The Orchestra of the Americas (OA) is a
Latin Grammy Award
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winning symphony orchestra of musical leaders, ages 18 to 30, representing more than 25 countries of the
Western Hemisphere
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.
Leadership
The orchestra is guided by Artistic Advisor
Plácido Domingo
José Plácido Domingo Embil (born 21 January 1941) is a Spanish opera singer, conductor, and arts administrator. He has recorded over a hundred complete operas and is well known for his versatility, regularly performing in Italian, French, ...
and Music Director
Carlos Miguel Prieto
Carlos Miguel Prieto (born 14 November 1965) is a Mexican conductor. He is music director of the Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional de Mexico and the Orquesta Sinfonica de Mineria, of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra in New Orleans, and The Orc ...
.
History
The orchestra is an initiative o
The Orchestra of the Americas Group Other initiatives within the group include
Global Leaders InstituteMusic In Action JournalSoundPost PodcastOAcademy(Re)Setting The Stageconference series, an
Lideres Emprendedoresentrepreneurship prize.
The orchestra was founded in 2002 by VISIÓN Inc in partnership with the
New England Conservatory
The New England Conservatory of Music (NEC) is a private music school in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the oldest independent music conservatory in the United States and among the most prestigious in the world. The conservatory is located on Hu ...
. The Orchestra's creation was inspired by pioneering work of figures including
Jorge Peña Hen (Chile),
Ana Milena Muñoz Gómez
Ana Milena Muñoz Gómez (born January 26, 1956) is the wife of the 28th president of Colombia, César Gaviria Trujillo, and served as First Lady of Colombia from 1990 to 1994.
Personal life
Ana Milena was born on 29 January 1956 in Pereira, ...
(Colombia),
Oscar Arias
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People
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(Costa Rica),
José Antonio Abreu
José Antonio Abreu Anselmi (May 7, 1939 – March 24, 2018) was a Venezuelan orchestra conductor, pianist, economist, educator, activist, and politician best known for his association with El Sistema. He was honored with the 2009 Latin Grammy T ...
(Venezuela), and others throughout the Americas, to give the platform of the symphony orchestra renewed purpose at the epicenter of social transformations in diverse, underprivileged communities.
The organization was established by founding chairman
Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg, vice-chairman Mark Churchill, vice-chairman
José Antonio Abreu
José Antonio Abreu Anselmi (May 7, 1939 – March 24, 2018) was a Venezuelan orchestra conductor, pianist, economist, educator, activist, and politician best known for his association with El Sistema. He was honored with the 2009 Latin Grammy T ...
, and CEO & Managing Director Debra McKeon, in partnership with The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studie
at
Harvard University
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, the
Organization of American States
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, and the
Inter-American Development Bank
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. Early musical supporters include
Yo-Yo Ma
Yo-Yo Ma (''Chinese'': 馬友友 ''Ma Yo Yo''; born October 7, 1955) is an American cellist. Born in Paris to Chinese parents and educated in New York City, he was a child prodigy, performing from the age of four and a half. He graduated from ...
,
Carlos Miguel Prieto
Carlos Miguel Prieto (born 14 November 1965) is a Mexican conductor. He is music director of the Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional de Mexico and the Orquesta Sinfonica de Mineria, of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra in New Orleans, and The Orc ...
,
Plácido Domingo
José Plácido Domingo Embil (born 21 January 1941) is a Spanish opera singer, conductor, and arts administrator. He has recorded over a hundred complete operas and is well known for his versatility, regularly performing in Italian, French, ...
,
Gustavo Dudamel
Gustavo Adolfo Dudamel Ramírez (born 26 January 1981) is a Venezuelan conductor and violinist who is the music director of the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Paris Opera.
Early life
Dudamel was bor ...
, and
Benjamin Zander
Benjamin Zander (born 9 March 1939 in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, England) is an English conductor, who is currently the musical director of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra and the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra.
Biography
Benja ...
, among others. Since its inaugural tour, The Orchestra of the Americas has performed more than 400 concerts for audiences in 35+ countries throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia. The Orchestra has reached over 15 million people through television & radio broadcasts, recordings, print, and television - including three feature-length documentary films dedicated to the Orchestra. The Orchestra has released a number of critically acclaimed commercial recordings with
Plácido Domingo
José Plácido Domingo Embil (born 21 January 1941) is a Spanish opera singer, conductor, and arts administrator. He has recorded over a hundred complete operas and is well known for his versatility, regularly performing in Italian, French, ...
