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The project

In music for more humanity

Since 2018, the young musicians of the Orchestre Atelier Ostinato have been involved in civic and sustainable development actions by going out to meet isolated audiences and allowing imaginations to emerge. For the past three years, they have been committed to creating social links: the fight against loneliness through their great event-project "In music for more humanity".

This project tells us how the practice of individual and collective creation of the arts allows us to get out of our physical or inner loneliness, how it brings hope, and what openness it represents. It shows how the artistic channel is essential and touches the human being through the universal languages of music, dance, and words... It will show that everyone lives with confinement and pain, and how an individual and collective art experience will transform the person, in his or her self-confidence, in his or her relationship with others, and in his or her social reintegration.

The "In music for more humanity" project is based on percussion and orchestra workshops with inmates of the Melun prison, who will be granted exceptional leave to perform in public. Young people in precarious situations will also benefit from dance and orchestra lessons. A public performance will be held in February 2023.

In a few months, the beneficiaries: inmates of the Melun prison and young people in precarious situations will create a collective work of percussion, dance and symphonic music, accompanied by professional artists and young musicians. Each will have a musical role within an orchestra without stigmatisation. Music becomes a vector for integration and the reduction of social inequalities.

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Orchestre
Ostinato

Founded in 1997 under the patronage of Manuel Rosenthal, the Orchestre-Atelier Ostinato provides its 90 young instrumentalists with specific training in the profession of orchestral musician. As a "springboard orchestra", it is the only youth orchestra to pay its musicians, who are students of the best conservatories, thus placing them as close as possible to professional conditions and requirements and offering access to excellence.

Photo credit: Jair Lanes
Photo credit: Jair Lanes
Photo credit: Maison de la Mutualité
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