In 2000 Dr. Hanns Stekel founded the Johann Sebastian Bach Music School (JSBM) in Vienna, Austria. For only 14 years of existence JSBM became one of the leading music institutes, not only in Vienna, but also in the whole Austria. The music school developed a framework for gifted music students in cooperation with the Music University of Vienna (MDW). The ensemble "Young Master Orchestra" is one of the most successful projects, fruit of the cooperation between JSBM and MDW, which has completed a lot of tours in Asia, South and North America and Europe. Inspired from this success we decided to establish a JSBM music institute in Hong Kong. We are not the first JSBM School outside of Austria. Our Japanese partners established a JSBM institute in 2006, and they are nowadays one of the major music schools in Utsunomiya, Japan. We also have partnerships in India, Chile, Bolivia, Uruguay, Hungary, Bulgaria, Czech Republic and even in the Eastern Island.
European classical music is extremely popular in Hong Kong and comes widely on interest. In the music universities and conservatories in the city are teaching highly qualified teachers who have completed their studies mostly in Europe, America or Australia. However, elementary music education and instrumental training is in the hands of music schools that are run by big music companies, or performed by private teachers, which represents a significant financial burden for many families. Violin or piano playing is only available to a few, and it is tied to significant performance requirements.
The aim of the JSBM project in Hong Kong is to make music education available to all and to integrate them into the educational work through suitable and reasonable music activities. The value of music education for social, cognitive, and emotional development must be experienced. Furthermore, it is also about a deeper understanding of European musical culture, not even at the elementary level but also by boosting adult education (parents, kindergarten, and schoolteachers).
JSBM Hong Kong has established a cooperation with various educational institutions of Hong Kong - Anfield International School and Kindergarten, Park View International Kindergarten, Hong Kong Educational Institute are, among others. In the educational process we promote European Teaching Methods like the Colourstrings Method invented by Geza Szilvay in 1971 in Finland, to name one of them.
JSBM is a member and one of the founders of IMEN - The International Music Educational Network.
New: The Impact of the Pandemic on Our Operations within the Johann Sebastian Bach Music Academy (kyotoreview.org)
New: Developing a Program for Gifted Music Students in Malaysia - Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia (kyotoreview.org)
European classical music is extremely popular in Hong Kong and comes widely on interest. In the music universities and conservatories in the city are teaching highly qualified teachers who have completed their studies mostly in Europe, America or Australia. However, elementary music education and instrumental training is in the hands of music schools that are run by big music companies, or performed by private teachers, which represents a significant financial burden for many families. Violin or piano playing is only available to a few, and it is tied to significant performance requirements.
The aim of the JSBM project in Hong Kong is to make music education available to all and to integrate them into the educational work through suitable and reasonable music activities. The value of music education for social, cognitive, and emotional development must be experienced. Furthermore, it is also about a deeper understanding of European musical culture, not even at the elementary level but also by boosting adult education (parents, kindergarten, and schoolteachers).
JSBM Hong Kong has established a cooperation with various educational institutions of Hong Kong - Anfield International School and Kindergarten, Park View International Kindergarten, Hong Kong Educational Institute are, among others. In the educational process we promote European Teaching Methods like the Colourstrings Method invented by Geza Szilvay in 1971 in Finland, to name one of them.
JSBM is a member and one of the founders of IMEN - The International Music Educational Network.
New: The Impact of the Pandemic on Our Operations within the Johann Sebastian Bach Music Academy (kyotoreview.org)
New: Developing a Program for Gifted Music Students in Malaysia - Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia (kyotoreview.org)
Dr. Hanns Christian Stekel, Director
"All children have right an equal and an appropriate music
education."