Programas de música para jóvenes

Last month, my daughter’s choir director needed parents to take tickets to the year-end concert. I had been a choir singer and director myself, so I know the invisible work it takes to put students on a stage. When the request came, I wanted to be the kind of parent who showed up.

Then, my week got overwhelming. By the time the concert arrived, I was no longer deciding between helping and not helping. I was deciding which responsibility would boil over first if I took my attention off it.

Sistema Toronto’s students engaged in a term-long composition project with award-winning composer Aaron Manswell and the Nathaniel Dett Chorale (NDC).

The gigantic music camp Side by Side 2026, happening June 12–17 and hosted by Sweden’s Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, is now selling a limited number of tickets for its Festival and Closing Concerts this summer.

Over the past decade, our field has worked tirelessly to ensure that music education is holistic, addresses socio-emotional learning, and is culturally relevant to our students. These are incredibly important objectives that will help us ensure that well-adjusted, diverse people shape the future of our society and music industry.

But to diversify that industry, they have to be able to enter it.

Durante los últimos ocho años, he entrenado a violinistas para el Festival Nacional YOLA. Cada verano, es extraordinario entrar en la primera sección el primer día y ver el excepcional nivel de preparación de 18 violinistas que, en su mayoría, no se conocen entre sí y nunca han tocado juntos: un grupo de estudiantes que se han comprometido entre sí incluso antes de conocerse. Esto es lo que define al Festival Nacional YOLA: la dedicación y la integridad de todos los participantes, un espíritu que vive en los estudiantes del YNF y también en el personal y el increíble profesorado que vuelve cada verano. Es una comunidad especial y profundamente entregada, algo que no he presenciado en ningún otro lugar.