Europe

1. Sistema Chipre

Sistema Cyprus is a social-music orchestra and choir programme established in 2018. Sistema Cyprus offers music education to the children and young people of Cyprus, including migrants, refugees and children and young people with fewer opportunities, and ensures that these groups are respected, recognised, and included in the society.

Sistema Cyprus is inspired by the El Sistema social action music programme that was first founded in Venezuela in 1975. Through the formation of orchestras and choirs, El Sistema acts as a superb model, reaching children and young people to many of the world’s challenging neighbourhoods.

El Sistema and other El Sistema inspired programs, like ours, offer free classical music education that gives children and youth with fewer opportunities all over the world the opportunity for personal development.

Sistema Cyprus is focused on the personal development of its participants focusing primarily on empowerment and helping them in reaching their full potential.

Founded in 2012, Sistema Europe is a network for all European Sistema and Sistema-inspired organisations and individuals aspiring to carry out activities true to the principles of Venezuela’s El Sistema. Sistema Europe exists to take forward the Sistema vision created by Maestro J.A. Abreu and to apply it in its different European settings.

Through the Sistema Europe Network, members can share, develop and learn about Sistema practices in Europe, plan joint projects, attend common performances and training events, seek mutual advice and guidance, become informed about Sistema work in Venezuela and around the world and make use of appropriate funding opportunities.

The network currently has 48 member programmes in 28 European countries with more than 120 programme centres. Major projects include the Sistema Europe Youth Orchestra (SEYO )summer camps, one of which recently took place online as SummerFest 2021, and with previous editions, physically, in Birmingham and London, UK (2018), Athens, Greece  (2017), Milan, Italy (2015), Istanbul, Turkey (2014), and Vienna, Grafenegg and Salzburg, Austria (2013).

The network is run by the Sistema Europe Association, a non-profit organisation which was established in 2014 and has its legal seat in Austria. All members of the Sistema Europe Network can apply to join the Sistema Europe Association, which includes programmes and also individual members. The association elects a board of directors to run Sistema Europe on behalf of the Association’s members.

1. C.O.N. SONANZA e. V.

It is a cultural and social project for children and young people. It was founded in Munich, in 2017, and follows the focus of the financing program of El Sistema de Venezuela. CON SONANZA’s project initiators and teachers include founding members of the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra, musicians and educators from other El Sistema orchestras, as well as German orchestras and music academies.

They offer excellent and free music education for children and young people with and without musical knowledge. Through regular and joint learning and practice in the orchestra or choir, the musical skills of the participants are comprehensively promoted.

Fun is the essential factor and, therefore, the motivation of young people occurs from the beginning. Through regular practice, they gradually learn to read music and technique. The basis of the training is a concept of musical education from El Sistema. It has been developed for more than 40 years and is focused on motivating children.

2. Hangarmusik

Since 2016, this musical project has allowed refugee children to become part of their local community by engaging in classical music in an orchestral setting. Together, in groups, they learn to play an instrument from scratch and have the opportunity to play alongside local resident children and professional musicians.

Playing together promotes social skills in infants that help them feel part of a community. They visit professional orchestras and perform regularly with guest musicians, this ensures that they gain a wide and varied experience of the world of music and a general worldview.
The aim of Hangarmusik is to create a children’s orchestra in which music by Beethoven, Mahler and Mozart is played, and at the same time, a sense of community and social competencies can be established.

The institution cultivates these objectives as an important step within the integration of the children involved and this is the spirit that is at the heart of all its activities.

1. El Sistema Grecia

El Sistema Greece is a community music project that since 2016 provides free music education to children and young people in Greece. All children —no matter their origin, nationality, or religion— are not only inspired to strive for a better future, but thanks to music, they are given a platform for dialogue and togetherness across diverse communities.

The ultimate goal of El Sistema Greece is to promote the social inclusion and development of children in Greek society and build a new musical and human community with children from different horizons, whether they are refugees, migrants or Greeks.  The social project El Sistema Greece works hard to provide them with a sense of purpose, offering choir and orchestral instrument classes to children and youth from different backgrounds in order to enrich their lives and promote social mobility. Music is a universal language which can be a powerful tool for social inclusion and musical education has been proven to be an incredibly effective medium for achieving long term social change for both the children involved, and their families, worldwide.

