Collective Composition Workshop June 22-29, 2019 | Baltimore, MD
Join Dan Trahey and Nick Skinner, founding members of the BSO’s OrchKids Program, and Armand Hall, Emily Smith, Camille Delaney-McNeil, Pete Tashjian, and OrchKids staff, for a weeklong intensive workshop with students. Through immersive activities, classroom observations, and facilitating musical... Read More →
Global Youth Service Day
Consider encouraging your students to join in Global Youth Service Day (GYSD), April 12-14. There are many research-confirmed benefits for young people who get involved in community service projects. Many Sistema programs already do have a service component to round out... Read More →
El Sistema USA Leads 2019 National Symposium
Over two hundred program leaders, teaching artists, supporters and advocates of the El Sistema movement in the United States came together in Detroit, Michigan in January, to reflect upon current practice and explore promising new directions in the field. The... Read More →
Join the Global Leaders Program
Last month’s issue of The World Ensemble carried an article on the annual gathering in Chile of The Global Leaders Program 2019 Cohort — an initiative of The Orchestra of the Americas with support from the Hildegard Behrens Foundation. The Global Leaders Program is... Read More →
Side-by-Side by El Sistema Sweden 2019
Now is the time to sign up for Side by Side by El Sistema Sweden, with its six orchestras, early music and folk music ensembles, six choruses, and more. From 15-19 June 2019, 2200 young people from Sistema programs in... Read More →
2019 Cohort of Global Leaders Program Gathers in Chile
Thirty-eight members of this year’s Global Leader Program cohort traveled to Chile for two weeks last month to learn, collaborate, build relationships, teach, and put into action their passion for harnessing the power of music to serve community and education. ... Read More →
Sistema Updates from the United States
Here are a few new Sistema ideas in the United States, and an invitation to the join the El Sistema USA National Symposium at the end of January: A course at El Sistema Oklahoma, in partnership with Oklahoma City University,... Read More →
La Red Brings Its Original Music to the U.S.A.
La Red de Escuelas de Música de Medellín (The Music School Network of Medellín) toured the East Coast of the United States in November. Eighty students from La Red’s 27 music schools across Medellín, Colombia were selected through auditions to be... Read More →
Students from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia Perform Together
On November 13, a combined orchestra and choir composed of students from three Balkan countries performed a concert at the Vatroslav Lisinski Councert Hall in Zagreb, Croatia. Over 300 students from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia came together for... Read More →
Register for the 2019 El Sistema Academy in Sweden
Registration is now open for the 2019 El Sistema Academy in Stockholm, Sweden! The 3rd annual El Sistema Academy will take place at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm on 25-27 January 2019. The Academy welcomes teaching artists from around... Read More →