Annual concert of the International Yehudi Menuhin Foundation and closing event of the European programme "Voices For Tomorrow" in Brussels, Belgium.

Godmother of the evening: Yasmin Levy 

With the support of the European Commission. 

Multidisciplinary artistic workshops and concert aimed at academics and lecturer in partnership with MUS-E Finland and the University of Helsinki. Artists from different cultures and background, working together to enhance personal development and co-creation.

Artistic and multidisciplinary concert wiithin the framework of the Italian classical music festival, Puerto Ercole, Italy.

Organised with the support of our partner, the CIMA Festival. 

International meeting of MUS-E coordinators in Miraflores, Spain.

Artistic workshops and participative performances organised in conjunction with the FYME, Fundación Yehudi Menuhin España.

Free your voice workshop - Wednesday 24 April from 7 to 9 pm, Brussels
An initiative of the International Yehudi Menuhin Foundation

Did you know that Romany a songs have a magical energy and are considered as jewels for the Romany culture?
While inspiring and releasing your creativity, Romany songs also give you a better understanding of Roma gypsies’ life, traditions, culture and feeling of belonging. Romany songs can teach us to free our voices, giving us the opportunity to explore an unknown culture while working on our own personal development.

Come and take part in a free your voice workshop to discover Roma culture. This workshop will be given by Ida Kelarova, a Czech singer known for her music and workshops, accompanied by Dužda Desiderius, guitarist, and Oto Bunda, musician and dancer. She will teach you to free your emotions and let yourself be carried away by them through the art of song.
Address of the day:
Domaine Allard Rue Victor Allard 88 – 1180 Bruxelles

Interested? Participation to this workshop is only by prior registration and is free of charge.

To register, please contact Sophie Lupcin by email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it and register before 22 April.

Artistic and multidisciplinary workshops aimed at young people aged between 16 and 18 from the Hungarian, Rom and Serbian communities. Closing concert at the Novi Sad Synagogue in Serbia.

Organised with the support of our partner, Educons University. 

Artists ambassadors :

Nicolas Ankoudinoff (Musician), Volker Biesenbender (Musician), Oto Bunda (Musician), Cristina Candela (Flamenco), Aleksandar Caric (Percussions, Serbia), Marlène Dorcena (Singer), Quentin Dujardin (Musician), Michelangelo Rinaldi (Musician), Antonino Talamo (Musician), Andor Timar ( Comedian, Hungary), Barbara Valentino (Voice) and Shanglie Zhou (Video creator)

Preparatory Meeting - Arts for Roma Children

Art4ROM is a project financed by the European Commission and initiated by the International Yehudi Menuhin Foundation promoting intercultural dialogue within Roma and non-Roma children through arts. 

On 23 January, the partners of the project Art4Rom will meet in Brussels for three days.

The partners of the project are :

- ETP Slovensko (Slovakia)

- Mosaic Art and Sound Itd (United Kingdom)

- Union Romani (Spain)

- MUS-E Hungary (Hungary)

- MUS-E Napoli (Italy)

- Prowide sprl (Belgium)

- European Roma Information Office (Belgium)

Concert Voices to Share  03.12.2012, 8.00 pm Flagey, Studio 4, Brussels, Belgium.
An initiative of the International Yehudi Menuhin Foundation

With the participation of singers inspired by the Roma to celebrate cultural diversity and solidarity
Presentation of the artists by Dani Klein (Vaya con Dios), godmother of this exceptional concert

With: Maurane, Iva Bittová, Marianne Aya Omac, Amparo Cortés

Tickets:
T. 02/641 10 20 (From Tuesday to Friday 12:00 -17:00)
www.flagey.be

For sponsorship packages:
S.Eggermont T. 02/673 35 04 

A concert was organized by the CIMA Festival associated with the International Yehudi Menuhin Foundation. This event, called Concerti in Monte Argentario is an Italian international classical music festival which takes place annually in the Tuscan town of Monte Argentario. This year, the Portuguese operatic baritone Jorge Chaminé and the French pianist Marie-Françoise Bucquet assisted to the festival.

Artists-ambassadors:

- Nicolas Ankoudinoff (Musician)

- Volker Biesenbender (Musician)

- Cristina Candela (Flamenco)

- Marlène Dorcena (Singer)

- Quentin Dujardin (Musician)

- Michelangelo Rinaldi (Musician)

- Antonino Talamo (Musician)

- Barbara Valentino (Voice) 

Artistic and multidisciplinary workshops with non Roma and Roma children of Moldova nad Bodvou, Kosice, Slovakia. In collaboration with our partner ETP Slovakia and with the support of local partners.