Our educational approach builds on effective methods from Venezuela’s social action program El Sistema, adapted in over 60 countries and recognized as a tool for youth crime prevention by UNICEF. El Sistema Greece’s model strives to educate through inspirational, regular learning, integrate by bringing children and communities together and communicate through ambitious artistically rewarding performances that increase visibility and encourage better systemic support.

We combine learning and artistic excellence. On stage, the children are treated as true artists. They challenge external perceptions and demonstrate their great potential to add value as part of a community.

Over 2,500 children and youth between the ages of 3 and 26 have had access to El Sistema tuition since 2016.

2. Hangarmusik

Since 2016, this musical project has allowed refugee children to become part of their local community by engaging in classical music in an orchestral setting. Together, in groups, they learn to play an instrument from scratch and have the opportunity to play alongside local resident children and professional musicians.

Playing together promotes social skills in infants that help them feel part of a community. They visit professional orchestras and perform regularly with guest musicians, this ensures that they gain a wide and varied experience of the world of music and a general worldview.
The aim of Hangarmusik is to create a children’s orchestra in which music by Beethoven, Mahler and Mozart is played, and at the same time, a sense of community and social competencies can be established.

The institution cultivates these objectives as an important step within the integration of the children involved and this is the spirit that is at the heart of all its activities.

1. Nam Laboratori Musicalli

Founded more than 50 years ago by M ° Cav. Gino Sartor, violinist, organist and choir director, who today represents one of the most important musical references in the province of Pordenone, where “making music” not only means learning to play an instrument, but also the formation of youth choirs, ensembles and orchestras, periodically involve students in clinics and seminars with the greatest professionals on the world music scene (D.Wekl, Steve Smith, Walter Calloni, Reynaldo Hernández Ramírez, Nik Di Virgilio, Max Furian, Greg Bisonette, A.Golino, G. Capitozzo, Beppe Gemelli, Sergio Pescara, Cristian Meyer, Akira Jimbo, Alex Acuna, Ellade Bandini, Fuiro Chirico, Giorgio di Tullio, Ernestico, Matt Smith, Antonio Forcione, Massimo Varini, Gae Manfredini, Bruno Giordano, Jacques Stolzen, Donato Begotti, Roberto Maltese, Pietro Nobile, Hiram Bullock, Cesareo, Vinnie Moore, Frank Gambale, Joeri Hoemerson, Paolo Costa, Alfredo Paixao, Jeff Berlin, Linley Marthe, Maurizio Rolli, Faso, Lorenzo Felici ati, Pippo Matino, Brian Bromberg, Massimo Morriconi, Rossano Eleutiri, Mike Appelbaun, Marco Tamburini, Fabrizio Bosso, Paolo Fresu, Fred Mills, Guido Tofanelli, Ralph Alessi, Bob Tucci, Steven Mead, Miraphone Tuba Quartet da Strasburgo, e Penta Brass , J.Yves Formeau, Gianluca Esposito, Francesco Cantucci, Dave Liebman, Fabrice Moretti, Roman Guyout, Peter Soave, J.Louis Noton, Franco D’andrea, Otmaro Ruitz, Paolo Subrizi, Assaf Shouval, Fadi Deeb).

2. SONG – Sistema en Lombardía

Free music education as ensemble training, both in orchestras and choirs connecting all Nucleos and all musical levels, including children with special needs, operating in schools, music schools or social centres, is at the heart of the Sistema in Lombardy, an exemplary project in Italy founded in 2011. In all these cases, the essential requirements and conditions for sustainability are the cooperation with schools, insertion in the community, collaboration from families, and enthusiastic professionalism from teachers.

