From February 23 to March 10, Gustavo Dudamel brought the Vienna Philharmonic on its first “Americas” tour, beginning at Carnegie Hall in New York and concluding at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires with stops in Florida, Mexico City, Bogota and Santiago de Chile. It was an extremely meaningful tour for Dudamel, bringing the Vienna Philharmonic to his home continent and symbolically uniting North, Central and South America.

As part of the tour, Mexico’s National Institute of Fine Arts, Secretary of Culture, and the Arturo Márquez Foundation partnered with the Gustavo Dudamel Foundation to create a four-day intensive Art and Citizenship workshop for young musicians from across the Americas.

From March 1 to 4, 300 young musicians from community programs of the National System of Musical Development in Mexico (Sistema Nacional de Fomento Musical en México), alongside groups from Canada (El Sistema New Brunswick, Orkidstra/Ottawa), the United States (Atlanta Music Project, Boston String Academy, Harmony Program/New York, Youth Orchestra Los Angeles), Puerto Rico (Conservatorio de Musica de Puerto Rico, Ernesto Ramos Antonini Free School of Music), Venezuela (National Children’s Orchestra of Venezuela), and Argentina (Orquesta Escuela of Chascomus), participated in rehearsals, discussions and final performance at the majestic Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. This video shows the musicians rehearsing on March 3, 2018.

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