The exchange program includes visits to several cultural and artistic teaching institutions in the Cuban capital. Photo: Courtesy of ICM.

Havana will host the XXVI Intergovernmental Council of the Iberorquestas Juveniles Program on February 9, 10 and 11.

According to a press release from the Cuban Institute of Music (ICM), the event is part of an Ibero-American Cooperation program dedicated to the artistic and human development of children and young people through music education and orchestral practice as tools for social cohesion.

Attending the meeting in Cuba will be Enrique Vargas, coordinator of the Ibero-American Cultural Space of the Ibero-American General Secretariat (SEGIB); Ariel Britos, president of the Program, and representatives from Mexico, Spain, Uruguay, Costa Rica, Argentina, Ecuador, Panama, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, member countries of Iberorquestas.

The exchange program includes visits to several cultural and artistic teaching institutions in the city, among them the National Council of Culture Houses, the headquarters of the National Choir of Cuba, the National School of Music and the University of the Arts.

Likewise, the young Havana-born Malva Rodriguez González, a piano student at the National School of Music, and the Children's Guitar Orchestra Vocal Clave de Sol, winner of the 2021 National Community Culture Award; winners of the Young Performer and Young Group calls sponsored by the program, will be recognized in this framework.

Source: Radio Coco