Fundación Albéniz

Fundación Banco Santander and Fundación Albéniz have been collaborating since 1991 on several initiatives aimed at classical music learning and dissemination.

Fundación Banco Santander Piano Chair

In 2021, 27 students enrolled for the advanced piano studies course taught by Galina Eguiazarova, Dimitri Bashkirov, until his death on 7 March, and Milana Chernyavska. The master classes on the course were given by Stanislav Ioudenitch and Milana Chernyavska before they joined the chair teaching staff on 1 September.

Canal Escuela

The audiovisual platform created by the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía provides, free of charge, an extensive selection of its teaching content. Classes are to be found there for several instruments given by musicians of international prestige, not to mention concerts given by the students. In 2021, the Canal Escuela registered some 6,600 users.

Family Concerts

Since the start of the pandemic, the foundation and the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía have adapted the concerts for Grupo Santander employees and their families to an online format. In 2021, the foundation broadcast three educational concerts on 21 March, 16 June and 22 December on its YouTube channel.

Concerts for Schoolchildren

A new edition of this cycle was created under the title ‘¡A la música! Con los 5 sentidos’, duly adapted to the restrictions imposed by the health situation. The experience combines online and open-air concerts to foster secondary school students’ understanding of the works played and to introduce them to the instruments that make up an orchestra. Over 1,200 students from ten educational centres in the Region of Madrid participated in its activities programme.

Santander Music and Academy Encounter

This music event brings together promising new talent from the different European schools and leading names in the music world to learn, rehearse and perform together at several venues around Cantabria. The foundation sponsored the concerts held on 13 and 20 July at Sala Argenta of the Palacio de Festivales de Cantabria in Santander, attended by an audience of 1,157.