In 2012, Mr. Kiran Vyas will host the artists-Ambassadors of the International Yehudi Menuhin Foundation during the Planetary Garden organized by Tapovan Center.

The artists will create a multidisciplinary performance that will be showed to the audience at the Center.

Gala Concert on the 23rd April 2012 in Györ, Hungary

Performance by Marlène Dorcena

On 18 April, the Commission will organise a conference discussing the substansial role that arts and culture may play in Roma inclusion. In fact, they may act as a bridge between Roma and the majority society, challenging stereotypes and prejudice.

In the evening the Commission will offer a concert "Roma Voices for Tomorrow" organised by the International Yehudi Menuhin Foundation as a valorisation event of their project supported by the EU Culture Programme. At the concert the Roma artist Ida Kelarova accompanied by the children from Roma settlements will show how art is able to link artistic excellence and social exclusion.

For more information please go to :

http://ec.europa.eu/culture/news/20120306conference-roma_en.htm 

On Tuesday 22 November, the  P.IN.O.K.I.O. International Conference will take place in Brussels from 9.00 am to 2.00 pm

Place : EESC Room TRE 7701, 7th floor, Trèves Building,
74 rue de Trèves, 1040 Brussels

The conference will be followed by a concert of Karim Baggili at the Istituto Italiano di Cultura.

21 November 2011 -  Caïus Prize by Prométhéa, Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Brussels
Please vote for the International Yehudi Menuhin Foundation presented by Microsoft Europe 

http://www.promethea.be/Evenements-et-activites/concours-des-caius/caius-2010/entreprises-candidates/Vote-caius

In the framework of the European programme „Voices for Tomorrow”, MUS-E Hungary is  organizing an international artistic seminar. Following the previous workshop of the project that took place in Kosice, Slovakia, in September 2011.

Friendly Bridges – Monday 23rd May 2011 – at the Peres Peace Center, Tel Aviv-Jaffa
A MUS-E project promoting friendship between Israel and Italian children
PPlace : Tel Aviv, Israel
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www.jaffainstitute.org  

Residential artistic Seminar and performance within the framework of the European project Voices for Tomorrow during the Planetary Garden organized by Tapovan Center, Normandy, France from 23rd May till 29th May 2011.

http://www.tapovan.com.fr/en/events/8/-

To celebrate the 20th anniversary, the International Yehudi Menuhin Foundation organises on 10 October 2011 her Gala dinner and concert.

The concert will take place in the theatre of the Hotel le Plaza in Brussels at 07:00 pm.
On stage, we will welcome Belén Maya, Gilles Apap, Dani Klein and musicians as well as the Balkans group Albrapsodie.

From 14-16 April, the partners of the P.IN.O.K.I.O. project met in London to discuss the intermediate results of the project.

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The Board Meeting N°1 will take place on the 14th of March in Brussels. 

It will be hosted by our structural partner Microsoft Europe. 

The annual meeting of the coordinators of the international  MUS-E network will take place in Genova, in Italy. It will be hosted by MUS-E Italia www.mus-e.it

All the representatives of the MUS-E associations will gather to go over several topics related to education and art.

The first meeting of the MUS-E Development Committee took place in Amsterdam.

The general development guidelines for the MUS-E Network were discussed. 

To celebrate the 100th anniversary, Assonime organises on 22 November 2010 the concert “100 minuti per 100 anni” (100 minutes for hundred years)

The concert will take place in the Sala Sinopoli of the Auditoriumin Parco della Musica in Rome.   Nine musicians and dancers of the International Yehudi Menuhin Foundation and 12 musicians of the Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio will meet for one evening and become an enchanted orchestra that embodies the colours of the world and express the power of music to unite beyond any barrier.

