apprenticeships for Congolese and Mozambican students in Belgium

Music Fund is from April to June organising another series of internships for students related to our partnerschools in Maputo and Kinshasa. © student Bernardo Matola in the repair workshop of Joris Buysse in Lokeren (B) During initiation courses in our partner schools in Kinshasa (July 2007) and in Maputo (April 2008), a total of 5 students have been selected to follow apprenticeships lasting up to three months in ateliers of experts-luthiers in Belgium. © Alselmo Chissaque, student piano-tuning from Maputo After such basic training periods, these students then return back to Congo and Mozambique to help us set up workshops to restore musical instruments in the music schools with whom Music Fund develops a partnership. Thanks to the support of Music Fund, the first restoration atelier in Maputo opened its doors in April 2007. It is associated with the local partner school, the Escola Nacional de Musica. A similar restoration atelier will in July 2008 also open in Kinshasa, in cooperation with our partner there, the Institut National des Arts. © repair workshop of Music Fund at Escola Nacional de Musica, Maputo These are the students now following the internships in Belgium: Paul LUTONADIO MBEMBA and Augustin KADIATA KABWE: students from Kinshasa, following internships in repair of wind instruments at Music Company, the workshop of expert Yves Treuttens in Sint-Pieters-Leeuw near Brussels Johnny SASI LUVUVAMU (Kinshasa) and Anselmo CHISSAQUE (Maputo): students following an internship in piano repair and tuning at Pianomobil, the workshop of Pol De Winter in Antwerp and Bernardo MATOLA: student from Maputo, following an internship in repair of wind instruments at Papageno Woodwinds, the workshop of expert Joris Buysse in Lokeren © Joris Buysse and his apprentice Bernardo Matola This year's initiation course at the Escola Nacional de Musica in Maputo was the 3rd such one organised since 2006. It took place in the beginning of April and was given by Pol De Winter (piano) and Joris Buysse (wind instruments). This year's initiation course at the Institut National des Arts in Kinshasa will be the 2nd of its kind organised since 2007 (then only for piano-repair). It will take place from 28th June until 7th July 2008 and will be given by Pol De Winter (piano), Els Jageneau (guitars) and Pierre Helou (wind instruments). © initiating students and teachers of the Institut National des Arts in Kinshasa in repairing the pianos of the music school Music Fund strives for the independence of its partners. There is a huge shortage of professional restorers at local level. This is why a number of specialist craftsmen have been brought in to set up ateliers for the restoration, tuning and building of musical instruments in the local music schools. It is a unique opportunity for Music Fund to realise a ‘capacity building’ project that will hugely benefit music education. In this way, Music Fund not only provides musical instruments, but also the know-how needed to tune and repair them, through these training programmes which are being organised since 2006.

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