Greeting Patronage

E.T.A. Hoffmann knew that “where language ends, music begins”. And he is right: music moves us human beings in our innermost being. It is a universal phenomenon – music is as diverse as our world. But wherever it is heard, it brings forth memories and feelings. It is also a piece of home which we carry within us. When people move between countries and cultures, music travels with them. It creates identity and cohesion, overcomes interpersonal hurdles and cultural divides. It arouses curiosity and invites people to join in. The MitMachMusik initiative uses this unique power of music to open up ways for refugee children and young people to playfully grow into our society. They are guided by musicians who have experienced the fate of flight themselves. For teachers and students, making music together is the key to enabling encounters, experiencing recognition and participation. As patron, I support MitMachMusik in building musical bridges and strengthening togetherness in our country – piece by piece, note by note and bar by bar.

Dr. Wolfgang Schäuble (1942 – 2023)
President of the German Bundestag 
and patron of MitMachMusik e.V.

 

Ambassadors

Zohre Esmaeli

Model & Entrepeneur

Günther Jauch

TV presenter

Barry Kosky

Director of the Komische Oper Berlin

Rolf Kühn

Jazz musician and composer
1929 - 2022

Prof. Dr. Norbert Lammert

President of the German Bundestag (retired)

Sir Simon Rattle

Music Director of the London Symphony Orchestra

Sir Donald Runnicles

Music Director of the Deutsche Oper Berlin

Christine Schäfer

Opera singer

Board

Pamela Rosenberg

Marie Kogge

Michael Pietzcker

Team

Vladimir Baranov

Violin

Tatjana Bartsch

Cordination

Oleh Baturinskyi

Flute

Anhelina Chernyshova

Choir & Singing

Barbara Gateau

Viola

Ehrengard von Gemmingen

Site Manager Berlin-South, Cello

Ilona Havrylash

Assistant at the Potsdam site

Christiane Herrmann

Site Manager Berlin-South II, Piano

Katie Hunt

Viola and Violin

Johannes Kain

PR and Fundraising

Philipp Kammen

Guitar

Bridget Kinneary

Music Director Berlin, Viola

Gur Liraz

Guitar

Zsolt Magyar

Violin

Holger Marzahn

Music Club, Potsdam location

Mohamad Mir Ali

Violin and Viola

Isabel Morey Suau

Site Manager Berlin-West, Violin

Ido Nahmias

Site Manager Berlin-East, Clarinet

Francis Ricardo

Viola

Neus Saval

Violin

Aleksandra Anna Walczak

Cello

Inna Zaremba

Violin

Our Peters

Peter Kuttner

Peter Hauber

Locations

Berlin-Map-Potsdam-Edited

History

In 2015, more than 300,000 children and young people fled to Germany. According to the principle “Our children are our future”, it was logical to say: “Refugee children are also our future”, because only if we succeed in integrating these children emotionally, linguistically, culturally and intellectually into our social system can they develop into valuable participants in our society.

In April 2016, committed citizens, including professional musicians, doctors, music teachers and music educators founded the non-profit association “MitMachMusik – ein Weg zur Integration von Flüchtlingskindern e.V.”. In this initiative, musicians make music together with refugee children and young people and thus communicate in a language that everyone understands. In 2018 when we starting including German students in our group lessons, we shortened our name to „MitMachMusik—ein Weg zur Integration“. In recent years, our association has grown considerably and we now teach children and young people at 14 locations in Berlin and Potsdam.

Today, however, MitMachMusik is still first and foremost a group of musicians and music educators, often of international origin, who believe in this idea of communication through music and who use their work, their skills, their experience and their free time to pursue this goal.

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Zohre Esmaeli © Nina Bangemann
Zohre Esmaeli © Nina Bangemann
„MitMachMusik is an integration method that works without words and brings people together. Music and art build unique bridges for refugees and the children in particular can use it to better process their difficult journey. I am very happy about this wonderful offer, and I have the greatest respect for the voluntary commitment“

Zohre Esmaeli

Model and Entrepreneur

Günther Jauch ©RTL/Stefan Gregorowius
Günther Jauch ©RTL/Stefan Gregorowius
“I support MitMachMusik because I see that something beautiful and unifying is being created here, which negates mutual prejudices. That’s important, especially in times when populist world views make living together difficult”

Günther Jauch

TV presenter

Barry Kosky © Jan Windszus
Barry Kosky © Jan Windszus
“The great thing about making music is that the universal language of music can be spoken across all geographical borders. At the same time, when we make music, we always meet in a certain place at a certain time, indeed we are rooted in the here and now. These are two perfect conditions for building community beyond our respective origins. And this is exactly what MitMachMusik does!”

