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Wednesday, July 2, 6 pm, Sojus 7

Music in the tradition of New Orleans brass bands

Brass class of the music school and the Peter Ustinov Comprehensive School / Monheim Music School
Directors: Richard Brenner, Achim Tang

Shannon Barnett: trombone

The Monheim music school offers musical specialisms in collaboration with the city’s secondary schools. At the Peter Ustinov Comprehensive School, these are the ‘brass classes’, in which pupils learn wind instruments and can make music together directly in an ensemble.

Signature artist Shannon Barnett visited one of these sixth-form brass classes for the Monheim Triennale. She brought music from the brass band tradition in the south of the USA, worked with the children on the subject of improvisation and developed a performance for The Festival together with them.