Tuesday 17 November, 2015

The programme for the Basque National Orchestra's Music Room is set

The Music Room, the project that gets this offer out to the public, presents over thirty activities for the coming months.

The founding principles of the Orchestra's education and dissemination strategy is to offer home-made productions for the enjoyment of the entire family and to make symphony music more engaging at all levels of education. To this end, the BNO Education Department work in collaboration with cultural and social institutions. The Music Room, the project that gets this offer out to the public, presents over thirty activities for the coming months.

FAMILY CONCERTS. The Family Concert series held in Vitoria and San Sebastián will feature three very different proposals for different ages, emotions and sensations, but always with the same goal: to attract audiences of all ages to quality live music.

SCHOOL ACTIVITIES. The Concerts for Schools series, organised in collaboration with the Gipuzkoa General Asssembly and the San Sebastián Town Hall, will offer three productions this season, on for each school level. The series will comprise a total of 18 concerts and bring 5,200 school children to the Orchestra's Miramón headquarters. This Open Rehearsals will also take on special relevance this season: secondary, baccalaureate and university students, as well as students from music conservatories and dance schools will be invited to a BNO rehearsal prior to a Season Concert programme. Five Open Rehearsals have been scheduled (one at the Palacio Euskalduna in Bilbao and four at the Kursaal in San Sebastián).

OTHER INITIATIVES. In support of full inclusion, every year the BNO joins forces with FEVAS (Basque Federation of Associations in Favour of People with Intellectual Disabilities) to create exciting projects for people with different disabilities; in this context, in the coming months, four workshops will be held in Bilbao and San Sebastián. In addition, the Basque National Orchestra has embarked on the project "Mosaic of Sounds", together with the Spanish Association of Symphony Orchestras (AEOS), Plena Inclusión and Fundación BBVA. This ambitious initiative, in which music becomes an instrument for personal development and social integration, will take place throughout 2016.

And as part of the Orchestra's collaboration with DSS2016EU (Donostia-San Sebastian 2016 European Capital of Culture), the BNO, conducted by Jun Märkl, will take part in the European Music School Festival (EMUSIK 2016) to be held at the Anoeta stadium in May 2016.