Welcome to web sites of Gustav Mahler’s Music and Art School in Humpolec!
You have just opened the web sites of Gustav Mahler’s Music and Art School, whose tradition has taken more than 60 years. It was founded in 1946 on the initiative of the Čech and Lech Chorus. Since the foundation, the school has become an integral part of the cultural events of Humpolec and its surroundings. The individual sections have got extended and the number of students has started rising. In 1996 the school was granted the name ´Gustav Mahler’s Music and Art School´ thanks to its success in education of art and music. (The composer Gustav Mahler is a native of Kaliště, a village near Humpolec). The foundation of the school belongs to the municipality of Humpolec. The cooperation works perfectly now, because the management of the town consists of people who realize that music reinforces both the personality and the spirit. Furthermore, the school influences a cultural life of the town considerably.
The school seats in a building owned by the municipality of Humpolec for a free rent.
In the basement there are classrooms for the art section, where the students are taught ceroplastic and pottery, for example. There is also a kick wheel, a glost oven, than the technical facilities of the custodian and the dance section’s stores.
On the ground floor, there are the art section’s classrooms for group teaching of drawing, painting and graphic art.
On the first floor we can find the headquarters of the school and the secretarial services. There is also a staffroom, an assembly room for teaching music theory and for party-holding. Teaching the piano, singing and playing the electronic instruments also takes place there.
On the second floor there are the music section’s classrooms for teaching the violin, the violoncello, the guitar, the accordion, the fifes, the flutes, the clarinet, the saxophone, the trumpet, the horn, the baritone, the trombone, the bombardon, the bass guitar and the battery. There is also a studio of the brass band.
Activities of G. Mahler’s Music and Art school within the Humpolec region.
Humpolec is a town of the 3rd degree, which means a municipality with an extended field of activities. The town itself is of 11 000 population, together with adjacent towns and villages (c. 25) it is 17 000. Approximately 14% of this amount is represented by children less than 14 years old.
Gustav Mahler’s Music and Art School is attended by children from Humpolec, Čejov, Kejžlice, Horní Rápotice, Dolní Rápotice, Koberovice, Hojanovice, Želiv, Kletečná, Mladé Bříště, Vystrkov, Skála and other villages.
