What has happened to the Simon Bolivar Orchestra?
It was replaced as the national youth orchestra by the Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra. Gustavo Dudamel has been the orchestra’s artistic director since 1999. The orchestra has worked with many famous conductors including Claudio Abbado and Simon Rattle.
Who conducted the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela?
Conductor Gustavo Dudamel
Chief Conductor Gustavo Dudamel conducts the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela in an interpretation […] The Simon Bolivar Orchestra under Gustavo Dudamel play an extract from Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, […]
What is the name of the music that saved Venezuela’s children?
El Sistema
El Sistema-inspired programs provide what the International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies describes as “free classical music education that promotes human opportunity and development for impoverished children.”
What is the National System of Orchestras of Venezuela?
The State Foundation for the National System of Youth and Infant Orchestras of Venezuela (FESNOJIV), also known as The System, is a social work by the Venezuelan State founded by Maestro José Antonio Abreu for the systematisation of the instruction and collective practice of music through the symphonic orchestra and …
Is Gustavo Dudamel a US citizen?
In February 2017, Dudamel secretly married Spanish actress María Valverde, whom he had first met in 2016, in Las Vegas, Nevada. He became a Spanish citizen in 2018.
How does El sistema work?
El Sistema is a social change/youth development program that uses ensemble music to enable every child to experience being an asset within her or his community, inside and outside the “nucleo” (community learning center, which is the heart of the students’ experience).
Who is Gustavo Dudamel married to?
María Valverdem. 2017
Eloísa Maturénm. 2005–2015
Gustavo Dudamel/Spouse
How an orchestra saved Venezuela’s children?
By offering free instruments and tuition through a network of after-school centres all over the country, the Sistema has kept thousands of children away from the drugs, alcohol and gang-related violence of the streets and has led to the creation of 30 professional orchestras in a country that had only 2 before it …
Why did Abreu form a youth orchestra in 1975?
José Antonio Abreu founded El Sistema in 1975 to help Venezuelan kids learn to play musical instruments and be part of an orchestra. The TED Prize winner’s bold idea has seeded hundreds of youth orchestras — and many happy lives.
How many children are in El Sistema?
Officially known as the Fundacion del Estado para el Sistema Nacional de las Orquestas Juveniles e Infantiles de Venezuela, El Sistema currently enrolls some 300,000 children and youth throughout Venezuela.
What does Gustavo Dudamel do?
Conducting
ComposerMusic DirectorConcertmasterViolinist
Gustavo Dudamel/Professions
Is Gustavo Dudamel leaving Los Angeles?
Gustavo Dudamel will become music director of the Paris Opera while continuing his commitment to the Los Angeles Philharmonic. April 16, 2021, at 10:39 a.m.