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Paris StDenis

Collège Pierre-de-Geyter

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New pupils have joined Mechthilde Huber’s piano classes: Salomon, Sonsave, Fred and Zineb! They make fantastic progress on the keyboard. Older pupils, having reached the end of their scolarity, left the Collège: Stacey, Kodou and Kathleen. Some joined a Lycée, whereas others entered an apprenticeship. We wish them all the best for their future and are looking forward to keeping in touch with them.

Project Coordinator: Eric Souève, Director
Music Teacher: Takfarinas Barkou (MSc Mathematics and Musicology)
Schedule: Classes are held on Wednesday afternoon from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Address: Collège Pierre-de-Geyter, 4-56-60 Boulevard Marcel-Sembat, F-93200 St-Denis

Music, imagination, happiness…

  • Fondation Jonas Paris – Piano
  • Fondation Jonas Paris - concerts

Mechthilde Huber, a young musician trained at the Carl Orff Institute in Salzburg, brings music, imagination and happiness to a little group of pupils at the Collège Pierre-de-Geyter !
Piano lessons happen on a Wednesday afternoon. Sounds and of rhythms are explored, the manifold colours of creativity discovered. Singing, tapping, dancing, are as much part of Mechthilde’s music lessons as are discipline and regularity.

An enthusiastic School Director, Eric Souève, is supporting the whole project and helping in whatever way he can.

‘How do you motivate your pupils to practice?– This is an everlasting question to all music teachers!
The pianos are available through the Secrétariat of the School, where the keys to the Music Room have to be collected for practice.

A step requiring motivation and consistency. But, the pupils have become a closely-knit group of friends, practicing at odd hours, composing together little songs…

Laughter can be heard, a keen interest can be perceived – Music has become the ‘private garden’ of each pupil, a ray of hope…

To Dounia, Miriam, Cloé, Kodou, and to the others…. go our wishes.

Well done!

News

  • Carolina: Master’s thesis!
  • 4th February, Gstaad: Fundraising Concert
  • Océane Masters degree and Prix Arditi!
  • Jerusalem: Jonas Alumni at the «Alleluia» festival
  • Jonas student at the Davidsbündler Music Academy in The Hague

Special piano concerts – CD available


The CD of a concert of Rati Skhirtladze’s (13 years) and his teachers Natia Beraia Taktakishvlili and Dachi Taktakishvili is available – order here: info@jonasfoundation.org
The concerts took place in Switzerland (Berne, Bioley-Magnoux, Geneva) from 12th to 15th March 2015.
On the program: Liszt, Chopin, Ravel, Lagidze.

Donations

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Middle East

Drama workshops in Ramallah (Kathy Bergen, Faten Khoury) – Read more

Milman Center, Haifa

Musictherapy for children suffering from autism at the Milman Center, Haifa. Read more

Armenia: Integration of disabled children

The Jonas Foundation supports the project “Art for Inclusion” in Armenia. Documentary films: "I am a hero", "If you have wings" and "Only love". Read more

Paris-StDenis, France

The Jonas Music Class at Collège Pierre-de-Geyter, StDenis, France. Read more

London Music School

Read more about our music school.

Puzzle «Creation»

«The Creation», a painting in form of a huge puzzle! A piece of art put together by handicapped children and children from the Bernese Oberland (summer 2007). During the International Year 2008 of the Earth, «The Creation» was hosted by the International Airport Geneva at Gate A8. Read more

June 2006: UN Human Rights Council

Jonas Choir UN Geneva
19th June: The «Jonas Singers» sing with the «Petits Chanteurs de la Cathédrale» at the first Session of the Human Rights Council, United Nations, Geneva. Young singers from countries as varied as Iran, Zimbabwe, Angola, Rwanda, Cameroun, Bulgaria, Germany, United Kingdom, France and Switzerland, have been invited to sing at the first Session of the Human Rights Council.

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