orchestre au bahut
A multidisciplinary, co-creative and participatory arts education project combining music, literature and the visual arts.
“Ever fresh, the PMO’s Education Programme is one of those rare alchemies that continue to evolve brilliantly over time through the accumulation of knowledge, hands-on experience and constant re-evaluation. The orchestra’s ambitious artistic ideals are reflected in, and perfectly balanced by, a challenging and enthralling pedagogical framework.”
Jean-Jacques Paysant et Marianne Calvayrac
Artistic delegate of Académies de Créteil et de Versailles
No limits, no boundaries
Teamwork and accessibility are at the heart of this ambitious and demanding programme. Students and teachers from schools in disadvantaged areas around Paris meet and exchange on an equal footing with visual artists, professional musicians and actors to collaborate and create their own projects around a specially commissioned contemporary work – the melologue.
The choice of this commission and other performance material, along with the educational approaches to be employed, are agreed and developed in close consultation with the Education Authorities of the Paris region.
Every year this creative cooperation between the Paris Mozart Orchestra and the schools enables teachers to forge fascinating links between their various disciplines – music, drama, literature, art, theatre, foreign languages, history, geography, civics, physical education and more.
We engage in committed long-term partnerships which operate continuously throughout the school year.
Since 2022, as part of its residency in Bourges and the Centre-Val de Loire region, the Paris Mozart Orchestra is deploying the OAB program in a dozen schools in the Orléans-Tours Academy, while maintaining a strong presence in the Île-de-France region, where it has been working for more than 10 years in the Créteil and Versailles academies.
project of the 25/26 season
FIONA MONBET
In 2024-2025, OAB’s partner institutions in Île-de-France and Centre-Val de Loire are united around around the work Murmures du rucher (Whispers from the Hive).
This poetic and musical piece is inspired by La Vie des Abeilles (The Life of the Bee) by Maurice Maeterlinck. Through words and music, it tells the story of a beehive’s life cycle across seven scenes, performed by 12 musicians and a narrator. Both moving and thought-provoking, the work gives voice to the bees — fragile yet powerful symbols of our connection to the living world. Composer Fiona Monbet offers a narrative, rhythmic, and organic musical language, shaped by her dual roots in classical music and jazz.
Music Fiona Monbet
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