Barry Kosky

Director of the Komische Oper Berlin
Rolf Kühn © Jens Herrndorff
Rolf Kühn © Jens Herrndorff
„I support MitMachMusik because when people make music together, any kind of boundaries that can separate people from each other are literally overcome in a playful way – no matter what skin colour or religion you have or what language you speak. What could be more beautiful?“

Rolf Kühn

Jazz musician and composer

Norbert Lammert © KAS
Norbert Lammert © KAS
“Making music together makes the refugee a fellow citizen. MitMachMusik makes an important contribution to this.”

Prof. Dr. Norbert Lammert

President of the German Bundestag (retired)
Simon Rattle © Oliver Helbig
Simon Rattle © Oliver Helbig
“The MitMachMusik project is doing an extraordinary job of using our art to bring new communities together and it is providing some of the most important outreach taking place in this challenging time. I admire what they are doing enormously.”

Sir Simon Rattle

Music Director of the London Symphony Orchestra

Donald Runnicles © Simon Pauly
Donald Runnicles © Simon Pauly
“I am an enthusiastic supporter of MitMachMusik because making music together brings people together and inspires them so much. It is a remarkable project.”

Sir Donald Runnicles

Music Director of the Deutsche Oper Berlin

Christine Schäfer © Bodo Vitus
Christine Schäfer © Bodo Vitus
“Passing on our love of music, reaching people with it, connecting people – that’s our job. MitMachMusik does exactly that and much more. This is where the world becomes a better place.”

Christine Schäfer

Opera singer

Pamela Rosenberg (c) privat
Pamela Rosenberg (c) privat

Pamela Rosenberg

„The children arrive here and are speechless. We give them a voice through their own actions.“

Pamela Rosenberg, born in Los Angeles in 1945, after studying history, literature and musicology at the University of California at Berkeley and history at Ohio State University, completed courses in opera directing at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London before receiving her stage management diploma at the London Opera Centre. She gained practical experience in musical theatre in master classes with Wieland Wagner in Bayreuth, among others. As a director she has carried out various opera projects.

From 1980 to 1987 Pamela Rosenberg was an associate of Michael Gielen and a member of the management at the Frankfurt Opera before moving to the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg as operations director, where she worked with Peter Zadek. From 1988 to 1990 she was Manager of Artistic Affairs at the Netherlands National Opera in Amsterdam and from 1991 to 2000 she was Co-Intendant to Klaus Zehelein at the Stuttgart State Opera. From 2001 to 2006 she was General Director of the San Francisco Opera. She was then artistic director of the Berlin Philharmonic until 2010. She then worked as Dean at the American Academy in Berlin until 2014 and has since been associated with the Institute in an advisory capacity as Senior Program Consultant.

Pamela Rosenberg was Deputy Chair of the Senate of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities from 2010 to 2018. She is a member of the Supervisory Board of the Barenboim-Said Academy in Berlin and a member of the Board of the Liz Mohn Culture and Music Foundation and the Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. She has served on the University Council of the Albert Ludwigs University College of Music in Freiburg, the Supervisory Board of the University of California, Berkeley Foundation and the Advisory Board of the Cogut Institute for the Humanities at Brown University and is a jury member of the Credit Suisse Young Artist Award, and the Herbert von Karajan Young Conductors Award of the Salzburg Festival and The Mahler Conductor Competition.

Marie Kogge (c) Peter Theis
Marie Kogge (c) Peter Theis

Marie Kogge

„We believe that music makes it possible to experience human togetherness.“

Marie Kogge, born into a Berlin family of musicians in 1966, studied violin at the Berlin University of the Arts from 1986 to 1993 after graduating from the Rudolf Steiner School. She gained her first professional experience as a violinist with the Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss and the Orchestre Philharmonique Strasbourg in France before returning to Berlin as a freelance musician. There she became co-founder of the chamber music formation Ensemble Incendo Berlin in 2000. Marie Kogge teaches freelance violin and initiated the school subject “Music in Ensemble” at the Potsdam Waldorf School. For ten years, she has led the two school orchestras that emerged from this. The concept of MitMachMusik was largely developed from her experiences with her students and making music together.

Michael Pietzcker (c) privat
Michael Pietzcker (c) privat

Michael Pietzcker

“Music is a bridge to each other. Let’s make it possible to build bridges.”

Michael Pietzcker is a lawyer and notary in Berlin with a focus on cross-border legal transactions. Therefore, he is professionally familiar with many situations that – from a German perspective – concern foreign legal systems and mentalities. Music has always been his favourite hobby; since his school days he has sung in choirs, sometimes semi-professionally. For many years he was chairman of the Friends of the RIAS Chamber Choir in Berlin, which, among other things, conceives and organises a concert series for this professional choir. He is a recipient of the Officer’s Cross of the Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana. He has been a member of the Board since 2018; he looks after finances and legal internal and external relations.

