South America

1. Orquesta-Escuela de Chascomús (Núcleo Fundacional SOIJAR)

An educational proposal with high social and cultural impact, based on orchestral practice, aimed at children and young people, between 3 and 25 years old, without previous musical knowledge. Its vision is to be a tool for personal training, as a social model in which values, attitudes and experiences of high community content are explored and strengthened.

It seeks to promote the integral development of students in a practical and effective way, especially in those sectors in vulnerable situations, in addition to favoring cultural access and realization of their life projects.

The main objective is to promote training in communities lacking educational and cultural offerings from society. Its founder and director is María Valeria Atela, and she has worked directly with the National System of Orchestras and Youth and Children’s Choirs of Venezuela.

2. Fundación Sistema de Orquestas Infantiles y Juveniles de Argentina (Soijar)

We are an organization dedicated to promoting citizen education, human promotion and the development of communities through music. We were born in 2005 at the initiative of Maestro José Antonio Abreu, world leader of the children’s and youth orchestral movement, and the Argentine Mozarteum.

We provide comprehensive musical and pedagogical training to strengthen the trajectories of boys, girls and young people, teachers and their orchestras and choirs, through the vision of a system of musical groups in Argentina as an instrument of inclusion and socio-educational integration that promotes human development with a sense of community.

16 years of national trajectory
11 systemic programs for all actors on the subject
232 national, municipal and NGO initiatives participated in our activities
38 provincial, regional and national meetings held. 19 Argentine provinces and the CABA reached with our activities in the territory

1. Fundación Musical Bravura

It is a non-profit legal entity that assumes the social mission of promoting the development of musicians in Bolivia, as a contribution to the transformation and continuous improvement of society.

It was founded in 2012, by Miguel Ángel Salazar Hidalgo and Adriana Inturias Villarroel, and has the famous international cellist and soloist Leonard Elschenbroich, as artistic mentor.

The reason for being and doing of the Bravura Musical Foundation is to manage and channel the necessary resources that enable the integral development of musicians in Bolivia, and this constitutes its mission.

As its main vision, it seeks to be a leading institution and a reference in the musical work in Bolivia, under the institutional values ​​that are: commitment, discipline, honesty, solidarity, responsibility, respect, ethics.

The Foundation has developed 3 music programs nationwide, with their respective projects:

• • • Children’s Choirs and Orchestras
    • Academic Orchestras
    • Bolivian Philharmonic Orchestra

2. Instituto de Formación Artística Bellas Artes

On August 15, 1977, the Institute of Fine Arts was created at the idea of ​​the Círculo Pro Música that was created by the Organizing Committee made up of representatives of the Ministry of Education, Bolivian Institute of Culture, Municipal Mayor’s Office, Gabriel Rene Moreno University, House of Culture “Raúl Otero Reiche”. Círculo Pro Música, Public Works Committee, Escuela Normal “Enrique Finot” and Centro de Artistas Plásticos.
The Institute, with its two sections, Music and Visual Arts, carried out its activities in a space provided by the Public Works Committee (later CORDECRUZ). This was located on Cristóbal de Mendoza Avenue, where the Visual Arts Workshop still works.

The Musical Section began with the disciplines of piano, guitar, recorder, choir and complementary subjects. The founding teachers were: Aida Mc kenney, director and teacher of choral singing, Crista Wolf, recorder; Janice de Monasterio, piano: Luis Valdez Alba, guitar: with violin and theoretical subjects, Raúl Aranibar and Mario Flores. The teachers of the Visual Arts section were: Tito Kuramoto, Marcelo Callaú, Olga Rivera, later Herminio Pedraza joined.

In 1981, when it incorporated the Humanities section (Primary and Secondary), it changed its name to the Institute of Fine Arts and Comprehensive Education, it shared premises with a U.E. on Ichilo street. In the years 1988 and 1989 CordeCruz built 10 classrooms on the premises that it occupies today, Third Internal Ring and Roca Coronado.

In mid-1998 it acquires the character of an Agreement between the Foundation of Fine Arts and the Ministry of Education. In 2002, with the approval of the Study Plan for Medium Technician, it changed its name to Instituto Superior de Bellas Artes. On May 14, 2012, through Ministerial Resolution 2671/2012, the Agreement Resolution is modified and the Institute becomes entirely state-owned.