,
Gabriela Montero
Gabriela Montero (born May 10, 1970) is a Venezuelan pianist, known in particular for her real-time improvisation of complex musical pieces on themes suggested by her audience and other sources, as well as for performances of standard classical r ...
,
Philip Glass
Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American composer and pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century. Glass's work has been associated with minimal music, minimalism, being built up fr ...
, and others.
Collaborators
Carlos Miguel Prieto
Carlos Miguel Prieto (born 14 November 1965) is a Mexican conductor. He is music director of the Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional de Mexico and the Orquesta Sinfonica de Mineria, of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra in New Orleans, and The Orc ...
is music director and
Plácido Domingo
José Plácido Domingo Embil (born 21 January 1941) is a Spanish opera singer, conductor, and arts administrator. He has recorded over a hundred complete operas and is well known for his versatility, regularly performing in Italian, French, ...
is Founding Artistic Advisor of The Orchestra of the Americas.
Gustavo Dudamel
Gustavo Adolfo Dudamel Ramírez (born 26 January 1981) is a Venezuelan conductor and violinist who is the music director of the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Paris Opera.
Early life
Dudamel was bor ...
was the Orchestra' Co-Principal Conductor from 2003 to 2010. Guest conductors have included
Lorin Maazel
Lorin Varencove Maazel (, March 6, 1930 – July 13, 2014) was an American conductor, violinist and composer. He began conducting at the age of eight and by 1953 had decided to pursue a career in music. He had established a reputation in th ...
,
Valery Gergiev
Valery Abisalovich Gergiev (russian: Вале́рий Абиса́лович Ге́ргиев, ; os, Гергиты Абисалы фырт Валери, Gergity Abisaly fyrt Valeri; born 2 May 1953) is a Russian conductor and opera company d ...
,
Kent Nagano
Kent George Nagano GOQ, MSM (born November 22, 1951) is an American conductor and opera administrator. Since 2015, he has been Music Director of the Hamburg State Opera and was Music Director of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra from 2006 to 20 ...
,
Leonard Slatkin
Leonard Edward Slatkin (born September 1, 1944) is an American conductor, author and composer.
Early life and education
Slatkin was born in Los Angeles to a Jewish musical family that came from areas of the Russian Empire now in Ukraine. His fat ...
,
Rafael Payare
Rafael Payare (born 23 February 1980) is a Venezuelan conductor.
Background
Born in Puerto la Cruz, Venezuela, Payare's parents were Trina Torres de Payare, an elementary school teacher, and Juan R. Payare, a cartographer for the city. He began ...
,
Helmuth Rilling
Helmuth Rilling (born 29 May 1933) is a German choral conductor and an academic teacher. He is the founder of the Gächinger Kantorei (1954), the Bach-Collegium Stuttgart (1965), the Oregon Bach Festival (1970),
the Internationale Bachakademie S ...
,
Isaac Karabtchevsky, and
José Serebrier
José Serebrier (born 3 December 1938) is a Uruguayan conductor and composer. He is one of the most recorded conductors of his generation.
Early life
Serebrier was born in Montevideo to Russian and Polish parents of Jewish extraction. He fi ...
, among others. Soloists include
Yo-Yo Ma
Yo-Yo Ma (''Chinese'': 馬友友 ''Ma Yo Yo''; born October 7, 1955) is an American cellist. Born in Paris to Chinese parents and educated in New York City, he was a child prodigy, performing from the age of four and a half. He graduated from ...
,
Joshua Bell
Joshua David Bell (born December 9, 1967) is an American violinist and conductor. He plays the Gibson Stradivarius.
Early life and education
Bell was born in Bloomington, Indiana, to Shirley Bell, a therapist, and Alan P. Bell, a psychologis ...
,
Sarah Chang
Sarah Chang ( ko, 장영주; born Young Joo Chang; December 10, 1980) is a Korean American classical violinist. Recognized as a child prodigy, she first played as a soloist with the New York Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1989. Sh ...
,
Vadim Repin
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Julian Rachlin
Julian Rachlin (born 8 December 1974) is a Lithuanian-born violinist, violist and conductor.
