Queen Sofia presides over the Board of Patrons of the Reina Sofía Higher School of Music

Queen Doña Sofía has presided over Tuesday the annual meeting of the Board of Patrons of the School, the main organ of representation of this center of high musical training, which supports young people with greater talent in their personal and artistic development.

The president of the school, Paloma Oshea, thanked the presence of her majesty, and has welcomed the representatives of the public institutions: Paz Santa Cecilia Aristu, general director of the INAEM; Emilio Viciana, Minister of Education, Science and Universities of the Community of Madrid; already Santiago Herrero, director of Cultural and Scientific Relations of the AECID.

“One of the greatest achievements of the school is having gathered public Spain and the private around a common project. I am excited to see that more and more entities join the task, beyond the Board of Trustees, incorporating as patron,” O’Shea Paloma has begun to transmit to the entire Board, according to the institution.

O’Shea has assured that the school is in a moment of “stability” that allows it to prepare for growth. “We have ahead of the reform of the Annex building, a very large effort that we will address. We already have a magnificent project of the architects Cruz and Ortiz and we are in conversations with the City Council for the license,” he said.

The new building, according to O’SHEA, will increase the academic and artistic offer, with new chairs and a new concert hall, which will also serve as a trial room for the orchestra. “With these new facilities, we aspire to strengthen our relationship with the environment, bringing music to all and collaborating with other entities. In the medium term, perhaps we can also establish a high -performance children’s school,” he predicted.

In his speech, O’Shea has highlighted two success cases obtained by center students. “I will mention two very positive cases: the famous orchestra of the Gewandhaus of Leipzig has three places of Solist Oboe. For a few months, two of the three are occupied by former students of the school: Javier Ayala and Immaculate Veses. In addition, the Leonkoro quartet, which is formed in our Chamber Institute with Professor Günter Pichler, continues to win all the important awards: recently Concertgebouw from Amsterdam to young talent and that of camera groups of the Mecklemburg Festival, “he said.

Next, the General Director of the Reina Sofía School, Julia Sánchez, has exposed the advances that have occurred in the school on her strategic plan 2024/2028 with the milestones and objectives to work so that the institution continues to grow, both in its academic offer, and in its social impact and its international projection.

Urtasun, Ayuso and Almeida, present at the Board

The members of the Board of Patrons also had the opportunity to live in the first person one of the last proposals of the school, an immersion in a musical creation workshop in which they could experience how music can not only transmit emotions but also to be a key tool in the innovation, learning and progress of society and organizations that are part of it.

The Board of Patrons of the Reina Sofía School is composed of a large group of personalities that represent the different sectors of society. The Board meets annually, under the presidency of honor of His Majesty Queen Doña Sofía.

The Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, the mayor of the Madrid City Council, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, and Paloma O’Shea, form their co-presidency.