Projects and Alliances
Aspen Institute
Aspen Institute España is a foundation dedicated to promoting values-based leadership and reflection
on critical issues for the future of society. It provides a pluralistic and balanced forum for the
discussion of matters of general interest among individuals who aspire to put their ideas into action.
Its activities focus on programs, seminars, and conferences.
Advisory Board for the Arts
The Advisory Board for the Arts (ABA) provides arts organizations with a completely
new approach to identifying and implementing innovative ideas, benefiting from the leading ideas and practices of
other industries through a knowledge-based network and shared learning for
arts organizations.
Navarre Symphony Orchestra
Orchestra that collaborates to facilitate professional practice for the School’s students, both instrumentalists and orchestra conductors
Spanish Association of Foundations
The Spanish Association of Foundations (AEF) is a private and independent association with
national scope. It brings together 802 Spanish foundations of the most diverse dimensions, purposes, and
development and strengthening.
Castile and León Symphony Orchestra
Orchestra that collaborates to facilitate professional practice for the School’s students, both instrumentalists and orchestra conductors
Círculo Fortuny
Círculo Fortuny is a non-profit association created to unite the Spanish sector
of prestigious cultural and creative brands in a common forum and to promote and defend their own entity. In addition, the
Association enhances the image of Spanish high-end brands of goods and services abroad,
and represents and defends the particularity of this sector as an engine of the Spanish economy.
Círculo Fortuny is currently made up of 56 brands and institutions.
Córdoba Orchestra
Orchestra that collaborates to facilitate professional practice for the School’s students, both instrumentalists and orchestra conductors
Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum
The Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum is the fifth most visited museum in Spain and one of the country’s main cultural institutions.
The Thyssen Museum and the Reina Sofía School of Music
collaborate through their Friends Programs, offering exclusive advantages to both groups in order to
bring art and music lovers closer together.
Bilbao Symphony Orchestra
Orchestra that collaborates to facilitate professional practice for the School’s students, both instrumentalists and orchestra conductors
Extremadura Orchestra
Orchestra that collaborates to facilitate professional practice for the School’s students, both instrumentalists and orchestra conductors
Euskadiko Orkestra
Orchestra that collaborates to facilitate professional practice for the School’s students, both instrumentalists and orchestra conductors
Hradec Králové Philharmonic
Orchestra that collaborates to facilitate professional practice for the School’s students, both instrumentalists and orchestra conductors
Programmes
Take your talent to the next level
The Reina Sofía School of Music Incubator is a unique opportunity for talented young classical musicians to take their innovative ideas to the next level.
This program, inspired by the success of the Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation Program, is designed to promote entrepreneurial projects that, with a clear value proposition, are ready to be tested, improved and launched on the market to maximize their impact.
We are looking for projects that go beyond music: initiatives that address social and environmental challenges with sustainable and scalable business models.
Musical Thinkers
We use music in all its expressions.
Our artistic experience of more than 30 years allows us to develop, in partnership with the consulting firm Musical Thinkers, team days, experiences for conventions, cycles of cultural transformation and training itineraries in organizations.
- Cohesion, Integration, Engagement, and Teamwork
- Cultural Transformation, Values, and Leadership Style
- Talent Development, Training, and Accompaniment
- Development of Innovation, Strategy, and Commitment to Strategy
- Inclusion, Well-being, and Social Impact
Educational Projects
The Reina Sofía School of Music has launched several projects that transcend its usual training activity to bring its educational work to new audiences. Listening to and practicing music unites through values such as commitment, perseverance, leadership, and collaboration, which are essential for life and coexistence.
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International Academic Collaborations
Through strategic alliances, exchanges, and joint programs, we provide unique opportunities for the academic and artistic development of our students.
Angola
Events
Conferences & Seminars
- Sala Sinfónica, Auditorio Nacional de Música.
- 07/02/2026
- 12:00 H
Our Commitment
Impact Projects
Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation Programme
This project was born in the 2016-2017 academic year as a result of an analysis that reveals that young musicians face a labor market largely determined by multiple jobs, temporary contracts, and mobility. The School’s concern to improve its training offer and prepare its students for their future professional careers results in the Entrepreneurship Program, where students develop skills that go beyond interpretation and, at the same time, are made aware of the role they play as artists in the society around them.
Green Music & Entrepreneurship
GreenME is the environmental awareness program of the Reina Sofía School of Music and aims to promote initiatives that develop synergies in two fundamental fields for the institution: music and environmental commitment.
Following the green recovery policies that have recently emerged, such as “Music Declares Emergency”, and relying on our adherence to the SDGs, the Reina Sofía School firmly declares that those dedicated to art, and in particular to music, have great power of conviction, education and inspiration within society and can be a role model for present and future generations.
Impact Reports
Reports & Studies
EY-Reina Sofía School Report: The value of culture
What is culture? There are multiple meanings for this term, but culture is, without a doubt, a top-level lever that serves to generate long-term value in different areas of society. It also serves to strengthen social cohesion and shape freer and more inclusive communities, which opens the door to new opportunities and projects in a context of humanistic capitalism.
These are some of the conclusions of the report The Value of Culture. The Role of Performing Arts and Classical Music in the Impact Economy, conducted jointly by EY and the Reina Sofía School of Music: a document that analyzes how to create social value from different cultural initiatives and how companies and investors can participate in these projects. It also addresses how cultural entities can adapt to new scenarios.
Impact Report Methodology
With the aim of measuring the social impact of the activity of the Reina Sofía School of Music, since the 2021-2022 academic year, we have begun to measure different indicators that allow us to assess our work and the degree of fulfillment of our objectives and that, in addition, help us in decision-making and the orientation of our activities.
The Impact Report is the result of the implementation of a methodology developed by the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in collaboration with Management Solutions, in accordance with the principles of the Theory of Change and the materiality analysis, and developed together with its main stakeholders, in order to ensure maximum alignment between its strategy and objectives to contribute, to the extent of its possibilities, to the transformation of the reality of the current situation of the music sector.
Quantitative and qualitative metrics have been identified, adapted to the characteristics of each of the objectives whose achievement is to be measured. These impact objectives are grouped into three blocks: training musicians, bringing music closer to society, and developing a sustainable model. Finally, the economic quantification of social impact and the social return on investment (SROI) are achieved, based on the Impact-Weighted Accounts Initiative (IWAI) methodology, promoted by Harvard University.
This report was carried out on the 2021-2022 academic year and has served to lay the methodological foundations to be applied in successive measurements.
