Admission free
In cooperation with Frauenbad Heidelberg
We thank
Admission free
In cooperation with Frauenbad Heidelberg
We thank
and Zukunft Metropolregion Rhein-Neckar e. V.
With the Classic Scouts you will find a group of teenagers and young adults from Heidelberg and the surrounding area aged 14 and over who are eager to discuss and experiment.
At frequent meetings, the Classic Scouts develop their own formats that rethink the activities of the Heidelberger Frühling music festival from the perspective of young people. The ways in which the Classic Scouts get involved depend on the interests of the group and are designed together with the festival team each year with new ideas. In the 2022 edition of the Heidelberger Frühling, the Classic Scouts will, among other things, be active as city guides at »Musik in den Häusern der Stadt« on April 10, 2022, they will act as moderators for the four »SPRINGboard« evenings with interesting young artists, they invite young people to the Classic Scouts workshop »Get Out of the Cage« and they will be involved everywhere in the city where the festival’s music plays. Information about the various activities and projects can be found below under »current offers to join in«.
You will experience community, get exclusive insights into exciting festival moments, meet artists, be an active listener and an irreplaceable critic for Heidelberger Frühling.
In the 2021/22 season, you can get involved creatively and organizationally in a variety of projects
Do you enjoy experimenting with music, are you an organizational talent or can you captivate an audience as a presenter? In the 2021/22 season, there are a variety of exciting projects in which you can actively participate. We’ll help you develop your strengths and get involved creatively and organizationally in front of and behind the scenes. You can join us at any time for individual projects or as a long-term Classic Scouts member – just contact Franziska Spohr at classic-scouts@heidelberg.de
Get creatively involved in music together with professionals – that’s what you could do at this year’s Classic Scouts workshop with the experimental pianist Frank Dupree and his trio partners Obi Jenne (drums) and Jakob Krupp (double bass). Based on fascinating music from classical music and jazz, own improvisations beyond labels and conventions will be created. For participants with or without instrument.
More information: here.
Together with the creative young pianist Hanni Liang, you will design your own concert evening as part of the program series »re:start«. Your topics and ideas set the pace – from the program to the setup of the venue and organization, you can have a say in everything, and of course you can also be on stage. Poetry Slammer Timo Brunke will support you with lyrics and story telling to the music.
At the new concert series »SPRINGboard« of the International Music Festival Heidelberger Frühling there will be extraordinary young artists to discover every Thursday of the festival in Dezernat 16, in a relaxed atmosphere with drinks and conversations. YOU will be on stage as moderator (alone or in pairs), ask your questions and explore the musical specialties of the evening together with the artists and the audience.
Note: some artists speak exclusively English.
You will be actively involved in a musical tour of the lesser-known corners of Heidelberg’s Altstadt. 1-2 scouts will lead a group of audience members from concert venue to concert venue and have interesting stories to tell: about the paths, the houses, the artists and the concert programs – depending on what you find particularly interesting for the audience group.
More information about the event here.
Captivating music in threatening times: In their own specific ways, musicians of the 20th century have dealt with the political events of their time and responded to them with artistic means. How we perceive this music today will be discussed in a public after-concert talk with the artists – are you with us?
(School workshops with Ute Kabisch beforehand)
You like to be in contact with children? In two of our projects for young audiences, you are actively called upon to act as supervisors and creative participants in the concert.
At the Easter holiday workshop »Welt_Raum_Klänge«, improvised »space music« is created live in the middle of the planetarium, together with the fascinating Porter Percussion Duo. In »Ganz schön was los beim König« we stage the music of La Cetra and star flutist Maurice Steger with movement and courtly festivities.
For re:start, our anniversary program, we will be presenting free concerts in all parts of the city with 25 exciting young artists throughout the entire festival. Wide-ranging music from pop to jazz, klezmer and tango to classical music – the focus is on fun and community. Helping out here and realizing the many activities with us is a great opportunity to dive deep into the festival buzz and be right in the middle of it.
The festival »KlaWIR« at the main station wants to be played. Apart from the performances of our re:start artists, there is still room for music-making scouts. Creative ideas & actions are always welcome! (Action area in the middle of the main station for the entire duration of the festival.)
The Classic Scouts’ podcast is looking forward to being continued! If you like to write, speak and/or work with media, we will gladly support you in creating new episodes.
Scouts-action is also welcome on social media! Create content for your peers – that’s something you can do best. There’s always something to do here; of course especially during the festival, when there are lots of new things to report about artists, Scouts projects and interesting events!
The Classic Scouts were finally able to get together again in person after a long Corona-related break. Together with professional artists and with the help of apps and musical technology, they explored sound and body in space in four creative sessions.
Over the course of four days, the participants worked together in the hall of the Dezernat 16 (cultural and and creative industry center). The goal, in keeping with the Heidelberger Frühling program series: to make classical music a lively and communal art form that can be experienced and to create encounters through music, between generations, between professionals and amateurs, between epochs and traditions.
Based on their favorite pieces of music, the participants explored the creative potential of classical music. With the help of apps and technical means of electronic music and sound production, they developed their own sounds in joint experimentation, sought mutual contact and dialogue, and opened up new spaces to create and experience music. The synesthetic effect of image, space, sound and touch was another important element. The cameras as artistic instruments within the space are therefore only logical. Only in this way was it possible to fully capture the diversity of perspectives and to process them into a final, perceptible product.
The participants were inspired and encouraged by the music educationist Ute Kabisch and the versatile jazz, pop and classical double bass player Rebecca Mauch. They guided the ten mostly classically trained young musicians on piano, cello, double bass, electric piano, vocals and guitar in not only feeling like performers and students, but also in inventing sounds themselves and communicating with them.
An important message that the video as the final product of the workshop days also aims to communicate: (classical) music knows no boundaries or intellectual prerequisites. Emotion, curiosity, alertness and the joy of experimentation are allowed to guide one’s own music making. No matter where we come from musically, we can meet in playful dialogue.
When was the last time you consciously listened to music? What role does music play in our society? Do we need music at all? In their monthly podcast »Musik? Braucht keiner!«, the Classic Scouts invite exciting guests from arts and culture. It is important to the Scouts to look behind the scenes, to learn more about the motivation of their guests and to illuminate and discuss the many facets of music by asking one or two uncomfortable questions. Take a listen – wherever podcasts are available.
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Since the founding of the Classic Scouts in 2008, several generations of music-loving adolescents have put together countless great projects and participated as creative co-thinkers, idea generators, mediators and artists. Some examples:
In 2015, the International Music Festival Heidelberger Frühling was awarded an ECHO Klassik in the category »Nachwuchsförderung« for the »Classic Scouts« project. Following the scandal surrounding rappers Kollegah and Farid Bang in spring 2018, the adolescent music educators issued a statement and launched a series of percussion workshops in schools of varying levels of education, focusing on respectful communication through the means of music.
