Athénée Royal de Ganhsoren
SOUND PAINTING CONDUCTED BY
ANGELO GREGORIO WITH FRANCESCO MARCHETTI
Transmission: young people take an active role in creation.
Passing music to future generations. Music grows when it is shared. This year, students from the Athénée Royal de Ganshoren (ARG) take an active role in the festival through a Soundpainting project developed during their music education classes. Guided by Angelo Gregorio, they explore improvisation, listening and collective creativity, even without prior musical training. Through this experience, young students become performers and creators, demonstrating how music can connect generations and inspire new forms of artistic expression.
A distinctive feature of the sixth edition is the participation of students from the Athénée Royal de Ganshoren, a secondary school within the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles. Opening both evenings at 7:00 pm, the students will present a performance of Soundpainting, a multidisciplinary language for real-time composition based on gestures that allow a group to create music collectively through improvisation.
Developed as part of music education under the guidance of Angelo Gregorio with Francesco Marchetti, the project offers young people an opportunity to engage in artistic creation, even without prior instrumental training. Listening, collaboration, creativity and responsiveness become the tools through which students build a shared musical experience.
Their presence on stage is therefore more than an introduction to the concerts: it embodies one of the festival’s three pillars, the transmission of musical language as an active process that allows learners to become creators..
