Music for Peace

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

EDITORIAL
To Conduct, We Must First Breathe

Ron Davis Alvarez, Founder, Dream Orchestra

11-04-2026

I have traveled and taught in nearly 45 countries: at an orphanage in Greenland, in refugee camps, and alongside migrants and refugees who escaped war. I learned to teach when words were not enough, and to build community through music. Somewhere along the way, I forgot something essential: to support others, we also need support.

A Student-Led Nucleo in Turkey’s “Music For Peace”

Eren Topal, Executive Director, Barış İçin Müzik

10-27-2018

The Turkish Sistema program Barış İçin Müzik (Music for Peace) inaugurated our third site in November 2016, in Adalar (also known as the Prince Islands), an archipelago off the coast of Istanbul. With the support of Adalar City Council, we began the new site with 25 children on stringed instruments.