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                                                About our School Projects


                                                In January 2009 while searching through Edition Schott's catalogue for piano duo, we came across a very interesting work by Stefan Heucke, The Selfish Giant, op.20a for piano-4 hands and narrator, based on the homonymous fairytale by Oscar Wilde. As we began sight-reading it we came up with the idea of presenting the work as a school project to an audience of students. This idea turned into a project and took place a couple of months later at the Oscar Romero College in  North Holland. Although this performance was a great challenge for us, as we had never in the past presented a work for such an audience, the overall result was quite unexpected for the students and teachers as well as for us.

                                                Since then, we have been invited by the same school every year with the following projects: The Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns and the premiere of Nickos Harizanos's work The Traveling Musicians, op.104 for piano-4 hands and narrator based on the homonymous fairytale by Brothers Grimm, in 2010 and 2011 respectively. Our 2012 project is Andrea Ferrante's work Aesop's Trilogy for piano-4 hands and narrator based on 3 fables by Aesop.

                                                Even from our first live experience in 2009, we came to realize how important it is to present such projects to students, especially at their early and mid teens. They are given the opportunity to create an idea through live experience and to choose whether they would like to accept or reject this kind of art. The essential target of these projects is not to convey the audience to like what they hear and see, but to give them the opportunity to decide on their own, either in a positive or negative way.
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