229-232.pdf