- Winner:
- Miami Music Project
- Summary:
- To build a year-round classical music education program for Miami-Dade middle schoolers together with an annual festival.
- Amount:
- $1,000,000
- Applicants:
- James Judd and Juvenal Correa-Salas
Description
The Miami Music Project is a year-round, intensive classical music outreach program that also produces a two-week festival headed by Conductor James Judd. The project will create an “educational ensemble” that will perform and lead seminars at Miami-Dade middle schools. Students will be encouraged to create their own music, which will be presented at the festival. In its first year, the program will reach 2,000 Miami-Dade students, a number that will quadruple by year three.
Background
James Judd, creative director of the Miami Music Project, is music director emeritus of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. He was music director of that orchestra and the Florida Philharmonic. He has made guest appearances with the Berlin Philharmonic, the Leipzig Gewandhaus, the Vienna Symphony and all the major British orchestras. In Asia he conducts regularly in Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong. He assisted in the foundation of the European Union Youth Orchestra, Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
Juvenal Correa-Salas, executive director of the Miami Music Project, is a pianist, conductor and lecturer. Correa-Salas has been involved in developing outreach programs and music festivals in the Caribbean, Latin-America and the United States. He co-founded the center of arts for children Centro Amati and has been secretary of the Latin-American Music Center at Indiana University, director of the Tampa Opera’s outreach program and director of the Pro-Arte Children’s Series. A graduate of the Music Conservatory of Puerto Rico and the Indiana University School of Music, Correa-Salas was awarded the Robert Feldman Grant and the Harvey Foundation Award for his work and performance excellence.
Project Link
http://www.miamimusicproject.org