The Lullaby Project is organized for the 8th consecutive year in Greece
and shares an open call to young composers
The social music program Lullaby Project provides an open space of expression for participants who turn their personal narratives about their relationship with children into music together with composers and songwriters. The music created celebrates parenthood, as well as the diversity of human experience.
The innovative community program Lullaby Project was born in December 2011 in New York, by Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute, which brought together new mothers and pregnant women with musical artists, in order to write and sing lullabies to their babies, and continues until the present day. The songs that they create are presented at the Lullaby Project’s renowned concerts, performed by artists such as the famous mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, Fiona Apple, and Natalie Merchant.
As part of its efforts for the empowerment and social inclusion of people from different social backgrounds, Carnegie Hall collaborates in Greece with El Sistema Greece, an educational music program for social inclusion, which offers free music education to children and young people, aiming to create a community with music at its core, without discrimination and exclusion. In partnership with the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC), the Lullaby Project has been implemented in Greece for 7 consecutive years with the support of Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).
In 2025, El Sistema Greece will implement the Greek version of this special project for the 8th year, aiming to discover and present new stories of parental love and offer to the participants new ways to express their feelings for the little protagonists of their lives.
Through this open call, El Sistema Greece is offering to one young composer the opportunity to be among the artists who will live this creative experience and present their original musical compositions at the concert for the completion of the Lullaby Project 2025.
Composers interested in participating in this year’s project are kindly requested to send their application at [email protected] by Monday December 2 including the following:
– CV (including date of birth)
– Motivation Letter (expressing their interest and reasons to apply)
– Three samples of original compositions
These compositions should be delivered in both scores and audio forms, along with a short description of the pieces. Audio to be sent via WeTransfer or YouTube links.
Applications will be reviewed by the evaluation committee, consisting of:
Costa Pilavachi, Artistic Advisor on Music of the Athens & Epidaurus Festival.
Anis Barnat, Co-founder of El Sistema Greece and Managing Director of Community Arts Network.
Zoe Zeniodi, Artistic Director of El Sistema Greece and Conductor.
Vaia Papagiannopoulou, Choir Master of El Sistema Greece, Choir Conductor and Music Professor.
Watch here the last year’s concert of the Lullaby Project held at the Alternative Stage of the Greek National Opera at the SNFCC.
Find more information about the Lullaby Project here.
