During this last weekend of January, Franka Verhagen, our CEO, and Ron Davis Alvarez, our Artistic Director, took part of the Sistema Academy 2021.
This yearly academy, which has been organized by El Sistema Sweden over the past five years went online this year.
More than 250 teachers from around the world connected to listen to specialists, who from their area of expertise; orchestral conducting, music pedagogy, communication and management, focused on the main theme of this year's Academy, Motivation.
Franka Verhagen's conference was about “What motivates us to become music teachers and what it takes to motivate our students, while Ron Alvarez offered a presentation on how to motivate new students, in addition to being the host of El Sistema Academy, as Artistic Director of El Sistema Sweden.
