International Annual Report 2019
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International Annual Report 2019 1 Content Letter from Carmen Marcuello and Avri Levitan ................................................................................ 3 What is Musethica? .......................................................................................................................... 5 Objectives.............................................................................................................................................. 6 Values ..................................................................................................................................................... 6 Formats in 2019 ............................................................................................................................... 8 Musethica Sessions ............................................................................................................................. 8 Musethica International Chamber Music Festivals ........................................................................... 8 Festival Collaborations ....................................................................................................................... 8 Musethica Mastering Performance Program .................................................................................... 8 Musethica Open Masterclass ............................................................................................................. 9 Other Activities ...................................................................................................................................... 10 Vibraciones Exhibition .................................................................................................................... 10 Concerts ................................................................................................................................................. 11 Repertoire .............................................................................................................................................. 12 Participants .................................................................................................................................... 16 Teachers ................................................................................................................................................. 16 Young Artists.......................................................................................................................................... 17 Social Centres ......................................................................................................................................... 19 Education and Musical Partners ........................................................................................................... 19 Team ...................................................................................................................................................... 20 The International Artistic committee ..................................................................................................... 20 Volunteers .............................................................................................................................................. 21 Organizational development ................................................................................................................ 23 Society .................................................................................................................................................... 24 Diffussion ...................................................................................................................................... 25 Musethica media appearance............................................................................................................... 25 Videos and audios ............................................................................................................................ 26 Financial records........................................................................................................................ 27 Income and Expenses 2019 ............................................................................................................ 27 Annex: Musethica associations ....................................................................................................... 31 Musethica Germany ......................................................................................................................... 31 Musethica Israel................................................................................................................................ 31 Musethica Spain ............................................................................................................................... 31 Musethica Sweden ........................................................................................................................... 31 Annex: concerts held in 2019 .......................................................................................................... 32 2 Letter from Carmen Marcuello and Avri Levitan 2019 has been a very important year for the development of Musethica. We almost reached 2000 concerts (1914 concerts) since founding Musethica in 2012. And we have been active in 10 countries so far. Musethica has established interesting new collaborations with music Festivals and important academic Institutions. For the first time Musethica was part of the Korsholm Festival in Finland and the Zeist Music Days in Holland. We started a collaboration with Sinfonia Varsovia by having a Musethica Session in Berlin with Anna-Maria Staskiewicz, concertmaster of the Sinfonia Varsovia Orchestra and students from the Orchestra academy. In September 2019 we started an official collaboration with the Conservatoire National Supérieur Musique et danse de Lyon as part of our Musethica Festival in Bourg-en-Bresse. The exhibition titled "Vibraciones" produced jointly by Musethica and Etopia Center for Art & Technology (Zaragoza City Council) has continued in 2019 and was on display at the Spanish Cultural Center in Mexico from August 1st to October 20th, 2019. We successfully launched for the first time an official application process for young musicians to apply for Musethica activities like sessions and festivals. More than 170 young musicians, 135 individuals, violin, viola, cello, and 12 string quartets, have applied for the Musethica program. We were pleasantly surprised to receive so many applications and young musicians who would like to join Musethica. Most applicants where advanced students from most prestigious music conservatories all around the world: USA, Asia, Europe, Israel and south and central America. Most applicants wrote very beautiful and emotional letters explaining why they would like to join Musethica and how they think they could gain from this idea. 3 We want to thank our sponsors and our cooperation partners whose support has been both indispensable and essential. We are grateful for their support and generosity. We are especially thankful for the help of our volunteers and for the hard work of the members of the associations. Finally, we want to acknowledge the labor and importance of the social centres that have been kind enough to let us cooperate with them. They are our mutual partners in our effort to make our lives more humane and meaningful. We thank them and you. Avri Levitan and Carmen Marcuello Co-founders, Artistic Director and Social Director of Musethica 4 What is Musethica? Musethica: An education program for musicians with social impact Musethica is an education method for talented musicians, introducing extensive concert performances to a wide range of audiences as a basic teaching tool. Selected musicians are given the opportunity to perform a large number of concerts as a fundamental part of their education, often playing together with their mentor. The mentor attends all concerts and is coaching the musicians after each concert. Musethica’s international team of experienced and carefully chosen mentors, coach the musicians in master classes and rehearsals, preparing concert programs of the highest quality. Together, the young musicians and their mentors perform extensively to all parts of society. At least 85 percent of the concerts are performed outside traditional concert halls. Musethicas concerts are played in prisons, schools, kindergartens, hospitals, elderly homes, homeless shelters, centers for spe-cial education, and in many other unusual places. The aim is to play for all parts of society, prioritizing people who are excluded or at risk of exclusion. The concerts are always free of charge. Musicians and their mentors perform without remuneration. The aim of Musethica is to establish it- self as a program of excellence and as an integrated part of the higher education in music universities and conservatories worldwide. Musethica was born from a need that has traditionally been paid scant attention in the training of musicians – regular playing for an audience. The musician functions as a bridge between a musical composition and the listener. It is an art that cannot be learned just in the classroom. To completely master their instruments musicians need that encounter with the audience. The intensive Musethica training program is an enormous challenge for musicians but also brings moving moments. During the one-week sessions, the musicians play an average of 12 to 14