Video Tips for Students from Carnegie Hall!
The NYO-USA is America’s national youth orchestra, founded and led annually by Carnegie Hall. They have now added NYO-U, an alumni-led/produced set of videos offering tips for young musicians from NYOs alums. NYO-U is a collection of original mini–master classes... Read More →
FEATURE: El Sistema Academy – A Next Step in Our Learning
As the El Sistema global movement develops and spreads, its future seems to rely on a combination of knowledge from Venezuela and other Latin American countries, with resources from countries with newer El Sistema programs. This is the idea behind... Read More →
The Teaching Artist Development Lab at Lincoln Center Education
The Teaching Artist Development Lab at Lincoln Center Education welcomes artists of all disciplines, at beginning, intermediate and advanced levels for its 8 -10 day intensives in July. It serves artist educators from around the world; discount housing at Lincoln... Read More →
FEATURE: Developing & Supporting “Executive Function”
The abilities to exercise self-control and stay focused, hold information in mind and work with that information, problem-solve, and flexibly adjust to change or unexpected problems are important for all aspects of life – school, work, health, creativity, and not... Read More →
El Sistema: Music for Social Change
The new book “El Sistema: Music for Social Change” contains a variety of essays and is edited by Christine Witkowski, the founding Director of YOLA at HOLA for five years. The book includes program portraits from around the world, teaching... Read More →
Best, Next and Radical: Practice in Participatory Arts
The Third International Teaching Artist Conference (ITAC3) brings artist educators together from around the world for three days, just after the ISME (International Society of Music Education) conference in Glasgow. ITAC3 is in Edinburgh, Scotland, August 3-5, with the theme... Read More →
Sistema Global: Friends of El Sistema Worldwide
Many readers probably already know about the website Sistema Global: Friends of El Sistema Worldwide. It is a multipurpose home base for the global movement. We encourage colleagues to check out the free resources it offers (and please add resources... Read More →