frontside artists

Ron Davis Alvarez & The Dream Orchestra

Conducter / Children & youth orchestra

In autumn 2015, violinist and orchestra leader Ron Davis Alvarez arrived in Sweden from Caracas, Venezuela as an exchange student. It was a shocking sight for him when arriving at Stockholm Central station he witnessed the arrival of a large group of underage unaccompanied refugees.

Ron himself grew up in poor circumstances and until that moment he had had a different image of Sweden than the one he came across with here.

After inquiring about the situation of these unaccompanied minors, he decided to find ways to help these young people, once he would have the opportunity to stay and work in Sweden. Then it happened. Ron, a musical talent raised in the Venezuelan El Sistema movement, was soon hired as artistic director of El Sistema in Sweden and thus stayed.

In April 2016, he fulfilled his promise to himself and started Dream Orchestra. An orchestra for everyone, but especially for those who needed it the most: the unaccompanied minors escaping from countries in conflict. In a refugee camp in Frillesås, a small village to the south of Gothenburg, he found his first students and here the dream started.

The news that there was an orchestra in Gothenburg that offered these young people a safe place to integrate into society and to start dreaming of a better future through music, spread like wildfire.

Today, Dream Orchestra has 184 members, 10 teachers and employed administrative staff. The activity is organized in association and works in close collaboration with the civic society, Bethlehem Church, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, and Academy of Music and Drama at Gothenburg University.

Participated in festivals

2019 M/S Transatlantic, 2022 Southerly winds

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sponsors

Kulturrådet
The Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation
Göteborgs Stad
Västra Götalandsregionen
Herbert & Karin Jacobssons stiftelse
Stiftelsen Eduard Magnus musikfond
Bob Kelly
Torrestad Branding & Strategi AB, Åsa Torrestad

partners

Kronhuset
Sjöfartsmuseet Akvariet
Gathenhielmska huset
Palmhuset Trädgårdsföreningen
Juhl Sørensen A/S, Steinway & Sons Scadinavia
Sveriges Radio P2
Högskolan för scen och musik, Göteborgs Universitet
Rytmus musikgymnasium
Restaurang Break
Café Kronhuset
Hotel Royal