Vladimir Baranov

Violin

Vladimir studied violin at the Kiev State Conservatory P. I. Tchaikovsky (now the National Academy of Music of Ukraine) and played in various orchestras during his studies. After graduating, he was accepted into the symphony orchestra of the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine, where he played for over 20 years. At the same time, he taught violin at the Kiev Children’s Music Academy.

As a member of the Philharmonic Orchestra, he has performed in numerous European countries (Germany, France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, etc.) as well as in Japan and China. From 2001 to 2004 he lived in France, where he played in the Orchestre de Bretagne (Rennes) and also taught violin at a music school.

He has lived in Berlin since 2022 and is involved in various music projects. Among other things, he is active at the German-Polish-Ukrainian Music Academy. He has been working as a violin teacher at MitMachMusik since 2023. He is very happy to pass on his knowledge to children and inspire a love of music and all things beautiful in their hearts.

Tatjana Bartsch

Coordination

Tatjana Bartsch studied law and cultural management and brings to MitMachMusik her many years of experience in project management, fundraising and support associations, which she gained at the Jewish Museum Berlin, among other things, in setting up the Development & Marketing department and in donor acquisition and retention. Before joining MitMachMusik in 2016, she worked for the Freundeskreis at HAU Hebbel am Ufer.

Oleh Baturinskyi

Flute

Oleh came to Germany from Ukraine in 2023. He has been passionate about music since his childhood. He completed his music studies at the Zaporizhzhya College. He plays and teaches the flute professionally, but is also passionate about the guitar. He loves to improvise, compose and collaborate with other musicians. In Berlin he plays in the symphony orchestra ‘Collegium Musik in Berlin’. He gives flute lessons in Potsdam.

Anhelina Chernyshova

Anhelina is a composer and writer from Ukraine. In 2022, at the beginning of the war, she came to Berlin and has been studying visual communication at the Berlin University of the Arts since then, specialising in book design and film directing. At the same time, she worked as a singer and pianist in a charity orchestra and a band, where she was able to develop her compositional skills. In 2023, she founded the youth music theatre ‘Ether’, in which she works simultaneously with music and text and with a large ensemble. She came to MitMachMusik Potsdam via Marie Kogge, where she works with the choir. Teaching, making music and working with children are both a challenge and a fulfilment for her.

Barbara Gateau

Viola

Barbara Gateau has been working as a master violin maker in Berlin for more than 20 years. She has played the violin and viola since childhood. She finds a balance to her workshop work in orchestral and chamber music. From the very beginning, she was enthusiastic about making music together with the children and adult refugees and the energy and joy that this generates. Barbara looks after the organisation’s instruments and supports the string group in Berlin-Dahlem.

Ehrengard von Gemmingen

Site manager Berlin-South, cello

Ehrengard von Gemmingen received her training at the University of the Arts with Prof. Wolfgang Boettcher, with the Amadeus Quartet at the Royal Academy of Music in London and as a Leverhulme Fellow with the Tokyo String Quartet at the School of Music at Yale University (USA). Her orchestral experience is very varied: Ehrengard von Gemmingen played in London with the Royal Academy Soloists and the London Sinfonia and was a member of the European Chamber Ensemble in London. She performs regularly with the European Community Chamber Orchestra and is a founding member of the Ensemble Incendo Berlins.

Ilona Havrylash

Assistant at the Potsdam site

Ilona studied Cultural Studies with a specialisation in Management of Cultural and Leisure Activities at the National University of Culture and Arts Kyiv, Ukraine. From 2011 to 2022 she worked in the field of education management and event organisation as well as in marketing/PR. At MitMachMusik Ilona has since 2022 been responsible  for communication with Ukrainian participants and their families, organising events and creating communication materials (presentations, flyers and social media posts).

Christiane Herrmann

Site manager Berlin-South II, Piano

Christiane Herrmann has been making music since the age of 6, has regularly won first prizes at piano competitions and was a scholarship holder of the Richard Wagner Society. After graduating from high school, she studied in Berlin at the Hochschule für Musik (now UdK) and at the TU Berlin. This was followed by a study visit to Cambridge and concert activities (song accompaniment, chamber music with members of the Berlin orchestras, choral conducting). She has performed at festivals in Germany, France, Austria and Spain. She also worked for several years with the ‘Young Friends of the Salzburg Festival’ and made the music for the first ‘Jugend-Jedermann’. In addition to her musical activities, she worked as a director, wrote (political) revues and cabaret texts and spent two years on stage in off-theatre productions. Christiane was head of the music department in the Berlin school service and was responsible for the supervision of music in the Berlin Senate Education Administration for 10 years. She has been working for MitMachMusik since 2018 and manages the Berlin-Steglitz location. Musical work with young people has always been a special concern for her.

