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Youth and Children's Orchestras Foundation of Chile

Youth and Children's Orchestras Foundation of Chile
Fundación de Orquestas Juveniles e Infantiles de Chile
Founder Master Fernando Rosas, Luisa Durán
Type Nonprofit organization
Legal status Active
Purpose Musical development of children and young adults
Headquarters Santiago, Chile
Location
  • Balmaceda 1301, Santiago, Chile
Region
Santiago Metropolitan Region
Services education
Fields music
President
Jorge Alberto Sebastián Dávalos Bachelet
Vice President
Luisa Durán de Lagos
Second Vice President
Ernesto Renato Ottone Ramirez
Secretary
María Inés de Ferrari
Andrés Rodríguez Pérez, Geraldina Rosenberg de Walker, Claudina Núñez Pérez, Bruno Vicenso Ardito Devoto, René Naranjo Sotomayor, Cristobal Leiva Contreras.
Key people
Fernando Rosas
Mission "to elevate the social, cultural and educational development of Chile, offering opportunities so that children and young people from all over Chile improve their quality of life through being involved in orchestras"
Website FOJI Official Website

The Youth and Children's Orchestras Foundation of Chile (Spanish: Fundación de Orquestas Juveniles e Infantiles de Chile, FOJI) is a non-profit organisation dedicated to the musical development of children and young adults in Chile.

The first Young and Children's orchestra created in Chile and South america, date back to the 1960s with the one created in the city of La Serena, led by conductor and composerJorge Peña Hen although this experience ended in 1973, will be and inspiration for the creation of FOJI.

FOJI begun in 2001 on the initiative of then first lady Luisa Durán de Lagos and master , the Foundation forms a part of the of the Chilean Presidential office.

The Foundation's mission is "to elevate the social, cultural and educational development of Chile, offering opportunities so that children and young people from all over Chile improve their quality of life through being involved in orchestras". It offers 1,500 scholarships annually, favouring children from lower-income families.

A large number of orchestras throughout Chile are managed through the Foundation. The National Youth Symphony Orchestra (Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional Juvenil, OSNJ) is the longest-running orchestra dependent on the Foundation, founded in 1994. This orchestra has undertaken tours of Europe and also performed in neighbouring country Peru, among numerous national performances.

Foji claim that their programme reaches more than 12,000 teens and children every year, and their orchestras perform concerts that reach an audience of almost a million.


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