The Simón Bolívar String Quartet to perform at the Bogotá International Music...
The Venezuelan ensemble will give four concerts at this four-day festival whose first edition features Beethoven’s works. Four hundred and twenty musicians from all over the world will take part in the...
View ArticleDudamel and the Bolívars tour Latin America
The El Sistema's flagship orchestra and its conductor will make a four-city tour of Latin America that kicks off on April 3.
View ArticleThe Bolívars acclaimed in Buenos Aires
The Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela and maestro Gustavo Dudamel were applauded by an audience of 2,778 at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, during the first concert of their 2013 Latin...
View ArticleMaestro Abreu visited Sao Paolo’s Sistema-inspired Project
Accompanied by Valdemar Rodríguez, director of the Simón Bolívar Conservatory of Music, maestro Abreu visited the Guri Santa Marcelina Music Education Program in Sao Paolo on April 6.
View ArticleDudamel and the Bolívars: euphoria in Sao Paulo
Loud cheers and ovations got the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela and its conductor, Gustavo Dudamel, last weekend during their concerts in Sao Paolo.
View ArticleEl Sistema brings hope to the most densely populated favela in Sao Paolo
Thanks to its social action through music inspired by maestro Abreu’s philosophy, the Heliopolis Symphony Orchestra has shaped a new destiny for its 86 young members, who come from one of the most...
View ArticleVenezuela’s El Sistema to sign an agreement with the Mayor’s Office of the...
A shared concert between the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela and the Sao Paulo Youth Orchestra will mark the beginning of an accord on academic exchange, pedagogical training and advice...
View ArticleBrasilia will establish 300 orchestras modeled after El Sistema
The southern country signed agreements of cooperation with El Sistema to rescue children and young people through music.
View ArticleEl Sistema inspires Latin America
During their 2013 Latin American Tour, the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela and its conductor, Gustavo Dudamel, thrilled audiences in Argentina, Brazil and Colombia, and inspired both...
View ArticleEl Sistema Greenland kicked off a tour
In 2011, Ron Davis Álvarez, a Venezuelan conductor and violinist born out of El Sistema, arrived in Greenland with the idea of teaching music at Uummannaq Children's Home Music following El Sistema...
View ArticleNational Children’s Orchestra of Venezuela to appear with Rattle in Salzburg
The National Children’s Orchestra of Venezuela will make its debut at the Salzburg Festival with three sold out appearances.
View ArticleWhite Hands Choir to show the transformative power of music in Salzburg
The flagship choral ensemble of the Special Education Program at the National System of Youth and Children’s Orchestras and Choirs of Venezuela will make its debut at the Salzburg Festival with a...
View ArticleSimón Bolívar Youth Symphony Band guest appeared at World Music Contest
Every four years, the prestigious festival for wind and brass instruments that is held in Kerkrade, the Netherlands, welcomes over 2,000 musicians from throughout the world. The Simón Bolívar Youth...
View ArticleCaracas will host the Salzburg Festival
During a press conference held in Salzburg on 24 July, maestro José Antonio Abreu announced that in five or six years, Venezuela will host the Salzburg Festival.
View ArticleThe Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra makes memorable debut in Salzburg
The Venezuelan musicians played brilliantly for over three hours a five-piece programme during their debut at the Grosses Festspielhaus, which became a milestone in the history of the Salzburg Festival.
View ArticleSimón Bolívar Youth Symphony Band’s successful European tour ends
The Simón Bolívar Youth Symphony Band’s 2013 European Tour ended on July 21 in Spain with a concert in Argamasilla de Alba. The eight-concert tour began on July 7 and thrilled audiences in five...
View ArticleThe Youth Orchestra of Caracas made history at the Salzburg Festival
The Youth Orchestra of Caracas became the first non-Austrian ensemble to play the national anthem at the opening ceremony of the Salzburg Festival.
View ArticleA Venezuelan youth choir and 200 European children joined their voices at the...
Under the baton of Gerald Wirth, the Simón Bolívar National Youth Choir of Venezuela and superar choirs from Austria, Switzerland, Slovakia, Romania, Bosnia, and Turkey performed at the Great superar...
View ArticleGustavo Dudamel received an 18-minute ovation in Salzburg
The second concert by the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela at the 93rd edition of the Salzburg Festival received an eighteen-minute standing ovation from the audience. Alexander Pereira,...
View ArticleNational Children's Orchestra and White Hands Choir ready to appear in Salzburg
From August 7 to 11, both ensembles will give the last concerts of El Sistema residency at the 2013 Salzburg Festival, which kicked off on July 24.
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