{"id":12101,"date":"2018-02-26T18:43:59","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T18:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.atlantamusicproject.org\/?p=12101"},"modified":"2018-02-26T18:43:59","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T18:43:59","slug":"amp-musicians-head-to-mexico-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantamusicproject.org\/amp-musicians-head-to-mexico-city\/","title":{"rendered":"AMP Musicians Head to Mexico City for Orchestra Festival with Vienna Phil & Dudamel"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\"AMPMedia Inquiries:<\/span><\/p>\n

Stephanie Shapiro, MBA, MSW, CFRE<\/span><\/p>\n

Director of Development | 678<\/span>-520-5325 | stephanie@atlantamusicproject.org<\/span><\/p>\n

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/span><\/p>\n

ATLANTA MUSIC PROJECT <\/b>INVITED TO PARTICIPATE IN INTERNATIONAL ORCHESTRA FESTIVAL FEATURING THE VIENNA PHILHARMONIC AND GUSTAVO DUDAMEL<\/b><\/p>\n

TRIP TO MEXICO CITY MARKS ATLANTA MUSIC PROJECT\u2019S FIRST PERFORMANCE ABROAD<\/b><\/p>\n

FEBRUARY 26, 2018, ATLANTA, GA – <\/span>The Atlanta Music Project (AMP) has received an exclusive invitation to bring its young musicians to Mexico City, February 28 to March 4, to participate in an international orchestra festival featuring the Vienna Philharmonic and conductor Gustavo Dudamel. \u00a0AMP participants will perform in a special orchestra concert comprised of 300 young musicians from around the Americas. Just four programs (ATL, LA, NYC, Boston) from the United States \u00a0have been invited to send students. The Gustavo Dudamel Foundation will provide lodging while in Mexico City; Southwest Airlines will cover the round-trip international airfare for AMP participants. <\/span><\/p>\n

“Encounters” – Music Unites the Continents<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

#LasAmericasEncuentros<\/b><\/p>\n

This February-March, Maestro Gustavo Dudamel, the 37-year-old Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, is taking the Vienna Philharmonic on its first “Americas” tour, \u00a0beginning at Carnegie Hall in New York and concluding at the Teatro Col\u00f3n in Buenos Aires with stops in Florida, Mexico City, Bogota and Santiago de Chile. It is an extremely meaningful tour for the Venezuelan maestro, bringing the Vienna Philharmonic to his home continent and symbolically uniting North, Central and South America. <\/span><\/p>\n

As part of the upcoming tour, Mexico\u2019s National Institute of Fine Arts (Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, abbreviated INBA), Secretary of Culture and the Arturo M\u00e1rquez Foundation (Fundaci\u00f3n Arturo M\u00e1rquez) have partnered with the Gustavo Dudamel Foundation (Fundaci\u00f3n Dudamel) to create a four-day intensive Art and Citizenship workshop for young musicians from across the Americas.<\/span><\/p>\n

From March 1 to 4, 300 young musicians from artistic and community programs of the National System of Musical Development in Mexico (Sistema Nacional de Fomento Musical en M\u00e9xico) from Canada, the United States, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Argentina and Chile will participate in rehearsals, discussions and final performance at the majestic Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City.<\/span><\/p>\n

The workshop will be conducted under the guidance of Maestro Dudamel alongside an international faculty of world-class teachers and educators. The repertoire includes Arturo M\u00e1rquez’s “<\/span>Alas (a Malala)<\/span><\/i>“, dedicated to the Pakistani Nobel Peace Prize, Malala Yousafzai, who fought for education as a fundamental right of children everywhere, and Antonin Dvorak’s popular “<\/span>New World<\/span><\/i>” Symphony, a work inspired by indigenous and African-American musical traditions.<\/span><\/p>\n

