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Our Mission
The International Chamber Orchestra of Puerto Rico connects children and communities in underserved areas of Puerto Rico with music and artists from diverse nationalities through annual festival tours of free concerts, educational events, young artist fellowships and televised programming.
Objectives:
- Interculturally promote peace, unity and brotherhood through music
- Increase access to arts & education for marginalized communities
- Promote social well being
- Cultivate new audiences
- Nurture young artists
International Community Engagement
Through creatively modern performance formats conducive to cultivating new audiences, ICOPR collaborates with communities, municipalities, and arts organizations to form engaging educational experiences promoting an international cultural surge throughout the island.
The ICOPR is a project of the American Cello Institute, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization registered in the mainland US and in Puerto Rico under section 1101.01.
The Power of Music
HANDS ON EXPERIENCE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
The ICOPR presents attractive, high-energy concerts that are educationally fun, promoting the active participation of young people. The orchestra’s modern and innovative image inspires a new audience of classical and universal music lovers for the future of Puerto Rico. Professors from distinguished schools of music such as those at Michigan State, UCLA, Eastman School of Music, and Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, offer public classes and private lessons free of charge.
YOUNG ARTIST FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMplaceholder
ICOPR creates a cradle of training for budding artists immersing select young artists perched on the brink of their professional careers in an atmosphere of mentoring and real-world experience through participation in all of the Orchestra’s events during the two-week Festival. In just three years, ICOPR has been privileged to offer this experience to 62 young artists!
ANNUAL FESTIVAL HELD IN
PUERTO RICO
For two weeks, from the end of January to the beginning of February the ICOPR performs great masterworks of the chamber orchestra and chamber music repertoire.
In recent seasons the ICOPR performed for children and audiences from all over Puerto Rico, including San Juan, Cupey, Coamo, Mayagüez, Caimito, Guayama and Ponce!
LIVE BROADCASTS OF HIGH IMPACT PERFORMANCES
Inspired by the concerts of Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Orchestra and Leonard Bernstein’s Young People’s Concerts, ICOPR shares high-impact performances and intimately intriguing conversations with the television audience.
Throughout the year ICOPR concerts air on CBS Puerto Rico and Liberty Cable.