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We know that many programs use collective composition as a creative boost for students. But an experiment at the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s YOLA Institute Children’s Orchestra was a new one for us at The Ensemble.

With an assist from modern technology, music just became more accessible for young people.

“As the world falls apart, these children unite it through music.” These are the opening remarks from El Sistema maestro Gustavo Dudamel in Side by Side’s new documentary, celebrating over ten years of collective music-making.

The University of Liverpool’s recent study on In Harmony Liverpool bolsters a growing body of research on the impact of orchestral programs on youth resilience.

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

The students of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music are no strangers to adversity.

BLUME Haiti, a nonprofit serving over 60 music schools across Haiti, is seeking orchestral faculty to lead their Haitian Orchestra Program of Excellence (HOPE) from March 26–31 in Cap Haïtian.

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.”

Researchers from WolfBrown spent six years studying Carnegie Hall’s NYO2 orchestra, a free orchestral program engaging musicians from historically underrepresented communities in classical music. Their resulting report, “With Freedom of Soul to Do and Be: A Longitudinal Study of Young Musicians in Carnegie Hall’s NYO2 Orchestra,” offers an insider’s look into what makes a youth orchestra truly inclusive.