Orchestra for Everyone

C.O.N. SONANZA is a cultural and social project modelled on the well-known music promotion programme El Sistema from Venezuela, which became internationally known with its top orchestras such as the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela and famous "children" such as star conductor Gustavo Dudamel, and has had over one million members since its foundation (1975).
 
At C.O.N. SONANZA - Choir-Orchestra-Network in Germany, participants receive free classical music training from qualified music teachers and, if necessary, a loan instrument, which the children may choose after getting to know the various instruments and teachers. 

Our new concept in music education also teaches young people, among other things, democratic awareness, tolerance and patience. Its success is borne by the motivation and joy of learning together with other children from the very beginning and making music as a member of the orchestra. Through regular practice with specially designed pieces of music, exciting teachers gradually teach note reading and technique. 
As of 2019, over 50 children are learning either violin, viola, cello, double bass, French horn, trumpet, clarinet, saxophone, flute, trombone or percussion from 14 teachers.

Initial funding came from the foundations Tribute to Bambi, Antenne Bayern hilft, Hans Thomann, Castringius, Good Monaco, as well as from the Bavarian Singers' Association, the Munich Department of Culture and the Berg am Laim District Committee. The Otto Eckart Foundation and the B.a.L. housing project (Social Department) provide us with free premises. Our cooperation partners include MORGEN e.V., KJR München Stadt, Kulturraum e.V., WERKSVIERTEL-MITTE, and recently also the largest cultural centre in Europe: Gasteig München GmbH!

With your support, we would now like to bring all the remaining percussion and wind instruments as well as other top teachers on board - with the aim of expanding our existing string orchestra into a symphony orchestra with a choir, thus opening up completely new future perspectives for many more children and young people.
 
Our vision is to play a symphony by a great composer with the first orchestra of C.O.N. SONANZA in the new concert halls of Munich (Gasteig/Werksviertel) in front of the most socio-culturally diverse audience of the city, and to found further orchestras as well as choirs throughout Bavaria and Germany. In this way, we would like to show the adults of today and tomorrow what I n c l u s i o n through c l a s s i c m u s i c can achieve.