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Berlin International Music Project = BIMP
What is BIMP?
The Berlin International Music Project - BIMP was founded in 2010 with the intention of creating a community music-making weekend with a high quality Gala Concert as a culmination.
Short history of BIMP:
2010-2012
The first three BIMP weekends consisted of the same five international schools:
2013-2014
The following two years , we had seven schools participating in the project with two additional schools joining us:
2015
For BIMP 2015 one more school from the Berlin-Brandenburg area joined in:
We also invited a choir from abroad:
And we had a guest composer visiting us for the BIMP weekend. Paul Hennessee from New York City joined us and two of his pieces were premiered at the Gala Concert by the Junior Orchestra and Choir and by the Senior Choir.
2016:
We had more than 210 participating students coming from 13 different schools in the Berlin-Brandenburg area!
7 schools were officially participating in BIMP 2016.
Special features of BIMP 2016:
Bavarian International School from Munich joined us for the first time with 20 students.
The Senior Orchestra was conducted by Dr. Andreas Knut, Director of the Collegium Musicum Potsdam since 1998.
2017:
Swiss International School in Berlin (former ISVA) joined us for the first time with the schools new music teacher Jonathan Conaway.
Students and music teacher Adrienne Andersson from the Bilingual Secondary School in Berlin (BBSS) joined us for the first time and the students from BBSS was taking part in the Senior Orchestra.
Europaschule Falkensee also joined BIMP for the first time with their music teacher Susie Mathias.
We had the pleasure of welcoming three foreign music groups at BIMP 2017 -
Banki Choir from Dunaujvaros in Hungary, British International School from Bratislava, Slovakia and Gresham Prep School from Holt, Norfolk, England.
2018:
Students and choir director from Berlin Cosmopolitan School will be back at BIMP after a 2 years break.
British International school of Bratislava and Centrum Chorus from Hungary will join us all for the BIMP weekend for the second time.
We are happy to announce that 3 original music compositions will be premiered at the Gala Concert.
2019:
This year is our 10th anniversary BIMP. The A Capella Group Echo from New York city joined us at the BIMP weekend and all participants enjoyed their energetic performance. The A Capella group GANZ a Capella from Berlin join the concert and performed for us all.
Centrum Chorus joined us at the BIMP weekend for the 3rd time.
2020:
This year we welcomed two new visiting schools to our project - Marymount Internationals School Rome, Italy and Turin International School, Italy. Part of the Centrum Chorus choir from Hungary also joined us again.
The A Capella Group # HASHTAG joined us at the Gala Concert as a special treat for everyone.
2022, 2023, 2024
We had Choir members fro Hugary, France, England, and different German Schools.
Why is it good to participate in this project?
This intensive and fun music-making project gives young musicians the opportunity to meet and work with other singers, instrumentalists, and young composers and make new, international music-relations. Our previous concerts were wonderful examples of what can be achieved when schools collaborate and pool their talented pupils. Our sponsors generous donation, the news articles, television interviews and mostly the participating students' happiness and pride in the music making all reflect the importance of this ever growing musical event.
What does it cost to participate?
It is costly to produce an event like this and we work hard towards finding sponsors but there will a small fee of 40 euro to pay for each participant to contribute towards these costs.
Please contact me if you have any questions.
Yours sincerely,
Anna (Panni) Kovacs
BIMP coordinator
[email protected]
The Berlin International Music Project - BIMP was founded in 2010 with the intention of creating a community music-making weekend with a high quality Gala Concert as a culmination.
Short history of BIMP:
2010-2012
The first three BIMP weekends consisted of the same five international schools:
- Berlin Brandenburg International School
- Berlin British School
- Berlin International School
- International School Villa Amalienhof
- Nelson Mandela School
2013-2014
The following two years , we had seven schools participating in the project with two additional schools joining us:
- Berlin Metropolitan School
- Freie Waldorfschule Kleinmachnow.
2015
For BIMP 2015 one more school from the Berlin-Brandenburg area joined in:
- Berlin Cosmopolitan School
We also invited a choir from abroad:
- New York City, Poly Prep Country Day School's Concert Choir
And we had a guest composer visiting us for the BIMP weekend. Paul Hennessee from New York City joined us and two of his pieces were premiered at the Gala Concert by the Junior Orchestra and Choir and by the Senior Choir.
2016:
We had more than 210 participating students coming from 13 different schools in the Berlin-Brandenburg area!
7 schools were officially participating in BIMP 2016.
Special features of BIMP 2016:
Bavarian International School from Munich joined us for the first time with 20 students.
The Senior Orchestra was conducted by Dr. Andreas Knut, Director of the Collegium Musicum Potsdam since 1998.
2017:
Swiss International School in Berlin (former ISVA) joined us for the first time with the schools new music teacher Jonathan Conaway.
Students and music teacher Adrienne Andersson from the Bilingual Secondary School in Berlin (BBSS) joined us for the first time and the students from BBSS was taking part in the Senior Orchestra.
Europaschule Falkensee also joined BIMP for the first time with their music teacher Susie Mathias.
We had the pleasure of welcoming three foreign music groups at BIMP 2017 -
Banki Choir from Dunaujvaros in Hungary, British International School from Bratislava, Slovakia and Gresham Prep School from Holt, Norfolk, England.
2018:
Students and choir director from Berlin Cosmopolitan School will be back at BIMP after a 2 years break.
British International school of Bratislava and Centrum Chorus from Hungary will join us all for the BIMP weekend for the second time.
We are happy to announce that 3 original music compositions will be premiered at the Gala Concert.
2019:
This year is our 10th anniversary BIMP. The A Capella Group Echo from New York city joined us at the BIMP weekend and all participants enjoyed their energetic performance. The A Capella group GANZ a Capella from Berlin join the concert and performed for us all.
Centrum Chorus joined us at the BIMP weekend for the 3rd time.
2020:
This year we welcomed two new visiting schools to our project - Marymount Internationals School Rome, Italy and Turin International School, Italy. Part of the Centrum Chorus choir from Hungary also joined us again.
The A Capella Group # HASHTAG joined us at the Gala Concert as a special treat for everyone.
2022, 2023, 2024
We had Choir members fro Hugary, France, England, and different German Schools.
Why is it good to participate in this project?
This intensive and fun music-making project gives young musicians the opportunity to meet and work with other singers, instrumentalists, and young composers and make new, international music-relations. Our previous concerts were wonderful examples of what can be achieved when schools collaborate and pool their talented pupils. Our sponsors generous donation, the news articles, television interviews and mostly the participating students' happiness and pride in the music making all reflect the importance of this ever growing musical event.
What does it cost to participate?
It is costly to produce an event like this and we work hard towards finding sponsors but there will a small fee of 40 euro to pay for each participant to contribute towards these costs.
Please contact me if you have any questions.
Yours sincerely,
Anna (Panni) Kovacs
BIMP coordinator
[email protected]
