Gustavo and YOLA alumna Liliana Morales joined NAMM Foundation President Mary Luehrsen to share their personal and professional journeys, perspectives on the importance of music during this time of the pandemic, music’s role in addressing social justice, and why music education is a fundamental right for all children.

Here is a list of ten pointers for virtual music instruction that we hope will help you make the most of the new technologies at our fingertips. We want to emphasize the importance of the human connection, always. Over Zoom, FaceTime, Skype, Google Meet, or whatever platform you choose, fill the screen with your musical personality!

The Gustavo Dudamel Foundation will be supporting YOLA’s first international tour this November, celebrating music without borders and the vital importance of cultural exchange, as 96 YOLA students and alumni from three YOLA sites join 100 young musicians from Sistema Nacional de Fomento Musical en México and the Music Schools of Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura to celebrate music without borders and cultural exchange.

The issue of education has not only brought husband-and-wife team, María Valverde and Gustavo Dudamel together for the first time to speak to the press – more precisely EL PAÍS – it has also brought them together on stage for the first time in Spain.

This August 2019, the Gustavo Dudamel Foundation will collaborate with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra to train the next generation of global musicians through guided mentorship and performance. Furthering GDF’s mission to encourage intercontinental dialogue through music, 41 young musicians from around the world will perform Mahler’s Symphony No. 1, “The Titan” at the Castell de Peralada Festival on August 10. 

Mexico’s National Institute of Fine Arts, Secretary of Culture, and the Arturo Márquez Foundation partnered with the Gustavo Dudamel Foundation to create a four-day intensive Art and Citizenship workshop for young musicians from across the Americas.

In cooperation with the Hilti Foundation and El Sistema Sweden, the Gustavo Dudamel Foundation was proud to support a Nobel Day of Music on Friday, December 8th. As part of the occasion, musical performances were given in communities across Sweden from morning to night, culminating in the Nobel Prize Concert that evening.

The Foundation’s grant to the Mass Cultural Council will supplement the state agency’s support of 18 El Sistema-inspired youth music ensembles across Massachusetts, and support a community performance by these young musicians in Boston.