Who We Are

 

Partnerships


ELMCOR, Adult and Youth Activities, Inc.,

Corona, NY.









Queens Museum of Art,

New York City, NY.








With collaboration of


  1. •P.S. 16Q, Corona, NY.

  2. •P.S. 19Q, Marino Jeantet, Corona, NY.

  3. •P.S. 92Q, Harry T. Stewart, Sr.,Corona, NY.

  4. •Plaza del Sol Family Health Center, Corona, NY.

  5. •Families Building Community Coalition, Elmhurst, NY.

Advisory Board


  1. •Jessica Balboni, Director, Orchestra Leadership Academy, League of American Orchestras, New York, NY

  2. •Margaret Martin DrPH, President and Founding Director, Harmony Project, Los Angeles, CA

  3. •Mariajosé Romero, PhD, Senior Associate Researcher, National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia University, New York, NY


And the 2009-2010 Abreu Fellows:

  1. •Daniel Berkowitz, Manager, Youth Orchestra Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

  2. •Jonathan Govias, Independent Conductor-Consultant, Boston, MA

  3. •Lorrie Heagy, Program Director, Juneau Alaska Music Matters, Juneau, AK

  4. •Rebecca Levi, Program Director, Conservatory Lab Charter School, Brighton, MA

  5. •David Malek, Program Director, Conservatory Lab Charter School, Brighton, MA

  6. •Dantes Rameau, Executive Director, Atlanta Music Project, Atlanta, GA

  7. •Stanford Thompson, Director, Tune Up Philly, Philadelphia Youth Orchestra, Philadelphia, PA

  8. •Christine Witkowski, Music Director, Heart of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

  9. •Katie Wyatt, Executive Director, KidzNotes, Durham, NC

Alvaro F. Rodas, Project Founder/Director

alvarofrodas@nucleocorona.org

Alvaro F. Rodas, Project Director


Born and raised in Guatemala City, Guatemala, Álvaro F. Rodas, is a percussionist, teacher, arts administrator, recently named to the inaugural class of the Abreu Fellows at the New England Conservatory in Boston and Venezuela.


From 1992 to 2004 he was principal percussionist at the Guatemala National Symphony. He also taught percussion at the Guatemala National Conservatory. For two years he co-directed an 80-piece high school marching band that was the first Latin American ensemble to take part in the 1994 Hollywood Christmas Parade. Since 1996 he has been deeply involved in the replication of the Venezuelan Sistema in Guatemala, as administrator, percussion instructor, and coordinating programs throughout the country. One of the most important was the formation of orchestra in Quetzaltenango using a grant from the World Bank in 2000-2001. More recently, Mr. Rodas, with the support of World Vision Guatemala, worked as a percussion teacher and administrative consultant at the San Juan Sacatepéquez youth orchestra, in a remote Mayan village. During 2008, Mr. Rodas created an audience development project, which included the first performing arts audience survey in Guatemala City.


Mr. Rodas is a Fulbright Scholar and holds a Masters degree in Arts Administration from Columbia University.