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27/11/2008New home for Reina Sofia school of music

The school’s move to the new campus located in the heart of the city is a dream come true.

MADRID – After more than 17 years of life in the suburbs, Madrid's Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía (The Reina Sofía School of Music) celebrated its coming of age on 2 November with a concert conducted by Zubin Mehta at its new, state-of-the-art installations close to the capital's Royal Opera House.
 
Founded in 1991 by arts benefactor Paloma O'Shea, the wife of Banco Santander's Emilio Botín, the school has won a reputation as one of the leading music institutions in Europe.
 
But as its international fame has spread, the school has ended up occupying several buildings in the Madrid suburb of Pozuelo de Alarcón.
 
Its goal has always been simple: to train first-rate musicians, both Spanish and from overseas, and it offers individually tailored instruction to ensure that each student gets the tutoring that he or she needs.
 
The school's new campus has more than 30 teaching and rehearsal rooms, offices, a library and a large concert hall.
 
"This school in the heart of the city is a dream come true," says O'Shea, as she tours the granite and glass edifice. "Our approach to teaching has always been innovative."
 
Zubin Mehta © Flickr by-RobyFerrari
O'Shea, who is also president of the Albeniz Foundation which largely funds the school, says that the idea for the institution was prompted by what she called Spain's "dismal" training of string players - more than half of the string sections of Spain's orchestras come from abroad.
 
From the outset, O'Shea says she realised if Spain was to match the United States and the rest of Europe, the school would need to be an independent, autonomous entity, which to all practical purposes means that it should become a private, non-governmental establishment.

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