Katie Hunt

Viola and Violin

Katie Hunt is a concert violist from the USA. She studied among others with Li-Kuo Chang (assistant principal violist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra) and received her master’s degree in viola from DePaul University Chicago. In 2014, Katie moved to Berlin to realise her dream of studying with a violist from the Berlin Philharmonic. In Berlin she continued her studies with Matthew Hunter (Berlin Philharmonic) and Felix Schwartz (Staatskapelle Berlin).

She plays with orchestras throughout Germany (Brandenburger Symphoniker, Anhaltische Philharmonie Dessau, Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt, Staatsorchester Cottbus) and annually with the Zakhar Bron Festival Orchestra Interlaken Classics. Concert tours have taken her through North America, Europe, Japan, China, South Korea, Taiwan and Dubai. She also leads humanitarian music projects in Nigeria.

When asked why she works for MitMachMusik, Katie replies: ‘MitMachMusik is a teaching project that I really believe in. We give music to many children who otherwise wouldn’t have a chance and I feel lucky to put my energy into something I believe in wholeheartedly.’

Johannes Kain

PR and Fundraising

Johannes Kain studied history, art history and general and comparative literature. He is a fully qualified lawyer and certified PR consultant and has several years of experience in German and Austrian agencies and companies, in purely private sectors as well as in the subject areas of culture and politics. Since 2018, he has been supporting MitMachMusik in the areas of public relations and fundraising.

Philipp Kammen

Guitar

Philipp Kammen is a guitarist and music teacher. He has been teaching guitar at the MitMachMusik location in Berlin Süd since 2017. His musical background includes a degree in music with a pedagogical focus at the Humboldt University of Berlin, as well as many years of teaching guitar, piano and music theory. During his studies, he focussed on the effect of music on processes of social integration. This topic is also at the centre of his work at MitMachMusik, where he experiences on a daily basis how music connects people.

Bridget Kinneary

Music Director Berlin, Viola

Bridget Kinneary is an orchestral conductor, educator, violist and collaborative artist. In Berlin, she works at the Berlin Cosmopolitan School, where she both conducts the orchestra and promotes the musical education of the students. Bridget Kinneary holds a Master of Business Administration in Arts Innovation (2023) from Woolf University and the Global Leaders Institute. She holds a Bachelor’s in Music Education and Viola Performance and a Certificate in Arts Leadership from the Eastman School of Music (2015) and a Master of Music in Orchestral Conducting from the City University of New York, Queens College (2024).

Her international experience includes workshops and guest conducting with renowned orchestras worldwide, including the Harare Youth Orchestra in Zimbabwe, the National Youth Orchestra of Belize, El Sistema Sweden in Gothenburg and Kaitia College and El Sistema Whangārei in Northern New Zealand. She has also attended conducting masterclasses with Kristjan Järvi (Tartu, Estonia) and Sasha Mälakiä (Helsinki, Finland) to further hone her craft. Her festival appearances include viola performance at the Texas Music Festival and serving as score reader and musical cue director for the video broadcast team at the Sun Valley Music Festival.

Bridget values international collaboration and sharing perspectives on music education, two topics she is able to combine perfectly as Music Director at MitMachMusik.

Gur Liraz

Gur Liraz was born in Tel Aviv in 1988. He was accepted to the renowned Thelma Yellin High School as a jazz major and studied for four years with jazz guitar master Ofer Ganor. After an eight-month stay in New York, where he took lessons from guitar legend Peter Bernstein, Gur moved to Berlin in 2013 and soon became part of the city’s rapidly developing jazz scene. With his quartet, he accompanied singer Amanda Becker on her debut album ‘You’re Looking at Me’. The two also recorded a duet album in 2023 – ‘Ask Me Now’. His debut album ‘Squiggles’ was released in May 2023 on the London music label UBUNTU Music. Gut has been teaching guitar in Berlin East since 2024.

Zsolt Magyar

Violin

Zsolt Magyar is half Hungarian, half Colombian and grew up in Costa Rica. He first came into contact with music at a young age by playing the piano, later switching to the violin. He received his diploma from the University of Costa Rica and has taught and performed in orchestral programmes all over the world. Zsolt says: “I believe that we need to be the change we want to see in the world, and what better way to bring about change and inclusion than playing music in the community? I am very happy that I can contribute to a more compassionate and sensitive society through my work with MitMachMusik.”

Holger Marzahn

Holger Marzahn is a trained curative education carer, studied music mediation and music education in social work at the Hoffbauer Berufsakademie Potsdam (later the Clara Hoffbauer Potsdam University of Applied Sciences) and completed his master’s degree in inclusive music education/community music at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. Holger strives to bring music to life for people, to show them how much fun it can be to play music themselves and how much support music can provide in coping with everyday life. He teaches guitar on a freelance basis, gives music and band workshops, organises participatory concerts and performs as a singer-songwriter under the name ‘hollagg’. He has been active in the MitMachMusik music club since September 2024.