Ministerial Resolution 732/2016 of November 2016 regulates its operation as an Institute of Artistic Training at the Basic and Medium Technical level. By this same resolution, with the current Fine Arts (Humanities) Educational Unit, it will only maintain an institutional coordination relationship that facilitates the access of its students to the Institute.
At present, the Institute of Artistic Training has more than 300 children and young people learning different musical and dance instruments, directed by Master Álvaro Yana Herrera. (Bolivia).

1. Neojiba (Centros Estatales de Orquesta Juvenil e Infantil de Bahía)

“Learn who teaches”

Neojiba, State Centers for Youth and Children’s Orchestras of Bahia, brought an innovative concept of public policy that combines, in a pioneering way in Bahia, the areas of Culture, Education and Social Development. The program was created in 2007 by the pianist, educator and conductor Ricardo Castro and is linked to the Ministry of Justice, Human Rights and Social Development of the Government of the State of Bahia.

In almost 14 years of creation, the Neojiba Program has served in total, directly and indirectly, more than 10,000 children, adolescents and young people –between 6 and 29 years old–, its organizational structure has 13 nuclei. There are 3 main choirs: boys, girls and young people and 4 main orchestral formations: Children’s String Orchestra, Experimental Pedagogical Orchestra, Castro Alves Orchestra and Orchestra 2 de Julio.

The main orchestra has performed in several Brazilian cities and participated in international tours in Europe and the United States.

On March 17, 2020, the Neojiba Program adhered to the social distancing determinations due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In less than 48 hours, the Program migrated to online mode, keeping the rehearsals and classes of all the members.

2. Somos la Orquesta Jovem Recanto Maestro

The Orquestra Jovem Recanto Maestro was born in 2015, the result of the combination of the Flute Project and the Friends of the Guitar Project.

Through the free teaching of classical music, our objective is the integral development of children, offering an opportunity to train young people with the capacity for autonomy and evolution.

The project is promoted by the Antonio Meneghetti Foundation, executed by the OntoArte Association and has the support of Antonio Meneghetti and the Centro de Arte Cultural y Cultura Humanista Recanto Maestro.

Currently, the project has 135 active students from 4 to 21 years old, students of the public school system in the central region of Rio Grande do Sul, with teaching centers in the cities of Agudo, Faxinal do Soturno, Restinga Sêca, Santa Maria , São João do Polêsine and Silveira Martins.

With the end of the pandemic, the activities of the Jovem Recanto Master Choir Orchestra return, reaching 300 students.

1. Proyecto de Formación Musical de la Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá

“Let’s go to the Philharmonic”

The Musical Training Project Vamos a la Filarmónica, of the Bogotá Philharmonic Orchestra, carries out musical teaching processes through the 33 School Philharmonic Centers, 19 Local Philharmonic Centers and 8 Hospital Philharmonic Centers, a Pre-youth Philharmonic Orchestra and a Philharmonic Orchestra Pre juvenile Bogotá-Cundinamarca. It focuses mainly on pedagogical strategies that promote the development of musical skills, as part of the comprehensive training of around 28,200 children, adolescents and young people in the city, with the support of 382 training artists.

Its objective is projected towards the generation of opportunities for access to musical training, through a comprehensive process that involves different models of care, following the differential population approach.

The training project defines its contents from the experience and conformation of its team of training artists, who act recognizing local dynamics and contexts. This concerted dialogue of knowledge and experiences together with the optimization of physical and human resources consolidate a social, participatory, efficient process with high quality results that involves families and diverse communities.

The educational model of the OFB conceives music education as a tool for social transformation where boys, girls, adolescents and young people of the city, their families and environments, are protagonists and subjects of a comprehensive training process. In line with the institutional purposes of the OFB, its educational model seeks to contribute to the formation of citizens, through different ways of experiencing music as a symbolic language. The pedagogical artistic component is made up of 5 areas: Vocal, Symphonic, Pulsed Strings, Musical Initiation and Creation.

