Other supporters: Ambassador Sergio de Queiroz Duarte ● Mission of Brazil to the United Nations - New York
● Consulate General of Brazil in New York ● BrazilFoundation ● Brazilian-Amaerican Chamber of Commerce
Other sponsors: Warbug Realty ● MetaProp NYC ● Carroll Musical Instrument Rentals ● Chanteclair Travel ● Churrascaria Plataforma
On December 12th, the Child Citizen Orchestra will participate in the 70-years commemoration of
Unicef (United
Nations Children's Fund) opening the Children's Takeover. The meeting, which will feature
testimonials and
videos of children and teenagers from around the world, is part of the Unicef 70th anniversary
celebration
program and will take place at United Nations Headquarters, Manhattan Island, at 7:00 p.m., New York
time.
The orchestra's cast, comprised of 37 young musicians and 8 members of production and support, will
arrive in
the United States on December 8th and will remain until the 14th. The schedule on American soil
includes an
official visit to the Juilliard School, one of the most important schools of music and arts in the
world, to
attend a concert of the students of the institution, on the 9th, at 11 a.m. On the same day, the
Child Citizen
Orchestra will hold a concert at Our Lady of Pompeii Church in Manhattan at 7:30 p.m. And on the
11th, the
Orchestra will perform a rehearsal for the next day's event at the UN.
The trip to the United States will be the fourth one of the Child Citizen Orchestra abroad.
Previously, it was
present in the festivities of the 1,100 years of Kassel city?s foundation, Germany, in 2013;
presented himself
to Pope Francis and the Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho in 2014; and returned to Rome
to record
the album (CD + DVD) Bach concertos for violin and orchestra by Child Citizen Orchestra and Yoko
Kubo, in
2015, with the famous Japanese violinist.
The Child Citizen Orchestra is a social project encouraged by the Ministry of Culture, through the
Rouanet
Law. The trip to New York is sponsored by Caixa Econômica Federal, Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints
and Compesa, and supported by the General Consulate of the United States of America in Recife, the
Roger Smith
Hotel and the Education Department of the State of Pernambuco.