Ron Davis Alvarez
Musikkens og ensemblenes kraft
Storytelling from the Orchestra
Orkesterøvelse i praksis
The Royal Swedish Academy of Music awards Ron Davis Alvarez with the 2020 Pedagogy Prize for his "unique musical pedagogical competence". Selected in 2017, as one of the world's 50 best teachers by the Varkey Foundation, as part of the Global Teacher Prize, known as the global Prize for teaching, Ron is from Venezuela and specialized in training teachers for children and youth orchestras. Ron in 2021 received the Frihetstonen Award from the Torgny Segerstedts Minne Foundation for teaching "hundreds of children and young people that music can be a way to make your voice heard and to find brotherhood in the world. "
He founded in 2011 an orchestra located 700 kilometers away from the Arctic Circle at the Uummannaq Children's House, in Greenland. In 2016, Ron Davis Alvarez created in Gothenburg, Sweden, Dream Orchestra with children and teens aged refugees from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Palestine, Kurdistan, Albania, Angola, Eritrea and Somalia. This group is distinguished because its musicians have never played an instrument before. This project won the Okende refugees world prize in 2021 and now is a role model of education for many music programs around the world and finalist at The World Leisure International Innovation Prize.
For 6 years he was the artistic director of the El Sistema Sweden foundation,developed projects such as the El Sistema play, El Sistema Academy and the El Sistema Sweden national orchestra.He is one of the tutors of education at the Multimedia management music program led by Szczecin Philharmonic.
In 2020 Ron became the conductor of the sportlov orkester at the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra.He is currently the leader of a school orchestra at the community school in Gothenburg, leader of Dream Orchestra and mentor of projects in Palestine, Jerusalem, Lebanon and Greenland. Recently Franka Verhaguen and Ron released Dream Orchestra learning models book created to give exercises to teachers and a holistic perspective of music education within collective learning