Speaker: Eduardo Méndez (Executive Director, The National System of Youth and Children's Orchestras and Choirs of Venezuela)
Title: Innovation Through Music Education
Date: November 26, 2019
Location: NCPA, China
Selected speech
El Sistema is a global approach of music education to transform life and bring about social changes. It is organized as a state-funded organization created in 1975 by the Venezuelan maestro José Antonio Abreu. I'm promoting the collective practice of music as a model of social organization and communitarian development. Our education philosophy is to promote the collective practice of music, to symphony orchestras and symbols and courtesies in order to help children and youngsters to achieve their full potential and to acquire values that favor the growth and have a positive impact on their life in society. The so-called Venezuelan music miracle actually has benefited more than one million students in Venezuela. We are working very hard in our plan to achieve the goal of two million students by the year 2021.
