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SIMÓN BOLÍVAR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA WHITE HANDS CHOIR NATIONAL CHILDREN’S SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PUBLIC EVENTS FEATURING SUPERAR LEICA For their support and cooperation, we wish to thank: for in the meantime, many of the young musicians have grown out of is a European initiative for more music LEICA and dance in the daily lives of children and young people; it was founded Fundación Musical Simón Bolívar. Órgano Rector del Sistema Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 7 in E Minor e programme will be announced at a later date. George Gershwin Cuban Overture the children’s orchestra, moving on to perform in one of Venezuela’s youth orchestras. e Salzburg programme once again features Mahler’s in by Vienna’s Konzerthaus, the Vienna Boys’ Choir and the Caritas Festival Opening Party Nacional de las Orquestas y Coros Juveniles e Infantiles de Venezuela. Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela White Hands Choir Alberto Ginastera Danzas de Estancia Op. 8a El Sistema – the Magazine and Exhibit Project Symphony No. as the central work, in addition to Gershwin’s Cuban of the Archdiocese of Vienna, following the model of El Sistema. superar In a joint concert, superar’s choruses and the Salzburg Festival and Tocar y Luchar. Conductor GUSTAVO DUDAMEL Conductors NAYBETH GARCÍA / LUIS CHINCHILLA Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 1 in D Major National Children’s Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela Overture and Danzas de Estancia by the Argentinean composer Alberto offers extensive training in choral singing, dance and orchestral playing, Theatre Children’s Chorus present songs from various countries and August 3 — 9:00 pm August 8 / 9 — 3:00 pm In February, photographers of the Leica brand of cameras and journalists Großes Festspielhaus Stiftung Mozarteum / Großer Saal Conductors JESÚS PARRA (Ginastera) Ginastera. e latter will be conducted by -year-old Jesús Parra, the working for equal opportunities, respectful coexistence and social continents, conducted by Gerald Wirth and Wolfgang Götz. visited El Sistema in Venezuela. The result is an impressive photo SIMON RATTLE latest child prodigy to come of out El Sistema. Apart from these two integration. From Vienna, the organisation is currently expanding into Free tickets will be available from July 1 onwards from documentary about the origins and importance of this project. August 10 – 11:30 am / August 11 — 11:00 am concerts at the Felsenreitschule, the National Children’s Symphony other European countries, including Switzerland, Slovakia, Bosnia, the Salzburg Festival. July 20 — 2:00 pm Felsenreitschule The uniqueness of El Sistema becomes visible and understandable – the Orchestra will encounter various ensembles in Salzburg which are Rumania and Turkey. superar considers itself a musical bridge between Große Universitätsaula (Main Auditorium of the University) viewer is given informative and emotional access to a world usually JULY 24AUGUST 11, 2013 When I rst conducted the Infantil Orchestra three years ago in Caracas, implementing the idea of El Sistema in their own countries – for Western and Eastern Europe, strongly emphasizing intensive closed to outsiders. The photographs will be shown from July onwards I could not believe that children as young as nine and never older than example, the Austrian initiative superar or the Turkish children’s international exchange of work and experience, both with Venezuela Mahler VIII for the duration of the Salzburg Festival at the Festspielhäuser, at the could not only play all the notes, but also could make such wonderful orchestra “Music for Peace”. On August , there will also be a public on the one hand and with its European partner countries on the other. superar boys will sing together with the boys of the Salzburg Festival Leica Galerie Salzburg and in the public spaces on the banks of the music. It is exhilarating and life-enhancing. So I had no hesitation in orchestral rehearsal with the Mozart Children’s Orchestra of the and Theatre Children’s Chorus, the National Youth Choir of Venezuela, Salzach. At the same time, a magazine will be published combining the accepting the invitation of Alexander Pereira and Maestro Abreu to Mozarteum Foundation. the Wiener Singverein and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra, touching photographs with interesting original articles, including an EL SISTEMA conduct Mahler with the Infantil Orchestra (even younger this time) under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel. essay by El Sistema founder José Antonio Abreu. The Magazine can be at the Festival. is is, quite simply, the future of music. ose of Remaining tickets upon request July 24 — 9:00 pm purchased at the Festival Shop and at the Leica Galerie, Mirabellplatz you lucky enough to hear the concerts will see why. Simon Rattle CHILDREN’S ORCHESTRA REHEARSAL Großes Festspielhaus , starting on July . Its proceeds will be donated to El Sistema. Wolfgang A. Mozart Symphony No. 4 in D Major KV 19 When the National Children’s Symphony Orchestra was initiated in Great superar Choral Festival by José Antonio Abreu, Simon Rattle took the podium himself Piano Concerto No. 12 in A Major KV 414 AVAILABLE TICKETS Partnership for El Sistema at the Salzburg Festival (First movement: Allegro) Numerous choruses from superar locations in Austria, Switzerland, Gustavo Dudamel / Photograph: Schuster White Hands Choir / Photograph: Nohely Oliveros and conducted the rst-ever concert of the new Venezuelan children’s Alberto G. M. Artes Chamambo Slovakia, Rumania, Bosnia and Turkey will give two choral concerts As of April 24, 2013 orchestra at the Aula Magna of the University of Caracas. children Mozart Children’s Orchestra of the together with children and teenagers from Salzburg and members of the between the ages of eight and played works by Gershwin, Fauré and July 24 Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra / Dudamel / Mahler VIII Mozarteum Foundation National Youth Choir of Venezuela, uniting up to choral singers at Remaining tickets upon request SIMÓN BOLÍVAR STRING QUARTET The White Hands Choir is part of the El Sistema Special Education Program, Ginastera with great passion and musical seriousness. e fact that this Members of the National Children’s Symphony a time. The event takes place at the Red Bull exhibit and event building July 25 Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra / Marathon-Konzert which was founded in in order to integrate people with handicaps young ensemble also dared to play Mahler’s Symphony No , however, Orchestra of Venezuela “Hangar-” at the Salzburg Airport. The Great superar Choral Festival € 110,– / 90,– / 60,– / 45,– Alberto Ginastera String Quartet No. 1 Op. 20 into society more fully through music. Here, children with and without astonished all those present – and was rewarded with standing ovations. Soloist Marie Sophie Decker Hauzel July 26 Venezuelan Brass & Choir is presented by superar in cooperation with the Salzburg Festival. Remaining tickets upon request J. S. Bach / Harrison Birtwistle ree Fugues handicaps meet and enjoy playing together. The idea of uniting children is summer, the National Children’s Symphony Orchestra embarks Conductors CHRISTOPH KONCZ JESÚS PARRA superar / Photograph: Laurent Ziegler All tickets / unassigned lounge seating July 28 Youth Orchestra of Caracas / Paredes from e Art of Fugue (2008) with physical and mental handicaps, children with difficulties hearing and upon its rst tour abroad, following the invitation of the Salzburg Festival Maurice Ravel String Quartet in F Major Presented by the Salzburg Festival in cooperation with the July 27 — 12:00 noon / 3:00 pm € 110,– / 85,– / 60,– / 40,– – but “only” with about members. And once again, it will be Simon July 30 Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra / Dudamel / Mahler III First Violin Alejandro Carreño even deaf-mute children in one chorus was born in . The unusual Mozarteum Foundation Salzburg The El Sistema residency in Salzburg offers not only the children and Hangar-7 ensemble is divided into two groups: children with movement, visual and Rattle who conducts the children’s orchestra in its international debut. € 135,– / 100,– Second Violin Boris Suárez August 7 — 5:00 pm teenagers, but also the teachers involved in superar the unique August 1 Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra / Dudamel / Missa c-Moll Viola Ismel Campos cognitive disorders form the actual chorus. Their singing is transformed However, some of the children will be di erent from three years ago, Stiftung Mozarteum / Großer Saal opportunity to learn directly from their Venezuelan role models, through Remaining tickets upon request PUBLIC SYMPOSIA IMPRINT Cello Aimon Mata by the other group, children with impaired hearing, mute or deaf-mute three weeks of exchanging views, making music, attending rehearsals August 2 Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra / Dudamel / Missa c-Moll August 5 — 7:30 pm children, into an expressive choreography of flowing hand movements, Founded in , the Mozart Children’s Orchestra of the Mozarteum Remaining tickets upon request and making friends. superar partner organisations like the Turkish Photographs: LEICA August 3 Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra / Dudamel / Mahler VII Media Proprietor Salzburger Festspielfonds Stiftung Mozarteum / Großer Saal Foundation Salzburg is a national ensemble for children aged to . e e Salzburg Festival would like to use the opportunity of the El Sistema Texts/Editors Florian Wiegand, Susanne Will their hands clad in white or coloured gloves. World-famous conductors youth orchestra “Music for Peace” have also been invited to Salzburg € 120,– / 95,– CHANGE THROUGH MUSIC! Children’s Orchestra made its concert debut during the Mozart Week, residency to convey the visionary idea of José Antonio Abreu to a English Translations Alexa Nieschlag like Simon Rattle and Claudio Abbado have been deeply impressed by in order to rehearse together with the Venezuelan children’s orchestra. August 5 Simón Bolívar String Quartet Cover Photograph Gustavo Dudamel and the Simón Bolívar demonstrating its ability to master the technical and musical demands of broad, not only musical, audience. Apart from a total of concerts, the Four section leaders – one quartet. For many years, Alejandro Carreño, these children. Today, twelve such choruses exist in Venezuela, and their Apart from a European El Sistema conference now in planning, there All tickets: € 25,– / Children and Teenagers € 15,– Symphony Orchestra / Photograph: Luis Cobelo Mozart’s works and those of other composers, including contemporary Salzburg Festival hosts two public symposia on speci c topics of music August 7 Children’s Orchestra Rehearsal Photographs Photographs Luis Cobelo, Nohely Oliveros with kind permission children and teenagers from Venezuela will Boris Suaréz, Ismel Campos and Aimon Mata have played together in extraordinary abilities have attracted international attention through will be further-education sessions and workshops for superar teachers ones – and in doing so, the joy of its music-making spread to the audience education. What are the di erences between Europe and Venezuela? All tickets: € 10,– / Children and Teenagers € 5,– of the Fundación Musical Simón Bolívar present the infectious joy of their music-making the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra; in the four Venezuelans recordings and TV broadcasts for stations in Germany and Switzerland. and other interested