Music for Peace with El Sistema

The Istanbul Music Festival hosts the Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra of Venezuela on June 10, while Music for Peace Foundation will perform on the same date One of the important events of the ongoing 42nd Istanbul Music Festival will be held on June 10 with a concert by Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra of Venezuela with 240 performers. The performance is to be conducted by music director Christian Vásquez, who is one of the talents grown in the inspiring El Sistema. The concert will take place at Zorlu Center Performing Arts Center.

El Sistema, which was founded in Venezuela by pianist and composer José Antonio Abreu, is considered the most significant classical music project in the world. Abreu, who is also a successful economist, describes El Sistema as a social system that fights poverty and crime.

Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra of Venezuela, which is one of the most important products of the orchestral academic program of the Fundación Musical “Simón Bolívar,” will hold free-of-charge events, as well as their concert. The panel discussion with the participation of Abreu and representatives of Sistema Europe, the European leg of El Sistema, will take place at Martı Istanbul Hotel on June 10 between 2:30 and 4:30 p.m.

Furthermore, the orchestra and choir of the Music for Peace Foundation, one of the best examples of El Sistema in Turkey, will perform in the Main Theater and Mini-Amphitheater of the Zorlu Center Performing Arts Center. The concert will be free of charge.

Since 2005

The Music for Peace Foundation was formed in 2005 by architect Mehmet Selim Baki and Yeliz Baki. It aims at providing musical education for as many children as possible and...