Medellín Philharmonic is nominated for the Classical Innovation Award: NEXT

The Medellín Philharmonic Orchestra has been nominated, for the first time, for the Classical Innovation Award: NEXT, an award that recognizes initiatives that affect their communities with projects that link music with social and solidarity content management.

Along with the Philharmonic there are twenty nominees from which ten finalists will be chosen to participate, next May 2022 in Hannover, Germany for the final prize.

The Filarmed nomination is given for its outstanding work with children, youth, seniors, private companies, local communities, children's rock bands, pop singers, ex-combatants, music students and world-renowned artists.

These nominations are given by 15 music journalists and experts from 13 countries, who form a committee, of which Mauricio Peña is a member, who supports the Filarmed nomination as “it is perhaps the most successful example of a private orchestra in Colombia. As a non-profit organization, the orchestra has developed a management model in which music, social responsibility, and community and corporate relations intersect to provide the citizens of Medellin with a variety of musical experiences in different places and at different stages of their lives.”

María Catalina Prieto, executive director of Filarmed, said that the nomination puts the orchestra on the radar of major classical music organizations and groups in the world. “In addition, it is a recognition of our goal of always thinking and doing things differently,” said Prieto

And it is worth remembering that the Medellín Philharmonic Orchestra believes in music as an agent of social transformation and turns its efforts into carrying out booming programs that serve neurodiverse young people, victims and former combatants of the Colombian armed conflict, children in rural settings affected by violence and drug trafficking, young people blind, health workers from all over the country.

“We, as the Medellín Philharmonic Orchestra, have wanted to do so by being relevant in the life of communities and their transformation, involving various forms of positioning and attracting new audiences; thus we developed a different business model that allows us to position ourselves as a cutting-edge organization that is a benchmark in Colombia and Latin America”, emphasized director Prieto.

The setting for the second concert of the Diverse Music Season will be, on Saturday, April 2, the Metropolitan Theater, where the music of great composers such as Beethoven, Haydn and Brahms will be heard under the direction and interpretation of two young people who are part of the Medellín Philharmonic Orchestra.

The musicians

Natalia Auli is the second oboe soloist playing English horn at the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine and is part of the new generation of artists requested to play solo and give master classes around the world.

And with the baton in hand will be Sebastián Almánzar, a young director who has developed his musical activities in Colombia, as well as in Europe. Next year, he will graduate from the University of Music and Dramatic Art in Vienna, which for two centuries has been the birthplace of great directors.

Ticket prices range from $35,000 on the balcony to $70,000 in front, all the information about the ticket office can be found at Latiquetera.com

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