With the emotional interpretation in string arrangements of songs by Violeta Parra, Víctor Jara and Jorge Yáñez, by the Quartet of the Regional Youth Symphony Orchestra of Valparaíso, the launching ceremony of the Eighth Season of Concerts by Youth Orchestras of the Valparaiso University. The event took place at the Municipal Theater of Viña del Mar, the stage where the first concert of the 2024 cycle will be held.
The event was attended by the rector of the university, Osvaldo Corrales; the executive director of the Youth and Children’s Orchestras Foundation (FOJI), Pablo Aranda, and the mayor of the Garden City, Macarena Ripamonti, who were accompanied by representatives of the organizing entities and the orchestral formations that will take part in the season.
On the occasion, Pablo Aranda, along with expressing his gratitude to the University of Valparaíso and the Viñamarino municipality, valued “this opportunity that is given to us, to continue this activity that we have been carrying out, through an agreement, to strengthen ourselves, establish ties . This especially thinking that the space that art offers to young people is a very important space in society at this moment because it is a different space. It takes them to another relationship with themselves, it takes them out of the immediacy of everyday life, it takes them out of television and takes them to the theater, it takes them to music, to the concert. And in the case of FOJI particularly, we make all our young people participate in this orchestral practice, which we believe is a space for them to have a comprehensive training. But let’s also not forget that behind a young person are families, so we give access through them to many families so that they can listen to a different repertoire, such as the orchestral repertoire.”
He added that “we are happy as FOJI for this opportunity, and we certainly want to be ready for all possible collaborations to continue giving strength, energy, providing this poetic space, a different space, to all our young people.”
For her part, Mayor Macarena Ripamonti highlighted the opening of the Municipal Theater for this season: “We have had our Theater open for six months now, more than 64 thousand people have come, and they have been able to enjoy not only conventional programming, but also of this type of show, of free instances that are also based on educational and obviously democratic processes, such as bringing the youth and children’s orchestras of the FOJI through the University of Valparaíso. They are training instances linked to the academy, and this space is made available, without a doubt, to enhance the work, the discipline, the rigor, the perseverance that these young people and children have throughout the year, throughout their lives. ”.
For this reason, the city manager added, “being participants and being able to witness this meeting and this eighth season is a pleasure for us. And I reiterate: the Municipal Theater is an open space for all talents, for the artistic expressions of the region, of the country, and above all to value training processes through art and culture.”
Rector Osvaldo Corrales supported the above ideas, adding that “although there are youth orchestra festivals throughout the country, there is no youth orchestra season, that is, a long cycle where young people, young people who are part of orchestras Youth from different parts of our country can express their talent, can show their works on stages like this one, like the Municipal Theater of Viña del Mar, so significant. For us, of course, part of our vocation is the development, the dissemination of culture.”
Corrales especially thanked the support of the Municipality of Viña del Mar, “in the person of its mayor, for having given us the opportunity to inaugurate and close this series of concerts here, at the Municipal Theater, a theater that was closed for a long time and that Today it opens its doors so that the residents of this commune can access different forms of art, and in particular they can also be part of this cycle of youth and children’s orchestras that we inaugurated today and that we will have until October of this year. .
At the close of the event, the agreement was signed between the FOJI and the University of Valparaíso, within the framework of which the Eighth Season of Youth Orchestra Concerts is taking place.
opening concert
The first concert of the 2024 cycle will be performed by the FOJI National Youth Symphony Orchestra, conducted by maestro Paolo Bortolameolli. It will take place at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 27, with free entry upon reservation of an invitation on the page https://orquestas.uv.cl.
On the occasion, the orchestral formation will offer the concert “Pulsaciones”, with the following program: by Silvestre Revueltas (Mexico), Sensemayá; by Nebojsa Zivkovi, (Serbia), Trio per Uno, first movement; by George Gershwin (United States), Cuban Overture; by Arturo Márquez (Mexico), Danzón n°8, and by Maurice Ravel (France), Bolero.
It should be noted that since the birth of the Foundation of Youth and Children’s Orchestras of Chile (FOJI), the National Youth Symphony Orchestra (OSNJ) has represented a unique possibility for boys, girls and adolescents to acquire orchestral experience, working under the baton of outstanding directors and having the possibility of participating in an annual season of concerts in the main halls of the country, as well as international tours.
Composed of young people between 16 and 24 years old, the group was created by Maestro Fernando Rosas in 1992 and since 2001 it has been part of the FOJI. It has been directed by teachers Maximiano Valdés, Juan Pablo Izquierdo, José Luis Domínguez, Gustavo Dudamel, Paolo Bortolameolli, Nicolas Rauss, Rodolfo Fischer, Helmuth Reichel, Zubin Mehta, among others.
2024 season
The Eighth Season of Youth Orchestra Concerts includes a total of six concerts, the first and last of which will take place at the Municipal Theater of Viña del Mar, at 7:30 p.m. The other four will take place in the Aula Magna of the UV Law Faculty (Errázuriz 2120), at 7:00 p.m.
The entire season, as is traditional, has free entry. In the case of concerts at the Viñamarino Municipal Theater, it is necessary to register in advance, which must be verified at the link https://orquestas.uv.cl. In the case of Aula Magna concerts, no prior registration is required.
The Valparaíso Public Student Orchestra, Opeval, directed by Francisco Villalobos, will perform this season; the JSBach de Valdivia Music School Youth Symphony Orchestra directed by Vicente Toskana-Lanzendorff; the Alimapu Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Danitza Villarroel Orrego; the Valparaíso Regional Youth Symphony Orchestra (OSJR), directed by Jesús Rodríguez; the MusArt Orchestra of Casablanca, directed by Javiera Campos, accompanied by the Choir of the UV Faculty of Humanities and Education and the Vocal Camerata of the UV Music Pedagogy Career, directed by Ximena Soto Lagos.