parties, focusing on the special methods of music August 8 White Hands Choir Corporate Design Circus, www.circus.at too. e ensemble o ers children the unique opportunity to work with What can we learn from El Sistema? How and how far can El Sistema embarked upon their rst concert tour as a chamber ensemble. ey Following the invitation from the Salzburg Festival, the White Hands Choir education which El Sistema has developed especially for children and All tickets: € 15,– / Children and Teenagers € 10,– in concerts, transporting the fascinating vision of international artists like Marc Minkowski. be applied to our situation? e sessions will also focus on musical August 9 White Hands Choir have performed in Great Britain, Canada, the USA, in Japan and of travels abroad for the first time to present two live concerts at the Mozarteum teenagers with handicaps. The Venezuelan White Hands Choir is the El Sistema to Salzburg. work with handicapped children and teenagers. Further information All tickets: € 15,– / Children and Teenagers € 10,– course in many Latin American countries; this season they visit not Foundation. For the organizers in Venezuela and Salzburg, but most leading example for these methods; it performs at the Salzburg Festival August 10 National Children’s Symphony Orchestra / Rattle / Mahler I SALZBURG FESTIVAL e director of the Mozart Children’s Orchestra is Christoph Koncz, on dates, panel participants and locations will be announced at a later only the Salzburg Festival, but also Berlin’s Philharmonie, the Auditorio importantly for the handicapped children and teenagers, this presents an on August and . Finally, the Great superar Choral Festival at the € 85,– / 60,– / 40,– who has been the leader of the second violin section of the Vienna date via the press and on www.salzburgfestival.at August 11 National Children’s Symphony Orchestra / Rattle / Mahler I Ticket o ce Nacional in Madrid and the Palau de la Música in Barcelona. e spring enormous challenge. Salzburg Festival, which takes place at Hangar- on July , will give P.O. Box 140 of saw the release of their rst album on Deutsche Grammophon, Philharmonic since September . Together with the -year-old € 85,– / 60,– / 40,– 5010 Salzburg (A) the initiative an ideal platform to introduce a wider audience to aspects which also included the endishly di cult String Quartet No. by the Venezuelan Jesús Parra, whose talent is o en compared to that of Gustavo T +43.662.8045.500 Partnership for El Sistema at the Salzburg Festival: of its work with children from various European countries. Presentation by superar in cooperation with the Salzburg Festival: F +43.662.8045.555 Argentinean Alberto Ginastera, which opens the ensemble’s concert Simon Rattle mit dem National Children’s Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela Dudamel, he will lead this children’s orchestra rehearsal with members of July 27 Great superar Choral Festival at Hangar-7 [email protected] ERSTE Sti ung Hilti Foundation Red Bull Media House the National Children’s Symphony Orchestra, giving the audience insights All tickets: € 5,– / Unassigned lounge seating www.salzburgfestival.at in Salzburg. Photograph: Nohely Oliveros Further information is available at www.superar.eu into the musical cooperation between children from two nations. www.salzburgfestival.at DEAR AUDIENCE! JOSÉ ANTONIO ABREU MUSIC CHANGES LIVES SIMÓN BOLÍVAR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA TERESA CARREÑO YOUTH ORCHESTRA VENEZUELAN BRASS & CHOIR YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF CARACAS SIMÓN BOLÍVAR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SIMÓN BOLÍVAR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Two years ago, we had the good fortune For the children we work with, music is e miracle began in in an Abreu considers the orchestra a social construct, a community in which Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 8 in E- at Major MARATHON CONCERT Works by Claudio Monteverdi, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, D. Schostakowitsch Festive Overture Op. 96 Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 3 in D Minor W. A. Mozart Missa in C Minor KV 427 to travel to Venezuela to see Maestro José Antonio Abreu and experi- practically the only path towards a dignified social existence. Poverty underground parking garage in Caracas, the Venezuelan capital. Here, every single member takes on responsibility, learns respect and tolerance Soloists Emily Magee, Petra Maria Schnitzer, Anna Prohaska, Hector Berlioz Roméo et Juliette Op. 17 (excerpts) Franz Schubert, Anton Bruckner, Francis Poulenc, Randall ompson, Symphony No. 9 in E- at Major Op. 70 Soloist Anna Larsson Soloists Anna Prohaska, Roberta Invernizzi, ence El Sistema firsthand. This was an overwhelming experience for means loneliness, sadness, anonymity. An orchestra means joy, motivation, the conductor, composer and economist José Antonio Abreu founded and pursues a common goal: music. Here, even the younger children Yvonne Naef, Birgit Remmert, Klaus Florian Vogt, P. I. Tschaikowski Symphony No. 4 in F Minor Op. 36 George Gershwin, Frank Martin, Krzysztof Penderecki, César Alejandro P. I. Tschaikowski Symphony No. 5 in E Minor Op. 64 Salzburg Festival and eatre Children’s Chorus Mauro Peter, Florian Boesch us, in musical and human terms. Therefore, it was our heartfelt wish teamwork, striving for success. José Antonio Abreu the rst Venezuelan children’s orchestra with twelve children from the teach even younger ones. Here, healthy and handicapped children sing Detlef Roth, Robert Holl Romeo and Juliet, Fantasy-Overture Carrillo, Giancarlo Castro, Rafael Suárez and others Youth Orchestra of Caracas Simón Bolívar National Youth Choir of Venezuela Simón Bolívar National Youth Choir of Venezuela Béla Bartók Concerto for Orchestra Sz 116 Venezuelan Brass Ensemble Conductor DIETRICH PAREDES Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela to bring El Sistema to Salzburg, giving you the opportunity to witness barrios, the slum-like suburbs. Abreu had a revolutionary vision: through and make music together, socially marginalised groups are integrated, Choral Singers: superar / Salzburg Festival and eatre Sergej Proko ew Ballet Music for Romeo and Juliet Op. 64 (excerpts) Simón Bolívar National Youth Choir of Venezuela July 28 — 5:00 pm Conductor GUSTAVO DUDAMEL Conductor GUSTAVO DUDAMEL the entire breadth of this fascinating orchestral and choral education classical music, he wanted to improve social conditions in his country and no one is excluded. Children’s Chorus / Simón Bolívar National Youth Choir of Venezuela / Wiener Singverein Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra of Venezuela Conductors THOMAS CLAMOR Felsenreitschule July 30 — 8:00 pm Presented by the Mozarteum Salzburg Foundation in programme which has been widely imitated throughout the world. Six by giving children an alternative to life on the streets. To make music cooperation with the Salzburg Festival Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela Conductors DIEGO MATHEUZ JUAN GORRÍN Großes Festspielhaus ensembles with young members will provide you with an insight and to ght – tocar y luchar – became his motto henceforth. Abreu‘s idea has inspired projects around the world – in countries, Conductor GUSTAVO DUDAMEL CHRISTIAN VÁSQUEZ LOURDES SÁNCHEZ August 1/2 — 8:00 pm St. Peter into the profound vision of Maestro Abreu, the founder of El Sistema from the USA to Africa and Europe, there are numerous similar July 24 — 9:00 pm July 25 — 7:00 pm July 26 — 7:30 pm Stiftung Mozarteum / Großer Saal and recipient of innumerable international awards for his initiative. What began with a handful of musicians in became Acción Social initiatives. And not only that: since the late s, the phenomenon El Großes Festspielhaus Großes Festspielhaus The Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra has already appeared twice por la Música (“Social Action through Music”) and today, years later, Sistema has caught the attention of great conductors. Zubin Mehta was at the Salzburg Festival under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel. Not only has become an enormous movement with a dense network – El Siste- one of the rst who found his way onto the podium of a Venezuelan Which work could be more ideally suited to open the El Sistema The Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra of Venezuela (TCYOV), named e Venezuelan Brass Ensemble was founded in by the German Since 2011 the currently third generation of the orchestras founded by When the -year-old Venezuelan Gustavo Dudamel e summertime performances of Mozart’s Missa the National Children‘s Symphony Orchestra, but also the White Hands ma – of children’s, youth and adult orchestras, choruses and music orchestra. Later, decisive impulses for the musical development and residency in Salzburg and the Mahler cycle of the Salzburg Festival after the Venezuelan pianist Teresa Carreño, world-famous in her day, trumpeter omas Clamor, implementing an idea of José Antonio El Sistema, the Youth Orchestra of Caracas, has ba ed not only surprisingly won the Gustav Mahler Conductors’ in C Minor KV at the Collegiate Church of Choir will be performing for the first time outside of Venezuela. centres. In the cities and rural communities of Venezuela, there are professionalization of the El Sistema orchestras came from Claudio at the same time, than Mahler’s “Symphony of a Thousand”? It will be is among the most important projects to be launched by the orchestra Abreu. It unites the best brass players and percussionists of the various El European audiences with a musical passion that – despite large numbers Competi tion in Bamberg in May , a new star was St Peter are deeply rooted in the cultural life of The goal of El Sistema at the Salzburg Festival is not only to demon- music groups, state-sponsored orchestras and music schools Abbado and Simon Rattle. performed by eight world-famous soloists, four choruses and the programme of the El Sistema music initiative. The orchestra, founded Sistema orchestras in one ensemble. Since its founding, the ensemble has of players – sets to work with a perfection well above the norm, even born on the international conducting scene. Today Gustavo the city of Salzburg, having a long tradition: since strate the incredibly high musical standard of the young musicians, called núcleos, deliberately built in close proximity to the poorer musicians of the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra – formerly known in , brings together about musicians aged to , all of them been on many highly successful tours to Germany, England, Switzerland, among professional orchestras. Fresh, dynamic and versatile – those Dudamel is not only the most well-known musician , the Missa has been performed by the from the children’s orchestra to the professional symphony orchestra. quarters. A er all, of the almost , children and teenagers El Sistema has proven the social power of music. And quite by the way, as the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra – the most well-known flagship educated to the highest artistic and technical level on their instruments. Scandinavia, Canada, the USA and of course also within Latin America. are attributes o en used to describe the Youth Orchestra of Caracas educated by El Sistema, but apart from “founding father” Mozarteum Foundation Salzburg in cooperation The Festival wants to offer lasting impulses for new developments and currently receiving free music lessons from El Sistema, about live it has given the music world outstanding orchestras and highly talented ensemble of El Sistema, celebrated enthusiastically the world