Gilles Apap, Violin; Karim Baggili, Oud – Guitar; Peppe D'Argenzio, Saxophone; Marlène Dorcena    , Voice; Evandro Dos Reis    , Guitar -Voice; Sanjay Kansa Banik, Tabla; Myriam Lafargue, Accordion; Omar Lopez Valle, Drums; Ernesto Lopez Maturell, Percussions; Augustin Modeste Foly, Guitar; Osvaldo Hernandez Napoles, Percussions; Patrica Hernandez Napoles, Bolas; Jean Jacques Nsengiyumva, Bass; Milton Paulo, Dancer; Carlos Paz, Voice; Pino Pecorelli, Bass-Double bass; Pap Samb, Dum dum – Djembé – Voice; Kaw Sissoko, Kora – Voice; Ziad Trabelsi, Oud - Voice

Musical Direction: Leandro Piccioni, Piano –sinth

16/10/2010, 12:30, Molière, Brussel : Trio Loyko (Russian Gypsy Music)
http://www.muziekpublique.be

Trio Loyko’s founder, Sergei Erdenko , is from a traditionally musical, Russian gypsey family. He was taught music from the age of 5 by his great grandfather, who had passed diploma grades at the Moscow Conservatory. The other 2 members of the trio, on violin and guitar, also had a classical musical education. It is thanks to this wonderful marriage between traditional gypsey and the classical that this trio has become recognised as one of the finest gypsey bands on the circuit . Loyko has played on some prestigious stages with big names in world music such as Gidon Kremer, Yehudi Menuhin, Ravi Shankar and Mstislav Rostropovitsj. True virtuosos for an electrifying concert.

Sergey Erdenko: violon, solo vocals
Vladimir Bessonov: violon, vocals
Michael Savichev: guitar, vocals

Admission:
Members: 7 Euros

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Buran Oçal was born in the region situated in the north of Istanbul (at the crossroads between Bulgaria, Greece and the Black sea). He represents the musical link between these Balkan communities and rural Turkey and is a blend of pure virtuosity and humanity. He will be accompanied on stage by the Istanbul Oriental Ensemble consisting of 5 musicians.

Programme of the evening:

7.00 - 8.00 pm Cocktail

8.00 pm
Welcome by Mr Enrique Barón Crespo, President of the International Yehudi Menuhin Foundation
Speech by His Excellency Mr. Selim Kuneralp, Ambassador,Permanent Delegate of Turkey to the European Union
Presentation of the artists-ambassadors of the Sharing all voices by Mrs Marianne Poncelet, Executive Vice-President of the International Yehudi Menuhin Foundation

8.15 pm VOICES IN DIALOGUE Concert
Sharing Moment on stage - Interdisciplinarity – Interculturality and Improvisation
with the artists-ambassadors of the International Yehudi Menuhin Foundation: Jason Carter (Musician),Rouben Haroutounian (Musician), Isabelle Maurel (Dancer), Barbara Valentino (Voice), Patries Wichers (Multidisciplinary artist) and Shanglie Zhou (Video artist)
Art Direction: Thierry Van Roy

8.45 pm Burhan Öçal and the ISTANBUL ORIENTAL ENSEMBLE
(Musicians: MEHMET ÇELìÇKSU, Kanun; YAŞAR ÇAKIRLAR, Clarinette; AHMET DEMìRKIRAN; Cümbüs et Oud; ISMAìL PAPìS, Violon; ÜMìT ADAKALE, Percussions)

10.00 pm End of the concert

Venue: Espace Magh rue du Poinçon 17 B-1000 Brussels

Should you wish to support us, please contact Marianne Poncelet for detailed information on the various proposals  : +32 (0) 2 673 35 04

Welcoming in Budapest by the national association MUS-E Hungary and participation to the festival organised by the Joseph Károlyi Foundation.

The artists-ambassadors selected by the International Yehudi Menuhin Foundation for the European project "Islands Voices" will participate in the European String Quartet festival organized from 24-26 September 2010 in Károlyi Mansion in Hungary.

http://karolyi.devpixup.com/content.php?id=6&langue=UK

Sharing Moments 8-11 July 2010, Tapovan, Normandy, France

Participation to the ltterary and artistic days organised by Kiran Vyas and Olivier Germain Thomas at Tapovan Centre.

A big succes for the creative piece presented by the artists-ambassadors participating in the project Sharing All voices initiated by the International Yehudi Menuhin Foundation and funded by the European Commission.

7 artists gathered and worked during 4 days  in the Menuhin Hall of Tapovan Center.

On Saturday 10 July at 6.00 pm, they presented the results of their artistic work  to an audience of well-known writers and artists invited by Kiran Vyas and Olivier Germain Thomas.

 Videos and photos soon available.

The International Yehudi Menuhin Foundation through the financial support of the Mattel Foundation is proud to sustain the national association MUS-E Belgium in his initiative of organising a Green Class with children from Belgium but also from France.