Freisam – A performance about human striving, searching and longing

Want to be free, for your own art? The Classic Scouts explored this artistic ideal together with the pianist and concert designer Hanni Liang and young dancers from Heidelberg in the "Freisam" project. The result was a performance of music, text and movement that traced a diverse society and was performed as part of the 2024 Musikfestival.

Since the founding of the Classic Scouts in 2008, several generations of music-loving young people have set up countless exciting projects; designed concert introductions and school workshops; and enriched the festival programs with their own activities. In the summer of 2023, they toured Heidelberg schools with concerts and community piano workshops. In the 2023 edition of the Heidelberger Frühling Musikfestival, the group created an online listening experience, short films and an installation performance on the composer György Ligeti in the Scouting Ligeti project, becoming part of the nationwide ARD Week of Music. In 2022, the Classic Scouts played music with the Frank Dupree Trio in the workshop "Get out of the Cage", acted as moderators for the new concert series "SPRINGboard", organized a concert evening together with the pianist Hanni Liang, and were involved in the organization of children's and family concerts and the re:start district concerts.

In 2015, Heidelberger Frühling was awarded an ECHO Klassik in the category of promoting young talent for the "Classic Scouts".