As of: January 26, 2024, 5:01 p.m
By: Sandra Sedlmaier
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Passionate music teacher: Beate Schad in her living room, which, like the entire Schad family household, is characterized by music and instruments.
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When almost 17,000 young people across Germany compete in the regional competition “Jugend musiziert” next weekend, eight young music students from Berg, prepared by violinist Beate Schad, will also be there.
The woman from Aufkirchen has been doing this for more than 25 years.
Aufkirchen
– No, she is rarely tense before a “Jugend musiziert” competition.
“I have to radiate calm, the children are so excited themselves,” says Beate Schad.
She cannot say how many children and young people she has prepared for these competitions over the past 25 years.
“Many, very many,” she says.
Many have moved on and some of her students have become professional musicians, not least Beate Schad's own son Julian.
What the musician says about stage fright is symptomatic of Beate Schad's work as a music teacher.
She challenges the children, but above all she encourages them, supports them and strengthens their skills on the instrument.
That starts right at the beginning.
With the correct posture and an idea of the sound.
“I try to get the children excited about the sound of the violin right from the start,” she says.
She likes to take pictures from nature, such as what the lake sounds like or a forest.
Of course the children have to want to take part.
If only the parents want the children to learn an instrument, that is not enough.
“A child has to get involved with the sound - there is always a moment when I notice that they are trying.” Then it starts - in many cases up to “youth making music”.
After winning the 2023 regional competition (from left): Marie Stachowiak, Josephine Kreuzpaintner, Beate Schad and Helene Holl.
© Beate Schad
This weekend is the important date for Schad's violin class: two days of auditions at the Grünwald Music School, where the children from the Munich-South area will introduce themselves at the regional competition “Jugend musiziert”.
They can present what they have worked intensively on over the past few months.
“For the competition, the students learn to stick with a piece for a long time, to work with it and to fine-tune the sound and delivery,” says Beate Schad.
“That takes them further.
After that, they approach new pieces completely differently.”
This year the regional competition requires the violin and piano duo.
Beate Schad looked for suitable partners for her students and found them in the piano classes of Eva Müller and Elena Kaspar.
This interaction is a challenge: “You have to listen to each other and pay attention to a lot of things together – a huge achievement.” This is a big challenge for the little students and very tiring.
“We’ll try it once then.
But above all, the children should develop joy in making music together.”
So that children and young people learn to play in front of an audience, the number of listeners is slowly increased.
It starts with the parent group of the violin class, then there is always the opportunity to play during the church services and events of the Evangelical Church in Berg.
Most recently, Paula Thieme and Felicia Kloss with Grieg as well as Josephine Kohlpaintner and Nikolaus Gahleitner with Louise Le Beau on violin and piano were heard at the churches' New Year's reception.
Last weekend there were two concerts with the competition participants in the Rittersaal in Kempfenhausen.
Training for the big performance.
Most of the children started working with Beate Schad when they were five or six years old.
“Unfortunately, some people have problems at school or in the family at some point, or they no longer feel like it during puberty,” she says.
But that is more of an exception.
And then there are also children like one of her girls, who practices for an hour every day and arrives half an hour before her own lesson begins.
“She wants to listen to the others.”
It's not always the great talents that Schad teaches.
“For some people, I'm happy when they can play a children's song.” It's important to her not to send anyone away as long as they enjoy playing the violin.
Her oldest student is 79.
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Teaching children was her dream even before she graduated from high school in Mindelheim.
“In the twelfth grade, my music teacher asked me to help make the school orchestra sound better.” So it was clear: she would study violin and music education.
This decision subsequently had a positive impact on my life planning.
Not just because she enjoys it so much.
Her husband Nils, whom she met during her studies, is with the Munich Philharmonic.
Together they have five children aged 19 to 34.
“Teaching has always been my passion.
The question of playing in an orchestra professionally never even occurred to me,” she says with a smile.
“And two musicians from one family in different orchestras, that can’t go well.”