Education projects want to enable young people to take on unfamiliar perspectives in experiencing New Music and, in doing so, give them a better understanding of compositional concepts and developments. The musicians give students an understanding of New Music and also help them develop their own compositions. The aim is to show young people of all ages that they can be musically creative, even without or with minimal instruments.
From 2009 to 2018, IEMA collaborated with the foundation Nantesbuch (formerly Altana Cultural Foundation) to present the cultural project "CultureDayYear" at several schools in Frankfurt.
Since 2019 IEMA has continued to offer musical education projects with Ensemble Modern members on a smaller scale at the Bettinaschule in Frankfurt. Furthermore, education aspects of the Master’s degree course have continuously expanded, with students receiving dedicated training in the area of cultural education, thereby opening another professional field of activity to them. They carry out their own educational projects at schools in the Rhine-Main area every year.
A new component of the educational work is the format ›Open Young Ears!‹, a project as part of Sound Port Frankfurt 2030, which brings schoolchildren right into the centre of the musical action: the Haus der Deutschen Ensemble Akademie (DEA). Priority is given to classes from grades 9 to 13, who have the opportunity to experience contemporary music in the making during rehearsal visits. They meet musicians from the Ensemble, the IEMA and the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, which is also based at the DEA, as well as composers and conductors, thus gaining valuable insights into current works and compositional ideas.
