Music Education in Palestine
The Barenboim-Said Foundation works in the West Bank with the aim of providing a musical education that promotes balanced cognitive, social, and emotional development, offering new avenues for expression and the development of imagination, creativity, and personality for students from a culturally and socially underserved environment.
The Foundation’s work in the region is carried out through the Barenboim-Said Musical Center and in collaboration with various local associations. The Foundation’s teachers provide music, instrumental, and singing classes both at the center and in various educational institutions.
Master classes
The Barenboim-Said Music Center is an educational institution created and managed by the Foundation in the city of Ramallah. Its faculty, composed of around twenty musicians and educators from various international backgrounds, offers instrumental and vocal training to more than 100 students.
During this academic year, the activities of the Barenboim-Said Music Center include the following specialties: classes in music theory, various instrumental specialties (violin, cello, clarinet, flute, bassoon, brass, and piano), and choir.
Additionally, the Foundation develops a music appreciation program aimed at seeking new talents and sparking children’s interest in music.
Additional activities
The faculty of the Foundation extends musical training to other areas of the West Bank and teaches recorder and choir classes in three schools in the city of Ramallah: Catholic school Kindergarten, Evangelical school, and St Joseph school. More than 500 children from 3rd to 5th grade receive classes twice a week.
foundation faculty
Meet our music specialists
Gennady Kozhevnikov
Robin Burlton
Simón Ibáñez
Hikmat Qaymari
Adele Posani
Collaborating entities
The Barenboim-Said Foundation has been developing its Music Education Project in Palestine since 2003, providing music, instrument, and choir classes to Palestinian children and youth. For the successful development of its activities in the region, the Foundation relies on the collaboration of various local entities.
Palestinian Medical Relief Society
The Barenboim-Said Foundation collaborates with the non-profit organization Palestinian Medical Relief Society in the management of the Edward Said Musical Kindergarten. As part of this collaboration, the Foundation provides a Steinway piano to the Edward Said Theater, owned by PMRS, as well as the use of this stage space for numerous concerts organized by the Foundation.
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Spanish Consulate General in Jerusalem
The Spanish General Consulate in Jerusalem and the Barenboim-Said Foundation have developed an intense collaboration over the years. The Spanish diplomatic representation in the area provides important institutional and logistical support that ensures the successful development of the project in Palestine.
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BARENBOIM-SAID RAMALA
The private non-profit entity Barenboim-Said Ramala provides local support for the development of the musical training activities implemented and developed in Palestine since 2003 by the Andalusian Public Foundation Barenboim-Said.
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