The association encourages the collective practice of music (in orchestras) in schools, particularly in difficult areas. After having chosen an instrument, the class learns to play music in an orchestra.

In playing music collectively, young people learn to be patient, to listen, to improvise and to express their emotions… to respect others and authority, to take on responsibility and to gain self-respect themselves… A very strong sense of solidarity naturally becomes established between the students. Concerts are scheduled on a regular basis. The students offer their music and their work and are highly valued.

Their behavior both in class and outside school changes radically. They concentrate much better in lessons and the school results feel the effects, to the great joy of teachers and parents. The successful students reinvest in their studies, thanks to this project.

Vivendi Create Joy supports the association to develop school orchestras, and contributes to the purchase of instruments for all students of the class for three years.

A school orchestra is an exciting adventure for children to be involved in. It offers extraordinary experiences! Between 2012 and 2013, for example, one school orchestra took part in an exchange with a British orchestra. Together, they composed an original piece that was played on the stage of the Royal Albert Hall and at Olympia.

In 2015, three school orchestras will take part in an exceptional master class with musicians from the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, and will join it for a concert in the brand new auditorium on March 13. About one hundred young musicians from Sorgues, Livron-Loriol and Gorron will play Symphony no. 9 “From the New World”, conducted by Myung-Whun Chung.

Vivendi Create Joy supports the Orchestre à l’Ecole association in these exceptional projects.

 


La Note Bleue – Orchestre à l’école au collège Bellefontaine à Toulouse from Orchestre à l’École on Vimeo.

 


Les jeunes musiciens du Rochdale Music Service et l’OAE de Gorron à l’Olympia – Un évènement Vivendi Create Joy from Orchestre à l’École on Vimeo.