Invitation: 2nd Chemnitz Integrative Sound Festival at the Municipal Music School

Date: Sunday, 18 November from 11 a.m. - final concert at 3:30 p.m. in the Provost's Church

Friends of music are invited to a day of special musical encounters with special people on Sunday, 18 November 2012 at the Chemnitz Municipal Music School. The 2nd Chemnitz Integrative Sound Festival is on the calendar: from 11 am to 12 pm and 1 pm to 3 pm, ensembles and soloists will present their extraordinary musical programmes. Around 100 participants are expected: people whose lives and everyday lives are characterised by personal physical disabilities and who, regardless of these various handicaps, are also musically active themselves. Pupils, students and teachers are among the participants of the 2nd Chemnitz Integrative Sound Festival. They want to impress and inspire the audience with their artistic skills.

The final concert will take place at 15:30 in the parish hall of the Propsteikirche Sankt Nepomuk (Hohe Strasse/corner of Reichstrasse). All music lovers are cordially invited to attend all events - admission is free. Representatives of the media are also cordially invited to accompany the event.

Music school director Nancy Gibson: "Various activities in the field of integrative music work have been taking place in Chemnitz for many years. Following on from the integrative sound festivals in other major cities - Fürth - FIS#, Dortmund - DIS#, Hanover - HIS# - and in solidarity and appreciation with the organisers and creators of these music festivals, the CIS# - Chemnitz Integrative Sound Festival - took place for the first time in Chemnitz in November 2010. This special event will now be continued in 2012."

According to information from the music school, the model character of CIS# is that it brings together groups and individual artists from various areas of disability work in Saxony. Also taking part are: Cello Children and Kaleidoscope from the Chemnitz School for the Blind; AWO Band, Löbau; Alpha Project, Dresden; ORFFeus, Chemnitz; Rock-AG from the Limbach School for the Mentally Handicapped; Wheelchair Dancers from the Chemnitz School for the Physically Handicapped, the integrative music school band MOTUS. The 2nd Chemnitz Integrative Sound Festival will be opened by a school band from the nearby Karl-Schmidt-Rottluff-Gymnasium. All CIS# participants will rehearse two songs together at the Chemnitz Municipal Music School to kick off the festival, which they will perform at the closing concert in the nearby church.

Contact: Music school director Nancy Gibson, Städtische Musikschule Chemnitz, Gerichtsstraße 1, 09112 Chemnitz, call 0371/302289, e-mail: musikschule@stadt-chemnitz.de

Internet:www.chemnitz.de and www.musikschule-chemnitz.de