Cultural Outreach
Education and cultural outreach are at the core of the artistic endeavour of the QAH, truly inseparable from their performances on stage.
Whether during workshops on instruments, educational concerts for adults and children, music and theatre workshops, music and body workshops, or even clarinet or chamber music masterclasses, the relationship with our audiences takes on a meaning beyond the simple concert, and these encounters allow us to build unexpected bridges.
The QAH is for all audiences.
Disabled audiences occupy a large place in the cultural outreach that it develops in social centres, establishments for disabled people, prisons and hospitals. Among them one type of audience takes a predominant place: the public with specific sensory needs and in particular the deaf and hard-of hearing.
Masterclasses –Clarinet and Chamber music
For a day or a weekend, students are able to enjoy themselves, experimenting with their means of communication and the musical influence they can have on each other.
The quartet emphasizes the importance of listening, one of the many tools used for playing together, as well as communication through the way of playing, choice of phrasing and colours, and sound as an expression.
Deafness and accessibility
Music at Your Fingertips
The Quatuor Anches Hantées performs for all audiences. Hard-to-reach communities hold a central place in its cultural outreach, which extends to community centres, facilities for people with disabilities, correctional institutions and hospitals.
Among these, one audience holds a particularly prominent place: audiences with specific sensory needs, and in particular the deaf and hard-of-hearing community.
Thanks to equipment capable of amplifying and transmitting the vibrations of the on-stage instruments to the audience, the quartet’s members can offer workshops and concerts aimed at deaf, blind, and neurodiverse adults and children. Furthermore, the multisensory approach, through the integration of tactile stimulation (via vibrations), amplifies the effect of music on the brain, enhances neuroplasticity and facilitates the formation of new neural connections.
For which audiences?
- Deaf and hard-of-hearing
- With ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder)
- Visually impaired
- With motor and cognitive disabilities
Technical note: The quartet tours with vibrating vests and sensory capsules, which are lent for these events. This setup requires a technician and the necessary equipment to capture the live sound using microphones and a basic mixing desk.
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.