Partnering with major arts and education institutions worldwide
Partnering with major arts and education institutions worldwide
A selection of our project partners:
Hull’s School in Switzerland is Zurich’s #1 English college. Since 2015, students at Hull’s School have been creating their own music animations for a growing repertoire of music, ranging from baroque and classical to romantic and modern.
In 2018, International School Luxembourg started using Music:Eyes in an interdisciplinary project combining a student music composition, theater production, works of visual art, and of course Music:Eyes animations.
Young musicians of the European Union Youth Orchestra performed solo pieces for violin and cello by J.S.Bach with Music:Eyes animations as part of the Music Gallery. The Music Gallery is the EUYO’s main chamber music event in Summer, which takes place throughout the rooms of Grafenegg Castle in Austria. Every year, the gallery repertoire is chosen based on a theme, which is reflected throughout four music trails. The theme 2019 was „Music in Vision“. The audience consisted of families, children and adults and the live synchronization with the Music:Eyes crank tool was expertly played by EUYO musicians.
“We found Music:Eyes to be a great resource to use both for our players – who were immediately fascinated by the idea – and our audiences, particularly people new to classical music. We designed an informal programme for children and young people as part of our Music Gallery using them (developed with and at our Summer Home at Campus Grafenegg). Result: Music:Eyes was a real hit!”
— Marshall Marcus, CEO of EUYO, July 2019
The Musikkollegium Winterthur was founded in 1629 and is one of the oldest European music institutions. It turned into a professional orchestra in 1875. Principal conductors have included Franz Welser-Möst, Heinrich Schiff and Jac Van Steen. The current musical director is Thomas Zehetmair. After first partnering with the orchestra in a classical-in-club event and later a concert performance of S.Prokofiev’s “Classical Symphony”, Music:Eyes is now realizing a large-scale education project focusing on J.Brahms’ Fourth Symphony as part of the Musikkollegium’s focus on the work of Johannes Brahms in the season 2018/2019.
Founded in 1868 as one of the leading orchestras in Switzerland, the Tonhalle Orchestra has flourished in recent decades under the baton of David Zinman (Chief Conductor from 1995 – 2014) and then Lionel Bringuier and will soon embark on a new chapter with Maestro Paavo Järvi as Chief Conductor starting in 2019. The Tonhalle Orchestra has launched diverse programming with concerts for young audiences as well as the “TonhalleLATE” series combining classical repertoire with electronic music in club-like settings. In a cooperation with MKZ – Musikkonservatorium Zurich and the Tonhalle Orchestra, Music:Eyes realized a project that culminated in final performances in March 2018.
The Musikschule Konservatorium Zurich is, with 23’000 students of all ages, Switzerland’s largest and one of Europe’s largest music schools. Over 600 teachers work at MKZ. Music:Eyes realized a project together with MKZ and the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich between November 2017 and March 2018.
The Zürcher Kammerorchester ZKO is one of Switzerland’s most innovative classical music organizations. Under the charismatic leadership of Daniel Hope, the orchestra engages in a multitude of groundbreaking recording and performance projects. Previous music directors included Roger Norrington, Muhai Tang, Howard Griffiths and the founder of the ZKO, Edmond de Stoutz. Music:Eyes partnered up with the orchestra to create an animation of a piece by composer Franz Schreker.
Konzert Theater Bern is a leading performing arts organization in Switzerland’s capital, encompassing the Bern Symphony Orchestra, opera, theatre and dance. In a project with Music:Eyes, students in six schools in the region of Bern visualized a piece by Igor Stravinsky, culminating in a live performance.
The Basel Sinfonietta is Switzerland’s leading symphony orchestra for contemporary music. It has performed over 160 works as world- or Swiss premieres in the last 38 years. Music:Eyes collaborated with the Sinfonietta in January 2016 for an animation of Michael Torke’s work “Ecstatic Orange” and then for an extensive education project with student-authored visualizations of new music.
The legendary Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra needs no introduction. Its annual New Years Concert is known and loved worldwide. Less known is its excellent education program passwort:klassik with which Music:Eyes partnered to create a concert introduction program by adolescents with the piece “Originel” by Pierre Boulez as focal point.
The sisters Seung-Yeun, Hee-Jung and Yun-Jung Huh, natives of Seoul Korea, number among their country’s most prominent musicians. Since its formation in 1996 and its debut concert in Seoul Arts Center, which was broadcast live on television, the Huh Trio has come to be considered one of the most promising ensembles of its generation. Music:Eyes created an education program for the Huh Trio and performed it in a series of concerts for children and adults in Korea.
Founded and conducted by renowned musician and teacher Benjamin Zander, the BPYO is dedicated to “Shaping Future Leaders through Music.” Since 2016, the BPYO has commissioned Music:Eyes animations for several of its celebrated “Discovery Series” concerts, featuring pieces like Sibelius’s Finlandia and Ravel’s La Valse.
A founding member of the “Ivy League”, Columbia University has long maintained a distinctive approach to liberal arts education. Its “core curriculum” provides all undergraduates regardless of major with wide-ranging perspectives on significant ideas and achievements in literature, philosophy, history, music, art and science.
Technology and design
North Kingdom is a global experience design agency that works with leading companies and brands such as Google, Lego, Disney, Lucasfilm, and Education First. Music:Eyes is thrilled to partner with North Kingdom and explore together the artistic as well as educational possibilities of music visualizations.
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