Sounds of Rivers The After School Music Program Sounds of Rivers The After School Music Program We started with small groups of children and individual classes. We inspired and at Rivers International Arnhem initiated in music more than 300 children since 2012. We came to develop piano 2020 - 2021 lessons, singing, clarinet, woodwinds instruments, guitar, violin, percussion and choir lessons through out great achievements! Since 2017 we officially included the ABRSM exams in our M.D. and our school became the exam centre of Gelderland. “Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.” Lou Rawls Sounds of Rivers Presents: Junior Piano Adventure Teacher Anamaria Stamp Junior (5 Year Olds Piano Music Concerts! Group Lessons) Everyone is invited! Ensembles Concerts! Abrsm Examination Center in Rivers International! 150+ children doing ABRSM MUSIC EXAMS Choir Primary in school/After School!!! Music Theory lessons for Juniors Intermediate Advanced! International Music Workshops! Grade 5 Theory ABRSM For all years! Individual lessons for: Singing, Piano, Clarinet, Guitar, Saxophone, Drums, Violin, Join us for a Recorder!! After School Music Adventure! Romanian pianist, Anamaria Stamp, finished her undergraduate studies at the „Gheroghe-Dima” Academy of Music in Cluj, Romania, and moved to the Netherlands in 2010, after winning the special price and 2nd price at the International Chamber Music Competition Cluj-Napoca for her piano master studies. Ana participated in number of big projects here, such as playing the first piano in Stravinsky´s „Les Noces”, „De Staat” by Louis Andriessen, Solo Pianist in Schostakovitch Piano Concerto nr.1, and playing various chamber music, solo concerts and recitals in the Netherlands. She was invited to teach in Tullamore Children Summer-Course in Ireland in 2013-2016 and has a busy teaching schedule in Amsterdam and Arnhem. She developed projects as "Fairytales for Children and Grownups" and “The good Practice Hour” in The Netherlands and received recognition in Romania and Ireland as well. When not playing the piano, Ana sings jazz, and since she moved to Amsterdam in 2014 she collaborated with George Dumitriu, Alex Simu and Gabi Barbalau, and started teaching singing as well. In 2018 Academy of Sighisoara, the summer course where she started as a student, then performer, she was invited to teach a "Creative work-shop for children". In 2017 she started preparing pupils for the ABRSM exam with a successful first try and in 2018, 23 students of her students, joined the exam. From 2017, she developed a course for 5 yearolds, a group class with initiation into music and a theory class every Wednesday from 12:20 to 12:50, where children work on the Theory programme required by the ABRSM but as well learn how to listen and understand music. “The methods I work with are classical music based, but as well, improvisation exercises and imagination games. A child has to be encouraged to try different styles and expand his/her’s musical horizon with fun games to understand and like the complexity of music. Through the improvisation and imagination exercises a child not only feels more familiar and comfortable with the instrument they are playing but also develops a much quicker musical thinking, and an open and brave approach to the instrument.” [email protected] www. anamariastamp.com Mobile +31-(0)6 30 11 07 52 Marzia Hudajarova is an inspiring piano teacher and active soloist and chamber musician. She has participated at several festivals in the Netherlands, including Peter the Great Festival and was one of the finalists at the Princess Christina Concours.Together with mezzo-soprano Ulrike Wutscher she is performing in several venues in Europe and had the honor to perform together with mezzo-soprano Milda Fontanetti at a masterclass for Roger Vignoles in Wigmore Hall, London. She has been teaching for ten years, and she enjoys introducing the art of piano playing to early beginners. She is successfully teaching children from the age of four. As well as working with the young, she feels passionate about sharing her knowledge with adult students and advanced players. Marzia has been teaching in London at The Music School in Wanstead and Piano Maestros where she was also an assistant director. She taught in London for almost four years and prepared her students for the ABRSM and Trinity exams with results merit and distinction. Marzia gained her Bachelor and Master Degree in Piano Performance at the Prince Claus Conservatoire in Groningen, Netherlands. She completed her Postgraduate Artist Diploma Degree at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London. Growing up Azerbaijan, the Netherlands and living in London, Marzia has experienced having many different cultural and musical influences, which have made her the pianist and piano teacher she is today. [email