Musethica takes to the streets in Zaragoza to celebrate its tenth anniversary

This pioneering project, which has already been extended to twelve countries, has the objective of improve the higher artistic training of young performers and share the experience of chamber music at the highest level with those who can hardly access it. In fact, this project has made it possible to bring classical music to social centers, disability centers, hospitals, prisons or community schools.

To celebrate a decade of sharing music, the program kicks off with an exhibition that shows its social impact and its international trajectory and that it has settled on the Independence walkwith the collaboration of Zaragoza City Council.

The exhibition pays tribute to different parts of the Musethica machinery, such as musicians, social centers, partners, volunteers, collaborators, conservatories or public and private institutions that have collaborated, encouraged and supported during these ten years.

As the organization explains, on November 19, 2012 the first Musethica concert took place at the public special education school Rincón de Goya in Zaragoza. And, what started as a simple idea from the founders, violist Avri Levitan and professor Carmen Marcuellohas aroused the interest of musicians and institutions around the world, with hundreds of annual concerts in special education schools, nursing homes, women’s shelters, prisons, refugee homes and other institutions.

Since that first concert in Zaragoza, Musethica has founded venues in Spain, Germany, Israel and Sweden, as well as regularly collaborating with Austria, China, Finland, France, Holland, Lithuania, Norway and Poland.

Its innovative methodology, which combines artistic excellence with inclusion and accessibility for all audiences, already has a legacy of more than 3,000 chamber music concerts offered in 700 social centers and auditoriums for more than 120,000 people and with the intervention of 537 excellent musicians.

Gain experience as musicians

Its method allows young musicians selected by Musethica’s international jury to work intensively with internationally renowned teachers for a week and perform between 10 and 13 concerts, most of them outside traditional concert halls and free of charge.

In addition to the exhibition Musethica launches a social concert tour at the Rincón de Goya Special Education Center, the Torrero Socio-Labor Center, the Juan XXIII school and the Ramón y Cajal institute, in Zaragoza, as well as in La Almunia.

The culmination of this special program will be the 10th Anniversary Concert of Musethica, on December 4 in the Luis Galve Hall of the Auditorium, which will feature the cast headed by violist Avri Levitan, along with Alicia Salas (viola), Maria Winiarski (viola), Julia Lorenzo (viola), José García (viola), Fernando Arias (cello), Ángela Aguareles (cello), Erica Wise (cello), Mariano García (saxophone) and Stoyan Paskov (guitar).