HERE YOU SET THE TONE!
Individual music training,
Team events &
Business inspiration since 2009.
We are an independent, private music school and event agency based at Bonner Straße 233 in Solingen-Ohligs. The founder and owner is Sabine Charlotte Langen.
Since 2009, we have been designing and implementing individual music training for beginners and those returning to music, as well as exceptional team-building events for companies.
In our in-house Klangsalon publishing house, we develop and distribute innovative music education learning materials and coaching concepts.
Our team consists of permanent freelance music trainers, service providers and consultants, some of whom have decades of professional experience.
The award-winning Klangsalon learning method ensures quick success when starting to make music.
Excellent power team
Sabine Charlotte Langen MA,
Founder & Owner:
Courageous, passionate, innovative
Sabine Charlotte Langen is a music coach and motivator. She loves to inspire other people to actively make music. Her mission: "There is no such thing as unmusical or untalented. There is a musician in everyone."
In 2009, after a career as a marketing manager at the US multi-technology group 3M and as a manager at a mobile network operator, she started her own music business, Klangsalon, in Düsseldorf. In 2017, her Klangsalon moved to the beautiful green location at Bonner Straße 233 in 42697 Solingen.
Sabine Charlotte Langen has received several awards for the development of the Klangsalon method and her book "Playing the piano super easy: Colors instead of notes": in 2013 she received second prize at the Düsseldorf Women Entrepreneurs' Award, in 2011 she received the DABEI Special Innovation Award and in 2010 she received the Women Entrepreneurs' Letter from the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Sabine Charlotte Langen is also often booked as a speaker and lecturer and is certified according to the quality management method Lean Six Sigma (Green Belt). From May 2022 to February 2024, the passionate piano player worked on a voluntary basis as the head of communications at the Federal Association of Independent Music Schools (bdfm).
Leo Henrichs
Leo Henrichs is a guitarist and multi-instrumentalist who works as a live and studio musician and creates commissioned compositions for theater and film.
The Düsseldorf native plays all kinds of classical, acoustic and electric guitars, electric bass, mandolin, banjo, guitar violin, lap steel, oud, as well as charango and valiha.
Leo Henrichs has been supporting the Klangsalon team as a senior music trainer, consultant and arranger since 2009. The experienced professional musician is attracted by the conceptual approach and the intensive collaboration with musical beginners.
Leo Henrichs explains: "The core competence of Klangsalon is to prepare and convey songs for amateur teams in such a way that even large groups can play them with typical band instruments in just a few hours. The result is astonishing!"
Caroline Pook
Carolin Pook is a German violinist, percussionist, composer, improvisational musician and conductor. She is part of the musical avant-garde scene, composes and works for the Moers Festival, the EOS Chamber Orchestra Cologne and the Monheim Triennale 2022, among others.
Carolin Pook has been supporting the Klangsalon team as a senior music trainer and consultant since April 2022. She lived in New York/USA until 2021 and is a master at empowering teams and coaching them to achieve musical success.
Carolin Pook comes from a family of musicians. Her grandfather Waldemar von Bausznern was a respected composer of the late Romantic period, and her father Rainer Pook worked for many years as Herbert von Karajan's assistant at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
Sustainable ambience: Our location at Bonner Straße 233 in 42697 Solingen-Ohligs
Good prospects: Learn better in the sound salon
The inviting rooms of the Klangsalon music school are located in this inspiring location at Bonner Straße 233 in 42697 Solingen AufderHöhe. In the immediate vicinity are the "Tränke Solingen", Schloss Hackhausen, Waldhof Hackhausen, the "Erbslöh" gliding airfield and the idyllic Haus Graven in Langenfeld-Wiescheid.
We attach great importance to sustainability: The Klangsalon music school and team building agency is easily accessible by bus and train, the “Tränke” bus stop is right outside the front door. The ICE train station in Solingen-Ohligs is only about a 7-minute drive from the Klangsalon.
Our own, spacious car park is free of charge and equipped with an e-charging station for electric cars and e-scooters. Bicycles can be parked here without any problem.
Experience the good sides that life has to offer with our music training in a unique ambience, full of nature and a cultivated atmosphere.
Top references: What customers & press say about us
Enthusiastic corporate customers
"Thank you for your dedication, your commitment and your way of inspiring customers!"