Background and early life
Born in Vilnius, he emigrated in 1978 with his musician parents to Austria. In 1983, he entered the Konservatorium Wien and st ...
,
Nelson Freire
Nelson José Pinto Freire (; 18 October 19441 November 2021) was a Brazilian classical pianist. Regarded as one of the greatest pianists of his generation, he was noted for his "decorous piano playing" and "interpretive depth". His extensive di ...
,
Alisa Weilerstein
Alisa Weilerstein (born April 14, 1982) is an American classical cellist. She was named a 2011 MacArthur Fellow.
Life and career
Weilerstein was born in Rochester, New York. to a secular Jewish family.
She started playing the cello at age four. ...
,
Louis Lortie
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Education
Born in Montreal, Lortie made his debut with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra at the age of thirteen and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra three years l ...
,
Ingrid Fliter
Íngrid Fliter (born September 23, 1973, Buenos Aires) is an Argentinian pianist. She began her formal piano studies with Elizabeth Westerkamp. Her first public appearance in recital was at age 11, and she made her concerto debut at the Teatro ...
,
James Ehnes
James Ehnes, (born January 27, 1976) is a Canadian concert violinist and violist.
Life and career
Ehnes was born in Brandon, Manitoba, the son of Alan Ehnes, long time trumpet professor at Brandon University (Canada), and Barbara Withey Ehnes, ...
,
Gabriela Montero
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,
Paquito d'Rivera,
Antonio Meneses
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,
Matt Haimovitz
Matt Haimovitz (born December 3, 1970) is a cellist based in the United States and Canada. Born in Israel, he grew up in the US from the age of five. He plays mainly a cello made by Matteo Goffriller in 1710.
Family, musical education and ear ...
,
Ildar Abdrazakov
Ildar Amirovich Abdrazakov (russian: Ильда́р Ами́рович Абдраза́ков; ba, Абдразаҡов Илдар Әмир улы, ''Abdrazaqov İldar Ämir ulı''; born 26 September 1976) is a Russian bass opera singer. Honour ...
,
Mariachi Vargas
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,
Danilo Perez
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,
Horacio Lavandera
Horacio Lavandera (born Buenos Aires, December 1, 1984) is an Argentina, Argentine Piano, pianist, currently residing in Madrid, Spain. As its youngest competitor at the age of sixteen, he won the International Piano Competition Umberto Micheli ...
,
Ilya Gringolts
Ilya Gringolts (russian: Илья́ Алекса́ндрович Гринго́льц ''Il′já Aleksándrovič Gringól′c'') born 2 July 1982 in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) is a Russian violinist and composer.
Gringolts studied violin in S ...
,
Philippe Quint,
Edmundo T. Ramírez,
Alex Klein
Alex Klein (born 1964, Porto Alegre) is an oboist who began his musical studies in his native Brazil at the age of nine, and made his solo orchestral debut the following year. At the age of eleven he was invited to join the Camerata Antigua, one o ...
, among others. The Orchestra's instrumental coaching faculty includes members of the world's top orchestras, among them principals of the
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
The Metropolitan Opera (commonly known as the Met) is an American opera company based in New York City, resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center, currently situated on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The company is operat ...
,
San Francisco Symphony
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,
Chicago Symphony,
New York Philharmonic
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,
Montreal Symphony
The Montreal Symphony Orchestra (french: Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, or OSM) is a Canadian symphony orchestra based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The orchestra’s home is the Montreal Symphony House at Place des Arts. It is the only orc ...
,
Boston Symphony
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,
Rome Opera
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,
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
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,
Brussels Philharmonic
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,
Cleveland Orchestra
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,
Philadelphia Orchestra
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,
Toronto Symphony
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,
Royal Philharmonic
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,
London Symphony Orchestra
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,
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic
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His ...
, as well as academic music institutions of high repute including
The Juilliard School
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,
The Curtis Institute of Music
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H ...
,
The Colburn School, and
Shepherd School of Music
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. Head of Faculty since 2006 has been Argentine violinist Leon Spierer who led the
Berlin Philharmonic
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History
The Berlin Philharmonic was fo ...
as
Concertmaster
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from 1963 to 1993 under
Herbert von Karajan
Herbert von Karajan (; born Heribert Ritter von Karajan; 5 April 1908 – 16 July 1989) was an Austrian conductor. He was principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic for 34 years. During the Nazi era, he debuted at the Salzburg Festival, wit ...