Mohamad Mir Ali

Violin and Viola

Violist Mohamad Mir Ali founded a music academy in Damascus in 2013 after completing his studies at the music academy there and directed it until 2015. In Germany, he worked as a musician and music educator for the Malteser Hilfsdienst and the Freiwilligenzentrum-Mittelhessen and has led music workshops for integration classes, among other things. Mohamad has played with many orchestras, such as the Mittelhessen Chamber Orchestra and the Wetzlar Chamber Orchestra. MitMachMusik especially appreciates Mohamad’s twelve years of experience as a music teacher.

Isabel Morey Suau

Site manager Berlin-West, Violin

Isabel attended the Conservatori Superior del Liceu de Barcelona and Vila-Seca i Salou and studied at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin.

She trained intensively in the Suzuki method and was awarded the title of Teacher Trainer by the European Suzuki Association. Other trainings she has completed include the Roland Method, teaching string classes, colourstrings and music mind games.

With Neil Fellows, Isabel founded the ‘Junge Camerata Academica Sant Llorenc’. For her work with the Junge Camerata Academica, Isabel received a prize for cultural commitment from the Ruta Foundation and the cultural prize for young artists in the district of Plön. At the Hamburg Instrumental Competition she recently won 1st prize with distinction.

For many years Isabel played with the 1st violins of the Philharmonic Orchestra of the state capital Kiel. Since its foundation, she has been a permanent member of the chamber orchestra Metamorphosen Berlin, with whom she regularly performs at the Elbphilharmonie, the Konzerthaus and the Philharmonie Berlin and records CDs for Sony Classical.

She regularly gives courses for students and teachers in Germany and abroad (Germany, Spain, Austria and England). Her students have won numerous prizes in various competitions, from Jugend Musiziert to the national level.

Isabel’s passion is to pass on her musical passion with the conviction that everyone, regardless of age, has a right to access qualified teaching. And she is thrilled to be part of MitMachMusik, a project that unites her values, desires and perspectives. 

Ido Nahmias

Site manager Berlin-East, clarinet

Ido Nahmias initially learnt guitar, piano and flute before discovering his love for the clarinet. After attending the ‘Composing, Arranging and Conducting’ programme at the Rimon School of Contemporary Music in Israel and completing a degree in psychology, Ido completed an internship at El-Sistema-Greece, where he discovered the power of music as a driver for social change. Ido has been teaching clarinet for many years and is particularly interested in jazz and improvisation as well as classical music. He has been teaching at MitMachMusik since 2018 and has been in charge of the Berlin East location since 2024.

Francis Ricardo

Bratsche

Francis Ricardo begann 2006 in Venezuela im Projekt „El Sistema” mit dem Unterricht, wo sie unter der Anleitung von Luis Bohórquez und Carmelo Méndez Bratsche studierte. Sie schloss mit dem Bachelor für Musik ab. Als Musikerin war Francis in verschiedenen Orchestern als Bratschistin tätig, unter anderem im Simón Bolívar Symphonieorchester und dem Caracas Symphonieorchester. Als Geigen- und Bratschenlehrerin war sie langjährig in Venezuela beschäftigt. Seit September 2019 unterrichtet sie in Berlin und spielt regelmäßig in verschiedenen Orchestern Deutschlands.

Neus Saval

Violin

Neus studied violin in Spain and Berlin with Prof Stephan Picard. She completed her violin studies in classical music with honours. She received a scholarship from the University of Santiago de Compostela for the international music course “Música en Compostela”. At the “Costa Blanca” music competition, she was honoured in both violin and piano. In 2022, Neus completed a master’s degree in music education. She was trained in the Suzuki method, Colourstrings, Children Music Lab and Music Mind Games. Neus plays with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra and the Babylon Berlin Orchestra. Both during and after her studies, she has played in numerous orchestras and ensembles, such as the Neue Philharmonie, the Neuburg Young Opera Orchestra and the “Orquesta Joven Region de Murcia”, with which she completed a tour of the USA. Further stations in her career include “Orquesta Barroca de Mallorca”, “Kissar Ensemble”, “Nomos Ensemble” and “Trio Mediterráneo”. She has been a violin teacher at the Béla Bartók Music School in Berlin since 2020. Since 2023 she has been working as a violin teacher and as head of the music club at MitMachMusik e.V. in Spandau.

Aleksandra Anna Walczak

Cello

Aleksandra Walczak has been playing the cello since the age of seven and studied successfully at the Poznan Conservatory of Music. There she also completed her training as a music teacher. During these studies and afterwards she played as a cellist with many well-known musicians and bands throughout Europe, including Deborah Sassone, Andrea Boccelli, Genesis (Ray Wilson) or the Electric Light Orchestra. Aleksandra has 14 years of experience as a music teacher through her various teaching activities for private students as well as teaching at music schools.