over. The TCYOV performs regularly with renowned artists like Simon Rattle Its mixed programme of classics and South American hits proves not (YOC) by enthusiastic critics. e high-powered orchestra brings José Antonio Abreu he is the most important ambassador with the Salzburg Festival. e tradition was efforts in Europe to introduce children and teenagers to classical mu- José Antonio Abreu / Photograph: Luis Cobelo below the poverty line. musicians; the most well-known is certainly Gustavo Dudamel. Young or Claudio Abbado, embarking upon its first European tour three years only the ensemble’s musical abilities, but o en brings thousands of together 180 musicians aged 14 to 22, all of them trained under the and sympathetic gurehead of this initiative. e “Musician initiated by Bernhard Paumgartner, who also sic and joint music-making. Of course, this also means involving exis- conductors like Christian Vásquez, Diego Matheuz, Jesús Parra and For six months of the year, the orchestra works with its Music Director ago. listeners to their feet in rapture – for example at the memorable BBC aegis of José Antonio Abreu, Ulyses Ascanio and Gustavo Dudamel of the Year ” (according to the online magazine Musical conducted the greatest number of performances ting initiatives, like the Austrian organisation superar, the Mozart José Antonio Abreu is Goodwill Ambassador for Music and Peace of Dietrich Paredes are just beginning their international careers. And Gustavo Dudamel, with whom it also made its Salzburg Festival debut Proms in London. – the former orchestra directors – and their current music director, America) is a great role model for many of the , (a total of ). He was followed by many renowned Children’s Orchestra of the Mozarteum Foundation and the Salzburg the UNESCO and was awarded the alternative Nobel Prize, the Right the double bass player Edicson Ruiz holds no less than two records: he in . In the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra whetted the Dietrich Paredes. children and teenagers studying at the núcleos, or music conductors, for example James Levine, Hans Graf, Festival and Theatre Children’s Chorus. Livelihood Award. At the opening ceremony of the Salzburg Festival, was the rst Latin American to become the youngest-ever member of Salzburg audience’s appetite for more with its rousing performance of e Brass Ensemble is still directed by omas Clamor. Since his rst schools, in his native country. Born in in Barquisimeto, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Leopold Hager, John Eliot José Antonio Abreu will give the keynote address. the Berlin Philharmonic – at the age of . El Sistema – a miracle. Mahler’s Symphony No. . At this year’s Salzburg Festival, the Venezuelan visit to Venezuela in , the German musician has maintained close Gustavo Dudamel rst studied violin. In he began Gardiner, Ivor Bolton, William Christie, Marc symphony orchestra presents no less than three Mahler symphonies and ties with El Sistema: in addition to leading the Brass Ensemble, he to study conducting with Rodolfo Saglimbeni; in he Minkowski or Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Apart from El Sistema demonstrates the extent to which music can change society will also perform Mozart’s Missa in C Minor at the Collegiate Church of regularly gives master classes for children and teenagers there. He continued his studies with José Antonio Abreu. at very (post-) wartime interruptions in and from in a way that is unique throughout the world. In Europe, we tend to St. Peter in two concerts – with considerably reduced numbers. played an essential role in establishing the rst Latin American Brass same year, he became music director of El Sistema and took to , the Missa in C Minor has been a forget the important role that singing and making music together play PARTNERSHIP FOR EL SISTEMA Academy in Venezuela. on the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra – known today as xed part of the Salzburg Festival programme. in the personality development of children and teenagers. Among many at the Salzburg Festival The orchestra consists of over young musicians who explore a Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra – as music director, a During the rst years, the instrumental ensemble other things, El Sistema is meant to inspire and encourage those who challenging repertoire in master classes and concerts. Soloists from e Simón Bolívar National Youth Choir was founded in and is position he holds to this day. Together, they have received was composed of members of the Vienna struggle in their daily work to keep providing music lessons in schools Music as a means of changing society. is vision of José Antonio leading orchestras and institutions are regularly invited to join them, one of the ensembles which have acted as an ambassador for El Sistema rave reviews from audiences and critics on numerous tours Philharmonic and the Mozarteum Orchestra (or and music schools. Abreu’s marked the beginning of the El Sistema initiative. And this including members of the Berlin Philharmonic, Finland’s Sibelius outside Venezuela. Its guest appearances in Germany and the USA were abroad, including at the Salzburg Festival in and . rather its predecessor); from to the We thank the three partners for El Sistema at the Salzburg Festival who vision has become reality. Over two million children in Venezuela have Academy, the International Bach Academy Stuttgart or the New England internationally acclaimed. e chorus is directed by Lourdes Sánchez, Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg provided the have made it possible to present El Sistema for the first time in all its bene ted from the programme since El Sistema was founded, and the Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra / Photograph: Nohely Oliveros Conservatory of Boston. who is also the director of the entire El Sistema choral department. As In the fall of , Gustavo Dudamel became music instrumental foundation. Since then, various facets outside of Venezuela. system currently includes almost , children, their majority from Youth Orchestra of Caracas / Photograph: Nohely Oliveros disadvantaged social strata, who are learning to play an instrument The current music director of the orchestra, Christian Vásquez, rose part of the Salzburg Festival, the Venezuelan youth chorus will also director of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra; starting orchestras have performed for the event, most and play in the country’s ensembles and orchestras, thereby acquiring The orchestra has performed under internationally renowned conductors through the orchestra’s own ranks. Since the / season, he has also perform in Mahler’s Symphonies Nos. and as well as Mozart’s Missa In 2011 the orchestra made its debut at the Bergen International Music with the / season, he assumed the same role at frequently the Camerata Salzburg and the El Sistema – an idea spreading throughout the world. Join us. a new perspective on life. In the meantime, the movement has spread National Children’s Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela / Photograph: Nohely Oliveros like Simon Rattle and Claudio Abbado, has toured extensively through been chief conductor of the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra. Born in in C Minor under Gustavo Dudamel’s baton. Simon Rattle and Krzysztof Festival, followed by a celebrated tour to Asia with performances in the helm of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, succeeding Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg. throughout the world. More than one hundred projects worldwide Europe, Asia and North and South America, and has performed at all , he has already won a reputation as one of the most promising Penderecki have previously conducted this choral ensemble. China and Korea. In 2012 the YOC was invited to the Dvořák Prague Esa-Pekka Salonen. In order to support young international the major festivals and the most important music centres, including young talents of the American continent. The same goes for the Festival, the Flanders International Festival, the Beethovenfest in Bonn conductors he initiated the Dudamel Fellowship Program in is summer, Mozart’s Missa will be performed have been inspired by this great philosophy, believing passionately in José Antonio Abreu has been able to pursue and build upon his vision the BBC Proms, the Salle Pleyel, Carnegie Hall, Walt Disney Hall in -year-old violinist and conductor Diego Matheuz, who was appointed and for the rst time to Vienna’s Konzerthaus. Since 2009, Dietrich Los Angeles, which allows four promising talents to work no less than twice at St Peter’s, as an exception to the power of music. We share this passion and are convinced that El continuously for more than three decades. Children’s orchestras became Los Angeles and at Vienna’s Konzerthaus. chief conductor of the Teatro la Fenice in Venice in and added the Paredes has been at the helm of the Youth Orchestra of Caracas. Trained with the orchestra every season. Apart from his positions the rule, and the performers will be musicians Sistema at the Salzburg Festival will contribute to the strengthening of youth orchestras, choruses were added, and the music centres developed position of principal guest conductor of the Melbourne Symphony as a violinist, he is a former member of the Simón Bolívar Symphony as music director, he regularly guest conducts the Orchestra from the Simón Bolívar National Youth Choir Helga Rabl-Stadler, President existing initiatives – for example superar – and provide new impulses into renowned music academies. e ability to play together is always Orchestra to his portfolio this year. For Salzburg, Christian Vásquez Orchestra and a conducting student of José Antonio Abreu. As part of Philharmonique de Radio France, La Scala Milan and the and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra Alexander Pereira, Artistic Director for the realisation of similar projects in other countries, especially in the central focus of this musical education. Practicing alone at home and Diego Matheuz have jointly assembled a marathon programme the Dudamel Fellowship Program, the exceptional talent Paredes is Vienna and Berlin Philharmonic Orchestras. Gustavo under Gustavo Dudamel’s baton. Of course, both Central and Eastern Europe. for years is not an issue, for even the youngest nd themselves on featuring the Romeo and Juliet settings by Berlioz, Prokofiev and working closely with Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philhar- Dudamel has been honoured with numerous international ensembles will drastically reduce their numbers stage together at the age of three or four, as “paper orchestras” wielding Mahler VIII – Gustavo Dudamel with the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra Simón Bolívar Youth Choir ERSTE Sti ung Hilti Foundation Red Bull Media House and Los Angeles Philharmonic, Caracas / Photograph: Nohely Oliveros Tchaikovsky, among other works. monic Orchestra during the current season. awards for his work. Photograph: Nohely Oliveros compared to Venezuelan standards, thereby instruments made of painted cardboard. paying homage to Salzburg’s resident genius, Mozart. SIMÓN BOLÍVAR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA WHITE HANDS CHOIR NATIONAL CHILDREN’S SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PUBLIC EVENTS FEATURING SUPERAR LEICA For their support and cooperation, we wish to thank: for in the meantime, many of the young musicians have grown out of is a European initiative for more music LEICA and dance in the daily lives of children and young people; it was founded Fundación Musical Simón Bolívar. Órgano Rector del Sistema Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 7 in E Minor e programme will be announced at a later date. George Gershwin Cuban Overture the children’s orchestra, moving on to perform in one of Venezuela’s youth orchestras. e Salzburg programme once again features Mahler’s in by Vienna’s Konzerthaus, the Vienna Boys’ Choir and the Caritas Festival Opening Party Nacional de las Orquestas y Coros Juveniles e Infantiles de Venezuela. Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela White Hands Choir Alberto Ginastera Danzas de Estancia Op. 8a El Sistema – the Magazine and Exhibit Project Symphony No. as the central work, in addition to Gershwin’s Cuban of the Archdiocese of Vienna, following the model of El Sistema. superar In a joint concert, superar’s choruses and the Salzburg Festival and Tocar y Luchar. Conductor GUSTAVO DUDAMEL Conductors NAYBETH GARCÍA / LUIS CHINCHILLA Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 1 in D Major National Children’s Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela Overture and Danzas de Estancia by the Argentinean composer Alberto offers extensive training in choral singing, dance and orchestral playing, Theatre Children’s Chorus present songs from various countries and August 3 — 9:00 pm August 8 / 9 — 3:00 pm In February, photographers of the Leica brand of cameras and journalists Großes Festspielhaus Stiftung Mozarteum / Großer Saal Conductors JESÚS PARRA (Ginastera) Ginastera. e latter will be conducted by -year-old Jesús Parra, the working for equal opportunities, respectful coexistence and social continents, conducted by Gerald Wirth and Wolfgang Götz. visited El Sistema in Venezuela. The result is an impressive photo SIMON RATTLE latest child prodigy to come of out El Sistema. Apart from these two integration. From Vienna, the organisation is currently expanding into Free tickets will be available from July 1 onwards from documentary about the origins and importance of this project. August 10 – 11:30 am / August 11 — 11:00 am concerts at the Felsenreitschule, the National Children’s Symphony other European countries, including Switzerland, Slovakia, Bosnia, the Salzburg Festival. July 20 — 2:00 pm Felsenreitschule The uniqueness of El Sistema becomes visible and understandable – the Orchestra will encounter various ensembles in Salzburg which are Rumania and Turkey. superar considers itself a musical bridge between Große Universitätsaula (Main Auditorium of the University) viewer is given informative and emotional access to a world usually JULY 24AUGUST 11, 2013 When I rst conducted the Infantil Orchestra three years ago in Caracas, implementing the idea of El Sistema in their own countries – for Western and Eastern Europe, strongly emphasizing intensive closed to outsiders. The photographs will be shown from July onwards I could not believe that children as young as nine and never older than example, the Austrian initiative superar or the Turkish children’s international exchange of work and experience, both with Venezuela Mahler VIII for the duration of the Salzburg Festival at the Festspielhäuser, at the could not only play all the notes, but also could make such wonderful orchestra “Music for Peace”. On August , there will also be a public on the one hand and with its European partner countries on the other. superar boys will sing together with the boys of the Salzburg Festival Leica Galerie Salzburg and in the public spaces on the banks of the music. It is exhilarating and life-enhancing. So I had no hesitation in orchestral rehearsal with the Mozart Children’s Orchestra of the and Theatre Children’s Chorus, the National Youth Choir of Venezuela, Salzach. At the same time, a magazine will be published combining the accepting the invitation of Alexander Pereira and Maestro Abreu to Mozarteum Foundation. the Wiener Singverein and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra, touching photographs with interesting original articles, including an EL SISTEMA conduct Mahler with the Infantil Orchestra (even younger this time) under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel. essay by El Sistema founder José Antonio Abreu. The Magazine can be at the Festival. is is, quite simply, the future of music. ose of Remaining tickets upon request July 24 — 9:00 pm purchased at the Festival Shop and at the Leica Galerie, Mirabellplatz you lucky enough to hear the concerts will see why. Simon Rattle CHILDREN’S ORCHESTRA REHEARSAL Großes Festspielhaus , starting on July . Its proceeds will be donated to El Sistema. Wolfgang A. Mozart Symphony No. 4 in D Major KV 19 When the National Children’s Symphony Orchestra was initiated in Great superar Choral Festival by José Antonio Abreu, Simon Rattle took the podium himself Piano Concerto No. 12 in A Major KV 414 AVAILABLE TICKETS Partnership for El Sistema at the Salzburg Festival (First movement: Allegro) Numerous choruses from superar locations in Austria, Switzerland, Gustavo Dudamel / Photograph: Schuster White Hands Choir / Photograph: Nohely Oliveros and conducted the rst-ever concert of the new Venezuelan children’s Alberto G. M. Artes Chamambo Slovakia, Rumania, Bosnia and Turkey will give two choral concerts As of April 24, 2013 orchestra at the Aula Magna of the University of Caracas. children Mozart Children’s Orchestra of the together with children and teenagers from Salzburg and members of the between the ages of eight and played works by Gershwin, Fauré and July 24 Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra / Dudamel / Mahler VIII Mozarteum Foundation National Youth Choir of Venezuela, uniting up to choral singers at Remaining tickets upon request SIMÓN BOLÍVAR STRING QUARTET The White Hands Choir is part of the El Sistema Special Education Program, Ginastera with great passion and musical seriousness. e fact that this Members of the National Children’s Symphony a time. The event takes place at the Red Bull exhibit and event building July 25 Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra / Marathon-Konzert which was founded in in order to integrate people with handicaps young ensemble also dared to play Mahler’s Symphony No , however, Orchestra of Venezuela “Hangar-” at the Salzburg Airport. The Great superar Choral Festival € 110,– / 90,– / 60,– / 45,– Alberto Ginastera String Quartet No. 1 Op. 20 into society more fully through music. Here, children with and without astonished all those present – and was rewarded with standing ovations. Soloist Marie Sophie Decker Hauzel July 26 Venezuelan Brass & Choir is presented by superar in cooperation with the Salzburg Festival. Remaining tickets upon request J. S. Bach / Harrison Birtwistle ree Fugues handicaps meet and enjoy playing together. The idea of uniting children is summer, the National Children’s Symphony Orchestra embarks Conductors CHRISTOPH KONCZ JESÚS PARRA superar / Photograph: Laurent Ziegler All tickets / unassigned lounge seating July 28 Youth Orchestra of Caracas / Paredes from e Art of Fugue (2008) with physical and mental handicaps, children with difficulties hearing and upon its rst tour abroad, following the invitation of the Salzburg Festival Maurice Ravel String Quartet in F Major Presented by the Salzburg Festival in cooperation with the July 27 — 12:00 noon / 3:00 pm € 110,– / 85,– / 60,– / 40,– – but “only” with about members. And once again, it will be Simon July 30 Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra / Dudamel / Mahler III First Violin Alejandro Carreño even deaf-mute children in one chorus was born in . The unusual Mozarteum Foundation Salzburg The El Sistema residency in Salzburg offers not only the children and Hangar-7 ensemble is divided into two groups: children with movement, visual and Rattle who conducts the children’s orchestra in its international debut. € 135,– / 100,– Second Violin Boris Suárez August 7 — 5:00 pm teenagers, but also the teachers involved in superar the unique August 1 Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra / Dudamel / Missa c-Moll Viola Ismel Campos cognitive disorders form the actual chorus. Their singing is transformed However, some of the children will be di erent from three years ago, Stiftung Mozarteum / Großer Saal opportunity to learn directly from their Venezuelan role models, through Remaining tickets upon request PUBLIC SYMPOSIA IMPRINT Cello Aimon Mata by the other group, children with impaired hearing, mute or deaf-mute three weeks of exchanging views, making music, attending rehearsals August 2 Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra / Dudamel / Missa c-Moll August 5 — 7:30 pm children, into an expressive choreography of flowing hand movements, Founded in , the Mozart Children’s Orchestra of the Mozarteum Remaining tickets upon request and making friends. superar partner organisations like the Turkish Photographs: LEICA August 3 Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra / Dudamel / Mahler VII Media Proprietor Salzburger Festspielfonds Stiftung Mozarteum / Großer Saal Foundation Salzburg is a national ensemble for children aged to . e e Salzburg Festival would like to use the opportunity of the El Sistema Texts/Editors Florian Wiegand, Susanne Will their hands clad in white or coloured gloves. World-famous conductors youth orchestra “Music for Peace” have also been invited to Salzburg € 120,– / 95,– CHANGE THROUGH MUSIC! Children’s Orchestra made its concert debut during the Mozart Week, residency to convey the visionary idea of José Antonio Abreu to a English Translations Alexa Nieschlag like Simon Rattle and Claudio Abbado have been deeply impressed by in order to rehearse together with the Venezuelan children’s orchestra. August 5 Simón Bolívar String Quartet Cover Photograph Gustavo Dudamel and the Simón Bolívar demonstrating its ability to master the technical and musical demands of broad, not only musical, audience. Apart from a total of concerts, the Four section leaders – one quartet. For many years, Alejandro Carreño, these children. Today, twelve such choruses exist in Venezuela, and their Apart from a European El Sistema conference now in planning, there All tickets: € 25,– / Children and Teenagers € 15,– Symphony Orchestra / Photograph: Luis Cobelo Mozart’s works and those of other composers, including contemporary Salzburg Festival hosts two public symposia on speci c topics of music August 7 Children’s Orchestra Rehearsal Photographs Photographs Luis Cobelo, Nohely Oliveros with kind permission children and teenagers from Venezuela will Boris Suaréz, Ismel Campos and Aimon Mata have played together in extraordinary abilities have attracted international attention through will be further-education sessions and workshops for superar teachers ones – and in doing so, the joy of its music-making spread to the audience education. What are the di erences between Europe and Venezuela? All tickets: € 10,– / Children and Teenagers € 5,– of the Fundación Musical Simón Bolívar present the infectious joy of their music-making the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra; in the four Venezuelans recordings and TV broadcasts for stations in Germany and Switzerland. and other interested parties, focusing on the special methods of music August 8 White Hands Choir Corporate Design Circus, www.circus.at too. e ensemble o ers children the unique opportunity to work with What can we learn from El Sistema? How and how far can El Sistema embarked upon their rst concert tour as a chamber ensemble. ey Following the invitation from the Salzburg Festival, the White Hands Choir education which El Sistema has developed especially for children and All tickets: € 15,– / Children and Teenagers € 10,– in concerts, transporting the fascinating