Education
From kindergarten to upper school and for families: Our Formats.
To b.shine, b.research and b.live the music of your orchestra with you: That’s what b.jung stands for. Our educational offers are arranged according to target groups and designed especially for them. There are offers for kindergarten children up to high school students and families.
Regular Offers
Discover:
Instruments close up
Orchestral musicians from the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn present their instruments in an interactive workshop at your school and tell you about the exciting inner life of an orchestra. There is not only a lot to hear and discover, but also to participate in! Together we will clap and sing and uncover many a secret about the musical instruments of a symphony orchestra.
→Kindergarten
→Primary school classes 1—4
Rehearsal on tour
Chamber ensembles of the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn rehearse their concert programme at your school. The students experience the work on the pieces, the scope for interpretation and the musical interplay.
→Intermediate and senior level (Mittel- und Oberstufe)
Rhapsody in School
Experience our concert soloists in the classroom with your school class. Our cooperation partner Rhapsody in School makes it possible.
→Further information under rhapsody-in-school.de
→Lower, intermediate and senior level (Unter-, Mittel- und Oberstufe)
LauschMobil
Open your ears – here comes the LauschMobil! We come to school auditoriums and kindergartens. The children experience our different mobile productions up close: Sometimes scenic, sometimes with new music, sometimes with classical classics – always a spectacle! With Das kleine Echo, there is a new musical-theatrical adventure for 1st and 2nd graders in cooperation with the Schauspiel of Theater Bonn this season.
→Kindergarten
→Primary school grades 1—2
Concerts for € 5
Also this season we offer school classes and music courses of the middle and high school to all concerts of the series Im Spiegel tickets for € 5 / pupil (excl. VVK) (limited offer, only through the theater and concert box office).
Newsletter
On the website of Theater Bonn you can subscribe to the family newsletter, teachers‘ newsletter and U 27 newsletter.
Information and registration for our regular offers:
Special Offers
Workshops for the Friday Concert
at the Beethovenfest Bonn
August / September 2023
Love, life, death, intoxication, cycle and song. This is what Olivier Messian’s Turangalîla Symphony deals with. In workshops with middle and high school classes, we will find points of contact to Messiaen’s mighty orchestral work and take a look behind the scenes in rehearsals for the concert at the Beethovenfest.
→ Middle and high school
→Info and registration: lorna.bowden@bonn.de
From the new world
January 2024-May 2024
When Antonín Dvorák wrote his Ninth Symphony, he wanted to process his impressions from America – a new world for him at that time. The beautiful melodies of the symphony are still famous and loved today. But what does a new world sound like today? What does a new world sound like for children? What utopias, dreams and wishes do they have for their future? We offer composition workshops with composer David Graham for 5th and 6th grade wind classes. In the truest sense of the word, the wind classes write music for the future themselves over several months and bring their own compositions to the stage with the Beethoven Orchestra.
→Continuing school grades 5—6
→Info and registration: lorna.bowden@bonn.de
b+
January 2024—June 2024
What do we find in Beethoven today? What does Beethoven find in us? In the b+ school project, we focus on one Beethoven symphony each season in our creative work with students. While the students find their own creative means of expression for Beethoven’s music, we support the artistic work with artists, musicians and coaches. Dance, film, painting, techno processing – we have already brought all of these to the stage with classes and look forward to more exciting art forms and school classes making an artistic contribution to Ludwig van Beethoven’s monumental 9th Symphony this school year.
→Continuing school grades 8—12
→Info and registration: lorna.bowden@bonn.de
Workshops BaseCamp New Music
April 2024
Composers are the great geniuses of the past? Wrong! Anyone can compose, as our composition project for young people at BaseCamp New Music has been proving for years. With experienced coaches, we show them how it’s done, write new music, experiment with sounds and develop our own compositions, which we perform ourselves. More info from January 2024.
→Youths between 12 and 16 years old.
→Info and registration: lorna.bowden@bonn.de
Digital Offers
Wum and Bum
The audio clips and worksheets for a playful and musical lesson on Wum and Bum and the Ladies Ding Dong can be found here.
→Grade 1+2
Teaching videos
Orchestral Instruments & Beethoven 5
In →14 short videos, your pupils will experience all the instruments of a symphony orchestra. Musicians of the Beethoven Orchestra tell all about their instruments, their work and make music – and refer to Beethoven’s symphonic works.
Teaching material recommended for grades 3—6, videos and material at: lorna.bowden@bonn.de
→Grade 3—6
Orchestral musicians in digital form
You have watched all the videos with your pupils and would like to get in touch with our musicians more intensively? Meet an orchestra musician with your class digitally via Zoom for 40 minutes.
→From grade 3