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Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation Programme


The Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation Programme is a subject of the Reina Sofia School's Master's Degree in Music Performance, and is made possible thanks to the collaboration of Fundación Banco Sabadell and Edmond de Rothschild Foundations.

This project was born in 2016-2017 after an analysis that revealed that young musicians face a working landscape conditioned by multi-employment, temporality and mobility. The School's concern with improving the education it provides and preparing its students for future professional careers results in the Entrepreneurship Programme, where students develop abilities beyond performance and become aware of the role they play as artists within society.

Around 20 students take part in the programme every year, where they put together a real group project with a Learning by doing philosophy. During the conception and execution of the project, students learn about budget and administrative management, teamwork, digital marketing and communications, and production, among other areas of expertise.

The School, apart from financing the projects economically, provides the students with a tutor that guides and provides counsel during all the steps of the process. All projects are pitched directly by the students, and must tackle a challenge of social, artistic, technological or environmental nature.

On 18 October 2021, the III edition of the "Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Classical Music" conference took place.

Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Classical Music Conference

The Reina Sofía School of Music organises the "Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Classical Music" conference since 2019, a hybrid live-online meeting with professionals from the Classical music world that reflects on, among other issues, the different opportunities young musicians can explore and the necessary tools to attain them.  Each conference holds a series of presentations and talks delivered by top representatives of the classical music industry and can be attended in-person and online. 

Projects


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Musikela Concert in support of people with ALS and to promote awareness of the illness
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Le Musikós: agentes de cambio social A teaching guide for conservatoires to encourage the development of transversal competences among musicians in training
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Beyond the Sound Multisensory concerts with blind and sighted audiences.
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Schubertiades in the 21st century Renewal of the classical concert format focused on new audiences.
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Playing with music Music workshops for primary school children at risk of social exclusion.
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Sounds of Company Concerts targeting collectives deeply affected by the Covid-19 pandemic
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Close music Concert tour in depopulated areas
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Listen to the Earth Video pieces to raise awareness about climate change from an optimist perspective
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Verklärte Nacht Artistic innovation project that combines music, dramaturgy and visual art
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Restoring Their Voices Educational concert that reclaims and restores the music of female composers
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The Sound of Recycling Interdisciplinary show for environmental awareness
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Dryad Project Musicians for nature
Trompeta - Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía
Bells of Hope Online trumpet training
Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía
Vision of Sound Visual-musical art gallery
Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía
Dancing Music Dialogues between music, dance and visual arts
Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía
Purple Music workshops with gender-based violence victims
Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía
Palo Santo Educational workshops with Latin American children
Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía
Music-in VR for Schools
Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía
Sens Concert-experience that involves all 5 senses
Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía
SonArte Special education music workshops
Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía
Connecting Worlds Series of concerts at schools and hospitals
Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía
Concert Liszt Concert listing website
Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía
Scores and Patterns A musical tour of the Museo del Traje