vision of international artists like Marc Minkowski. be applied to our situation? e sessions will also focus on musical August 9 White Hands Choir have performed in Great Britain, Canada, the USA, in Japan and of travels abroad for the first time to present two live concerts at the Mozarteum teenagers with handicaps. The Venezuelan White Hands Choir is the El Sistema to Salzburg. work with handicapped children and teenagers. Further information All tickets: € 15,– / Children and Teenagers € 10,– course in many Latin American countries; this season they visit not Foundation. For the organizers in Venezuela and Salzburg, but most leading example for these methods; it performs at the Salzburg Festival August 10 National Children’s Symphony Orchestra / Rattle / Mahler I SALZBURG FESTIVAL e director of the Mozart Children’s Orchestra is Christoph Koncz, on dates, panel participants and locations will be announced at a later only the Salzburg Festival, but also Berlin’s Philharmonie, the Auditorio importantly for the handicapped children and teenagers, this presents an on August and . Finally, the Great superar Choral Festival at the € 85,– / 60,– / 40,– who has been the leader of the second violin section of the Vienna date via the press and on www.salzburgfestival.at August 11 National Children’s Symphony Orchestra / Rattle / Mahler I Ticket o ce Nacional in Madrid and the Palau de la Música in Barcelona. e spring enormous challenge. Salzburg Festival, which takes place at Hangar- on July , will give P.O. Box 140 of saw the release of their rst album on Deutsche Grammophon, Philharmonic since September . Together with the -year-old € 85,– / 60,– / 40,– 5010 Salzburg (A) the initiative an ideal platform to introduce a wider audience to aspects which also included the endishly di cult String Quartet No. by the Venezuelan Jesús Parra, whose talent is o en compared to that of Gustavo T +43.662.8045.500 Partnership for El Sistema at the Salzburg Festival: of its work with children from various European countries. Presentation by superar in cooperation with the Salzburg Festival: F +43.662.8045.555 Argentinean Alberto Ginastera, which opens the ensemble’s concert Simon Rattle mit dem National Children’s Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela Dudamel, he will lead this children’s orchestra rehearsal with members of July 27 Great superar Choral Festival at Hangar-7 [email protected] ERSTE Sti ung Hilti Foundation Red Bull Media House the National Children’s Symphony Orchestra, giving the audience insights All tickets: € 5,– / Unassigned lounge seating www.salzburgfestival.at in Salzburg. Photograph: Nohely Oliveros Further information is available at www.superar.eu into the musical cooperation between children from two nations. www.salzburgfestival.at SIMÓN BOLÍVAR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA WHITE HANDS CHOIR NATIONAL CHILDREN’S SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PUBLIC EVENTS FEATURING SUPERAR LEICA For their support and cooperation, we wish to thank: for in the meantime, many of the young musicians have grown out of is a European initiative for more music LEICA and dance in the daily lives of children and young people; it was founded Fundación Musical Simón Bolívar. Órgano Rector del Sistema Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 7 in E Minor e programme will be announced at a later date. George Gershwin Cuban Overture the children’s orchestra, moving on to perform in one of Venezuela’s youth orchestras. e Salzburg programme once again features Mahler’s in by Vienna’s Konzerthaus, the Vienna Boys’ Choir and the Caritas Festival Opening Party Nacional de las Orquestas y Coros Juveniles e Infantiles de Venezuela. Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela White Hands Choir Alberto Ginastera Danzas de Estancia Op. 8a El Sistema – the Magazine and Exhibit Project Symphony No. as the central work, in addition to Gershwin’s Cuban of the Archdiocese of Vienna, following the model of El Sistema. superar In a joint concert, superar’s choruses and the Salzburg Festival and Tocar y Luchar. Conductor GUSTAVO DUDAMEL Conductors NAYBETH GARCÍA / LUIS CHINCHILLA Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 1 in D Major National Children’s Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela Overture and Danzas de Estancia by the Argentinean composer Alberto offers extensive training in choral singing, dance and orchestral playing, Theatre Children’s Chorus present songs from various countries and August 3 — 9:00 pm August 8 / 9 — 3:00 pm In February, photographers of the Leica brand of cameras and journalists Großes Festspielhaus Stiftung Mozarteum / Großer Saal Conductors JESÚS PARRA (Ginastera) Ginastera. e latter will be conducted by -year-old Jesús Parra, the working for equal opportunities, respectful coexistence and social continents, conducted by Gerald Wirth and Wolfgang Götz. visited El Sistema in Venezuela. The result is an impressive photo SIMON RATTLE latest child prodigy to come of out El Sistema. Apart from these two integration. From Vienna, the organisation is currently expanding into Free tickets will be available from July 1 onwards from documentary about the origins and importance of this project. August 10 – 11:30 am / August 11 — 11:00 am concerts at the Felsenreitschule, the National Children’s Symphony other European countries, including Switzerland, Slovakia, Bosnia, the Salzburg Festival. July 20 — 2:00 pm Felsenreitschule The uniqueness of El Sistema becomes visible and understandable – the Orchestra will encounter various ensembles in Salzburg which are Rumania and Turkey. superar considers itself a musical bridge between Große Universitätsaula (Main Auditorium of the University) viewer is given informative and emotional access to a world usually JULY 24AUGUST 11, 2013 When I rst conducted the Infantil Orchestra three years ago in Caracas, implementing the idea of El Sistema in their own countries – for Western and Eastern Europe, strongly emphasizing intensive closed to outsiders. The photographs will be shown from July onwards I could not believe that children as young as nine and never older than example, the Austrian initiative superar or the Turkish children’s international exchange of work and experience, both with Venezuela Mahler VIII for the duration of the Salzburg Festival at the Festspielhäuser, at the could not only play all the notes, but also could make such wonderful orchestra “Music for Peace”. On August , there will also be a public on the one hand and with its European partner countries on the other. superar boys will sing together with the boys of the Salzburg Festival Leica Galerie Salzburg and in the public spaces on the banks of the music. It is exhilarating and life-enhancing. So I had no hesitation in orchestral rehearsal with the Mozart Children’s Orchestra of the and Theatre Children’s Chorus, the National Youth Choir of Venezuela, Salzach. At the same time, a magazine will be published combining the accepting the invitation of Alexander Pereira and Maestro Abreu to Mozarteum Foundation. the Wiener Singverein and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra, touching photographs with interesting original articles, including an EL SISTEMA conduct Mahler with the Infantil Orchestra (even younger this time) under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel. essay by El Sistema founder José Antonio Abreu. The Magazine can be at the Festival. is is, quite simply, the future of music. ose of Remaining tickets upon request July 24 — 9:00 pm purchased at the Festival Shop and at the Leica Galerie, Mirabellplatz you lucky enough to hear the concerts will see why. Simon Rattle CHILDREN’S ORCHESTRA REHEARSAL Großes Festspielhaus , starting on July . Its proceeds will be donated to El Sistema. Wolfgang A. Mozart Symphony No. 4 in D Major KV 19 When the National Children’s Symphony Orchestra was initiated in Great superar Choral Festival by José Antonio Abreu, Simon Rattle took the podium himself Piano Concerto No. 12 in A Major KV 414 AVAILABLE TICKETS Partnership for El Sistema at the Salzburg Festival (First movement: Allegro) Numerous choruses from superar locations in Austria, Switzerland, Gustavo Dudamel / Photograph: Schuster White Hands Choir / Photograph: Nohely Oliveros and conducted the rst-ever concert of the new Venezuelan children’s Alberto G. M. Artes Chamambo Slovakia, Rumania, Bosnia and Turkey will give two choral concerts As of April 24, 2013 orchestra at the Aula Magna of the University of Caracas. children Mozart Children’s Orchestra of the together with children and teenagers from Salzburg and members of the between the ages of eight and played works by Gershwin, Fauré and July 24 Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra / Dudamel / Mahler VIII Mozarteum Foundation National Youth Choir of Venezuela, uniting up to choral singers at Remaining tickets upon request SIMÓN BOLÍVAR STRING QUARTET The White Hands Choir is part of the El Sistema Special Education Program, Ginastera with great passion and musical seriousness. e fact that this Members of the National Children’s Symphony a time. The event takes place at the Red Bull exhibit and event building July 25 Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra / Marathon-Konzert which was founded in in order to integrate people with handicaps young ensemble also dared to play Mahler’s Symphony No , however, Orchestra of Venezuela “Hangar-” at the Salzburg Airport. The Great superar Choral Festival € 110,– / 90,– / 60,– / 45,– Alberto Ginastera String Quartet No. 1 Op. 20 into society more fully through music. Here, children with and without astonished all those present – and was rewarded with standing ovations. Soloist Marie Sophie Decker Hauzel July 26 Venezuelan Brass & Choir is presented by superar in cooperation with the Salzburg Festival. Remaining tickets upon request J. S. Bach / Harrison Birtwistle ree Fugues handicaps meet and enjoy playing together. The idea of uniting children is summer, the National Children’s Symphony Orchestra embarks Conductors CHRISTOPH KONCZ JESÚS PARRA superar / Photograph: Laurent Ziegler All tickets / unassigned lounge seating July 28 Youth Orchestra of Caracas / Paredes from e Art of Fugue (2008) with physical and mental handicaps, children with difficulties hearing and upon its rst tour abroad, following the invitation of the Salzburg Festival Maurice Ravel String Quartet in F Major Presented by the Salzburg Festival in cooperation with the July 27 — 12:00 noon / 3:00 pm € 110,– / 85,– / 60,– / 40,– – but “only” with about members. And once again, it will be Simon July 30 Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra / Dudamel / Mahler III First Violin Alejandro Carreño even deaf-mute children in one chorus was born in . The unusual Mozarteum Foundation Salzburg The El Sistema residency in Salzburg offers not only the children and Hangar-7 ensemble is divided into two groups: children with movement, visual and Rattle who conducts the children’s orchestra in its international debut. € 135,– / 100,– Second Violin Boris Suárez August 7 — 5:00 pm teenagers, but also the teachers involved in superar the unique August 1 Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra / Dudamel / Missa c-Moll Viola Ismel Campos cognitive disorders form the actual chorus. Their singing is transformed However, some of the children will be di erent from three years ago, Stiftung Mozarteum / Großer Saal opportunity to learn directly from their Venezuelan role models, through Remaining tickets upon request PUBLIC SYMPOSIA IMPRINT Cello Aimon Mata by the other group, children with impaired hearing, mute or deaf-mute three weeks