Norbert Binger, LandEnergieExperten, Member of the Management Board
June 2022
"Rock band workshop with diploma. Thank you for this extraordinary part of our first Christmas party. We had a lot of fun!"
Prof. Stefan W. Hell, Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry 2014, Co-Founder Abberior Instruments, Göttingen
"With our 2016 employee event, we wanted to inspire and break new ground: In our collaboration with Klangsalon, we found good support for this.“
André Rentsch, Managing Director kubus IT, Bayreuth
"We invited Sabine Langen as a speaker and trainer to our national congress 'Music School 2020' because she is a career changer, thinks innovatively and, due to her professional successes, was able to provide very valuable impulses in other markets as well."
Mario Müller, Chairman of the Federal Association of Independent Music Schools (BdfM), Berlin
“Team building at its best. We achieved something great together.
It was amazing for me to see how quickly a large team of (mostly) amateur musicians can record a piece of music. I was particularly pleased that the chosen piece of music also had a connection to our company.
The music workshop exceeded my wildest expectations. We experienced and felt our brand and company values through music. A very inspiring and motivating workshop..."
Feedback from the 30 National Sales Training Managers, Coca-Cola Erfrischungsgetränke AG, Berlin, after the Klangsalon "Be-the-brand-Workshop" in the Berlin nhow Hotel
"Some of our residents suffer from dementia or are bedridden. They are happy when they recognize familiar melodies or learn to press keys themselves. The crash course and the simple Klangsalon method of playing the piano super easy helps my team to make music with our residents. The motor skills and memory of people in care facilities are activated. In this way, music can increase the joy of life."
Melanie Buss, head of social services at the Fliedner-Haus residential and meeting house, Neuss, after the train-the-trainer training course by Sabine Langen
Good press
"In the Klangsalon in Solingen you can learn piano songs without having to read music. The morning crew learned Jingle Bells with Sabine in 5 minutes. We thrilled many listeners with her brilliant idea of holding a Jingle Bells contest live in our RSG studio."
Thorsten Kabitz, Editor-in-Chief Radio RSG Solingen, December 2021
To date, the music school and team event agency Klangsalon has been reported and broadcast by, among others:
- Solingen daily newspaper, 12/2023
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- WDR Local Time Düsseldorf
- Center TV Düsseldorf
- NRW local radio RSG Solingen
- Funke Media Group
- Rheinische Post Düsseldorf
- BILD Dusseldorf
- EXPRESS
- West German Newspaper
- Stuttgart newspaper
- EMOTION
- Activate: Magazine for Social Care
- IHK Magazine Düsseldorf
Beautiful private customer voices
"Dear Sabine,
Thank you very much for the explanations and patience. I enjoyed it and I like your concept."
Michael Meyer from Vöhrl in northern Hesse, August 13, 2023. Came to Solingen for the piano taster course
"Dear Sabine, thank you for the wonderful hours at the piano. It's always so much fun."
Jens Hansen, 53 years old, from Düsseldorf, April 2024, adult piano student at Klangsalon since 2015
"Relaxed but still challenging piano learning. I really enjoy coming to the Klangsalon in Solingen-Ohligs and feel very well looked after here."
Petra Jung, 56 years old, from Hilden, March 2022
It works!
I was really impressed. The lessons took place in a very pleasant setting, Sabine is very open and friendly, you can tell that she is doing it with her heart. Anyone who has always wanted to learn to play the piano should go to Sabine in the Klangsalon, you won't regret it"
Dennis Buttler, in January 2022, via mydays, he redeemed his mydays voucher for a piano taster course in the Klangsalon
Our commitment, our mission
"There is a musician in everyone. There is no such thing as unmusical or untalented."
Sabine Charlotte Langen,
Klangsalon owner
Our mission is already reflected in our logo. Our music training, coaching and music workshops are empowerment trainings for private customers, NGOs and companies. We are delighted that over 6,000 customers, company teams and social institutions have already discovered the musician in themselves with us.
By providing quick successes, we ensure that people retain their joy in life and their quality of life improves.
Our social commitment has been sustainable since our founding: The Klangsalon method is also successfully used to activate people with dementia and in work with people with disabilities.
Klangsalon is a committed member of the Federal Association of Independent Music Schools (bdfm eV) and we are committed to the active creation of culture in our democracy.