“Culture must be part of the post-pandemic recovery. As stated by Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of UNESCO, ‘the upcoming recovery will determine who we will be in the years to come. Culture cannot be forgotten in national plans, because there will be no economic recovery without culture.’ Indeed, art and culture cannot be forgotten in this stage of recovery.” –Gustavo Dudamel

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.

Developed by the “la Caixa” Foundation in collaboration with Artistic Director Igor Cortadellas, a virtual orchestral experience featuring young artists from the Gustavo Dudamel Foundation, will launch on September 15, 2020, at the CosmoCaixa Museum in Barcelona, Spain. Gustavo, side-by-side with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, will bring this virtual symphonic experience to hundreds of rural towns and communities throughout Spain and Portugal during a ten-year international tour.

Composer, pianist, and vocalist Maya Keren was awarded the 2020 Trenton Arts in Princeton Music Fellowship, a new grant supported by the Dudamel Foundation which is awarded annually to Princeton University students who serve their local communities through arts and music.

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!

On January 17, 2020, Gustavo invited 26 members of the Trenton Youth Orchestra (TYO) and 13 Princeton University students to attend his concert with the New York Philharmonic in which he conducted Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9 "From the New World", a piece the TYO students will perform later this spring.

In June 2020, The Gustavo Dudamel Foundation is bringing 20 members of the Simón Bolívar Chorus to the Shinjuku Gyoen in Tokyo, Japan to sing as part of 2020 One World Choir, a choir made up of over 200 singers from 28 countries on 6 continents, in special performances Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Berlin Philharmonic, led by Gustavo Dudamel.

At the heart of Princeton University Concerts’ 125th Anniversary Season is a series of concerts and events centered around PUC’s first Artist-in-Residence, conductor Gustavo Dudamel. The maestro, currently the music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, will visit the Princeton campus three times throughout the 2018-19 season in his first extended University residency: in December, January, and April. 

THE GUSTAVO DUDAMEL FOUNDATION, IN ASSOCIATION WITH CORPARTES, SANTIAGO (CHILE) present "A mi Maestro". From June 25th - 29th, the global music community came together in solidarity with Gustavo Dudamel to celebrate the life and legacy of Maestro José Antonio Abreu and his vision in the role of the arts as a force for social change, in Latin America and around the world.

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.