of exchanging views, making music, attending rehearsals August 2 Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra / Dudamel / Missa c-Moll August 5 — 7:30 pm children, into an expressive choreography of flowing hand movements, Founded in , the Mozart Children’s Orchestra of the Mozarteum Remaining tickets upon request and making friends. superar partner organisations like the Turkish Photographs: LEICA August 3 Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra / Dudamel / Mahler VII Media Proprietor Salzburger Festspielfonds Stiftung Mozarteum / Großer Saal Foundation Salzburg is a national ensemble for children aged to . e e Salzburg Festival would like to use the opportunity of the El Sistema Texts/Editors Florian Wiegand, Susanne Will their hands clad in white or coloured gloves. World-famous conductors youth orchestra “Music for Peace” have also been invited to Salzburg € 120,– / 95,– CHANGE THROUGH MUSIC! Children’s Orchestra made its concert debut during the Mozart Week, residency to convey the visionary idea of José Antonio Abreu to a English Translations Alexa Nieschlag like Simon Rattle and Claudio Abbado have been deeply impressed by in order to rehearse together with the Venezuelan children’s orchestra. August 5 Simón Bolívar String Quartet Cover Photograph Gustavo Dudamel and the Simón Bolívar demonstrating its ability to master the technical and musical demands of broad, not only musical, audience. Apart from a total of concerts, the Four section leaders – one quartet. For many years, Alejandro Carreño, these children. Today, twelve such choruses exist in Venezuela, and their Apart from a European El Sistema conference now in planning, there All tickets: € 25,– / Children and Teenagers € 15,– Symphony Orchestra / Photograph: Luis Cobelo Mozart’s works and those of other composers, including contemporary Salzburg Festival hosts two public symposia on speci c topics of music August 7 Children’s Orchestra Rehearsal Photographs Photographs Luis Cobelo, Nohely Oliveros with kind permission children and teenagers from Venezuela will Boris Suaréz, Ismel Campos and Aimon Mata have played together in extraordinary abilities have attracted international attention through will be further-education sessions and workshops for superar teachers ones – and in doing so, the joy of its music-making spread to the audience education. What are the di erences between Europe and Venezuela? All tickets: € 10,– / Children and Teenagers € 5,– of the Fundación Musical Simón Bolívar present the infectious joy of their music-making the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra; in the four Venezuelans recordings and TV broadcasts for stations in Germany and Switzerland. and other interested parties, focusing on the special methods of music August 8 White Hands Choir Corporate Design Circus, www.circus.at too. e ensemble o ers children the unique opportunity to work with What can we learn from El Sistema? How and how far can El Sistema embarked upon their rst concert tour as a chamber ensemble. ey Following the invitation from the Salzburg Festival, the White Hands Choir education which El Sistema has developed especially for children and All tickets: € 15,– / Children and Teenagers € 10,– in concerts, transporting the fascinating vision of international artists like Marc Minkowski. be applied to our situation? e sessions will also focus on musical August 9 White Hands Choir have performed in Great Britain, Canada, the USA, in Japan and of travels abroad for the first time to present two live concerts at the Mozarteum teenagers with handicaps. The Venezuelan White Hands Choir is the El Sistema to Salzburg. work with handicapped children and teenagers. Further information All tickets: € 15,– / Children and Teenagers € 10,– course in many Latin American countries; this season they visit not Foundation. For the organizers in Venezuela and Salzburg, but most leading example for these methods; it performs at the Salzburg Festival August 10 National Children’s Symphony Orchestra / Rattle / Mahler I SALZBURG FESTIVAL e director of the Mozart Children’s Orchestra is Christoph Koncz, on dates, panel participants and locations will be announced at a later only the Salzburg Festival, but also Berlin’s Philharmonie, the Auditorio importantly for the handicapped children and teenagers, this presents an on August and . Finally, the Great superar Choral Festival at the € 85,– / 60,– / 40,– who has been the leader of the second violin section of the Vienna date via the press and on www.salzburgfestival.at August 11 National Children’s Symphony Orchestra / Rattle / Mahler I Ticket o ce Nacional in Madrid and the Palau de la Música in Barcelona. e spring enormous challenge. Salzburg Festival, which takes place at Hangar- on July , will give P.O. Box 140 of saw the release of their rst album on Deutsche Grammophon, Philharmonic since September . Together with the -year-old € 85,– / 60,– / 40,– 5010 Salzburg (A) the initiative an ideal platform to introduce a wider audience to aspects which also included the endishly di cult String Quartet No. by the Venezuelan Jesús Parra, whose talent is o en compared to that of Gustavo T +43.662.8045.500 Partnership for El Sistema at the Salzburg Festival: of its work with children from various European countries. Presentation by superar in cooperation with the Salzburg Festival: F +43.662.8045.555 Argentinean Alberto Ginastera, which opens the ensemble’s concert Simon Rattle mit dem National Children’s Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela Dudamel, he will lead this children’s orchestra rehearsal with members of July 27 Great superar Choral Festival at Hangar-7 [email protected] ERSTE Sti ung Hilti Foundation Red Bull Media House the National Children’s Symphony Orchestra, giving the audience insights All tickets: € 5,– / Unassigned lounge seating www.salzburgfestival.at in Salzburg. Photograph: Nohely Oliveros Further information is available at www.superar.eu into the musical cooperation between children from two nations. www.salzburgfestival.at SIMÓN BOLÍVAR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA WHITE HANDS CHOIR NATIONAL CHILDREN’S SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PUBLIC EVENTS FEATURING SUPERAR LEICA For their support and cooperation, we wish to thank: for in the meantime, many of the young musicians have grown out of is a European initiative for more music LEICA and dance in the daily lives of children and young people; it was founded Fundación Musical Simón Bolívar. Órgano Rector del Sistema Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 7 in E Minor e programme will be announced at a later date. George Gershwin Cuban Overture the children’s orchestra, moving on to perform in one of Venezuela’s youth orchestras. e Salzburg programme once again features Mahler’s in by Vienna’s Konzerthaus, the Vienna Boys’ Choir and the Caritas Festival Opening Party Nacional de las Orquestas y Coros Juveniles e Infantiles de Venezuela. Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela White Hands Choir Alberto Ginastera Danzas de Estancia Op. 8a El Sistema – the Magazine and Exhibit Project Symphony No. as the central work, in addition to Gershwin’s Cuban of the Archdiocese of Vienna, following the model of El Sistema. superar In a joint concert, superar’s choruses and the Salzburg Festival and Tocar y Luchar. Conductor GUSTAVO DUDAMEL Conductors NAYBETH GARCÍA / LUIS CHINCHILLA Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 1 in D Major National Children’s Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela Overture and Danzas de Estancia by the Argentinean composer Alberto offers extensive training in choral singing, dance and orchestral playing, Theatre Children’s Chorus present songs from various countries and August 3 — 9:00 pm August 8 / 9 — 3:00 pm In February, photographers of the Leica brand of cameras and journalists Großes Festspielhaus Stiftung Mozarteum / Großer Saal Conductors JESÚS PARRA (Ginastera) Ginastera. e latter will be conducted by -year-old Jesús Parra, the working for equal opportunities, respectful coexistence and social continents, conducted by Gerald Wirth and Wolfgang Götz. visited El Sistema in Venezuela. The result is an impressive photo SIMON RATTLE latest child prodigy to come of out El Sistema. Apart from these two integration. From Vienna, the organisation is currently expanding into Free tickets will be available from July 1 onwards from documentary about the origins and importance of this project. August 10 – 11:30 am / August 11 — 11:00 am concerts at the Felsenreitschule, the National Children’s Symphony other European countries, including Switzerland, Slovakia, Bosnia, the Salzburg Festival. July 20 — 2:00 pm Felsenreitschule The uniqueness of El Sistema becomes visible and understandable – the Orchestra will encounter various ensembles in Salzburg which are Rumania and Turkey. superar considers itself a musical bridge between Große Universitätsaula (Main Auditorium of the University) viewer is given informative and emotional access to a world usually JULY 24AUGUST 11, 2013 When I rst conducted the Infantil Orchestra three years ago in Caracas, implementing the idea of El Sistema in their own countries – for Western and Eastern Europe, strongly emphasizing intensive closed to outsiders. The photographs will be shown from July onwards I could not believe that children as young as nine and never older than example, the Austrian initiative superar or the Turkish children’s international exchange of work and experience, both with Venezuela Mahler VIII for the duration of the Salzburg Festival at the Festspielhäuser, at the could not only play all the notes, but also could make such wonderful orchestra “Music for Peace”. On August , there will also be a public on the one hand and with its European partner countries on the other. superar boys will sing together with the boys of the Salzburg Festival Leica Galerie Salzburg and in the public spaces on the banks of the music. It is exhilarating and life-enhancing. So I had no hesitation in orchestral rehearsal with the Mozart Children’s Orchestra of the and Theatre Children’s Chorus, the National Youth Choir of Venezuela, Salzach. At the same time, a magazine will be published combining the accepting the invitation of Alexander Pereira and Maestro Abreu to Mozarteum Foundation. the Wiener Singverein and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra, touching photographs with interesting original articles, including an EL SISTEMA conduct Mahler with the Infantil Orchestra (even younger this time) under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel. essay by El Sistema founder José Antonio Abreu. The Magazine can be at the Festival. is is, quite simply, the future of music. ose of Remaining tickets upon request July 24 — 9:00 pm purchased at the Festival Shop and at the Leica Galerie, Mirabellplatz you lucky enough to hear the concerts will see why. Simon Rattle CHILDREN’S ORCHESTRA REHEARSAL Großes Festspielhaus , starting on July . Its proceeds will be donated to El Sistema. Wolfgang A. Mozart Symphony No. 4 in D Major KV 19 When the National Children’s Symphony Orchestra was initiated in Great superar Choral Festival by José Antonio Abreu, Simon Rattle took the podium himself Piano Concerto No. 12 in A Major KV 414 AVAILABLE TICKETS Partnership for El Sistema at the Salzburg Festival (First movement: Allegro) Numerous choruses from superar locations in Austria, Switzerland, Gustavo Dudamel / Photograph: Schuster White Hands Choir / Photograph: Nohely Oliveros and conducted the rst-ever concert of the new Venezuelan children’s Alberto G. M. Artes Chamambo Slovakia, Rumania, Bosnia and