Outreach
Educational activities and cultural mediation are at the heart of the Quatuor Anches Hantée’s artistic activity, inseparable from its stage presence. Whether it be workshops around the instruments, didactic concerts for young and old, Music and Theatre, Music and Body workshops or clarinet or chamber music masterclasses, the relationship with the audience goes beyond the simple concert and the encounter allows for the building of unsuspected bridges.
Orage à 4 Voix –educational concert
Discovering the instruments, a repertoire that varies from period to period and from inspiration to inspiration, the secrets of the quartet and of chamber music… Young and old will know everything!
Masterclasses –Clarinet and chamber music
For a day or a weekend, students will have fun playing together, experimenting with their power of communication and the possibilities of influencing each other. The Quartet emphasizes listening as a tool among others to play together, communication through playing, choice of phrasing and colors, sound as expression.
Deafness and accessibility
Quatuor Anches Hantées strives to address all audiences, and disabled audiences play an important role in the cultural activities it develops, whether in social centers, prisons or hospitals.
Among these audiences, one audience takes a predominant place : the deaf and hard of hearing audience, almost totally excluded from the concert in general.
The Quartet has equipment capable of amplifying the vibrations of the instruments (Subpac and SSP6) which thus proposes a transcription of the music to this public. Numerous meetings in specialized institutions but also in theaters are organized. Deaf people, artists, but also technicians of theaters and of the company Timmpi (manufacturer of vibratory material) meet there and so make progress together in technologies.
A first contact in workshops is essential before concerts for the deaf and hard of hearing public.
Discovery of the instruments, sensitization to the vibrations by sight and touch, first contact with the vibratory material and test of the clarinets, the magic operates!
Cultural
actions
in progress and to come
The QAH is continuing its third season of school-based residency at the Fraternité and Jeanne Gallèpe schools in Romainville (93).
The program includes musical discovery workshops, clarinet trial workshops, story-inventing through music workshops, and the creation of a performance combining ceramics (imaginary instruments), writing, and stage presentation, in partnership with Art en partage.
This wonderful project is supported by the City of Romainville, the Pavillon de Romainville, the Cité éducative, the Fondation La Poste, the teaching staff, the Mandela Center, and the Romainville Conservatory, and will benefit more than 400 students, from preschool (Petite Section) through 5th grade (CM2).
For 2026/27, it is on its home territory in the Aude region, with the EANM Chaminade and several of its partner structures, that QAH will attempt to co-write a performance with adults with disabilities.
A project rich in possibilities, guided by the principles of encounter, tolerance, and resilience. Music in a priority urban neighborhood, inclusive in every respect, aimed at breaking down barriers.