. Composers-in-Residence to work with the Orchestra include
John Estacio
John Estacio (born April 8, 1966) is a contemporary Canadian composer of opera, orchestral and choral music.
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Life and career
Estacio was born in Newmarket, Ontario. Raised in the farming community of the Holland Marsh, Ontario, Estacio t ...
(2009),
Philip Glass
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(2010 & 2011),
Juan Orrego-Salas
Juan Antonio Orrego-Salas (January 18, 1919 – November 24, 2019) was a Chilean composer, musicologist, music critic, and academic.
Life and career
Born Juan Antonio Orrego-Salas in Santiago on January 18, 1919, Orrego-Salas studied at the Cons ...
(2012),
Tan Dun
Tan Dun (, ; born 18 August 1957) is a Chinese-born American composer and conductor. A leading figure of contemporary classical music, he draws from a variety of Western and Chinese influences, a dichotomy which has shaped much of his life and ...
(2013),
Arturo Marquez (2014),
Nicolas Gilbert
Nicolas Gilbert (born 1979) is a Canadian composer from Montreal, Quebec.
Career
He studied at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal with composers Michel Gonneville and Serge Provost, where he "earned the Prix avec Grande Distinction in ...
(2015),
Arvo Pärt
Arvo Pärt (; born 11 September 1935) is an Estonian composer of contemporary classical music. Since the late 1970s, Pärt has worked in a minimalist style that employs tintinnabuli, a compositional technique he invented. Pärt's music is in pa ...
(2016),
Jüri Reinvere
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(2016),
Gabriela Montero
Gabriela Montero (born May 10, 1970) is a Venezuelan pianist, known in particular for her real-time improvisation of complex musical pieces on themes suggested by her audience and other sources, as well as for performances of standard classical r ...
(2017),
Juan Jose Chuquisengo (2017),
Krzysztof Penderecki
Krzysztof Eugeniusz Penderecki (; 23 November 1933 – 29 March 2020) was a Polish composer and conductor. His best known works include ''Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima'', Symphony No. 3, his '' St Luke Passion'', ''Polish Requiem'', ''A ...
(2018),
Myroslav Skoryk
Myroslav Mykhailovych Skoryk ( uk, Мирослав Михайлович Скорик; 13 July 1938 – 1 June 2020) was a Ukrainian composer and teacher. His music is contemporary in style and contains idioms from diverse sources including G ...
(2018), and
Gabriela Ortiz
Gabriela Ortiz (born 1964) is a Mexican music educator and composer.
Biography
Gabriela Ortiz Torres was born in Mexico City of parents who were folk musicians. She learned folk music at home, and then studied in Paris at the Ecole Normale de M ...
(2019), among others.
Members
Annually up to 6000 musicians across the Western Hemisphere enter the process of auditioning for one of 80 seats in the Orchestra, ranking it among the most competitive orchestra academies in the world. All accepted participants join the Orchestra for a period of one year on full scholarship, which includes an annual international residency and tour. Alumni occupy posts in major international orchestras including the
London Symphony Orchestra
The London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) is a British symphony orchestra based in London. Founded in 1904, the LSO is the oldest of London's orchestras, symphony orchestras. The LSO was created by a group of players who left Henry Wood's Queen's ...
,
Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra
The Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra or just the Mariinsky Orchestra (formerly known as the Kirov Orchestra) is located in the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia. The orchestra was founded in 1783 during the reign of Catherine the Great, it wa ...
,
Cleveland Orchestra
The Cleveland Orchestra, based in Cleveland, is one of the five American orchestras informally referred to as the " Big Five". Founded in 1918 by the pianist and impresario Adella Prentiss Hughes, the orchestra plays most of its concerts at Sev ...
,
Toronto Symphony
The Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO) is a Canadian orchestra based in Toronto, Ontario. Founded in 1906, the TSO gave regular concerts at Massey Hall until 1982, and since then has performed at Roy Thomson Hall. The TSO also manages the Toronto ...
,
Pacific Symphony
The Pacific Symphony is a symphony orchestra located in Orange County, California. The orchestra performs at the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall as a part of the Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa, California. From 1987 to 2016 ...
