Music School Festival: Three-day open-air concert and street music

Three days for the music school festival

This year, the Bocholt-Isselburg Music School is holding its big music school festival under the Skyliner in front of the Historic Town Hall on three days. There will also be street music throughout the city centre. 500 children and young people from Bocholt and Isselburg will be heard and seen with their orchestras, bands and choirs in the city centre.

"More and more often, our students have asked to perform in front of the historic town hall again," says Claudia Borgers, head of the music school. And so this year, for the first time since 2018, the music school festival will be presented in Bocholt's city centre.

"With the abundance of ensembles, orchestras and bands, we can't manage our programme in one day. But especially after the long Corona break, we want to give every music school ensemble the opportunity to perform. So without further ado, we extended the festival to a whole three days, explains Borgers. "The Stadtsparkasse Bocholt is thankfully providing us with the Skyliner, the Parents' and Supporters' Association with the stage and the technology," says Borgers. The Stadtmarketing Gesellschaft will also provide support.

In order to include smaller ensembles, the music school festival will be expanded to include street music. At four locations in Bocholt's city centre, the musicians will present their skills live and without stage equipment and move from location to location with their small concerts.

Opening with music for the evening market

This year's Music School Festival will be opened in cooperation with Stadtmarketing Bocholt with "Music at the Evening Market".

Flyer: The programme at a glance

Programme for Thursday

4.30 to 7 p.m.: "Music for the Evening Market" under the direction of Christa Warnke.

The choir of the Mariengymnasium, a cooperation project with the music school, will sing "Everybody wants to rule the world" by Tears for Fears. The Singwerkstatt, an offer of the music school for adult singers, performs other impressive songs, including "Lautsein", a Maybebop song.

Soloist and singer of the music school band "SNOB", Marcel Theißen, interprets "Trotzdem" by Dan Danger and is accompanied by music school student Selin Özdemir on the cello. The youth choir "Young Voices" will cover the song "Alles ist jetzt" by Bosse and also "Numb" by Linin Park, among others. At the end, the band "Outta Basement" with Simon Hallwaß (vocals), Matthias Wigger (drums) and William Al Akrad (git.) and Selin Özdemir (cello) will close the evening.

Programme for Friday

5.00 p.m.: Opening with the JeKits choirs of the Maria Montessori School (directed by Luanda Schillings).

5.30 p.m.: Children's musical with excerpts from eight years of children's musicals (directed by Stefanie Bergmann and Luanda Schillings)

6.20 p.m.: Issel brass band (conducted by Ralf Schmittkamp)

7 p.m.: Percussion Ensemble 1 (conducted by Christoph Nießen)

8 p.m.: Band "Pineapple Juice" (conducted by Jan Schulz)

8.30 pm: Percussion Ensemble 2 (Conductor: Christoph Nießen)

Programme for Saturday

Street music (12 to 2 p.m.)

A total of six ensembles will show their skills at the four locations (Neustraße in front of the "MOC" shoe store, on St. Georgs Platz, on Nordstraße, in front of "Anna Hoffs" and on Gasthausplatz). There will be a saxophone and flute ensemble (conducted by Uwe Renting and Charlotte Beier), brass ensemble (conducted by Gido van Schijndel and Ruben van Schijndel), a string quartet (conducted by Christiane Schröder), recorder ensemble (conducted by Theres Kommescher), a guitar orchestra (conducted by Joern Weinrich) and two clarinet ensembles (conducted by Britta Nolte-Kaiser).

Stage programme on the main stage in front of the historic town hall

5 p.m.: JeKits Choir and Orchestra of the Josefschule (conducted by Lioba Igel and Frank Volks)

5.30 p.m.: JeKits and JeKiss choirs of the Clemens Dülmer and St. Bernhard School (conducted by Beate Foremny)

6.10 p.m.: Youth Orchestra, Mini Strings and String Band (Conducted by Gabriele Nußberger and Christiane Schröder)

6.40 p.m.: Mini-Winds (conducted by Gido van Schijndel)

7.15 p.m.: Wind Band (direction: Ruben van Schijndel)

7.50 p.m.: Strings of the Youth Symphony Orchestra (Conductor: Gabriele Nußberger)

20.30 hrs: Collegium Musicum and Youth Symphony Orchestra (Annette Oehmen and Gabriele Nußberger)

9 p.m.: Collegium Musicum and Youth Symphony Orchestra and Youth Wind Orchestra (Anette Oehmen, Gabriele Nußberger and Guido Schrader)

Road Safety Day on the Market Square

On Saturday, 17 June, the City of Bocholt's Road Safety Day will also take place on the market square in front of the historic town hall and will be enriched by the Bocholt Music School with participatory drumming and smaller musical performances on the neighbouring St. George's Square.

The "Mobile Music Museum" will also bring its water orchestra and sound channel to Bocholt that weekend. On Friday, 16 June, from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. and on Saturday, 17 June from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., the sound objects can be tried out at Neutorplatz 1a, on the forecourt of the Stadtsparkasse branch.