Fundación Yehudi Menuhin España - FYME

The Fundación Yehudi Menuhin España was created by Maestro Menuhin in February of 1999. FYME is already 10 years old and has consolidated its organizational structure and administrative capacity, advancing with a professional team along with qualified contributors and volunteers. At present this team of professionals have consolidated a permanent structure with the ability to control different programs, guaranteeing the positive outcome of the activities as well as respecting the objectives of the foundation.

FYME’s objectives are:

• The general development of all artistic disciplines, with a specific interest in the Spanish Educational System.
• Educational, social and cultural integration of underprivileged children and youngsters, through artistic teachings.
• Adoption of initiatives that favor tolerance, dialogue and solidarity among different people and civilizations.
• Promotion of Arts, in collaboration with related Public and Private Institutions.
• Implementation of Music and Arts in all possible population sectors, by means of public performances in traditional places, and all types of related actions.
• Promotion of single activities that favor gender equality.
• Implementation of activities with adults to promote interculture and coexistence.
• Creation of networks of cooperation and actions of educational, artistic, cultural and social training, to preserve and widen above mentioned objectives, with a specific effect on teachers trainings.

FYME Board is chaired by her Majesty Queen Sofia, and composed by:
President                         Mr. Enrique Barón Crespo.
Vice-president                  HRH   Princess Irene de Grecia
Board Member                Mr. Federico Mayor Zaragoza
Board Member                 Ms. Sofía Gandarias
Board Member                 Mr. Alberto Oliart
Board Member                 Mr. José María Martín Patino
Board Member                 Ms. María Emilia Otaola Araico
Board Member                 Ms. Marianne Poncelet
Board Member                 Ministry of Education, Social Policy and Sports.
Board Member                 Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs
Treasurer                        Mr. Julián García Vargas
Board Secretary               Mr. Pedro Luis Bru

FYME is implementing its work in 10 autonomous regions and 2 autonomous cities (Ceuta and Melilla). Andalusia, Canary Islands, Catalonia, Castilla la Mancha, Valencia, Extremadura, Galicia, Madrid, Murcia, Basque Country, Ceuta & Melilla.

In January of 2003, the Fundación Yehudi Menuhin España was awarded with the “Gran Cruz de la Orden Civil de la Solidaridad Social”, given by H.M. Queen Sofia of Spain. FYME was nominated by the Ministry of Employment and Social Services, and ratified by the Cabinet of Ministers for its dedication to social and cultural integration of children and adolescents in at-risk situations, as well as the promotion of dialogue and solidarity through the arts.

FYME is currently implementing the following programs:

                                             

“Music and Arts invite to people to participate, they are an antidote against obstacles to mankind harmony. Making music means not only playing or singing, it also means listening. Children who learn to listen from their early ages, learn also to be tolerant”. Yehudi Menuhin

“Let’s start with those aspects under the control of our immediate possibilities, we should plead for the principles of coexistence, for sincerity and mutual respect (same ones everywhere) and for courage to defend them”. Yehudi Menuhin