The project also has a communications strategy that carries out a set of actions to disseminate the academic, social and artistic activities of the project, in coordination with the Communications Office of the OFB.

1. Fundación Orquesta Juvenil e Infantil de Chile (FOJI)

The Foundation of Youth and Children’s Orchestras of Chile (FOJI) is a non-profit institution, dependent on the Network of Foundations of the Presidency of the Republic. It is chaired by the first lady, Cecilia Morel, and directed by Alejandra Kantor.

Its mission is to raise the social, cultural and educational development of children and young people in Chile through music.

FOJI reaches 25,000 boys, girls and young people who belong to the 500 communal orchestras distributed from Arica to Magallanes and has 18 own symphony orchestras, 3 of them in Santiago and 15 regional symphony orchestras.

The foundation celebrates 20 years of history, granting scholarships, psychosocial support, providing competitive funds for the creation and promotion of community orchestras and developing courses, seminars, festivals and concerts. Other important supports have been the Luthería workshops, master classes, as well as courses and seminars for conductors of child and youth orchestras.

On May 6, 2019, FOJI received the Academy Award, awarded by the Chilean Academy of Fine Arts, in recognition of the trajectory and constant cultural support it provides to children and young people in the country.

2. Fundación Música para la Integración

Migrant Institution of Social, Intercultural and Educational Development for the rescue and integration of migrant talent in Chile through music, founded by the Venezuelan Ana Vanessa Marvez, with a degree in Music and a master’s degree in Management and Cultural Policies.

It began its activities in March 2017 with 2 programs inspired by El Sistema: Musical Training, which houses 120 students distributed in 5 nuclei and Musical Performance, which generates spaces for 8 musical groups and more than 350 migrant musicians (3 orchestras, 1 choir and various assemblies).

Realizing that almost all professional musicians were forced to give up their profession when they arrived in Chile, Marvez set out to bring them together in order to serve the country that receives them, managing to be supported by UNHCR and the Ministry of Culture, among others. public and private institutions in the region.

Its short and long-term goals are focused on territorially expanding the foundation’s services and generating the stability that its members long for, under the banner of the integration and cultural development of Chile.

1. Fundación Orquesta Sinfónica Juvenil del Ecuador Fosje

It is the pioneer entity in the country in using music, since 1995, as a powerful tool of social inclusion for children and young people of low and medium economic resources, turning orchestral and choral practice into a valuable community experience, which opens up new possibilities for life.

Since 2014 FOSJE has incorporated into its activity the Special Education program with inclusive groups designed for children, youth and adults with disabilities such as Down syndrome, Asperger’s syndrome, muscular dystrophy, learning difficulties, and hearing loss. Likewise, since 2016 we have successfully incorporated the El Sistema Paper Orchestra program.

Since its creation, until today, FOSJE receives the support of El Sistema de Venezuela and the support of Maestro José Antonio Abreu throughout his life. The presence of Venezuelan teacher trainers in Ecuador has been key in the development and strengthening of the program in Ecuador, which has been maintained throughout the years.

For nearly 15 years, teachers from El Sistema have been received through an Agreement with El Sistema and the Andean Development Corporation, CAF. Likewise, FOSJE has permanently invited distinguished pedagogues, soloists and directors of El Sistema over the years.

Ecuadorian children and young people of low economic resources in a state of vulnerability, live a positive and enriching community experience through orchestras, choirs and ensembles, developing a sense of belonging, values, sense of achievement, excellence, discipline, dedication, healthy competence, aesthetic, spiritual and cognitive development that opens up new life possibilities and even job placement. It is very important to note that all of them begin their first musical knowledge in FOSJE.

More than 10,000 beneficiaries with their families, from several entire generations of musicians trained in FOSJE. About 50% of the professional musicians who currently make up the main public and private musical entities in the country, such as symphony orchestras, symphonic bands, teachers of the main conservatories and public and private music centers in the country, have been trained in FOSJE.

