Violist Mohamad Mir Ali founded a music academy in Damascus in 2013 after completing his studies at the music academy there and directed it until 2015. In Germany, he worked as a musician and music educator for the Malteser Hilfsdienst and the Freiwilligenzentrum-Mittelhessen and has led music workshops for integration classes, among other things. Mohamad has played with many orchestras, such as the Mittelhessen Chamber Orchestra and the Wetzlar Chamber Orchestra. MitMachMusik especially appreciates Mohamad’s twelve years of experience as a music teacher.

Raquel Alves is a classical singer and music teacher. She completed her vocal training at the Hanns Eisler University of Music Berlin with Prof. Renate Faltin and since 2021 she has been studying for an artistic-pedagogical master’s degree at the UdK Berlin in elementary music education/rhythmics. She has performed in various opera productions, solo concerts and recitals in Portugal, Italy, France and Germany and has been a guest in several international concert halls. In addition to her artistic activities, she has taken part in social and voluntary projects in which she has sensitised children from different social contexts to music, dance and theatre. She teaches classical singing and early music education privately and in several music schools and institutions, and organises children’s concerts in which she often participates as a presenter and/or singer. She runs the music club in the shared accommodation facilities Freudstraße and Pichelswerderstraße in Spandau. 

Azadeh grew up in Iran. In a country where playing instruments and musical education – especially for women – are strictly regulated by the Islamist regime, she learned to sing, play the piano and music theory mainly by herself. In 2000, out of a passion for music, she founded the choir Samat at the University of Shiraz. Because the human voice is the musical instrument that everyone has in common, that doesn’t draw attention to itself and that you can take with you everywhere. With the Samat Choir, Azadeh won the prize for the best choir in Iran at the Fadjr International Music Festival. She has given many concerts with German musicians in Iran and has also performed at the Berlin Philharmonie, among other venues. Since 2018, Azadeh has been studying music to become a teacher at the University of the Arts (UdK) in Berlin. At MitMachMusik she gives singing lessons and leads the singing ensemble.