Numbers:

• • • 6 Member Nucleos
    • 6 Local Nucleos
    • 2 Youth orchestras
    • 1 SONG Choir of children and teenagers
    • 1 Manos Blancas Choir for teenagers with special needs and abilities
    • 500 children and teenagers

1. Orquestra Geração, Sistema Portugal

It is a project of social intervention through orchestral practice inspired by El Sistema, encompassing nearly 2000 young people and children in the most disadvantaged socioeconomic contexts. It was created in 2007 and is currently installed in 35 schools / institutions in the metropolitan area of Lisbon and Centro do País.

During its existence, the following distinctions stand out: National Teacher Award (innovation) to Wagner Diniz (director of OG) in 2010; in 2013/2014 it was considered one of the best 50 social intervention practices in the entire European Union; In 2018 he received by the Assembly of the Republic the commemorative gold medal of the 50 years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

1. Fundación Vozes

Vozes is a school of life, a music-social project dedicated to the pedagogical, occupational and ethical rescue of childhood and youth, through the instruction and collective practice of music.

Vozes, present since 2004, is a social program that works for the integration and cohesion of children and adolescents in underprivileged areas and with populations at risk of social exclusion. Inspired by the National System of Youth and Children’s Orchestras and Choirs of Venezuela, it offers free access to musical training to children from 4 years of age and without age limits, through 16 centers (Spaces Vozes) between public schools, institutes, civic centers and youth spaces, serving 696 boys, girls and adolescents in Barcelona, ​​in the districts of Nou Barris, San Martín and San Andrés, and since 2015, in Madrid, in the district of Vallecas and Villaverde.

The Vozes Project has been created by systematizing the instruction and the collective and individual practice of music through symphony orchestras and choirs, as instruments of social organization and humanistic development.

It is a project open to society, with a high concept of musical excellence, which contributes to the integral development of the human being. It is linked to the community through exchange, cooperation and the cultivation of transcendental values ​​that affect the transformation of the child, the young person and the family environment.

There is a human resource aimed at achieving a common goal, with mysticism and enthusiasm, forming highly motivated multidisciplinary teams identified with the Institution. Music is used as the main route for social and intellectual improvement, obtaining results in children and adolescents beyond musicals (improvements in personal skills, in school performance and in the quality of the family environment).

Vozes carries out its activities in a total of 10 neighborhoods, the least favored in the districts of Nou Barris, San Martín and San Andrés. If we consult the Plan for Social Inclusion, the neighborhoods where Vozes is carried out respond to an area of ​​action where the average per capita income is the lowest in Barcelona, ​​the academic level is very low or without studies and / or school certificate, with great incidence of beneficiaries with RMI (Minimum Insertion Income), with a high profile (in some neighborhoods of Nou Barris it can reach up to 84.4% of) foreign population, with a high degree of school absenteeism and where the rate of minors attended for social services it is over 25%.

Vozes promotes social cohesion and educational connectivity within these 3 districts. The Vozes collective has various origins and encompasses very diverse groups of participants: Native and immigrant children and youth from 4 years of age and with no age limit and their relatives, prioritizing middle-income families with limited economic resources, in situations of risk and exclusion. Social. Children and young people from programs for the protection of women from mistreatment environments, this group has recently been receiving a wider reception, having designed a special plan from Vozes.

All beneficiaries participate in making decisions about the activities, their needs are listened to, the musical repertoire is adapted to the diversity of its participants, Catalan music can be listened to along with African, Arabic, Japanese Chinese, Latin American, French, Italian music. , etc. Traditional popular music, music by classical composers, and current urban and contemporary music are included in the repertoire, and everyone contributes and participates in decisions about this repertoire.

Vozes extends its care environment to the elderly and young people and children with functional diversity, offering musical activities adapted to their needs and including them in the regular activities of the project.

The social musical activities in Vozes are organized in the programs:

• • • Musical awareness (guitar, piano and percussion groups in different neighborhoods of Barcelona)
    • Choral singing (youth and children’s choirs, and older people’s choir)
    • Initiation to the Musical Instrument (my first steps before joining the orchestra)
    • Symphonic Musical Training (Escola-Orquestra, Pre-infant, Infant, Youth)
    • Program of Musical Excellence, Artistic Development and Participation (concerts of the different Vozes formats)

For the professional accompaniment of young musicians, 2 artistic platforms were created: the Ibero-American Chamber Orchestra of Catalonia, the Pau Casals Social Orchestra, as well as 2 highly demanding musical orchestras that serve as a platform for professional artistic training for young musicians. who have decided to make music their career.