Likewise, the Chair of Lyric Singing under the guidance of the Venezuelan teacher Carmen Alonzo, with students who are in international opera companies, as well as a large number of the country’s professional choristers. The social and formative contribution of FOSJE in this sense is historical for Ecuador.
FOSJE develops in children and young people the sense of appreciation of what is ours through high-level learning and interpretation of: national music, Latin American music, universal music, pop music, symphonic rock music.

FOSJE has achieved through auditions, the representation of Ecuador in: the Youth Orchestra of the Americas in Washington DC, Ibero-American Youth Orchestra, Choir of the Americas, Ibero-America Sing, Orchestra of Youth of the Andean Countries, Los Andes Cantan Festival, Niños Cantores de Los Andes, among others. Likewise, the Ecuadorian / German Youth Orchestra premiered in Ecuador the Fantastic Symphony of Berlioz, the Augsburg Boys Singers performed with the Ecuadorian Youth Symphony in the assembly of Mozart’s Requiem. The Contemporary Ballet of Caracas, the Hannover Youth Symphony, the Orquesta Mariscal de Ayacucho, the Medellín Youth and Children’s Symphony, the Toledo / Ohio Youth Symphony, as well as several orchestras from El Sistema de Venezuela have made joint presentations with the FOSJE orchestras, Ecuador.

World-class artists such as Gustavo Dudamel, Joshua Bell, Eugene Fodor, David Kim, Pacho Flores, Yegor Dyashkov, Cristea Zalu, Alexis Cárdenas, have performed with the FOSJE program in concerts with the Ecuadorian Youth Symphony and Ecuador’s Philharmonic Orchestra FOSJE .

In 1995, the Ministry of Education at that time approved the statutes and the Project presented by his mentor, the Ecuadorian teacher Patricio Aizaga, allocating an annual allocation for FOSJE, within the budget of the Ecuadorian State.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS OF THE PROGRAM: Unesco Artists for Peace; achievements in music education contribution and development of Ecuador to the international community, Unesco; Guests of honor of the German Senate, concerts at the Berlin Philharmonic Theater and UNESCO Headquarters in Paris; Decorations of the Congress of Ecuador; Decoration Pedro Pablo Traversari; Medal of the System of Youth and Children’s Orchestras and Choirs of Venezuela and Prize for Educational Excellence by the Foundation for the Integration of Latin America.

2. Fundación Música para la Integración

Migrant Institution of Social, Intercultural and Educational Development for the rescue and integration of migrant talent in Chile through music, founded by the Venezuelan Ana Vanessa Marvez, with a degree in Music and a master’s degree in Management and Cultural Policies.

It began its activities in March 2017 with 2 programs inspired by El Sistema: Musical Training, which houses 120 students distributed in 5 nuclei and Musical Performance, which generates spaces for 8 musical groups and more than 350 migrant musicians (3 orchestras, 1 choir and various assemblies).

Realizing that almost all professional musicians were forced to give up their profession when they arrived in Chile, Marvez set out to bring them together in order to serve the country that receives them, managing to be supported by UNHCR and the Ministry of Culture, among others. public and private institutions in the region.

Its short and long-term goals are focused on territorially expanding the foundation’s services and generating the stability that its members long for, under the banner of the integration and cultural development of Chile.

1. Sinfonía por el Perú

It is a non-profit organization led by the Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flórez, who, for 10 years, positively influences the lives of thousands of children and young people at risk throughout the country, through education musical.

The Symphony Effect, validated through various impact evaluations, constitutes an enormous contribution to the development of Peru, since it is aligned with the UN SDGs and provides an opportunity for growth for children and young people, transforming them into agents of change.

During these 10 years, Sinfonía por el Perú has achieved:

▪ Positively impact 30,000 beneficiaries throughout Peru

▪ In the family sphere, it has reduced the intensity of child labor by 90%

▪ On a personal level, self-esteem has increased by 30%

▪In the educational field, 29% of girls and boys have aspirations to pursue postgraduate studies

Symphony for Peru is found in 10 regions of the country and has 18 venues: 16 nuclei and 2 central casts. It also has 7 musical programs such as the Orchestral, Choral, Band, Puro Peru, Special Education Program and Luteria Program.

Currently, Sinfonía por el Perú benefits more than 6,000 children and young people and more than 18,000 family members accompany them in this experience.