Words of welcome

Matías Rodríguez Inciarte, president of the Prince of Asturias Foundation

Since its beginnings, our organisation has felt highly linked to musical expression, which we understand to be one of the most beautiful and highest forms of Art.

Last year for the Prince of Asturias Awards, we were able to see these young musicians achieve musical excellence and the highest recognition with the help of their effort, talent and teachers. The Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra demonstrated this, in October 2008, when the Network of Youth and Children Orchestras of Venezuela, which the Orchestra belongs to, were bestowed with the Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts.

Throughout these years the Prince of Asturias Awards have gone to institutions and musicians of the stature of Jesús López Cobos, Krzysztof Penderecki, Daniel Barenboim, Joaquín Rodrigo, Yehudi Menuhin, Mstislav Rostropovich, Alicia de Larrocha, Monstserrat Caballé, Plácido Domingo, Barbara Hendricks, the Orfeón Donostiarra, José Carreras, Teresa Berganza, Victoria de los Ángeles, Alfredo Kraus, Pilar Lorengar, Paco de Lucía and Bob Dylan.

We welcome you to the International Music School, an international space where students meet in order to broaden their experience of instrument, ensemble and orchestra performance, following a demanding repertoire, attending classes under internationally renowned maestros and attending a series of concerts that help to guarantee ideal training for the younger musicians, the best symbol of our aims and hopes.

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