I think it’s a very important collaboration between the conductor and the orchestra – especially when the conductor is one more member of the orchestra in the way that you are leading, but also respecting, feeling and building the same way for all the players to understand the music.
Whenever I listen to a children’s orchestra, I learn. They feel everything, they enjoy everything, they have amazing energy.
Music is a fundamental human right.
My main goal, and it’s a big one, is that every child has a chance to get close to music – as a right – that as they have access to food, health, and education, they get the chance to have art and culture – especially music.
The challenge is not so much to change the sound. The challenge is to connect and to create something special.
I set out to create a means whereby music could be a way of vindicating the rights of the masses.
I studied music since I was four years old, and from that moment I became part of a family. And that family has taught me things; not only musical things, but things I have to face in life, and that is where the success of the system lies.
It’s not that people don’t like classical music. It’s that they don’t have the chance to understand and to experience it.
When people feel that something really special is happening on the stage, things change.
In my imagination yes, I remember, when I was six years old, I was conducting all this concert in my house. But now it’s real.