,
National Symphony Orchestra
The National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) is an American symphony orchestra based in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1930, its principal performing venue is the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. It also performs for the annual National Mem ...
,
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
The Metropolitan Opera (commonly known as the Met) is an American opera company based in New York City, resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center, currently situated on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The company is operat ...
,
Los Angeles Philharmonic
The Los Angeles Philharmonic, commonly referred to as the LA Phil, is an American orchestra based in Los Angeles, California. It has a regular season of concerts from October through June at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, and a summer season at th ...
,
OSESP,
Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional de Mexico,
Charlotte Symphony,
Louisiana Philharmonic
The Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) is an American orchestra based in New Orleans, Louisiana. It is the only full-time, professional orchestra in the Gulf South. The orchestra performs at the Orpheum Theater.
The Louisiana Philharmonic O ...
,
Portland Symphony,
Boston Philharmonic
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Their concerts take place at New England Conse ...
,
Buenos Aires Philharmonic
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,
Boston Symphony
The Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) is an American orchestra based in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the second-oldest of the five major American symphony orchestras commonly referred to as the " Big Five". Founded by Henry Lee Higginson in 1881, ...
,
Detroit Symphony
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,
Sarasota Orchestra
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* Holley Hall ...
,
Seattle Symphony
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History
Beginnings
The orchestra ...
,
New World Symphony
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,
Los Angeles Philharmonic
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,
Rotterdam Philharmonic
The Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra (RPhO; nl, Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest) is a Dutch symphony orchestra based in Rotterdam. Its primary venue is the concert hall De Doelen. The RPhO is considered one of the Netherlands' two principal orc ...
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Paris Opera
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Seoul Philharmonic
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,
Chicago Civic Orchestra
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,
Orchestra London,
National Arts Centre Orchestra
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,
Minnesota Orchestra
The Minnesota Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Founded originally as the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra in 1903, the Minnesota Orchestra plays most of its concerts at Minneapolis's Orchestra Hall.
History
Em ...
, and others. Many alumni have also founded musical institutions in their home regions that focus on social transformation and community development.
Affiliates
Global Leaders Institute
The
Global Leaders Program (GLP) (now branded
Global Leaders Institute) was launched in 2013 as an affiliate o
The Orchestra of the Americas Group Curated by a number of top academic institutions and think-tanks including
Harvard University
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,
McGill University
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,
New York University
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In 1832, the ...
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Georgetown University
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Bard College
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Duke University
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, The Global Leaders Institute offers an annual Executive Graduate Certificate that helps impact-focused musicians succeed as
social entrepreneurs
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. The GLI combines on-site training in diverse international settings with remote classroom learning led by a faculty of pioneers in diverse fields, including
Thomas Südhof
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People
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* Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church
* Thomas the Ap ...
, winner of the 2013
Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology, together with a range of Grammy Winning Artists, TED Presenters, leading academics and cutting-edge practitioners. GLP Cohort Members are prepared simultaneously to act as social entrepreneurs, advocates, pedagogs, performers, managers, civic leaders, and cultural agents.
Other
Other affiliates launched within The Orchestra of the Americas Group includ
Music In Action JournalLideres Emprendedores(Re)Setting The Stage conference series an
SoundPost Podcast among others.
Founded Institutions
The Orchestra has helped to launch several significant music institutions across the Americas including Colombia's National Youth Philharmonic, the National Youth Orchestras of the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Belize, Jamaica, and Haiti, and other initiatives across the Americas modeled on the OA's principles, platform, and training program.
Awards
The Orchestra is the recipient of a
Latin Grammy Award
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(2015) for "Best Classical Album" (Gabriela Montero/Orchestra of the Americas/Carlos Miguel Prieto: Ex-Patria), and the
League of American Orchestras
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Based in New York Ci ...
"Golden Baton Award" (2012).
Artistic Advisory Council
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Martha Argerich
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Early life and education
Argerich was born in Buenos Ai ...
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Joshua Bell
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Early life and education
Bell was born in Bloomington, Indiana, to Shirley Bell, a therapist, and Alan P. Bell, a psychologis ...
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Sarah Chang
Sarah Chang ( ko, 장영주; born Young Joo Chang; December 10, 1980) is a Korean American classical violinist. Recognized as a child prodigy, she first played as a soloist with the New York Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1989. Sh ...