Turkey will give two choral concerts As of April 24, 2013 orchestra at the Aula Magna of the University of Caracas. children Mozart Children’s Orchestra of the together with children and teenagers from Salzburg and members of the between the ages of eight and played works by Gershwin, Fauré and July 24 Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra / Dudamel / Mahler VIII Mozarteum Foundation National Youth Choir of Venezuela, uniting up to choral singers at Remaining tickets upon request SIMÓN BOLÍVAR STRING QUARTET The White Hands Choir is part of the El Sistema Special Education Program, Ginastera with great passion and musical seriousness. e fact that this Members of the National Children’s Symphony a time. The event takes place at the Red Bull exhibit and event building July 25 Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra / Marathon-Konzert which was founded in in order to integrate people with handicaps young ensemble also dared to play Mahler’s Symphony No , however, Orchestra of Venezuela “Hangar-” at the Salzburg Airport. The Great superar Choral Festival € 110,– / 90,– / 60,– / 45,– Alberto Ginastera String Quartet No. 1 Op. 20 into society more fully through music. Here, children with and without astonished all those present – and was rewarded with standing ovations. Soloist Marie Sophie Decker Hauzel July 26 Venezuelan Brass & Choir is presented by superar in cooperation with the Salzburg Festival. Remaining tickets upon request J. S. Bach / Harrison Birtwistle ree Fugues handicaps meet and enjoy playing together. The idea of uniting children is summer, the National Children’s Symphony Orchestra embarks Conductors CHRISTOPH KONCZ JESÚS PARRA superar / Photograph: Laurent Ziegler All tickets / unassigned lounge seating July 28 Youth Orchestra of Caracas / Paredes from e Art of Fugue (2008) with physical and mental handicaps, children with difficulties hearing and upon its rst tour abroad, following the invitation of the Salzburg Festival Maurice Ravel String Quartet in F Major Presented by the Salzburg Festival in cooperation with the July 27 — 12:00 noon / 3:00 pm € 110,– / 85,– / 60,– / 40,– – but “only” with about members. And once again, it will be Simon July 30 Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra / Dudamel / Mahler III First Violin Alejandro Carreño even deaf-mute children in one chorus was born in . The unusual Mozarteum Foundation Salzburg The El Sistema residency in Salzburg offers not only the children and Hangar-7 ensemble is divided into two groups: children with movement, visual and Rattle who conducts the children’s orchestra in its international debut. € 135,– / 100,– Second Violin Boris Suárez August 7 — 5:00 pm teenagers, but also the teachers involved in superar the unique August 1 Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra / Dudamel / Missa c-Moll Viola Ismel Campos cognitive disorders form the actual chorus. Their singing is transformed However, some of the children will be di erent from three years ago, Stiftung Mozarteum / Großer Saal opportunity to learn directly from their Venezuelan role models, through Remaining tickets upon request PUBLIC SYMPOSIA IMPRINT Cello Aimon Mata by the other group, children with impaired hearing, mute or deaf-mute three weeks of exchanging views, making music, attending rehearsals August 2 Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra / Dudamel / Missa c-Moll August 5 — 7:30 pm children, into an expressive choreography of flowing hand movements, Founded in , the Mozart Children’s Orchestra of the Mozarteum Remaining tickets upon request and making friends. superar partner organisations like the Turkish Photographs: LEICA August 3 Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra / Dudamel / Mahler VII Media Proprietor Salzburger Festspielfonds Stiftung Mozarteum / Großer Saal Foundation Salzburg is a national ensemble for children aged to . e e Salzburg Festival would like to use the opportunity of the El Sistema Texts/Editors Florian Wiegand, Susanne Will their hands clad in white or coloured gloves. World-famous conductors youth orchestra “Music for Peace” have also been invited to Salzburg € 120,– / 95,– CHANGE THROUGH MUSIC! Children’s Orchestra made its concert debut during the Mozart Week, residency to convey the visionary idea of José Antonio Abreu to a English Translations Alexa Nieschlag like Simon Rattle and Claudio Abbado have been deeply impressed by in order to rehearse together with the Venezuelan children’s orchestra. August 5 Simón Bolívar String Quartet Cover Photograph Gustavo Dudamel and the Simón Bolívar demonstrating its ability to master the technical and musical demands of broad, not only musical, audience. Apart from a total of concerts, the Four section leaders – one quartet. For many years, Alejandro Carreño, these children. Today, twelve such choruses exist in Venezuela, and their Apart from a European El Sistema conference now in planning, there All tickets: € 25,– / Children and Teenagers € 15,– Symphony Orchestra / Photograph: Luis Cobelo Mozart’s works and those of other composers, including contemporary Salzburg Festival hosts two public symposia on speci c topics of music August 7 Children’s Orchestra Rehearsal Photographs Photographs Luis Cobelo, Nohely Oliveros with kind permission children and teenagers from Venezuela will Boris Suaréz, Ismel Campos and Aimon Mata have played together in extraordinary abilities have attracted international attention through will be further-education sessions and workshops for superar teachers ones – and in doing so, the joy of its music-making spread to the audience education. What are the di erences between Europe and Venezuela? All tickets: € 10,– / Children and Teenagers € 5,– of the Fundación Musical Simón Bolívar present the infectious joy of their music-making the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra; in the four Venezuelans recordings and TV broadcasts for stations in Germany and Switzerland. and other interested parties, focusing on the special methods of music August 8 White Hands Choir Corporate Design Circus, www.circus.at too. e ensemble o ers children the unique opportunity to work with What can we learn from El Sistema? How and how far can El Sistema embarked upon their rst concert tour as a chamber ensemble. ey Following the invitation from the Salzburg Festival, the White Hands Choir education which El Sistema has developed especially for children and All tickets: € 15,– / Children and Teenagers € 10,– in concerts, transporting the fascinating vision of international artists like Marc Minkowski. be applied to our situation? e sessions will also focus on musical August 9 White Hands Choir have performed in Great Britain, Canada, the USA, in Japan and of travels abroad for the first time to present two live concerts at the Mozarteum teenagers with handicaps. The Venezuelan White Hands Choir is the El Sistema to Salzburg. work with handicapped children and teenagers. Further information All tickets: € 15,– / Children and Teenagers € 10,– course in many Latin American countries; this season they visit not Foundation. For the organizers in Venezuela and Salzburg, but most leading example for these methods; it performs at the Salzburg Festival August 10 National Children’s Symphony Orchestra / Rattle / Mahler I SALZBURG FESTIVAL e director of the Mozart Children’s Orchestra is Christoph Koncz, on dates, panel participants and locations will be announced at a later only the Salzburg Festival, but also Berlin’s Philharmonie, the Auditorio importantly for the handicapped children and teenagers, this presents an on August and . Finally, the Great superar Choral Festival at the € 85,– / 60,– / 40,– who has been the leader of the second violin section of the Vienna date via the press and on www.salzburgfestival.at August 11 National Children’s Symphony Orchestra / Rattle / Mahler I Ticket o ce Nacional in Madrid and the Palau de la Música in Barcelona. e spring enormous challenge. Salzburg Festival, which takes place at Hangar- on July , will give P.O. Box 140 of saw the release of their rst album on Deutsche Grammophon, Philharmonic since September . Together with the -year-old € 85,– / 60,– / 40,– 5010 Salzburg (A) the initiative an ideal platform to introduce a wider audience to aspects which also included the endishly di cult String Quartet No. by the Venezuelan Jesús Parra, whose talent is o en compared to that of Gustavo T +43.662.8045.500 Partnership for El Sistema at the Salzburg Festival: of its work with children from various European countries. 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Photograph: Nohely Oliveros Further information is available at www.superar.eu into the musical cooperation between children from two nations. www.salzburgfestival.at SIMÓNSIMÓN BOLÍVAR BOLÍVAR SYMPHONY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ORCHESTRA WHITEWHITE HANDS HANDS CHOIR CHOIR NATIONALNATIONAL CHILDREN CHILDREN’S ’SYMPHONYS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ORCHESTRA PUBLIC PUBLIC EVENTS EVENTS FEATURING FEATURING SUPERAR SUPERAR LEICALEICA ForFor their their support support and and cooperation, cooperation, we we wish wish to tothank: thank: forfor in inthe the meantime, meantime, many many of ofthe the young young musicians musicians have have grown grown out out of of is ais European a European initiative initiative for for more more music music LEICALEICA andand dance dance in inthe the daily daily lives lives of ofchildren children and and young young people; people; it was it was founded founded FundaciónFundación Musical Musical Simón Simón Bolívar. Bolívar. Órgano Órgano Rector Rector del del Sistema Sistema GustavGustav Mahler Mahler Symphony Symphony No. No. 7 in 7 Ein Minor E Minor e programmee programme will will be beannounced announced at aat later a later date. date. George George Gershwin Gershwin Cuban Cuban Overture Overture thethe children’s children’s orchestra, orchestra, moving moving on on to toperform perform in inone one of ofVenezuela’s Venezuela’s youthyouth orchestras. orchestras. e Salzburge Salzburg programme programme once once again again features features Mahler’s Mahler’s in in by byVienna’s Vienna’s Konzerthaus, Konzerthaus, the the Vienna Vienna Boys’ Boys’ Choir Choir and and the the Caritas Caritas FestivalFestival Opening Opening Party Party NacionalNacional de de las las Orquestas Orquestas y Coros y Coros Juveniles Juveniles e Infantiles e Infantiles de de Venezuela. Venezuela. 