Non-profit promotion
network in music
To do good with chamber music: to help seriously ill patients and at the same time to support musicians at the beginning of their careers – that is the aim of MUSIC OF HOPE, a bivalent charitable non-profit network based in Göttingen, Germany.
Patients at the end of their lives who move into hospice or are in Palliative care often enjoy a special response through music. Music awakens memories and conveys happiness and security in many ways. MUSIC OF HOPE organizes non-public chamber concerts for these patients at the end of their lives, which take place in the Neu-Mariahilf Chapel of the Göttingen-Weende Evangelical Hospital, a sacred building and place of extraordinary atmosphere and an acoustic jewel. At the same time, MUSIC OF HOPE uses these concerts to support highly talented young artists by providing them with exclusive instrument grants to form a string quartet. These profiled young musicians often do not have sufficient financial support to acquire a high-quality string instrument during their studies, which they require in this crucial phase for the development of their musical identity.
At the center of the project is the QUARTET OF HOPE of the ROME Foundation Göttingen, a string quartet ensemble of the renowned violin maker Brian Lisus.
The instruments of the QUARTET OF HOPE are granted to selected students of Prof. Dirk Mommertz’s master’s degree in chamber music at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich (HMTM). The Grant winners, QUARTET OF HOPE-Scholars, are selected and trained by the renowned Ébène Quartet.
The QUARTET OF HOPE-Scholars regularly give concerts in our hospice and palliative care facilities in Göttingen. In addition, the ROME Foundation Göttingen regularly organizes charitable public gala concerts with the QUARTET OF HOPE, which benefit the sponsored institutions.
All concerts are documented in mastering editions from the renowned recording studio Pauler Acoustics on audio media/24-bit technology and simultaneously transmitted audiovisually to the patient rooms of the participating hospitals.
Due to the positive reception of the project, numerous supporting institutions and companies are participating in MUSIC OF HOPE, communication advanced by the QUARTET OF HOPE-Scholars, and the project’s appointed ambassadors.
We would like to express our deep gratitude to all for their voluntary charitable contribution to this non-profit network!