Inna Zaremba

Inna graduated from the state music college in Taganrog, Ukraine, with a degree in violin and a qualification as a teacher and orchestral musician. She played in orchestras, taught children from music schools and gave private violin lessons. She came to Potsdam from Ukraine in 2022 and has played in the Collegium Musicum Potsdam symphony orchestra ever since. She has been teaching violin for MitMachMusik regularly since 2023. Inna loves being part of this project where she can help children discover the world of music and experience how music connects us all and makes us grow.

Peter Kuttner (c) privat
Peter Kuttner (c) privat

Peter Kuttner

“Music is a means of healing and integration.”

Peter Kuttner, a businessman from Munich with a degree in economics, worked as a managing director and entrepreneur in various large companies in the textile industry. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, he came to Berlin as a consultant for the new federal states and Russia. After a serious car accident, he retired from professional work at the end of the 1990s and has since concentrated his commitment on charitable projects, including “Germany rounds up”, refugee sponsors Syria and, last but not least, MitMachMusik. In addition to his work for the association, Peter Kuttner, together with his wife Bettina von Hardenberg, personally looks after refugee families with currently eleven family tribes and over 60 people. Thus, the von Hardenberg-Kuttner couple are not only grandparents of eight genetic grandchildren, but also have 35 migrant grandchildren and even two great-grandchildren already.

Pater Hauber (c) V. Vasu
Pater Hauber (c) V. Vasu

Peter Hauber

“You can’t make culture with politics, but maybe you can make politics with culture” Theodor Heuss

Paediatrician Peter Hauber has been organising benefit concerts on behalf of IPPNW for 36 years, always to counter the destruction of our earth with a piece of culture. At the end of 2015, the peak of the influx of refugees to Germany, he suggested to the German Music Council that, following the example of “El Sistema”, the hundreds of thousands of children seeking a new home in Germany should be given a perspective through music lessons. For him, this is a way to prevent these children from becoming socially marginalised and thus also a problem for us, “because not only our children, but also these children are our future”. His appeal came to nothing, the German Music Council did not feel responsible. Loosely based on Theodor Heuss, he founded the first “MitMachMusik” in Berlin with his colleague Martin Ross at the end of 2015 and has since organised four benefit concerts for the project. www.ippnw-concerts.de

Region Ost - Marzahn/Hellersdorf

Kompass Hellersdorf
Kummerower Ring 42
12619 Berlin
www.kompass-berlin.org/kinder/start

Grundschule an der Wuhle
Teterower Ring 79
12619 Berlin

Leitung:

Ido Nahmias

Region West

Gemeinschaftsunterkunft Pichelswerderstraße 3-5 
13597 Berlin

Paul-Schneider-Haus 
Schönwalder Str. 23-24 
13585 Berlin

Leitung:
Isabel Morey
isabelmorey@mit-mach-musik.de

Region Potsdam

AWO Kulturhaus Babelsberg
Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 135
14482 Potsdam
www.kulturhausbabelsberg.de

Bürgerhaus am Schlaatz
Schilfhof 28
14478 Potsdam
www.buergerhaus-schlaatz.de

Begegnungszentrum oskar
Oskar-Meßter-Straße 4-6
14480 Potsdam-Drewitz
www.oskar-drewitz.de

Rechenzentrum Kunst- und Kreativhaus
Stiftung SPI
Dortustraße 46
14467 Potsdam 
www.rz-potsdam.de

Leitung:
Marie Kogge
mariekogge@mit-mach-musik.de

Region Dahlem und Steglitz

Gemeindesaal der Evangelischen Kirchengemeinde Berlin-Dahlem
Faradayweg 13,
14195 Berlin

Leitung:
Ehrengard von Gemmingen
eggavongemmingen@mit-mach-musik.de


Christiane Herrmann 
christianeherrmann@mit-mach-musik.de

Zuriel Bermúdez Cisne

Site manager Berlin-East, Violin

Born in Managua, Nicaragua, Zuriel Bermúdez Cisne graduated from the UPOLI Conservatory of Music as a violinist. Zuriel has performed with various orchestras including: National Orchestra of Nicaragua, UPOLI Chamber Orchestra; he was also a founding member and concertmaster of the Rubén Darío National Theatre Youth Orchestra and Camerata Bach.

Zuriel has participated in many international camps and youth orchestras. His participation in the Orchestra of the Americas (YOA) deserves special mention, as this gave him the opportunity to play in more than 20 countries in America and Europe. Likewise, he was part of the YOA Global Leaders project, where he conducted an educational initiative in Ecuador. With this experience, Zuriel discovered his passion for musical education. As a violin teacher at the UPOLI University Conservatory and the Nicaraguan Academy of Music, he has worked with children and youth at the elementary level. In 2016, he took over the coordination of the strings section in a project on violence prevention through music (Nicaraguan Cultural Forum).

