Teaching Challenge: 43 Tips for 43 Years!
The World Ensemble is excited to launch its first Teaching Challenge: In honor of El Sistema‘s 43rd Birthday on 12 February, the World Ensemble is collecting 43 innovative Teaching Tips and Ideas from Sistema teachers around the world. Be a... Read More →
The Fourth International Teaching Artists Conference
Happening 13-15 September 2018 in New York City, the Fourth International Teaching Artist Conference will bring together hundreds of teaching artists (and those who work with them) from around the world to share their work, learn from one another, and... Read More →
2018 Side by Side by El Sistema – Registration opens 1 February!
The fifth edition of the international music camp Side by Side by El Sistema will take place in Gothenburg on 16-20 June 2018. Registration opened on 1 February, and the repertoire is available now for participants to start practicing. Side... Read More →
Celebrate Leonard Bernstein at 100 Together!
In 2018 the music world will celebrate the 100th birth anniversary of the American composer Leonard Bernstein. A brilliant opportunity dedicated to Sistema-Inspired projects will be to perform a special arrangement of “Somewhere” from “West Side Story.” Thanks to Bernstein’s daughter... Read More →
Carnegie Hall’s Lullaby Project Extends to Greece
Six years ago, Carnegie Hall started the Lullaby Project, pairing pregnant women and new mothers with professional artists to create personal lullabies for their babies. The project supports maternal health and child development, strengthening bonds between parents and children. In... Read More →
Music Leadership Academy in Michigan next Summer
Next summer The Archipelago Project will host a Music Leadership Academy in Traverse City, Michigan from 18-28 July. The Academy is for students in grades 5-12 and will focus on musical/social leadership, improvisation, arranging, and creative composition. Students will perform almost... Read More →
Singing Their Way into New Connections
In March 2016, choir students from Bay Area Music Project in Alameda, California had the opportunity to collaborate with young instrumental music students from Music Heals International in Port au Prince, Haiti. Teaching Artists from both programs chose two songs (“We’re Going To... Read More →
BOOK: When Grit Isn’t Enough
Grit. It’s a word that has been discussed in education circles for several decades, most recently as a suggested solution for the education gap in the United States. But what if “grit” isn’t enough? Linda Nathan is the first Executive Director of... Read More →
Emerging Leadership Training Programs
There is a new trend in the U.S. Sistema movement: for a couple of years there has been increasing discussion about developing student leadership skills, and this autumn three programs launched new Fellowship initiatives with that goal in mind: 1)... Read More →
FEATURE: Very Young Composers, Around the World
Can the core musical endeavors of El Sistema be enhanced by introducing the art of music composition? At the New York Philharmonic’s Very Young Composers (VYC), we believe the answer is yes. We feel that all music education is furthered by... Read More →