protected] Mobile +31-(0)625437211 Crystel Benton is New Zealand born singer, dancer, choreographer and teacher. After taking dance and music lessons from age 4 Crystel went on to graduate from the University of Otago, NZ with Bachelor of Music (Hons) and later 2012 with a Masters of Music from the Utrecht Conservatory. Most recently Crystel has performed as soloist in Berlin Tattoo, Antwerp Tattoo, International Tattoo Belgie, Musikparade, Ring Rider festival in Denmark and The Netherlands Military Tattoo and Bulgaria National Tattoo. In voice lessons students get an opportunity to work one on one or small group to explore their own sound and musicality in a range of different styles from light pop to classical. During the year students can choose to participate in concerts held at the school as well as part of the school choir. Students this year will be performing an opening for International Dance Team at International Tattoo in Belgium. Dance: As a dancer Crystel has performed at the Edinburgh Military Tattoo as well as Tattoos in Sweden, Norway, Netherlands, Germany, New Zealand, France, Denmark and Russia. Crystel holds teaching diplomas in Highland dancing from both NZ Academy and U.K.A (SOBDH) and completed examinations for Ballet through the Royal Schools and Modern dance through JDNZ. In the Netherlands Crystel works closely with the Dutch Pipes and Drums and International Tattoo Belgium and Berlin Tattoo as the lead dancer and choreographer. The Scottish Highland dance & Ballet classes aims at building confidence as both a solo or group dancer. Students will be given opportunities to participate in concerts in school, competitions and international shows. Previous trips have taken dancers to Germany, Belgium, Disneyland Paris and Scotland. Sing & Fling dancers are registered in Scotland with SOBHD (Scottish Official Board). In 2018/2019 dancers will be return to events at Disneyland Paris, Berlin Tattoo, Bremen Tattoo and Belgium Tattoo as well as competing in Scotland. singandfl[email protected] Mobile: +31 (0)6 13 21 81 14 Maarten Vugs, a Dutch native and former German language teacher, began playing percussion at the age of 6 in a small town near Tilburg here in the Netherlands. He continues to perform with symphonic wind bands and symphony wind orchestras Maarten is a talented bagpipe player and is currently the band manager for the “Dutch Pipes and Drums” organisation which performs throughout the year in Europe and abroad. “I love to work with children as their enthusiasm inspire me a great deal. I love to share my knowledge in teaching them how to play percussion. It is wonderful to see how children play music together which will, I believe, result in a better understanding of others and knowing how function in a team. Therefore, I am happy to teach children individually or in small groups. It is my ambitions to create groups with many different instruments. In my opinion music is a key element in the development of children. The effect of playing a musical instrument or singing are often underestimated. Music unites people! [email protected] Mobile: 0031 (0)64 62 44 95 Rocco Romano Rocco Romano is a guitarist, composer and educator, born in 1996 in the province of Lecce, in South Italy. After a first musical experience with an electric bass, he started studying jazz guitar at the age of 14 inspired by the classic jazz records of his parents. He had private lessons for five years and at the same time he had the opportunity to attend several masterclasses and confront himself with some of the greatest Italian jazz players, having also different experiences in other environments (Umbria Jazz Clinics in 2013 and the Five Weeks program at the Berklee College of Music in Boston in 2014, for which he won a scholarship). In 2015 Rocco won a contest for young jazz musicians organized by the Locomotive Jazz Festival that gave him the opportunity to play opening concerts for great musicians such as Paolo Fresu, Omar Sosa, Lars, Danielsson and more, and to take part of his first live recorded album (the “Locomotive Jazz Compilation”) labeled by “Workin’ Label” (Lecce). In 2015, fascinated by the north european musical scene, he decided to study guitar abroad, attending the Bachelor program at the ArtEZ School of Music in Arnhem. Here he had the opportunity to develop his own ideas and to play in several collaborations with both students and teachers. In June 2019 he graduated in Jazz & Pop Guitar playing for the first time his own audiovisual immersive performance called “The Cave Project”. Rocco is currently busy with several active projects and plays on a regular basis within the Dutch and German territory. During the past years he took part in a wide range of music festivals such as NorthSea Jazz Festival, Lowlands, Pneumo-Jazz, MusicMeeting, Locomotive Jazz, Make It Jazz and more.