20 music teachers and performers got together at Wheatsheaf Hall, home of In Harmony Lambeth, to play Venezuelan music. Sistema Sounds!, organised by Sistema England, was a rehearsal/workshop led by El Sistema teachers Félix Briceño (conductor) and Ron Alvarez (violin). At the end of the event, young musicians from The Nucleo Project joined in for a performance of
Congratulations to Lucy Maguire, founder and Director of The Nucleo Project, who has been nominated to be one of 67 Change Makers, whose actions to make the world a better place, will be celebrated at Southbank Centre for the opening weekend of the Festival of Love, 6 – 7 June 2015. Southbank Centre’s Festival of
In April and May this year, the teachers and young musicians of In Harmony Lambeth, In Harmony Liverpool, Sistema in Norwich and The Nucleo Project welcomed two teachers from Venezuela’s El Sistema, violinist Ron Alvarez and conductor Félix Briceño, to work with them for two weeks each. The exchange was part of the Sharing Notes project led by
Join us at 5pm at Wheatsheaf Hall in Lambeth for a short live performance with El Sistema teachers Ron Alvarez and Félix Briceño, tutors from In Harmony Lambeth, young musicians from The Nucleo Project, and music teachers from around England, who have come together for just one day to work, learn and perform. What: Sistema Sounds!
Teachers from Sistema in Norwich and the In Harmony programmes in Lambeth, Liverpool, Leeds, Newcastle, Nottingham and Telford will meet at Sage Gateshead on 27 May to discuss best practices, as part of a Youth Music funded project led by Sistema England. ‘This day is for teachers to share practical tips and ideas with each another, to
Over the next three months, children and tutors from English Sistema programmes will have gone to Italy, Sweden and Canada as part of a European Union Culture Programme funded exchange between Europe and Canada. SMEEC, as it is known, will see fifty seven English children taking part, with each visit culminating in a performance. The first
Adiya, 15, joined The Nucleo Project two years ago and since then she has been playing the cello. What do you love the most about the cello? I love the deep, rich sound the cello produces. What does The Nucleo Project mean in your life? The Nucleo is a major part of my life. Learning
The pizzas – as one of the children put it – were massive, but what was even larger were the smiles of the young musicians last Sunday, after they performed at Milan’s Dal Verme theatre. It was the end of an adventure that started with an invitation from Sistema England and Sistema Italia, that had most
What do you teach? I wear lots of "hats" as a teacher with In Harmony. I teach Percussion and Musicianship to a range of students… newborns, tots, children, teenagers and sometimes even grown-ups. What is your background as a musician and as a teacher? I found music by accident. I was initially a double bass