A champion of the belief in music’s power to unite and inspire, Dudamel is particularly committed to the idea of the “United Americas.\u201d Said Dudamel, <\/span>\u201cthe Americas are a united essence. The culture of the Americas \u2013 north, south, central \u2013 is inspired by the landscape, the people, the folklore of these amazing countries. That’s a beautiful connection, and I believe that the culture of these places breaks borders. Boundaries don’t exist, divisions don’t exist…an entire continent, as one, exists. America as one: that is what this tour symbolizes.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Many of the participating young musicians will come from local education initiatives promoting music education in underserved communities. Together, they will explore the cultural unity of the Americas and offer a timely celebration of harmony, equality, dignity, beauty and respect through music. Dudamel continues, \u201c<\/span>If we are to advance as a society, we need to open children\u2019s minds to new thinking and let them spread their wings and fly.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The Atlanta Music Project has selected seven young musicians to participate in this international event. All seven participants are members of the AMP Symphony Orchestra program at the City of Atlanta\u2019s Perkerson Park Recreation Center, and attend Atlanta Public Schools (Maynard Jackson High School, Sylvan Hills Middle School and Wesley International Academy). \u201cFor several years, these young musicians have demonstrated a passion and steadfast commitment to their musical development through the Atlanta Music Project, and I am excited for them to experience this incredible opportunity to travel to Mexico City and perform under Maestro Dudamel. Thank you to the Gustavo Dudamel Foundation and Southwest Airlines for their support,\u201d said Dantes Rameau, co-founder and executive director of the Atlanta Music Project. <\/span><\/p>\n

Nyasjah Brooks, 15, viola<\/span><\/p>\n

Alivia Carter, 16 double bass <\/span><\/p>\n

Lailah Carter, 13 violin<\/span><\/p>\n

Donovan Fuller, 13, violin<\/span><\/p>\n

Danielle Liburd, 17, cello <\/span><\/p>\n

Joshua Sheperd, 13, double bass<\/span><\/p>\n

Landon Wilkins, 15, violin<\/span><\/p>\n

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About the Atlanta Music Project<\/b><\/p>\n

Founded in 2010, the Atlanta Music Project provides more than 5,000 hours annually, of intensive, tuition-free music education for underserved youth right in their neighborhood. Now serving 300 students at six sites, AMP provides all its students with an instrument, a teaching artist, classes in Symphony Orchestra; AMPlify, the choral program of the Atlanta Music Project; the AMP Academy, providing advanced musical training to AMP\u2019s most talented and dedicated students; and the AMP Summer Series, a music festival and school. AMP music ensembles perform 40 concerts per year. Its members have participated in Georgia All-State ensembles and have performed in Atlanta, Los Angeles, and. Aspen. In March of 2018, AMP musicians\u00a0head to Mexico City for their first international performance. In 2015 Clayton State University established the Atlanta Music Project Endowed Scholarships, providing college scholarship funds for AMP students. AMP\u2019s program partners include the City of Atlanta Department of Parks & Recreation, and The Kindezi Schools. AMP is the recipient of the prestigious 2016 Bank of America Neighborhood Builders award. In 2016 and 2017 the White House named AMP one of the top 50 after-school arts programs in the nation. For more information:\u00a0<\/span>www.atlantamusicproject.org<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

About Gustavo Dudamel<\/b><\/p>\n

As an internationally renowned symphonic and operatic conductor, Gustavo Dudamel is motivated by a profound belief in music’s power to unite and inspire. He is currently serving as Music Director of the Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela and Music & Artistic Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the impact of his leadership extends from the greatest concert stages to classrooms, cinemas and innovative digital platforms around the world. Dudamel also appears as guest conductor with some of the world\u2019s most famous musical institutions: in 2017\/18, he tours Europe with the Berlin Philharmonic, and takes the Vienna Philharmonic on a tour of the Americas, with concerts in New York\u2019s Carnegie Hall, Mexico City\u2019s Bellas Artes, Bogot\u00e1\u2019s Teatro Mayor, and the Teatro Municipal in Santiago de Chile, as well as the famed Teatro Col\u00f3n in Buenos Aires. This season also sees Dudamel\u2019s return to the opera house, conducting a new production of Puccini\u2019s <\/span>La boh\u00e8me<\/span><\/i> at the <\/span>Op\u00e9ra National de Paris<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n

