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The Ensemble seeks to connect and inform all people who are committed to ensemble music education for youth empowerment and social change.

Curation, Not Composition: Strategies for Healthy Collaboration in the Classroom

05-01-2024

It was during a choir rehearsal, at age nine, that I decided to become a composer. Choir was an oasis of joy in an otherwise difficult school experience; I simply lived for each opportunity to sing. Since then, it’s been my joy to witness, time and time again, music’s transformative power in community—never more so than in communities of singers, and never more powerfully than when those singers are empowered to compose their own songs.

Singing for a Cooler Planet

04-03-2024

Across the U.K., choirs are coming together to raise their voices for change.

B-Me Project Creates Free Scores for Orchestras

04-03-2024

The B-Me project has produced a collection of lovely new orchestral scores, which you can now explore and borrow for free.

Youth-Led Research Explores Healthy Music Experiences

04-03-2024

A new research project in Scotland is taking its cue from young people.

Sistema New Brunswick Announces Wild Symphony Curriculum

04-03-2024

A new music curriculum resource will soon be on its way to orchestral programs across North America.

Beirut Chants Turns to El Sistema

04-03-2024

It was not a promising time to be learning or teaching music in Lebanon. The Lebanese pound had depreciated by over 90%, making music lessons a luxury that few could afford. The National Conservatory of Music was mostly non-operational; schools had stopped music classes for lack of funding, and our country’s youth had no means to advance their musical education. In this challenging environment, Father Maatouk turned to the El Sistema model.

Action Research in the Western Balkans: Music and Social Reconciliation

04-03-2024

Can bringing young people from different cultures together, through arts-related experiences, help to promote understanding, communication, and peace building?

This is a question on the minds of many people working in the global field of arts for social change. Over the past few years, my program, The House of Good Tones in Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, has partnered with two other Balkan programs (SO-DO, in Zagreb, Croatia, and the Music Art Project, in Belgrade, Serbia) on a research project designed to explore this question—a particularly important question in our part of the world.

Want to Amplify Youth Voices? Give Them a Podcast Mic

04-03-2024

In mainstream media, youth voices are widely absent, overlooked, or sensationalized. Youth on Record (YOR) aims to address this gap through our creative youth programming, including its Podcasting Production Internship. The program seeks to foster a supportive environment where young people explore creative storytelling and produce podcasts that amplify their voices and ideas.

Webinar: The International Mobility of Disabled Artists and Culture Professionals

03-06-2024

As international opportunities grow for musicians, On the Move is setting out to clear barriers to access faced by disabled artists.

Mutual Teaching, Mutual Learning at the Queen of Paradise Program

03-05-2024

The Queen of Paradise program was originally the brainchild of Father Miguel de la Calle, a priest at the IVE (Instituto del Verbo Encarnado) mission in Papua New Guinea. Father Miguel, says Maestro Briceño, “had full confidence, from day one, in the power of music to positively change lives.”

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