By the end of the year, some of the country’s greatest instrumentalists will be at the Institute’s headquarters to improve the students’ technique
Over the past two years, the Orquestra Sinfônica Brasileira (Brazilian Symphony Orchestra), through the Conexões Musicais (Musical Connections) project, has been enhancing, through online sessions, the learning of about 40 students of the Programa Vale Música (Vale Music Program), at the Instituto Moinho Cultural, in Corumbá, MS. And now, it’s time to go beyond the limits of the virtual world. Five orchestra musicians are at the Institute’s headquarters to hold — from June 21 until the end of the year — several cycles of teaching residencies. The musicians will give in-person classes aimed at improving the instrumental technique, concert practice, and interpretation of different styles among the students benefited by the program.
By the end of 2022, students from the Instituto Moinho Cultural will also get to know, study, and rehearse at the orchestra’s headquarters, in Rio de Janeiro, to further strengthen the relationship and the teaching. There will also be a big closing concert, on December 10, in Rio de Janeiro, bringing together the young people from the project and the OSB, as well as students from other institutions across the country.
“These meetings between OSB musicians and the young talents of the Programa Vale Música projects are highly anticipated. We spent 2020 and 2021 working with them virtually, and it was possible to notice each one’s progress and growth. The in-person meetings will further deepen these relationships that we have nurtured so carefully over the last two years,” explains the Executive Director of the Orquestra Sinfônica Brasileira, Gregório Tavares.
The project also works as a kind of dialogue between the Orchestra and young talents across Brazil, aiming to discover musicians, spark interest in concert music, and spread the OSB’s knowledge and technique throughout the country.
“We will continue throughout the year preparing for a big culminating concert in December, in which we will create an integrated orchestra made up of Programa Vale Música students and OSB musicians. These interactions are very important for deepening this synergy, encouraging exchanges of knowledge, and focusing on improving the students’ stage performance,” he concludes.
Within the scope of the Orquestra Sinfônica Brasileira’s activities, the initiative is part of Conexões Musicais, the project for democratizing access to concert music, run by the institution since 2017, which has already promoted educational and cultural activities involving about 30 Brazilian municipalities.
ABOUT THE INSTITUTO CULTURAL VALE
The Instituto Cultural Vale (Vale Cultural Institute) starts from the principle that living culture allows people to broaden their worldview and create new perspectives for the future. It plays an important role in social transformation and seeks to democratize access, foster art, culture, knowledge, and the dissemination of various artistic expressions of our country, while also contributing to strengthening the creative economy. There are more than 300 projects created, supported, or sponsored in 24 states and the Federal District underway in 2022. Among them, a network of its own cultural spaces, sponsored through the Federal Culture Incentive Law, with free admission and a unique identity and purpose: Memorial Minas Gerais Vale (MG), Museu Vale (ES), Centro Cultural Vale Maranhão (MA), and Casa da Cultura de Canaã dos Carajás (PA). Where there is Culture, Vale is there. Visit the Instituto Cultural Vale website: institutoculturalvale.org
ABOUT THE PROGRAMA VALE MÚSICA
The Programa Vale Música (Vale Music Program) is an original project of the Instituto Cultural Vale. The program is a collaborative teaching and learning network among students from music hubs in four states — Pará, Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais, and Mato Grosso do Sul — and professionals from the country’s largest orchestras. In total, it involves about 250 professionals and more than 1,000 students in exchanges, classes, and artistic residencies. Partners of the Programa Vale Música include the Orquestra Sinfônica Brasileira (OSB), the Orquestra Ouro Preto, the Orquestra Filarmônica de Minas Gerais, the Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo (Osesp), and the Nova Orquestra, sponsored through the Federal Culture Incentive Law. Learn more about the Programa Vale Música at institutoculturalvale.org
THE ORQUESTRA SINFÔNICA BRASILEIRA:
Founded in 1940, the Orquestra Sinfônica Brasileira is considered one of the country’s most important symphonic ensembles. In its 81 years of uninterrupted history, the OSB has already given more than five thousand concerts and is recognized for its pioneering initiatives, having been the first orchestra to tour Brazil and abroad, hold open-air performances, and run audience-building projects. In April 2021, the Orquestra Sinfônica Brasileira was registered as intangible cultural heritage of the city of Rio de Janeiro.
Currently made up of more than 70 Brazilian and foreign musicians, the OSB offers a regular schedule of concerts, special performances, and educational initiatives, in addition to a broad project of social responsibility and democratization of access to culture.
To carry out its activities, the Foundation relies on the Federal Culture Incentive Law, has the Instituto Cultural Vale as its maintainer, NTS – Nova Transportadora do Sudeste as master sponsor, and Brookfield as sponsor, in addition to a group of co-sponsors and cultural and institutional supporters.
ABOUT THE INSTITUTO MOINHO CULTURAL:
The Instituto Moinho Cultural Sul-Americano (IMC), opened in 2004, in Corumbá/MS, aims to be recognized for the excellence of its methodologies for promoting the development of children and teenagers in a border region, through access to cultural resources and the strengthening of formal education quality. The project socially includes and engages 360 children and teenagers from Corumbá, Ladário, and the border towns of Puerto Suarez and Puerto Quijarro, 40 of whom, in the latter, are Bolivian children between 6 and 18 years old in a situation of socioeconomic vulnerability who are part of the Sistema Moinho (Moinho System). Through the Programa Roda Moinho (Roda Moinho Program), it carries out exchanges with municipal schools in settlements and riverside areas of Corumbá and rural schools in Miranda, serving more than 200 children and teenagers. Throughout its history, more than 20,000 people have been directly impacted. Today, Moinho Cultural has established the Orquestra de Câmara do Pantanal (Pantanal Chamber Orchestra), the Cia de Dança do Pantanal (Pantanal Dance Company), and NUTEC – Núcleo de Tecnologia do Moinho Cultural (Moinho Cultural Technology Center).
