Colaboración

 
El Ensemble busca conectar e informar a todas las personas que están comprometidas con la educación musical de conjunto para el empoderamiento de los jóvenes y el cambio social.

EDITORIAL
Playing in the Same Key: Aligning Purpose and Practice for Students

03-04-2026

“What’s the biggest thing keeping you up at night, as a leader or as a teaching artist?”

When Nikoletta Polydorou, founder of Sistema Cyprus, recently posed this question to music-for-social-action leaders and teaching artists across different countries and contexts, one concern surfaced repeatedly: when a program’s purpose isn’t clear, and collectively owned, the learning is less focused and effective.

From Accommodation to Co-Creation: How Students Continue to Transform Our Approach to Adaptive Music Education

11-05-2025

When Lotus Centre for Special Music Education opened its doors in Ottawa, Canada in 2012, we thought our mission was clear: provide access to high-quality music instruction for students with exceptionalities and disabilities who were being left out of traditional lessons. What we didn’t yet realize was that our students were about to become our greatest teachers, shifting our organization from a provider of services to a learning community shaped directly by their needs and strengths.

Sinfónica Azteca: Empowering Young Musicians Across Mexico, the Americas, and Beyond

10-01-2025

The story of Sinfónica Azteca begins about five years ago, when the world was just beginning to reemerge from the COVID-19 pandemic. Across the globe, music programs and youth orchestras were struggling to survive. The need to restore trust in live music and reignite enthusiasm among young musicians had never been greater.

In Mexico, this posed a double challenge, since we had always lacked a national youth orchestra capable of uniting the country’s young musicians in high-caliber, immersive artistic experiences.

New Guiding Pillars Amplify Our Collective Voice

09-03-2025

Nearly two decades ago, a handful of United States programs that were inspired by El Sistema in Venezuela opened their doors. Since then, El Sistema USA® has become a network of more than 150 organizations—the largest such network in the world. Our members represent a diverse array of music programs from dozens of states, as well as international programs in adjacent countries from Canada to Haiti. Given the diversity and breadth of our network, it’s reasonable to ask: What is the common thread between these programs? And why does this collective work matter? Watching and helping this coalition grow and evolve, we have been able to isolate a few distinct qualities that unite us and affirm the power of our collective voice.

EDITORIAL
Rehearsing Community for a Better Tomorrow

07-09-2025

As Executive Director Liz Moulthrop remarked during El Sistema USA’s East Coast Regional Gathering, “Community is our power.” Yet too often programs operate in isolation, brilliant islands of musical striving that rarely connect with the broader archipelago of creative youth development work happening across the world. This siloing, while understandable given resource constraints and logistical challenges, represents a missed opportunity to address our urgent need for unity.

In fact, we must double down on gathering. The practice of community.

Utilizar los círculos para crear comunidad y vínculos en los espacios CYD

03-05-2025

Son las 3:30 de la tarde de un miércoles en el Zona Neutralun centro de artes creativas y liderazgo para adolescentes en el centro de Ann Arbor, Michigan. Veinticuatro jóvenes y seis empleados se reúnen en un círculo de sillas en el B-Side Venue (un espacio polivalente que también sirve como sala de conciertos para 400 personas). Mientras una bola de discoteca brilla en lo alto, Ash, participante adolescente y estudiante de segundo de bachillerato, se ofrece voluntario con una pregunta inicial: "¿Qué te gustaba hacer en el recreo cuando eras niño en el colegio?".

Formación de músicos para apoyar a refugiados y migrantes

03-05-2025

Universidad Leeds Beckett y Músicos sin Fronteras colaboran para impartir una formación de cinco días (9-13 de junio) para músicos interesados en utilizar sus habilidades para apoyar a personas afectadas por la guerra y los conflictos armados.

Un campamento de música para jóvenes en China atrae la atención internacional

03-05-2025

Un campamento de música de conjunto para jóvenes intérpretes de la Gran Bahía del Sudeste Asiático está llamando la atención de músicos internacionales.

En armonía Liverpool y el enfoque Till: Una nueva perspectiva de la pedagogía de la cuerda

02-05-2025

Hace diez años, la violinista Sophie Till estuvo en Escocia trabajando con músicos de la Scottish Chamber Orchestra y la Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Yo también estuve allí, asistí a sus sesiones y participé en una clase. Cuando volví a En armonía Liverpoollo hice con la sensación de que el trabajo de Sophie pronto cambiaría la forma de enseñar a nuestros jóvenes instrumentistas de cuerda.

EDITORIAL
Acelerar nuestras acciones

12-11-2024

Mientras escribo esto, me encuentro revisando algunos de los programas de las sesiones de las reuniones más importantes de nuestro campo en el transcurso de los próximos meses. Muchas de estas reuniones tienen su propósito anclado, aclarado y fundamentado, y, sobre el papel, ¡esto es realmente inspirador! Sin embargo, es lamentable ver que muchos de los temas son los mismos que debatimos hace dos, tres o cuatro temporadas. Seguimos abordando los mismos problemas, en lugar de cuestiones nuevas y agravadas en torno a las cuales todos debemos unirnos para corregir el rumbo.

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