Audiences: contemporary music for all people

The growing interest of a new generation of listeners for contemporary music, the emergence of crossed artistic expression ways and the development of mixed shows (where visual, plastic, pictorial, multimedia and sound creation are linked together) have contributed to make easier the access to nowadays repertoires and to erase the "erudit" connotation of "contemporary music".

Pedagogical actions

Musical languages of the contemporary music are said to be erudite and not always easily accessible by a large audience. Various actions carried out by the Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain since its creation are tested on several categories of audience. The pedagogical action lead by the musicians and Daniel Kawka have shown how a simple pedagogic approach could give the key to reach the pleasure of listening and how it could awake the individual's curiosity in their own way to discover and meet music of today. That's the reason why the ensemble allots a significant energy to pedagogic action. From the very beginning, the training has started in the city of Andrézieux-Bouthéon where a work has been experimented on audiences from nursery school to University.

Some examples

• Intervention on the topic of musical creation in primary, secondary and high schools
• Intervention of the soloists for an introduction to an instrument and a musical repertory
• Rehearsals with teachers and with an exhaustive file of the program
• Intervention of Daniel Kawka before or after concerts
• Lectures on the contemporary partitions
• School concerts
• Concert conferences
• Public Rehearsals
• Workshop of composition
• Lectures on concerts to A-Levels students who chose the music option