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El Sistema began under the leadership of José Antonio Abreu (7 May 1939 – 24 March 2018) with 11 students in an underground parking garage. [1] For many years, its official name was Fundación del Estado para el Sistema Nacional de las Orquestas Juveniles e Infantiles de Venezuela, (FESNOJIV), which is sometimes translated into English as "National Network of Youth and Children's Orchestras ...
Venezuela's youth orchestras are run under the auspices of the Fundación Musical Simón Bolívar (FMSB), known colloquially as El Sistema, Venezuela's social action music programme. The Guardian wrote that the orchestra represented "a message of social inclusion and the manifest power of music to bring communities together". [4]
It was in 1975 that he founded El Sistema, [3] formally known as the Foundation for the National Network of Youth and Children Orchestras of Venezuela. This was an innovative youth education method in which music was the primary avenue for social and intellectual improvement. He received the National Music Prize for this work at El Sistema in 1979.
El Sistema uses a video of its hugely inspiring performance of Mahler's Second to debut a new sala virtual as the Maduro regime faces the coronavirus crisis.
In Harmony began in 2009 and is a British-government-led music education and community development project based on Venezuela's El Sistema. [2]British cellist Julian Lloyd Webber is the founder of In Harmony and was the Chairman of the In Harmony steering group, which was initially responsible for guiding the three pilot project in Liverpool (West Everton), London and Norwich.
Dudamel was born in Barquisimeto, Venezuela, the son of a trombonist and a voice teacher. [4] He studied music from an early age. In 1986 he became involved with El Sistema, the famous Venezuelan social action music programme, initially learning the violin. [5] He soon began to study composition. He attended the Jacinto Lara Conservatory, where ...
Born in Puerto la Cruz, Venezuela, [2] Payare's parents were Trina Torres de Payare, an elementary school teacher, and Juan R. Payare, a cartographer for the city. [3] He began his music studies at age 14 at the Núcleo in Puerto la Cruz, learning the French horn. [2] He graduated from the Universidad Nacional Experimental de Las Artes.
Prominent musicians who have graduated from El Sistema include Gustavo Dudamel, director of Los Angeles Philharmonic, Rodolfo Saglimbeni, Principal Conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra of Chile, José Luis Gomez, director of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, Rafael Payare, director of the San Diego Symphony, Glenn Garrido, director of the ...