Education, Talks & Curated formats

Alongside its concert activity, the project also includes outreach and artistic mediation formats designed to introduce the alphorn to a wide range of audiences through an approach that is rigorous, accessible, and musically engaging.

These formats combine spoken presentation with live performance and can be adapted to musical institutions, educational settings, museums, cultural centres, and distinctive venues. The aim is not simply to present the instrument, but to create a listening experience that connects history, sound, landscape, tradition, and contemporary artistic creation.

AVAILABLE FORMATS

• PRE-CONCERT TALKS AND ORCHESTRAL PRESENTATIONS

A format designed for orchestras, symphonic bands, concert series, and festivals.

It can be presented as a pre-concert talk, an open rehearsal introduction, or a public-facing presentation, offering a clear introduction to the alphorn, its sound production, its relationship to the modern horn, and its place within the European orchestral imagination.

This format is particularly well suited to enriching the audience’s experience before the concert and providing artistic and historical context in an engaging and accessible way.

• LECTURE-RECITALS FOR CONSERVATOIRES AND UNIVERSITIES

A format designed for conservatoires, higher education institutions, universities, and music training environments.

It is presented as a lecture-recital or talk with live performance, with the level of content adapted to students, faculty, or specialist audiences. It may include historical, technical, interpretative, and organological perspectives, as well as the relationship between the alphorn and the horn within the European musical tradition.

This format brings together reflection, listening, and practical demonstration in a flexible and pedagogically grounded proposal.

• PRESENTATIONS FOR MUSEUMS, EXHIBITIONS, AND CULTURAL CENTRES

A format conceived for museums, exhibition spaces, and cultural centres interested in projects that bring together music, heritage, landscape, and sonic memory.

These presentations can be linked to temporary exhibitions, permanent collections, or specific themes, creating an experience that responds to the space and deepens the audience’s engagement with the exhibition through live sound.

With its historical, visual, and acoustic presence, the alphorn is particularly evocative in these kinds of settings.

• CULTURAL EXPERIENCES IN DISTINCTIVE VENUES

A flexible format suitable for wineries, foundations, heritage sites, private institutions, and other special venues seeking a distinctive artistic proposal.

In these contexts, the project may take the form of a guided musical intervention, a short recital, or a bespoke experience, always shaped in dialogue with the identity of the space and the profile of the audience.

It is a format designed to create a memorable listening experience, in which the sound of the alphorn establishes a direct relationship with the architecture, surroundings, and atmosphere of the venue.

GENERAL FEATURES

All formats combine spoken presentation and live performance, and can be adapted in duration, depth, and focus depending on the context, the type of institution, and the intended audience.

These activities can be developed in collaboration with orchestras, bands, conservatoires, universities, museums, cultural centres, foundations, and other organisations interested in projects that bring together music, artistic mediation, and live experience.

POSSIBLE SETTINGS

• Orchestras and symphonic bands

• Conservatoires and universities

• Museums and exhibition spaces

• Cultural and heritage centres

• Foundations, wineries, and distinctive venues

• Institutional events and tailor-made activities