El Sistema is a publicly financed music education program founded in Venezuela in 1975 by Venezuelan educator, musician, and activist José Antonio Abreu. Its motto is "Music for Social Change." One of ...

In case you’re not satisfied with the plethora of free performances this Thursday and Saturday by members of the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra is also ...

If I say that the Simón Bolívar Orchestra are not an ensemble you really want to hear two nights running that’s not necessarily a bad thing. The energy, the physical hit of their attack is thrilling ...

Our photographer followed 95 young musicians for six days as they prepared to perform with Dudamel, the next music director of the New York Philharmonic. By Javier C. Hernández and James Estrin The ...

Eduardo Méndez recalls the day his mother took him for the first time to a small El Sistema center in Mérida, his hometown in the Andean region of Venezuela. He was only 5 and his mom wanted him to do ...

It's beside the point to write anything as prosaic as criticism of the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela. Its members traffic in being young and exuberant and wonderful. They filled the ...

While the Friday performance at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra of the much-hyped Simon Dudamel-conducted Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela is sold out, the rehearsal Thursday from 3 to 5 PM ...

Both the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela and Daniel Barenboim are capable of selling out the Royal Festival Hall on their own, and so when the two combined forces for the last of the ...

San Diego Symphony music director Rafael Payare is a steadfast champion of the music of his homeland of Venezuela, especially in a string of upcoming concert dates with celebrated Venezuelan trumpet ...

Gustavo Dudamel, the Los Angeles Philharmonic artistic and music director who last year spoke out in solidarity with protesters in his native Venezuela, conducts the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra ...

Eduardo Méndez recalls the day his mother took him for the first time to a small El Sistema center in Mérida, his hometown in the Andean region of Venezuela. He was only 5 and his mom wanted him to do ...