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PresentationPresentation by bysuperar superar in cooperationin cooperation with with the the Salzburg Salzburg Festival: Festival: F +43.662.8045.555F +43.662.8045.555 ArgentineanArgentinean Alberto Alberto Ginastera, Ginastera, which which opens opens the the ensemble’s ensemble’s concert concert SimonSimon Rattle Rattle mit mit dem dem National National Children’s Children’s Symphony Symphony Orchestra Orchestra of Venezuelaof Venezuela Dudamel,Dudamel, he hewill will lead lead this this children’s children’s orchestra orchestra rehearsal rehearsal with with members members of of JulyJuly 27 27 Great Great superar superar Choral Choral Festival Festival at Hangar-7at Hangar-7 [email protected] [email protected] ERSTEERSTE Sti Sti ung ung Hilti Hilti Foundation Foundation Red Red Bull Bull Media Media House House thethe National National Children’s Children’s Symphony Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, giving giving the the audience audience insights insights All All tickets: tickets: € 5,– € 5,– / Unassigned / Unassigned lounge lounge seating seating www.salzburgfestival.at www.salzburgfestival.at in inSalzburg. Salzburg. Photograph:Photograph: Nohely Nohely Oliveros Oliveros FurtherFurther information information is availableis available at atwww.superar.eu www.superar.eu intointo the the musical musical cooperation cooperation between between children children from from two two nations. nations. www.salzburgfestival.atwww.salzburgfestival.at SIMÓN BOLÍVAR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA WHITE HANDS CHOIR NATIONAL CHILDREN’S SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PUBLIC EVENTS FEATURING SUPERAR LEICA For their support and cooperation, we wish to thank: for in the meantime, many of the young musicians have grown out of is a European initiative for more music LEICA and dance in the daily lives of children and young people; it was founded Fundación Musical Simón Bolívar. Órgano Rector del Sistema Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 7 in E Minor e programme will be announced at a later date. George Gershwin Cuban Overture the children’s orchestra, moving on to perform in one of Venezuela’s youth orchestras. e Salzburg programme once again features Mahler’s in by Vienna’s Konzerthaus, the Vienna Boys’ Choir and the Caritas Festival Opening Party Nacional de las Orquestas y Coros Juveniles e Infantiles de Venezuela. Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela White Hands Choir Alberto Ginastera Danzas de Estancia Op. 8a El Sistema – the Magazine and Exhibit Project Symphony No. as the central work, in addition to Gershwin’s Cuban of the Archdiocese of Vienna, following the model of El Sistema. superar In a joint concert, superar’s choruses and the Salzburg Festival and Tocar y Luchar. Conductor GUSTAVO DUDAMEL Conductors NAYBETH GARCÍA / LUIS CHINCHILLA Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 1 in D Major National Children’s Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela Overture and Danzas de Estancia by the Argentinean composer Alberto offers extensive training in choral singing, dance and orchestral playing, Theatre Children’s Chorus present songs from various countries and August 3 — 9:00 pm August 8 / 9 — 3:00 pm In February, photographers of the Leica brand of cameras and journalists Großes Festspielhaus Stiftung Mozarteum / Großer Saal Conductors JESÚS PARRA (Ginastera) Ginastera. e latter will be conducted by -year-old Jesús Parra, the working for equal opportunities, respectful coexistence and social continents, conducted by Gerald Wirth and Wolfgang Götz. visited El Sistema in Venezuela. The result is an impressive photo SIMON RATTLE latest child prodigy to come of out El Sistema. Apart from these two integration. From Vienna, the organisation is currently expanding into Free tickets will be available from July 1 onwards from documentary about the origins and importance of this project. August 10 – 11:30 am / August 11 — 11:00 am concerts at the Felsenreitschule, the National Children’s Symphony other European countries, including Switzerland, Slovakia, Bosnia, the Salzburg Festival. July 20 — 2:00 pm Felsenreitschule The uniqueness of El Sistema becomes visible and understandable – the Orchestra will encounter various ensembles in Salzburg which are Rumania and Turkey. superar considers itself a musical bridge between Große Universitätsaula (Main Auditorium of the University) viewer is given informative and emotional access to a world usually JULY 24AUGUST 11, 2013 When I rst conducted the Infantil Orchestra three years ago in Caracas, implementing the idea of El Sistema in their own countries – for Western and Eastern Europe, strongly emphasizing intensive closed to outsiders. The photographs will be shown from July onwards I could not believe that children as young as nine and never older than example, the Austrian initiative superar or the Turkish children’s international exchange of work and experience, both with Venezuela Mahler VIII for the duration of the Salzburg Festival at the Festspielhäuser, at the could not only play all the notes, but also could make such wonderful orchestra “Music for Peace”. On August , there will also be a public on the one hand and with its European partner countries on the other. superar boys will sing together with the boys of the Salzburg Festival Leica Galerie Salzburg and in the public spaces on the banks of the music. It is exhilarating and life-enhancing. So I had no hesitation in orchestral rehearsal with the Mozart Children’s Orchestra of the and Theatre Children’s Chorus, the National Youth Choir of Venezuela, Salzach. At the same time, a magazine will be published combining the accepting the invitation of Alexander Pereira and Maestro Abreu to Mozarteum Foundation. the Wiener Singverein and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra, touching photographs with interesting original articles, including an EL SISTEMA conduct Mahler with the Infantil Orchestra (even younger this time) under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel. essay by El Sistema founder José Antonio Abreu. The Magazine can be at the Festival. is is, quite simply, the future of music. ose of Remaining tickets upon request July 24 — 9:00 pm purchased at the Festival Shop and at the Leica Galerie, Mirabellplatz you lucky enough to hear the concerts will see why. Simon Rattle CHILDREN’S ORCHESTRA REHEARSAL Großes Festspielhaus , starting on July . Its proceeds will be donated to El Sistema. Wolfgang A. Mozart Symphony No. 4 in D Major KV 19 When the National Children’s Symphony Orchestra was initiated in Great superar Choral Festival by José Antonio Abreu, Simon Rattle took the podium himself Piano Concerto No. 12 in A Major KV 414 AVAILABLE TICKETS Partnership for El Sistema at the Salzburg Festival (First movement: Allegro) Numerous choruses from superar locations in Austria, Switzerland, Gustavo Dudamel / Photograph: Schuster White Hands Choir / Photograph: Nohely Oliveros and conducted the rst-ever concert of the new Venezuelan children’s Alberto G. M. Artes Chamambo Slovakia, Rumania, Bosnia and Turkey will give two choral concerts As of April 24, 2013 orchestra at the Aula Magna of the University of Caracas. children Mozart Children’s Orchestra of the together with children and teenagers from Salzburg and members of the between the ages of eight and played works by Gershwin, Fauré and July 24 Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra / Dudamel / Mahler VIII Mozarteum Foundation National Youth Choir of Venezuela, uniting up to choral singers at Remaining tickets upon request SIMÓN BOLÍVAR STRING QUARTET The White Hands Choir is part of the El Sistema Special Education Program, Ginastera with great passion and musical seriousness. e fact that this Members of the National Children’s Symphony a time. The event takes place at the Red Bull exhibit and event building July 25 Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra / Marathon-Konzert which was founded in in order to integrate people with handicaps young ensemble also dared to play Mahler’s Symphony No , however, Orchestra of Venezuela “Hangar-” at the Salzburg Airport. The Great superar Choral Festival € 110,– / 90,– / 60,– / 45,– Alberto Ginastera String Quartet No. 1 Op. 20 into society more fully through music. Here, children with and without astonished all those present – and was rewarded with standing ovations. Soloist Marie Sophie Decker Hauzel July 26 Venezuelan Brass & Choir is presented by superar in cooperation with the Salzburg Festival. Remaining tickets upon request J. S. Bach / Harrison Birtwistle ree Fugues handicaps meet and enjoy playing together. The idea of uniting children is summer, the National Children’s Symphony Orchestra embarks Conductors CHRISTOPH KONCZ JESÚS PARRA superar / Photograph: Laurent Ziegler All tickets / unassigned lounge seating July 28 Youth Orchestra of Caracas / Paredes from e Art of Fugue (2008) with physical and mental handicaps, children with difficulties hearing and upon its rst tour abroad, following the invitation of the Salzburg Festival Maurice Ravel String Quartet in F Major Presented by the Salzburg Festival in cooperation with the July 27 — 12:00 noon / 3:00 pm € 110,– / 85,– / 60,– / 40,– – but “only” with about members. And once again, it will be Simon July 30 Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra / Dudamel / Mahler III First Violin Alejandro Carreño even deaf-mute children in one chorus was born in . The unusual Mozarteum Foundation Salzburg The El Sistema residency in Salzburg offers not only the children and Hangar-7 ensemble is divided into two groups: children with movement, visual and Rattle who conducts the children’s orchestra in its international debut. € 135,– / 100,– Second Violin Boris Suárez August 7 — 5:00 pm teenagers, but also the teachers involved in superar the unique August 1 Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra / Dudamel / Missa c-Moll Viola Ismel Campos cognitive disorders form the actual chorus. Their singing is transformed However, some of the children will be di erent from three years ago, Stiftung Mozarteum / Großer Saal opportunity to learn directly from their Venezuelan role models, through Remaining tickets upon request PUBLIC SYMPOSIA IMPRINT Cello Aimon Mata by the other group, children with impaired hearing, mute or deaf-mute three weeks of exchanging views, making music, attending rehearsals August 2 Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra / Dudamel / Missa c-Moll August 5 — 7:30 pm children, into an expressive choreography of flowing hand movements, Founded in , the Mozart Children’s Orchestra of the Mozarteum Remaining tickets upon request and making friends. superar partner organisations like the Turkish Photographs: LEICA August 3 Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra / Dudamel / Mahler VII Media Proprietor Salzburger Festspielfonds Stiftung Mozarteum / Großer Saal Foundation Salzburg is a national ensemble for children aged to . e e Salzburg Festival would like to use the opportunity of the El Sistema Texts/Editors Florian Wiegand, Susanne Will their hands clad in white or coloured gloves. World-famous conductors youth orchestra “Music for Peace” have also been invited to Salzburg € 120,– / 95,– CHANGE THROUGH MUSIC! Children’s Orchestra made its concert debut during the Mozart Week, residency to convey the visionary idea of José Antonio Abreu to a English Translations Alexa Nieschlag like Simon Rattle and Claudio Abbado have been deeply impressed by in order to rehearse together with the Venezuelan children’s orchestra. August 5 Simón Bolívar String Quartet Cover Photograph Gustavo Dudamel and the Simón Bolívar demonstrating its ability to master the technical and musical demands of broad, not only musical, audience. Apart from a total of concerts, the Four section leaders – one quartet. For many years, Alejandro Carreño, these children. Today, twelve such choruses exist in Venezuela, and their Apart from a European El Sistema conference now in planning, there All tickets: € 25,– / Children and Teenagers € 15,– Symphony Orchestra / Photograph: Luis Cobelo Mozart’s works and those of other composers, including contemporary Salzburg Festival hosts two public symposia on speci c topics of music August 7 Children’s Orchestra Rehearsal Photographs Photographs Luis Cobelo, Nohely Oliveros with kind permission children and teenagers from Venezuela will Boris Suaréz, Ismel Campos and Aimon Mata have played together in extraordinary abilities have attracted international attention through will be further-education sessions and workshops for superar teachers ones – and in doing so, the joy of its music-making spread to the audience education. What are the di erences between Europe and Venezuela? 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