Music Fund

Please go for many pictures about our 'mission' to Kinshasa to the blog of the luthiers Jacky Walraet and Karel Dedain - (in Dutch, ... [Read more]

We arrived in Kinshasa last night and spent some time with our friend Lema Kusa, the general director of the Institut National des Arts (INA), the music school of Kinshasa. ... [Read more]

15th December 2009.    Together with instrument-experts Pol De Winter (piano) and Joris Buysse (wind instruments) and the director of our partnerschool in Nablus (Sami Hammad of ... [Read more]

Our partner in Nablus, Sami Hammad (Nablus the Culture), has been invited by Music Fund to spend 2 weeks in Europe for fundraising and in ... [Read more]

Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Today is a day off for everyone. I am on my own, finishing some work on my computer and then off for a few meetings with ... [Read more]

Our partner in Ramallah, the music school of Al Kamandjati, which was only founded three years ago, has developed rapidly with projects in Ramallah, Jenin a.o. cities of the ... [Read more]

Meeting Ziad Khalaf, the head of the Ramallah office of the A.M. Al-Qattan Foundation, we evaluated our failure to enter Gaza this last week, and agreed upon a number ... [Read more]

© String-instrument 'doctor' Baptiste Argouarc'h, oud-maker Ali Hassanen and student piano-tuning Sameh Assad in repair-workshop Nablus the Culture. ... [Read more]

While Pol De Winter (pianos) started a 3 day work-period in Ramallah, working on pianos of our partner-school Al Kamandjati and Baptiste Argouarc'h (string instruments) and Christian Bertram (guitars) ... [Read more]

© Olivier Marie, myself and Pol De Winter visiting the old city of Nablus© A view of the ... [Read more]