- The signing of this agreement is the result of both entities’ commitment to promoting talent and cultural education.
- Fundación Damm will be the patron of the Oboe Chair from the next academic year 2022-2023, held by the German maestro Hansjörg Schellenberger since its creation in the School’s curriculum twenty-two years ago.
Madrid, June 21, 2022.- Fundación Damm, in its commitment to making visible and supporting the culture of our country, has today signed a collaboration agreement with the Albéniz Foundation, through which it becomes the patron of the Oboe Chair. The event was attended by Paloma O’Shea, founding president of the Reina Sofía School of Music, and Demetrio Carceller Arce, president of Fundación Damm.
Fundación Damm, under its premise of working and helping to build a better society, sees this agreement as an opportunity to promote musical education and knowledge of young musicians in society, supporting the daily needs in their studies and the organization of artistic activities such as concerts throughout the Spanish geography of young musicians who make up the “Fundación Damm Oboe Chair”.
The signing of this agreement underlines Damm and its Foundation’s commitment to shared values of effort, excellence and belief in people’s talent, as well as its commitment to the development of the arts, music and culture of Spain.
“The Oboe Chair has a special significance for Fundación Damm, because it allows us to continue promoting the values of excellence and cohesion among young people thanks to learning an instrument of venerable history. Music is the universal language of humanity and in all cultures it plays a very important role in the education and care of people, as well as in social coexistence, which are the raison d’être of Fundación Damm”, said Demetrio Carceller Arce.
For the Reina Sofía School of Music, an international benchmark center for the teaching of young musicians that each year has 150 students of more than 30 nationalities, the incorporation of this new patron is a very important support to continue fulfilling its two founding objectives, to support young people with the greatest talent in their personal and artistic development; and bring music closer to society.
“Everything we do at the Reina Sofía School is based on the conviction that music has a great transformative power for people and societies. The patronage that we are starting today will allow us to advance in this path, supporting the Oboe Chair in its needs and facilitating the presence of great international oboist masters in the Master Lesson program that we promote at the School as a complement and reinforcement of regular studies”, said Paloma O’Shea.
