From 5 to 9 June this year's orchestra workshop of the German schools in Southern Africa was held in Pretoria. 25 DHPS learners had comprehensively rehearsed for the workshop with their teachers Bärbel Drobisch and Carsten Gramann.

During a week of joint practices with orchestra members of the German schools of Cape Town, Johannesburg and Pretoria, a great, melodious orchestra performance was composed on site:
Highly focused and with steadily growing joy at their harmonious progress, an ambitious, varied concert programme was compiled in sectional rehearsals under the direction of music teachers of the four schools and the general rehearsals conducted by Sonja Kirsch (DS Pretoria) and Carsten Gramann (DHPS Windhoek).

In the final concert on Friday evening, the young musicians presented classical pieces by G.F. Händel and A. Dvorak, as well a popular songs and film music passages. The enthusiastic audience was carried away into the world of James Bond, Indiana Jones and Harry Potter.

The continuing applause at the end of the concert was rewarded by a rhythmic and dynamically differentiated interpretation of the famous "Pirates of the Carribean”-soundtrack.

On Saturday, the orchestra musicians had to say farewell to their Pretorian host families and their old and new friends of the partner schools. The reunion is scheduled in two years’ time when the DHPS will host the 2019 orchestra workshop.