In 2019, Zuriel decided to move to Germany with his wife. He is currently a music teacher at the Musikschule Fröhlich Berlin and a MitMachMusik site manager in East Berlin. His interest in helping people through music led him to begin his studies in music therapy.

Kathrin Sutor

Cello

Kathrin Sutor was born in Rochester, USA and grew up in Germany. She studied music and cello at the UdK Berlin and at Indiana University Bloomington, USA. During her studies she played in the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin, was a member of the Indiana University String Quartet and principal cellist in the European Union Baroque Orchestra. As a cellist, Kathrin freelances and performs with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, the Insula Orchestra Paris and in various chamber music ensembles. In order to be able to pass on her knowledge as a teacher, she also completed a degree in instrumental pedagogy. She has been a lecturer at the University of Potsdam since 2000. Kathrin Sutor has been music director at MitMachMusik since February 2021 and teaches at the Potsdam location.

Elwend Sofi

Guitar

Elwend Sofi comes from Syria and grew up there in a well-known family of musicians. He started music lessons at the age of 13, which only lasted a short time due to the outbreak of war. In 2015, Alwand came to Germany and started learning the guitar. Since 2016, Elwend has been supporting the Potsdam team as an assistant.

Özüm Semis

Viola

Özüm Şemis, violist, was born in Istanbul in 1994. She graduated from the Barenboim Said Academy in 2021. Before studying in Germany, she worked at the Istanbul State Opera in 2016 and 2017. Both during and after her studies, she has played in various orchestras and ensembles in Germany, such as the West Eastern Divan Orchestra and the Boulez Ensemble. Since 2021 she has been working in the MitMachMusik-Team Berlin South as a violin and viola teacher and as a teacher in a Music Club.

Leonor Rodrigues

Site Manager Berlin-West, violin

As a child, Leonor Rodrigues had the opportunity to participate in an artistic-social project in Portugal, which gave her the first contact with music. This experience had a great impact on her and awakened in her a long-term interest in contributing to society as a violin teacher. Since 2016, she has studied “Artistic – Pedagogical Training” at the UdK Berlin; main subject violin with Prof. Axel Gerhardt as well as methods for group teaching with Oranna Sperber and Regine Schultz-Greiner. In 2017, together with colleagues at the UdK, she founded an inclusion project “Musik von allen Saiten” (Music from all strings), which uses methods from string classes and elements from rhythmics or music and movement to enable exchange between refugee and Berlin children. She has also gained experience as a project leader. She teaches string classes at the music school “STREICHERKLASSENpunktBERLIN”, at the “Musikschule Kladow” and at two high schools, among others, and often plays in the orchestra and chamber music ensembles. She has been the head of the Berlin West location since November 2021.

Heidrun Klebahn-Bier

Violin

Heidrun Klebahn-Bier studied school music (specialising in violin and conducting) and Protestant theology in Heidelberg and taught for many years at grammar schools in Mannheim, Berlin and Potsdam. She is now active in vocational school work and leads seminars on current political topics and value education. She came to MitMachMusik through her voluntary work supporting refugees and has been helping the team in Potsdam ever since. She shares her joy of music with the children and young people by making music together and teaching the violin.

Alan Ibrahim

Location manager Potsdam, guitar

Born in Syria, Alan Ibrahim first studied at the International Guitar Academy, Berlin and currently at the University of the Arts, Berlin. He was also a member of a guitar ensemble under the direction of Prof. Dr. Thomas Offermann. His musical education was supplemented by master classes with Marcin Dylla and Aniello Desiderio, among others, as well as trainings and workshops at the organisation Musicians Without Borders. He has been working at MitMachMusik since the beginning of 2016, and leads the guitar ensemble for children and young adults, which he founded himself. He is also the head of the guitar department and one of the site managers in Potsdam.

Isabelle Herold

Music Club

Isabelle Herold studied flute in Hanover and Montreal. Her special interest is the performance of new music. She performs with various ensembles and has given numerous premieres of contemporary works. Together with the Potsdam-Mittelmark District Music School and funded by “Kultur macht stark – Bündnisse für Bildung”, she has conducted several music projects with refugee children since 2014. Isabelle supports the team in Potsdam and leads the Music Club there.

Jenny Marielle Dilg

Viola

Jenny Marielle Dilg is doing her doctorate at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Mannheim and works as a violist with the Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg.

She previously studied viola, music education and psychology in Berlin, Geneva and Poznań. Concert tours have taken her throughout Europe and Asia.

Sophia Baltatzi

Violin

Sophia Baltatzi studied violin in Thessaloniki and Berlin. In 2014, she completed a Master’s degree in Musicology at the Free University of Berlin. In addition to her engagement with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, she is a member of the ensemble Oiseaux Bizarres and participates in music recordings for films, theatre and TV. As a stage musician, Sophia Baltatzi has performed at the Berliner Ensemble and the Deutsches Theater, Berlin, among others. At MitMachMusik she teaches violin at the Spandau location.

