#Music pub 3 suisses how to#

“When I was young, I always wanted to play the guitar because you can go out with friends and sing together,” says Khadija Ahmadi, 19, from Afghanistan. The guitar is the instrument of choice for many. “So we put them together with the refugees. Gabriela Haffner, general secretary of Live Music Now Vienna, says the students, who are preparing to be teachers, need the practice. “They said, ‘your concerts are very nice, we enjoy them, but what about lessons for us?’”įorty-two refugees are working with 10 music students from the Jam Music Lab in the fields of jazz and popular music, while some 20 refugees and 20 students are concentrating on classical music at MDW, where tuition is more likely to be one-to-one. “When we gave concerts at the refugee centres, we got questions from the audience,” says Schmidt. The classes were advertised in centres where refugees live and where Live Music Now first performed for them. Professors supervise, and the students can gain credits for teaching the refugees. Ute Ulrike Schmidt, project manager of Live Music Now-Unisono, had the idea of bringing refugees together with students from Vienna’s music universities such as the Jam Music Lab and the University of Music and Performing Arts (MDW).

#Music pub 3 suisses how to#

🎶 🎺🎸 Refugees are jamming with music students in Austria who have been teaching the newcomers how to hit the right note /2qXfrqZiUE Unisono is an initiative of the Vienna branch of Live Music Now, an international organization founded by violinist Yehudi Menuhin that takes music into closed institutions such as care homes and prisons. Visar has been teaching Milad piano as part of a musical exchange called “Unisono”. “I am so proud of him,” says Visar Kasar, 23, from Kosovo, who is studying composition at the Conservatory for Jazz and Popular Music, known as the Jam Music Lab. Milad Osman, 23, from Afghanistan, is playing a short piano solo on the stage, even though he has only been learning for two months. Refugees are jamming with music students who have been teaching the newcomers how to play their instruments. VIENNA, Austria – On a Saturday night at the Schwarzberg music pub, the crowd is going wild. Ute Ulrike Schmidt (second from right), project manager of Live Music Now, with some of the refugees learning to play instruments with local music students.