About Us
Members of the Board    
     
Anton Isselhardt, Country Director   Prof. Dr. Gretel Schwoerer-Kohl
Stephan Rahn, Artistic Consultant   Prof. Inge Schreier
Prof. Dieter Mack   Yim Sok , Artistic Consultant
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F.W.C.P.A. believes, the arts have a significant role in education; both for their intrinsic value, and for the ways in which they can enhance general academic achievement and improve students' social and emotional development. A comprehensive arts education may encompass such areas as the history of the arts, the honing of critical analysis skills, the re-creation of classic as well as contemporary works of art, and the expression of students' ideas and feelings through the creation of their own works of art. In other words, students should have the opportunity to respond to, perform, and create in the arts.

Promoting Western Art Music in the sense of a historical development supports a key concept that such a development is always only possible in the respective culture itself. In other words, the experience of Western classical music as a historical process may help to revitalize the same consciousness in the Cambodian people concerning their own classical music traditions.

It is noteworthy that some Cambodian specialists began to study Western (European) classical music, for example, Loch Bonsamnang, Chan Vitharo, So Soronos; aside from the established composers, Ung Chinnary and Him Sophy. For these people, the collaboration with European professionals may add significantly to their personal approach. It is strongly hoped that this also happens in reverse. Only through mutual learning and understanding may we contribute to a better and more peaceful world.

Objectives of the Foundation

Professional music-teaching

International teacher Association Network

Repair and acquisition of instruments

Providing room; spaces for practice and rehearsals

Establishing special working groups for chamber music

Cultural Platform for local and international artist

Establishing chamber music ensembles

International exchange of composers

International Music Festival

Benefit Concerts

Research and Documentation of Art Music

Members of the Board

Anton Isselhardt, Country Director

He served as a temporary flutist at the State Philhamonic Orchestra, Rheinland Pfalz. These orchestral experiences, especially with renown conductors like Sergiu Celibidache had a strong impact on his musical consciousness. At the same time, he extended his activities as a profilic musician in many genres. Since 2003, he acts as Country Director of the Foundation F.W.C.P.A. (NGO) and plays a major role in improving the standards of western art music in Cambodia.


Stephan Rahn
, Artistic Consultant

He completed his studies adding studies of Music Theory as well as sacred music and took part in many Master Classes with renowned artists. He was further invited to play at well known European music festivals. He was further awarded praise as an accompanist at many international competitions. In 1997 he received a scholarship of the International Ansbacher Bachwochen.


Prof. Dieter Mack

Since 1986, he has been a professor at the University of Music Freiburg and since 1989, he gave lectures on composition and music education in Indonesia. Since 2003, he has been a professor for composition at the University of Music Lübeck. With the support from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), he was a long-term guest lecturer at IKIP (now UPI) in Bandung from 1992-95 and is also a consultant in a research project there, sponsored by the Ford Foundation since 1997. Since 1999, he is guest professor in postgraduate composition at the art academy STSI Surakarta, Central Java.


Prof. Dr. Gretel Schwoerer-Kohl


From 1974-76, she took lessons on Thai music at Silapakhorn University in Bangkok. During her two-year stint in Thailand, she also went out for field work to collect musical instruments and to record music among the hill tribes in northern Thailand. Since 1993, she has been studying the music of Myanmar and in 1998, she submitted her dissertation on “The ceremonial Music for the 37 nat-spirits in Myanmar, Burma.” Her special interest is devoted to the music of Southeast Asia mainly in its ritual context and to the different types of mouth organs in East and Southeast Asia. Since 1999, she is professor for ethnomusicology at the department of musicology of the Martin-Luther University in Halle.


Prof. Inge Schreier

Von 1965 bis 1968 Lehrauftrag an der Universität der Schönen Künste in Phnom-Penh (Cambodge) ­ Auszeichnung mit «Croix de Chevalier de l`Ordre Royal du Cambodge» Seit 1968 Lehrauftrag an der Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden im Hauptfach Violoncello, bis 2001 auch Violoncello-Methodik. 1984 Erhalt einer Dozentur 1992 Berufung zum Professor für Violoncello
Absolventen ihrer Hauptfachklasse sind in verschiedenen Spitzenorchestern tätig (z. B. “Gewandhaus" Leipzig, Philharmonie und Staatskapelle Dresden u.a.)
Neben der Lehrtätigkeit von 1991 bis 2000 Künstlerische Direktorin des Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gymnasiums, der Sächsischen Spezialschule für Musik Dresden.


Yim Sok , Artistic Consultant

Was born in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. After studing for 6 years at the Faculty of Music, Royal University of Fine Arts in Phnom Penh, he obtained a scholarship for the Musikhochschule Leipzig, Germany. At present, Yim Sok is a violin teacher at the municipal music school in Bonn-Königswinter and a member of the new chamber orchestra of Oberkassel. He is one of the founders of the Foundation and plays a major role in F.W.C.P.A.