2. Acción por la Música, un espacio para brillar y soñar

Our journey as a foundation began in 2013 and with just a few pieces of cardboard to build the instruments of our first orchestra.

Since then, we have provided instruments, musical training, education in values and psychosocial support to more than 1000 minors and adults. His music has shone on stages such as the Royal Theater, the National Music Auditorium, the Moncloa Palace or the Prado Museum in Madrid.

The Foundation’s activity consists of the programs: Make it sound (aimed at children, youth and adults), Special Action (aimed at people with intellectual disabilities), Bank of Instruments and Volunteering. In turn, all the programs include various projects with a common goal: to transform society by sowing the seeds of hope through music.

3. DaLaNota

It is a free and inclusive musicosocial education program aimed at children and adolescents, whose mission is to train people prepared to actively participate in society who build a balanced and inclusive community, through music, as a key element of intervention and social and cultural transformation.

Since 2015 more than 300 girls, boys and young people between 7 and 20 years old have passed through our program, learning orchestral music, choir and corporal expression in an intensive way, following a unique and own methodology to generate agents of change and creators of culture of their community.

The presence of a psychosocial team complements the program through group social intervention, individual and family care, and mediation with other social and school resources in the neighborhoods where the different campuses are located.

Once a month, shows with innovative content and often the presence of other artistic disciplines in addition to the orchestra are held in theaters, auditoriums, cultural centers, outdoors in squares and neighborhood parks.

DaLaNota’s repertoire is unique and its own, crossing the barriers of classical symphonic music and promoting the visibility of cultural diversity.

This program is conceived for the long term and is possible due to the interdisciplinary professional team between the world of music, social sciences and cultural management.

The DaLaNota Musicosocial Program is part of the REDOMI Platform Association (Network of Musicosocial Organizations) www.redomi.org
Another program that is available is Experimento Compañía – Choir to combat unwanted loneliness, made up of 60 participants.

1. El Sistema Suecia

The purpose is to provide children with tools that contribute to the development of their lives through the discovery of the beauty of music, the development of creativity and composition among themselves.

The vision is to give children the opportunity to have a positive development through musical knowledge, the creation of choirs and orchestras.

Music is one of the most powerful tools to express feelings, respect the rules, be supportive, live in harmony and together. Through the universal language of music you build bridges with all of humanity.

The Sweden System is part of a vision that drives the musical movement and that has been inspired by the only model for social inclusion through music that began in Venezuela since 1975, thanks to the work of the musician and economist José Antonio Abreu.

The System uses participation in music as an opportunity for intercultural dialogue and invites children and their families to integrate into cultural life.

Within El Sistema children have the time to focus on learning the basics of music. Infants learn in a playful way, but at the same time serious. His creativity, energy, composition, dreams and artistic practice are seen as the work of a professional.

The System uses pre-education, where older people with more experience teach younger people. We bring children together with professional musicians. The System begins at an early age, when children are in preschool.

Within the System the parents and representatives of the children are an important part of the musical training, that is why they are encouraged all the time to join the organization.

El Sistema is characterized by professional commitment and passion for music that contributes to shaping a better world, creating hope for the future and giving children the tools to empower themselves in their dreams.
Our priority is to work where it is most needed. Children have rights and it is necessary to give them the opportunity to be in contact with music regardless of their gender or in what part of the country they live.

We develop a qualified teaching environment for students to receive music practice at least 3 times a week. They all work under a common goal, which means that we also work with a repertoire of practice and teaching. Routine, discipline, continuity, quality, and interaction with others is an important part of our mission. Our teachers work as a team.

We train children from an early age to adults. We care about critical communication research and guaranteed quality, innovation and knowledge development.

We fight for integration, democracy, equality and diversity.