Music Association of Upper and Lower Bavaria
| Music Association of Upper and Lower Bavaria (MON) |
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| legal form | registered association |
| founding | March 14, 1953 |
| Seat | Munich , Germany |
| purpose | Maintenance of the brass music culture; Preservation, care and promotion of popular education, customs and regional culture, including traditional costumes ; Attracting young people to musical education; Adult education; International understanding |
| Chair | Marcel Huber |
| Managing directors | Friederike Steinberger |
| Members | over 50,000 |
| Website | www.mon.bayern |
The Upper and Lower Bavarian Music Association (MON) is an association founded in 1953 by Heinz Kemenater and Ludwig Dennerlein to organize Upper and Lower Bavarian music bands . The association, originally founded as the Upper Bavarian Music Association , was renamed the Upper and Lower Bavaria Music Association on March 9, 1958 when Lower Bavaria joined .
There are currently 690 music associations, bands, schools, wind orchestras, youth bands, minstrels and fanfares and other music groups with over 24,700 active musicians in the administrative districts of Upper Bavaria and Lower Bavaria in MON (status 2018).
The MON is a member of the Bavarian Brass Music Association and also of the Bavarian Music Council .
District Associations
The Music Association of Upper and Lower Bavaria is divided into 13 district associations:
- Amperes
- Bavarian Forest
- Chiem - Rupertigau
- Danube forest
- Inn -Chiemgau
- Inn- Salzach
- Isar - Mangfall
- Isar- Vils - Rott
- Lech - Ammersee
- Central Bavaria
- Munich
- Oberland
- Werdenfels
District music festivals and rating games take place regularly in each of the districts. The organizers are mostly brass bands or their friends' association , which are celebrating a founding anniversary this year.
further education
The MON devotes itself to a large extent to the training of its member groups. The service catalog includes:
- Musician achievement badge
- Courses for conductors , staff leaders and registrars
- Seminars that lends itself to traditional brass bands and symphony deal
Symphonic wind orchestra
MON has had its own symphonic wind orchestra since 2000, in which MON work for young musicians is carried out and an awareness of symphonic music in wind music is to be created. Alejandro Vila has been the conductor and artistic director since 2016 .
Wind Academy "advanced"
A special feature of MON is the "advanced" wind academy, in which ambitious and talented young musicians receive continuous training from top lecturers from the ranks of the Munich Philharmonic or the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra . In 2017 she received the Bavarian State Prize for Music in the category of "amateur musicians".
Honorary members
Since its foundation in 1953, MON has awarded honorary membership to the following people:
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| Linus Fecker | |
| Manfred Fischer | Honorary President |
| Karl-Heinz Franke | |
| Thomas Goppel | Honorary President |
| Michael Sorrow | |
| Andreas Samböck | |
| Peter Spanier |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Statutes of MON. (PDF; 61 KB) Preface. In: mon-mittelbayern.de. March 21, 2009, p. 1 , accessed November 14, 2015 .
- ↑ membership. In: mon.bayern. Retrieved April 27, 2018 .
- ^ Districts in MON: Musikbund von Ober- und Niederbayern eV In: www.mon.bayern. Retrieved November 14, 2015 .
- ↑ Symphony Orchestra: Musikbund von Ober- und Niederbayern eV In: www.mon.bayern. Retrieved November 14, 2015 .
- ↑ Alejandro Vila. Music Association of Upper and Lower Bavaria; accessed on May 19, 2018.
- ↑ Bläserakademie "advanced" music society of Upper and Lower Bavaria eV In: www.mon.bayern. Retrieved November 14, 2015 .
- ↑ Honorary members: Musikbund von Ober- und Niederbayern eV In: www.mon.bayern. Retrieved November 14, 2015 .