- Musicians with disabilities will be invited to participate in the auditions to study at the Reina Sofía School of Music.
- In addition, each entity will promote support for the other’s initiatives, such as the SuperArte artistic scholarships, La Gala más IN, or the ‘Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Classical Music’ conference.
- The agreement aims to work towards the social and labor integration of people with functional diversity, especially through art.
Barcelona, September 21, 2022. – Fundación Grupo SIFU, a non-profit organization that promotes the socio-labor integration of people with disabilities, and the Reina Sofía School of Music, dedicated to the promotion of music and musical education, have signed a collaboration agreement for the promotion of people with disabilities. Among the main measures of the agreement is to provide people with functional diversity the opportunity to pursue musical studies at the Reina Sofía School of Music if selected in the audition process it organizes.
The agreement, which was signed this Wednesday in Madrid, aims to work towards the social and labor integration of people with functional diversity, especially through art. In this sense, the agreement incorporates other actions such as collaboration with the entrepreneurship and social innovation program of the Reina Sofía School of Music and the SuperArte artistic scholarship program of the Fundación Grupo SIFU.
In addition, the artistic director of “La Gala más IN”, the musician Oriol Saña, will collaborate in the ‘Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Classical Music’ conference, organized by the School on October 20, 2022. Likewise, both entities will work on mutual advice on issues of functional diversity related to music, as well as on accessibility to turn the Reina Sofía School of Music into an inclusive center for people with disabilities.
During the signing of the agreement, the vice president of the Fundación Grupo SIFU, Hilario Albarracín, stressed the importance of this type of collaboration, which allows “to continue promoting the social and labor integration of artists with disabilities, through joint work with entities as relevant in the field of music as the Reina Sofía School of Music.”
In this same line, Julia Sánchez, CEO of the School, has expressed that “inclusion is one of the pillars of the School’s social commitment, in which we have been working for years with different groups and at different levels. In addition, this agreement is a further step and allows us to continue advancing in our goal of overcoming barriers to offer all talented young people the possibility of accessing a musical education of the highest level”