*Thomas Clamor
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Paquito D'Rivera
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Gustavo Dudamel
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Early life
Dudamel was bor ...
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James Ehnes
James Ehnes, (born January 27, 1976) is a Canadian concert violinist and violist.
Life and career
Ehnes was born in Brandon, Manitoba, the son of Alan Ehnes, long time trumpet professor at Brandon University (Canada), and Barbara Withey Ehnes, ...
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Christoph Eschenbach
Christoph Eschenbach (; born 20 February 1940) is a German pianist and conductor.
Early life
Eschenbach was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland). His parents were Margarethe (née Jaross) and Heribert Ringmann. He was orphaned durin ...
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Ingrid Fliter
Íngrid Fliter (born September 23, 1973, Buenos Aires) is an Argentinian pianist. She began her formal piano studies with Elizabeth Westerkamp. Her first public appearance in recital was at age 11, and she made her concerto debut at the Teatro ...
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Nelson Freire
Nelson José Pinto Freire (; 18 October 19441 November 2021) was a Brazilian classical pianist. Regarded as one of the greatest pianists of his generation, he was noted for his "decorous piano playing" and "interpretive depth". His extensive di ...
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Philip Glass
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María Guinand
Maria Guinand (born 1953 in Caracas, Venezuela) is an internationally renowned choral conductor.
María Guinand received her bachelor's and master's degrees in music from the University of Bristol, England, in 1976 and 1982, respectively. Guina ...
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Giancarlo Guerrero
Giancarlo Guerrero (born 1969) is a Costa Rican, Nicaraguan-born, US-based music director. He is the music director of the Nashville Symphony in Nashville, Tennessee. Guerrero is also Music Director of the Wrocław Philharmonic at the National Fo ...
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Miguel Harth-Bedoya
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Alex Klein
Alex Klein (born 1964, Porto Alegre) is an oboist who began his musical studies in his native Brazil at the age of nine, and made his solo orchestral debut the following year. At the age of eleven he was invited to join the Camerata Antigua, one o ...
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Louis Lortie
Louis Lortie, OC, CQ (born 27 April 1959) is a Canadian ( Québécois) pianist.
Education
Born in Montreal, Lortie made his debut with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra at the age of thirteen and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra three years l ...
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Yo-Yo Ma
Yo-Yo Ma (''Chinese'': 馬友友 ''Ma Yo Yo''; born October 7, 1955) is an American cellist. Born in Paris to Chinese parents and educated in New York City, he was a child prodigy, performing from the age of four and a half. He graduated from ...
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Branford Marsalis
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Arturo Marquez
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Gabriela Montero
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Ennio Morricone
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Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, CC (; born Yannick Séguin;David Patrick Stearns, "Nezet-Seguin signs Philadelphia Orchestra contract". ''The Philadelphia Inquirer'', 19 June 2010. 6 March 1975) is a Canadian ( Québécois) conductor and pianist. He ...
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Cristina Ortiz
Cristina Ortiz (born April 17, 1950, in Bahia) is a Brazilian pianist.
Biography
Born in Bahia, Brazil, Cristina Ortiz began her studies in her home country before moving to France with Magda Tagliaferro. Soon after finishing her studies in Par ...
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Helmuth Rilling
Helmuth Rilling (born 29 May 1933) is a German choral conductor and an academic teacher. He is the founder of the Gächinger Kantorei (1954), the Bach-Collegium Stuttgart (1965), the Oregon Bach Festival (1970),
the Internationale Bachakademie S ...
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Leonard Slatkin
Leonard Edward Slatkin (born September 1, 1944) is an American conductor, author and composer.
Early life and education
Slatkin was born in Los Angeles to a Jewish musical family that came from areas of the Russian Empire now in Ukraine. His fat ...
*Leon Spierer
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Maximiano Valdes
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Emmanuel Villaume
Emmanuel Villaume (born 1964 in Strasbourg, France) is a French orchestra conductor. He is currently music director of the Dallas Opera and chief conductor of the Prague Philharmonia.
Biography
Villaume began his musical education at the Stras ...
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John Williams
John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932)Nylund, Rob (15 November 2022)Classic Connection review ''WBOI'' ("For the second time this year, the Fort Wayne Philharmonic honored American composer, conductor, and arranger John Williams, who wa ...
