Music mediators
Paul Rissmann music animation
Paul Rissmann was born on the Isle of Bute, Scotland in 1971. He studied saxophone and composition at the Royal Academy of Music, Guildhall School of Music and Drama and RSAMD. He has composed electronic music for Microsoft and orchestral music for the London Symphony Orchestra's Discovery programme. His setting of the children's book The Lion Who Wanted to Love has been performed by the Scottish Ensemble, Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Northern Sinfonia. In December 2005, the LSO performed his work Bamboozled! with 2000 teenagers at the Barbican, while in June 2006, his composition Eco was performed by over 9,000 school children and the RSNO throughout Scotland. As a music educationalist, Paul has devised and led projects for many arts organisations including the BBC Proms, Glyndebourne, London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Opera, Royal Academy of Music, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Bruckner Orchestra Linz, Copenhagen Philharmonic, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich and the Sinfonie Orchester Wuppertal. In 1998 Paul was appointed Music Animateur for the RSNO. From 1998-2002 he directed a Scotland-wide education programme that reached over 30,000 children and adults each year, and won the Royal Philharmonic Society Award for Education. In July 2002, Paul embarked on a freelance career, which includes directing the Scottish Ensemble's education programme and conducting the National Children's Wind Orchestra of Great Britain. Paul's career involves making music with people of all ages and abilities. He has worked extensively throughout the UK, and also in Austria, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Switzerland and the USA. Paul creates and presents children's concerts for many leading orchestras both in the UK and Europe, and has worked with artists such as John Adams and Joshua Bell. Since 2005, he has also worked regularly with the Sinfonie Orchester Wuppertal, presenting schools and family concerts in German.
Sarah Goldfarb, composer, choreographer, teacher
Since 1990, Sarah Goldfarb is developing a language integrating both vision and sound. She works with varied publics: professionals of the scene, children, students and inexperienced adults. Her art aims at creating a link between dance, music and text and at provoking encounters between the artistic worlds and everyday life. A trained musician and holder of diplomas from both the conservatories of Liege and Brussels, Sarah Goldfarb pursued her studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and at the City University in London, where she obtained a Master of Arts in composition. In England, Sarah developed her own multidisciplinary group projects (Zig-a-Tag, Swoop), composed music for dance shows (Shobana Jeyasing, Angela Woodhouse) and took part in many educational projects: Spitalfields, Glyndebourne Touring Opera. She led workshops at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the Laban Centre and the London Contemporary Dance School. In 1995, with the dancer Kathy Crick, she founded the company ChiaraScura, in residence at The Place in 1996. Back in Brussels since 1999, she has been in charge of the creative projects of the Ars Musica festival and has carried out many projects for the Royal Opera House La Monnaie. Sarah Goldfarb also gave improvisation classes at the Antwerp Conservatory as well as music classes at the Lier Hoger Instituut Voor Dans and at PARTS. Her works D'Amour et d'Eau Fraîche (1999) and Don't Shut Me (2001) have been alternately subsidized by the London Arts Board, the Robin Howard foundation and the French-Speaking Community of Belgium. In the framework of the 2001 edition of the Ars Musica festival, she composed Moi, je n\ai pas vu cette histoire mais je l'ai entendue, a music and theatre show with a class of nine year old pupils. In 2002, she created the opera A midi dix for five musicians and fifty eleven year old children, and in 2003, a banquet show with 4 classes of pupils between 7 and 10 years and 15 elderly persons over 75. Sarah Goldfarb has been in residence at the theatre LL, where she produced Don't Shut Me! in the framework of the festival Danse En Vol 2002. In residence at the Théâtre des Tanneurs, she staged the show l'Art du Plongeon, a choreography with madrigals of Monteverdi's time. Next, she arranged the A4-Quatuor for 2 dancers, 2 singers and a string quartet for the 2004 edition of the biennial festival Charleroi/Danses. In 2004, Sarah Goldfarb worked for the Lille Opera, where she created, together with teenagers, the music show Tempêtes, inspired by Georges Aperghis work. Since 2005, the year she founded ReMuA, Réseau de Musiciens Intervenants et Ateliers (Network of Music Teachers and Workshops), she dedicates herself entirely to the recognition of the art teachers in Belgian schools. She organised a recognised training, certified by the French-Speaking Community, as well as workshops for professionals and amateurs and a resource pole for artists and teachers.
Ortrud Kegel, musical educationalist, flutist and improviser
Ortrud Kegel is a co-founder of the ensemble Partita Radicale for new and improvised music, a group addressing the task of exploring the borderland between improvisation and composition.
Partita Radicale plays at national and international festivals for new music, arranges music for unconventional spaces like swimming pools or train stations, and works together with Romanian and Brazilian composers, the Peking Opera singer Wen Lei or the German stage service of the Marburg theatre. » www.partitaradicale.de
Moreover, Ortrud Kegel supervises trainings in experimental music and music theatre for educationalists, musicians or actors. As a collaborator of the Büro für Konzertpädagogik (Office for concert education) in Cologne, dedicated to the creative mediation of classical and contemporary music, she works at the interface between school, further education and concert activities. In collaboration with the WDR and the Kölner Philharmonie, she coordinates cultural school projects like Response, she was in charge of the project Klangbaustelle in the framework of the festival Stadt Klang Fluss, and she supervised Plug In in cooperation with the musikFabrik NRW. » www.konzertpaedagogik.de
Klaus Brettschneider Coordination
At a very young age, Klaus Brettschneider started his musical career as a soloist in the Tölz Boy's Choir. Under the direction of well-known conductors like Karl-Heinz Böhm or Nicolas Harnoncourt, he sings in opera houses in the whole of Europe. Klaus Brettschneider, holder of a diploma of the master class of the Conservatory of Munich, has been a percussionist of the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra for 13 years. Alongside, he has been directing the department for musical mediation login:music for a number of years and contributes to the arrangement of the school and family concerts of the orchestra in his ability as music animateur. His friendship of many years with Pascal Schumacher reflects itself in their jointly accomplished work for children and teenagers, one of the many musical formations connecting both of them.