El Sistema Greece FIESTA 2026
Marking El Sistema Greece’s 10th anniversary

When: Sunday, September 27, 2026 | arrival time 17:00
The musical promenade starts at 17.00 and the concert at 18:00

Where: Pierce Theater, The American College of Greece
[6 Gravias str., Aghia Paraskevi, GR 15342]

Organized by:
El Sistema Greece

Supported by:
Department of Music, Theater and Dance, Frances Rich School of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, Deree – The American College of Greece

Orchestra Conductor
Christian Vásquez
Artistic Director of the Juan José Landaeta Symphony Orchestra
Associate Conductor of the Simón Bolívar National Choir of Venezuela
Associate Conductor of the Orquestra de València

Choir Conductor
Lourdes Sánchez
Head of the Academic Choral Programme of El Sistema Venezuela
Director of the Simón Bolívar National Choir of Venezuela

About the concert

El Sistema Greece celebrates its 10th anniversary with El Sistema Greece FIESTA, a festival of collective music-making culminating in a public concert on Sunday, 27 September 2026 at The American College of Greece (ACG).

Taking place in Athens from 24 to 27 September, El Sistema Greece FIESTA is a four-day festival dedicated to collective musical creation. More than 250 musicians and choristers from different orchestras, choirs, and musical communities will come together to rehearse, exchange musical ideas, and collaboratively create a programme combining works from the symphonic repertoire with music from Latin America. For many participants, this will be the first time they perform together, and the outcome of this four-day creative process will be presented to the public for the first time on Sunday, September 27th.

At El Sistema Greece FIESTA, the concert begins long before the audience takes their seats. Through a musical promenade, small ensembles from El Sistema Greece will bring different areas of the campus to life, transforming the audience’s arrival into part of the celebration itself.

The festival brings together the El Sistema Greece Academy, El Sistema Greece Youth Orchestra, Decibel Collective, Kypseli Orchestra, and the El Sistema Greece Youth Choir, and students participating from across all El Sistema Greece nucleos. They will be joined by the ACG Community Choir, the Intercultural Choir of the Greek National Opera, the Underground Youth Orchestra, the Underground Kids Orchestra, and additional musicians, presenting together the musical outcome of this four-day collaborative creative process.

In Spanish, fiesta means celebration. And this is precisely how El Sistema Greece has chosen to mark its first ten years: by bringing musicians, choristers, musical communities, and audiences together through music!

The event will be held in English and is free and open to the public. Registration is mandatory.