With Dudamel now in his ninth season as Music & Artistic Director, the Los Angeles Philharmonic has dramatically expanded the scope of its community outreach programs, most notably through his creation of Youth Orchestra Los Angeles (YOLA), influenced by the philosophy of Venezuela\u2019s admired El Sistema, which encourages social development through music. With YOLA and diverse local educational initiatives, Dudamel brings music to children in under-served communities of Los Angeles. These programs have in turn inspired similar efforts throughout the United States, as well as in Sweden (Hammarkullen), Scotland (Raploch) and around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

For the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Dudamel, not only is the breadth of audiences reached remarkable, but also the depth of programming. LA Phil programs continue to represent the best and boldest in new music, including numerous premieres and commissions by composers such as John Adams, Philip Glass, Bryce Dessner, Arvo P\u00e4rt, Sofia Gubaidulina, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Kaija Saariaho. A series of concerts focusing on Mozart\u2019s late works kicked off the season, as well as Festival CDMX, featuring the music and artists of Mexico. The Winter and Spring of 2018 pay tribute to the 100th birthday of Leonard Bernstein, with performances of <\/span>Mass<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>Chichester Psalms<\/span><\/i>. The season also \u00a0features a Schumann festival, including a new production of <\/span>Das Paradies und die Peri<\/span><\/i>, staged by Peter Sellars<\/span>. <\/span><\/i>In early 2018, the LA Phil also tours the United States and Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now in his 19th year as Music Director of the El Sistema project in Venezuela, Dudamel remains committed to his vision that music unites and transforms lives, and he advocates the combination of music and the arts as essential to the education of young people around the world. Dudamel\u2019s commitment to young people and music is fuelled by his own transformative experience in El Sistema, a program initiated by Jos\u00e9 Antonio Abreu in 1975. In addition to his ongoing commitment to the children, teachers and orchestras of El Sistema in Venezuela, Dudamel devotes much of his time to education and programs promoting social change through art. Dudamel has appeared at the United Nations and the White House to raise awareness for the role of music education in social development. Further afield, he has worked on numerous occasions with El Sistema Japan and with the Sendai Youth Philharmonic in the wake of the 2011 tsunami. He actively supports projects such as Big Noise in Scotland, Vienna\u2019s Superar program, SerHacer in Boston, and El Sistema Sweden, with whom he initiated an international \u201cOrchestra of the Future,\u201d comprising young people from five continents, to perform on the occasion of the 2017 Nobel Prize Concert.<\/span><\/p>\n

