Enjoy Jazz School Big Band

There are countless studies on the effect of active music-making on the development of children and adolescents, which prove that practically all areas of development are positively influenced: from the cognitive to the emotional. This also includes two aspects that are particularly important to us in our support programs. First: the transfer aspect.

This is because music, and especially learning and playing an instrument, generates numerous transfer effects. Anatomically, this is illustrated by the fact that the corpus callosum, i.e. the pathway system connecting the two hemispheres of the brain, is more developed in active musicians than in non-musicians. Communication and exchange between the cerebral hemispheres are improved and accordingly lead, for example, to better verbal and to some extent also to better visual memory performance. Second: the social aspect. The pedagogy professor Hans Günther Bastian simply says that music is one of the most social media because, for example, in a big band you depend on each other when making music, so you learn an integrative, appreciative behavior as a prerequisite for achieving a common goal, in which the individual goal is included. In short: In playing together, one learns the ability to look out for others. The Enjoy Jazz Schulbigband has become a highly valued symbol of these creative as well as social skills for us.