Future artists educated at primary school

Turkey's first Turkish music primary school educates talented children from an early age to represent the country on an international scale. The schools offers music education in addition to the lessons in the curriculum of the National Education Ministry (MEB).

The Palet Turkish Music Primary School in Istanbul's Üsküdar neighborhood opened in the 2019-2020 academic year to train fully equipped artists who have the sense of politeness, courtesy and nobility. The school offers an education model based on Turkish music. The education staff includes the artists of the Culture and Tourism Ministry and the Turkish Radio and Television (TRT) as well as academics.

Many forgotten traditional resources and unpublished lecture notes are revised and presented to students in the school.

The school was designed specifically for this style of education, inspired by traditional architecture, with domed classrooms and a courtyard. There is also Turkey's first thematic Turkish Music Museum in the school.

The school also has a sound recording studio, a concert hall with 140-person capacity, an instrument making workshop, a robotics workshop, a woodworking workshop, a book archive, meeting and individual study rooms, and an indoor sports hall. Also displaying musical instruments, the school provides detailed information about these instruments that can be accessed with the QR code system.

Speaking to state-run Anadolu Agency, Yüce Gümüş, the founding representative of Palet Turkish Music Primary School, said that after a long preparation period, they opened an institution that has been active in education for three years.

Gümüş said they launched their school as "Turkey's first Turkish music primary school," adding, "Our school has no...

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