Recordings, broadcasts and digital innovations are also fundamental to Dudamel\u2019s passionate advocacy for universal access to music. His discography includes landmark recordings of John Adams\u2019 <\/span>Gospel According to the Other Mary <\/span><\/i>(commissioned and performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic); the sound track to the motion picture <\/span>Libertador, <\/span><\/i>for which Dudamel also composed the score; Mahler Symphonies 5 and 7 with the Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar Symphony Orchestra; and Mahler 9 with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. A unique performance of Mahler\u2019s \u201cSymphony of a Thousand,\u201d featuring the combined forces of the LA Phil, the Bol\u00edvars and over 1000 choristers and children from across Venezuela, was captured for DVD\/Blu-Ray and broadcast live to cinemas in the US and Canada. A film documentary, <\/span>Let the Children Play<\/span><\/i>, featuring Dudamel, was also shown in over 500 movie theaters nationwide. A special charity LP release of Mendelssohn\u2019s \u201cScottish\u201d Symphony with the Vienna Philharmonic raised funds for music education projects in Latin America, and children from Vienna’s El Sistema-inspired Superar program participated in his most recent Deutsche Grammophon release of Mussorgsky\u2019s <\/span>Pictures at an Exhibition<\/span><\/i>, also with the Vienna Philharmonic. Dudamel has independently produced an all-Wagner recording available exclusively for download, a complete set of Beethoven symphonies for digital learning, and a broadcast of two Stravinsky ballets with the Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar Symphony Orchestra in cooperation with the Berlin Philharmonic’s Digital Concert Hall.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gustavo Dudamel has been featured three times on CBS\u2019s <\/span>60 Minutes <\/span><\/i>and was subject of a PBS special, <\/span>Dudamel: Conducting a Life<\/span><\/i>. He appeared on <\/span>Sesame Street<\/span><\/i> with Elmo, with Charlie Rose, Conan O’Brian, and on <\/span>The Late Show <\/span><\/i>with Stephen Colbert. \u00a0Most recently, Gustavo had a cameo role in Amazon Studio\u2019s award-winning series <\/span>Mozart in the Jungle<\/span><\/i>, guest-conducted on the soundtrack for <\/span>Star Wars: The Force Awakens<\/span><\/i>, and, together with members of YOLA, became the first classical musician to participate in the Super Bowl Halftime Show, appearing alongside pop stars Coldplay, Beyonc\u00e9 and Bruno Mars. In 2017, he was the youngest-ever conductor to lead the Vienna Philharmonic\u2019s famous New Year\u2019s Day Concert, watched annually by over 60 million people in 90 countries.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gustavo Dudamel is one of the most decorated conductors of his generation. He received the Americas Society Cultural Achievement Award in 2016, and the 2014 Leonard Bernstein Lifetime Achievement Award for the Elevation of Music in Society from the Longy School of Music. He was named <\/span>Musical America<\/span><\/i>\u2019s 2013 Musician of the Year, one of the highest honors in the classical music industry, and was voted into the <\/span>Gramophone<\/span><\/i> Hall of Fame. In October of 2011, he was named <\/span>Gramophone <\/span><\/i>Artist of the Year, and in May of the same year, was inducted into the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in consideration of his \u201ceminent merits in the musical art.\u201d \u00a0The previous year, he received the Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT. \u00a0Dudamel was inducted into l\u2019Ordre des Arts et des Lettres as a Chevalier in Paris in 2009, and received an honorary doctorate from the Universidad Centroccidental Lisandro Alvarado in his hometown of Barquisimeto. He also received an honorary doctorate from the University of Gothenburg in 2012. In 2008, the Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar Youth Orchestra was awarded Spain\u2019s prestigious annual Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts and, along with his mentor Jos\u00e9 Antonio Abreu, Dudamel was given the \u201cQ Prize\u201d from Harvard University for extraordinary service to children. He was named one of <\/span>Time<\/span><\/i> Magazine\u2019s 100 most influential people in 2009.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gustavo Dudamel was born in 1981 in Barquisimeto, Venezuela. He began violin lessons as a child with Jos\u00e9 Luis Jim\u00e9nez and Francisco D\u00edaz at the Jacinto Lara Conservatory. He continued his violin studies with Rub\u00e9n Cova and Jos\u00e9 Francisco del Castillo at the Latin American Academy of Violin. His conducting studies began in 1993 when he was hired as an Assistant Conductor with the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra. In 1996, he studied with Rodolfo Saglimbeni and was named Music Director of the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra. In 1999, he was appointed Music Director of the Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar Youth Orchestra and began conducting studies with the orchestra\u2019s founder, Dr. Abreu. Dudamel was brought to international attention by winning the inaugural Bamberger Symphoniker Gustav Mahler Competition in 2004. He then went on to become Music Director of the Gothenburg Symphony (2007-2012), where he currently holds the title Honorary Conductor. Inspired by Dudamel\u2019s early musical and mentoring experiences, the Gustavo Dudamel Foundation, a registered charity, was created in 2012 with the goal of promoting access to music as a human right and a catalyst for learning, integration, and social change.<\/span><\/p>\n

For more information about Gustavo Dudamel, visit his official website: <\/span>www.gustavodudamel.com<\/span><\/a>. For information about The Gustavo Dudamel Foundation: <\/span>www.dudamelfoundation.org<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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