In its traditional form, the orchestra is organised hierarchically. Collective, democratic and collaborative work is usually difficult to realise in these structures and professional and young orchestras lack the necessary know-how. Since its foundation, the Stegreif Orchestra has been cultivating a collective musical collaboration and is now passing on this experience with the #freesolo project.
In improvisation workshops with 8 different youth orchestras, different improvisation exercises and practices merge with forms of collective soloing to form the symphonic foundation of an orchestra. Each workshop will be led by five impromptu musicians and a music educator who will work with the respective ensemble for three days, focussing on the requirements of each sound apparatus. The Stegreif Orchestra develops the teaching material used in several work phases with the improvisation and composition professor Noam Sivan. Different musical leadership models are artistically tested, adapted and aligned to the needs of the respective orchestras.
Bild: (C) Viola Schmitzer
