Ron Davis Alvarez
Selected, in 2017, as one of the world's 50 best teachers by the Varkey Foundation, as part of the Global Teacher Prize, Venezuelan Ron Davis Alvarez is specialized in training teachers for children and youth orchestras. He has lectured conferences, master classes and workshops with an emphasis on social change through music, rhythm and harmony in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, United States, Greenland, United Kingdom, Denmark, Italy, Germany, France, Sweden, Finland, Cyprus, Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon, Kenya, South Korea and Greece.
In 2016, Ron Davis Alvarez created in Gothenburg, Sweden, the Dream Orchestra with children and teens aged between 5 and 22 years, refugees from the violence in Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Palestine, Kurdistan, Albania, Angola, Eritrea and Somalia. The objective has been to integrate them into Swedish society. This group, which already has more than 60 members, is also distinguished because its musicians have never played an instrument before.
Product of the renowned Venezuelan musical and social program, known as El Sistema, Alvarez was formed Venezuela as a violinist, orchestra conductor, teacher and cultural manager. He founded in 2011 an orchestra located 700 kilometers away from the Arctic Circle at the Uummannaq Children's House, in Greenland, This is the first orchestra of Inuit children in El Sistema method, where Alvarez worked for three years with children and teens who have traumas.
Since September 2017, he is the mentor of the young aspiring teachers of the Pendo Amani organization, which operates in the city of Juja, in Kenya, whose purpose is to empower new community leaders. Currently they already have an orchestra that performs the sequential repertoire proposed by Alvarez, who teaches them through Skype or WhatsApp classes. He also supports El Sistema Greeces, which operates in the Skaramagas refugee camp and in the city of Atenas. He also supports a program in Lebanon, within a Palestinian refugee camp in the city of Sour
Ron Davis Alvarez is currently the Artistic Director of El Sistema Sweden, a model that replicates the program of his mentor in Venezuela, maestro José Antonio Abreu. Every year he conducts an international music festival, last June more than 2000 children and young people playing.