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Benjamin Zander
Benjamin Zander (born 9 March 1939 in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, England) is an English conductor, who is currently the musical director of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra and the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra.
Biography
Benja ...
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David Zinman
David Zinman (born July 9, 1936, in Brooklyn, NY) is an American conductor and violinist.
Education
After violin studies at Oberlin Conservatory, Zinman studied theory and composition at the University of Minnesota, earning his M.A. in 1963. He ...
Leadership Council
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Madeleine K. Albright
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Paulo Coelho
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Cecilia Morel Montes
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Mario Vargas Llosa
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David Rockefeller Jr.
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League of American Orchestras
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Based in New York Ci ...
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The Americas Society
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Organization of American States
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Presidential Council
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Colville Young
Sir Colville Norbert Young (born 20 November 1932) is a Belizeans, Belizean politician who served as the 2nd Governor-General of Belize. He is also a patron of the Scouting, Scout Association of Belize. He was appointed as the Governor-General ...
- Belize
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Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada Sánchez Bustamante (born 1 July 1930), often referred to as Goni, is a Bolivian businessman and politician who served as the 61st president of Bolivia from 1993 to 1997 and from 2002 to 2003. A member of the Revolu ...
- Bolivia
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Fernando Henrique Cardoso
Fernando Henrique Cardoso (; born 18 June 1931), also known by his initials FHC (), is a Brazilian sociologist, professor and politician who served as the 34th president of Brazil from 1 January 1995 to 31 December 2002. He was the first Brazi ...
- Brazil
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Stephen Harper
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- Canada
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Ricardo Lagos
Ricardo Froilán Lagos Escobar (; born 2 March 1938) is a Chilean lawyer, economist and social-democratic politician who served as president of Chile from 2000 to 2006. During the 1980s he was a well-known opponent of the Chilean military di ...
- Chile
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Cecilia Morel Montes
María Cecilia Morel Montes (born 14 January 1954) is the wife of the former President of Chile Sebastián Piñera, and as such is the former First Lady of Chile. Morel was also the Director of the Sociocultural Area of the Presidency during b ...
- Chile
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Andrés Pastrana - Colombia
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César Gaviria
César Augusto Gaviria Trujillo ( ; born 31 March 1947) is a Colombian economist and politician who served as the President of Colombia from 1990 to 1994, Secretary General of the Organization of American States from 1994 to 2004 and National Di ...
- Colombia
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Abel Pacheco de la Espriella - Costa Rica
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Óscar Rafael de Jesús Arias Sánchez - Costa Rica
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Lucio Edwin Gutiérrez Borbúa - Ecuador
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Alfonso Portillo
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He took office on 14 January 2000, representing the Guatemalan Republican Front (FRG), the party then ...
- Mexico
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Vicente Fox
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- Mexico
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Mireya Elisa Moscoso
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B ...
- Panama
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Nicanor Duarte Frutos
Óscar Nicanor Duarte Frutos (born 11 October 1956) is a Paraguayan politician who served as President of Paraguay from 2003 to 2008. In 2013, President Horacio Cartes appointed Duarte as Ambassador to Argentina, a diplomatic posting he held fro ...
- Paraguay
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Luis Ángel González Macchi
Luis Ángel González Macchi (born December 13, 1947, in Asunción) was the President of Paraguay from 1999 until 2003.
Career
He was the President of the Paraguayan Senate from 1998 to 1999.
As the president of the Senate, González Macchi ...
- Paraguay
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George W. Bush
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- United States
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Jorge Batlle
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Dr. Jorge Batlle ...
- Uruguay
Offices
The Orchestra of the Americas is registered as an organization in the
United States
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Costa Rica
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Canada
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Brazil
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Venezuela
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. The head office is a
501(c)3
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located in
Washington, DC
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. The organization's operating budget ranges annually from $2 to $3 million
USD
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References
External links
Orchestra of the Americas websiteOrchestra of the Americas FacebookOrchestra of the Americas InstagramOrchestra of the Americas TwitterOrchestra of the Americas Canada websiteGlobal Leaders Program website Global Leaders Program FacebookGlobal Leaders Program InstagramGlobal Leaders Program TwitterMusic In Action Journal website
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