Azadeh Azimi

Singer

Azadeh grew up in Iran. In a country where playing instruments and musical education – especially for women – are strictly regulated by the Islamist regime, she learned to sing, play the piano and music theory mainly by herself. In 2000, out of a passion for music, she founded the choir Samat at the University of Shiraz. Because the human voice is the musical instrument that everyone has in common, that doesn’t draw attention to itself and that you can take with you everywhere. With the Samat Choir, Azadeh won the prize for the best choir in Iran at the Fadjr International Music Festival. She has given many concerts with German musicians in Iran and has also performed at the Berlin Philharmonie, among other venues. Since 2018, Azadeh has been studying music to become a teacher at the University of the Arts (UdK) in Berlin. At MitMachMusik she gives singing lessons and leads the singing ensemble.

Raquel Alves

Singer

Raquel Alves is a classical singer and music teacher. She completed her vocal training at the Hanns Eisler University of Music Berlin with Prof. Renate Faltin and since 2021 she has been studying for an artistic-pedagogical master’s degree at the UdK Berlin in elementary music education/rhythmics. She has performed in various opera productions, solo concerts and recitals in Portugal, Italy, France and Germany and has been a guest in several international concert halls. In addition to her artistic activities, she has taken part in social and voluntary projects in which she has sensitised children from different social contexts to music, dance and theatre. She teaches classical singing and early music education privately and in several music schools and institutions, and organises children’s concerts in which she often participates as a presenter and/or singer. She runs the music club in the shared accommodation facilities Freudstraße and Pichelswerderstraße in Spandau. 

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Level IV

  • Kinder und Jugendliche, die ihr Instrument gut genug beherrschen, können in das Ensemble aufgenommen werden. Das Erlernen des Orchesterspiels steht im Vordergrund. Der Einstieg ist immer zum Semesterstart möglich.
  • Lernziele: 
    • gemeinsamer geübter Beginn/Einsatz/Einatmen
    • Fähigkeit, im Puls mitzuschwingen
    • Orchesterrepertoire erlernen
    • Aufführungen als Ensemble
    • ein Musikstück alleine auf dem Instrument vortragen können
  • Format: Unterricht im Ensemble

Level III

  • Kinder und Jugendliche, die Level 2 erfolgreich abgeschlossen haben. Die Kinder bekommen ein eigenes Leih-Instrument, üben in Kleingruppen und erhalten Einzelunterricht. Der ein Einstieg ist immer zum Semesterstart möglich.
  • Lernziele:
    • Klang
    • Intonation
    • Rhythmus
    • Zusammenspiel
    • Dirigenten folgen können
    • Aufführungen als Ensemble und Solo
  • Formate: Einzelunterricht sowie Unterricht in Kleingruppen

Level II

  • Kinder ab acht Jahren, die die Fähigkeiten von Level 1 vorweisen können.
  • Lernziele:
    • Blockflöte kennenlernen
    • Noten lesen lernen
    • Rhythmus lesen
    • zweihändige Koordination
  • Format: Gruppenunterricht

Level I

  • Kinder ab fünf Jahren und jederzeit frei zugänglich.
  • Lernziele: erster Zugang
    • Rhythmus
    • Gehörtraining
    • Körperbewusstsein
    • Sprachförderung
    • erstes musikalisches Zusammenspiel mit den Möglichkeiten des eigenen Körpers
  • Format: Gruppenunterricht

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Greeting Patronage E.T.A. Hoffmann knew that “where language ends, music begins”. And he is right: music moves us human beings in our innermost being.

LEVEL IV

  • Kinder und Jugendliche, die ihr Instrument gut genug beherrschen, können in das Ensemble aufgenommen werden. Das Erlernen des Orchesterspiels steht im Vordergrund. Der Einstieg ist immer zum Semesterstart möglich.
  • Lernziele: gemeinsamer geübter Beginn/Einsatz/Einatmen – Fähigkeit, im Puls mitzuschwingen – Orchesterrepertoire erlernen – Aufführungen als Ensemble – ein Musikstück alleine auf dem Instrument vortragen können
  • Format: Unterricht im Ensemble

SEL – was ist Social Emotional Learning?

Social Emotional Learning bedeutet:

Self awareness – die Wahrnehmung des eigenen Individuums

Self management – die Verantwortung für sich selbst und die Erreichung der selbstgesteckten Ziele

Social awareness – die Wahrnehmung als Individuum als Teil einer Gruppe
Relationship skills – wie man unterschiedliche Rolle annimmt und Beziehungen aufbaut. Jeder ist wichtig, jeder wird gebraucht!

Mit SEL, vermitteln wir unseren Schülern die Kompetenz, die sie brauchen, um ihr eigener Lehrer zu sein. Eine Fähigkeit, die sie nicht nur für das Erlernen eines Instrumentes benötigen.

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