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Encounter of Santander
The Reina Sofía School of Music and Redeia bring live classical music to rural Spain
- They seal a collaboration to democratise access to classical music in remote and depopulated environments with a tour of recitals and virtual reality workshops.
- The concerts, given by students from the school, will be held in historic or emblematic buildings in four towns with less than 5,000 inhabitants.
- They seal a collaboration to democratise access to classical music in remote and depopulated environments with a tour of recitals and virtual reality workshops.
- The concerts, given by students from the school, will be held in historic or emblematic buildings in four towns with less than 5,000 inhabitants.
Madrid, 3 October 2023.- The Reina Sofía School of Music and Redeia have signed a collaboration agreement to take the School's music to villages in rural Spain where access to culture, and classical music in particular, is more limited and complicated.
The collaboration consists of an annual tour of free recitals by students of the School to four municipalities in remote areas with problems of depopulation - of between 500 and 5,000 inhabitants. The concerts will be held in historic or emblematic buildings and the performers will introduce the works with explanations beforehand, to optimise the enjoyment and appreciation of the music. In this way, the inhabitants enjoy the talent of the young musicians trained at the school and, at the same time, the students' careers are boosted and their employability improved by enabling them to perform outside the conventional cultural circuits.
The tour will include virtual reality workshops thanks to an immersive experience created by the Reina Sofia School of Music that allows participants to discover the work of great composers by travelling from the stage of an orchestra concert to the workshop of a luthier, passing through a palace in Venice and other virtual landscapes and environments. In addition, a musicologist and educator contextualises the pieces and relates music to emotions: Mozart and joy, Tchaikovsky and sadness or Respighi and surprise, among others.
Paloma O'Shea, President of the Reina Sofía School of Music, and Beatriz Corredor, President of Redeia, have sealed the agreement. In the words of Paloma O'Shea: "Since the beginning of the School, one of our objectives has been to bring music closer to everyone. And this involves sharing the talent of our students in the great national and international concert halls, but also in those places where they do not have the conditions to enjoy these artistic experiences on a regular basis".
Beatriz Corredor adds: "Redeia is firmly committed to equal opportunities and the development of rural areas, where we deploy most of our infrastructures. We believe that living in depopulated Spain does not have to be synonymous with fewer rights and opportunities. With this tour, we are taking first class classical music to places where it does not usually reach and we are helping the population of rural areas to have access to culture, education and leisure on equal terms".