Education Projects
The participatory cultural education projects of the Basel Chamber Orchestra promote understanding and appreciation of classical music.
Through active participation in the artistic process, prejudices can be broken down and connections built.
360° Schumann – vom Stadtcasino ins Alterszentrum
A virtual concert production by the Basel Chamber Orchestra
Classical music at your fingertips - virtual reality at the concert
Attending a concert is a feast for the senses - an experience that touches, inspires and evokes memories. For many years, people have been going to concerts and enjoying the classical music repertoire. But with increasing age and reduced mobility, getting to the concert hall often becomes a hurdle. This is where the Basel Chamber Orchestra comes in - bringing the concert experience to where people live today: directly to the retirement home. This is made possible by the use of modern virtual reality technology.
Music that moves
Bringing more than 40 musicians - an entire orchestra - to a retirement home is almost impossible to organise and finance. But in order to recreate the feeling of a live concert, two musicians from the Basel Chamber Orchestra visit the centre wearing a dozen pairs of VR glasses. They greet the residents personally, talk about their work and discuss the orchestra with them. What is special about this is that the same musicians who lead the conversation also appear later in the VR production as avatars - welcoming the audience to a concert in the virtual city casino. This creates an emotional, personal connection and a new form of encounter between the audience and the orchestra.
In co-operation with the Bürgerspital Basel
Schedule
R. Schumann's Symphony No. 2 in C major op. 61 will be produced for VR technology at the Stadtcasino Basel by the end of 2025. Presentations in Basel's retirement centres are planned from January 2026.
Participants
Heinz Holliger (conductor)
Basel Chamber Orchestra
The project is supported by
- Age-Stiftung
- Thomi-Hopf-Stiftung
«Basel gyygt» and Basel Chamber Orchestra
Making music in an orchestra is already a big deal for professionals. How impressive it will be for children.
This season there will be two concert projects with the children of «Basel gyygt»:
At the subscription concert «Jauchzet, frohlocket» on 16.12.2024 and 17.12.2024, the children will be present in the Stadtcasino and play chorales from the Christmas Oratorio as well as Christmas carols on their instruments in the foyer.
From 18.30-18.45 in the foyer of the Stadtcasino.
«Basel gyygt“ is a project in which around 300 children of primary school age from 49 nations are taught the violin, viola, cello and double bass in weekly group lessons. The Basel Chamber Orchestra and «Basel gyygt» have been working closely together for some time, with musicians from the orchestra teaching at «Basel gyygt». In spring 2023, a first participatory educational project entitled «Chaos under the sky» took place with the participation of 35 children from «Basel gyygt» and 20 musicians from the Basel Chamber Orchestra.
With this positive experience, we are continuing the collaboration before the Christmas concerts.
«Basel gyygt Mozart»
Don Bosco, June 20, 2025, 7 p.m.
The children of «Basel gyygt» meet the musicians of the Basel Chamber Orchestra musically.
A concert with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart will take place at Don Bosco with the children from «Basel gyygt» together with the orchestra musicians. The children learn a Mozart piece in advance, which they will present on the concert stage that evening.
Then the orchestra joins in and the children sit next to the musicians in the large orchestra. They experience up close the energy that arises between the musicians and the wonderful experience of many individual instrumental voices coming together to make music. At the end, everyone makes music together - Mozart, of course!
After the concert, there will be time to meet and talk to the musicians, children and their families.
Contact
Contact person for education:
Eva Miribung
eva.miribung@kammerorchesterbasel.ch