“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

On April 10, 2021, Symphony: a journey into the heart of music will open as a permanent exhibition at “la Caixa” Foundation’s cultural centre, CaixaForum Barcelona.

The Dudamel Foundation presents its first European Encuentros in Spain in June 2021 in partnership with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the State Secretary for International Cooperation of Spain. Students from the Americas — México, the United States, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Venezuela, Colombia, Perú, and Nicaragua — and Spain will work together side-by-side in the Orquesta del Encuentro con 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.

"The most beautiful thing would be to join through our differences, and not see them as an element of division," says Dudamel. "I think that fact that each youth comes from different socioeconomic, cultural and religious context and then they play together to create one discourse - that is music."

(From “Maestro Dudamel takes virtual reality Symphony on tour” by James Badcock, BBC News)

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.

The Gustavo Dudamel Foundation is bringing the Coro de Manos Blancas (White Hands Choir) of Venezuela to Europe on a tour with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra in April 2020, which will celebrate Beethoven's 250th birthday by exploring his identity as a deaf artist.

The Gustavo Dudamel Foundation will be supporting YOLA’s first international tour this November, celebrating music without borders and the vital importance of cultural exchange, as 96 YOLA students and alumni from three YOLA sites join 100 young musicians from Sistema Nacional de Fomento Musical en México and the Music Schools of Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura to celebrate music without borders and cultural exchange.

The issue of education has not only brought husband-and-wife team, María Valverde and Gustavo Dudamel together for the first time to speak to the press – more precisely EL PAÍS – it has also brought them together on stage for the first time in Spain.

This August 2019, the Gustavo Dudamel Foundation will collaborate with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra to train the next generation of global musicians through guided mentorship and performance. Furthering GDF’s mission to encourage intercontinental dialogue through music, 41 young musicians from around the world will perform Mahler’s Symphony No. 1, “The Titan” at the Castell de Peralada Festival on August 10. 

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.

Mexico’s National Institute of Fine Arts, Secretary of Culture, and the Arturo Márquez Foundation partnered with the Gustavo Dudamel Foundation to create a four-day intensive Art and Citizenship workshop for young musicians from across the Americas.

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.

The Foundation’s grant to the Mass Cultural Council will supplement the state agency’s support of 18 El Sistema-inspired youth music ensembles across Massachusetts, and support a community performance by these young musicians in Boston.