Education & Youth work
Participatory music formats for schools and youth programmes – rhythm, voice, improvisation and digital tools. The focus is on motivation, shared learning and low-threshold access.
Overview
A practice between education, research and performance
I work as a musician, music educator, composer, performer and artistic project developer.
My work grows out of long engagement with music as a bodily, social and cultural practice.
Starting from music and educational practice, I develop formats shaped by ethnomusicological fieldwork as much as by questions of history, language, body, social practice, ritual and cultural transformation.
These formats take different forms in schools, cultural institutions, festivals and club contexts.
This page gives a thematic overview of this practice. A full chronological account is available in the CV downloads below.
Foundations
Education and music-education foundations
My formal education connects instrumental mastery, pedagogical qualification and ethnomusicological research. From the beginning, my focus was to understand how musical learning, motivation and collective experience interact in different cultural and social contexts.
- DiplomaJazz trumpet and instrumental pedagogy – Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden
- University studiesMusic education and teaching practice – Leipzig University
- Leonardo programmeEscuela de Música Creativa Madrid – testing progressive music-education methods with a focus on motivation, meaningful learning and individual and collective learning processes
- MUS-EYehudi Menuhin Foundation – sociocultural education project with artistic methods in school and society
- Research focusMusic, ritual, altered states of consciousness and ritual space – ethnographic fieldwork in Morocco
Practice & Transfer
How my work appears in different fields
Community & Ensemble work
Long-term ensemble processes based on transcultural collaboration and shared responsibility. Musical structures enable participation across stylistic boundaries.
Artistic practice & Stage
Live performance projects where acoustic instruments, electronics and real-time looping meet. Artistic research that feeds back into educational practice.
Responsibility & Project direction
Concept development, coordination and responsibility
I conceive, coordinate and accompany long-term artistic and educational projects in collaboration with interdisciplinary teams and public institutions.
My tasks include concept development, team composition, pedagogical accompaniment and quality assurance – often within complex institutional and intercultural frameworks.
Collaborations & Awards
Institutions & Cultural partners
Award & long-standing collaboration
Banda Comunale · Power of the Arts 2017
Banda Comunale
Arystan has been artistically and personally connected with Banda Comunale since 2006. This long collective work has led to numerous musical, educational and transcultural projects. Shared project development remains an ongoing process.
To Banda Comunale
Power of the Arts 2017
In 2017, educational projects around Banda Comunale received the Power of the Arts award. The award points to the connection between music, cultural education, transcultural practice and social engagement.
Downloads
Formal CVs / Curriculum
For a full chronological account of my professional background.
Next steps
Workshops & Collaborations
Discover available formats for schools, youth programmes, cultural institutions and professional training.