A pianist and a grand piano on a customized truck that transforms into a  concert stage for free concerts around Colombia.

PianoMóvil presents, teaches, learns, transmits and highlights issues it has at heart.

In order to appreciate the value of this project, the sociopolitical context of Colombia should be taken into account, as this country recovers from a long armed conflict.

PianoMóvil creates links between people including those from different social classes. It aspires to sow grains of peace and encourage the recognition of human life value in the spirit and in heart of the youngest.

Before any major adventure, a first experience is needed. For that, after several concerts in Paris to present the project, we will take an additional step and perform a series of 5 free open air concerts in Bogotá and its surroundings.

This first experience will constitute the encounter of a French-Colombian project, developed in France, with the Colombian soil and its inhabitants. This experience should validate the potential and viability of a bigger National Tour in 2017, and will be at the same time a previously unseen event in Colombia.

The Colombian Team of PianoMóvil has selected 5 pertinent places in Bogotá and its surroundings.

We will install, on an open air stage, a grand piano with sound and lighting system, for a concert followed or preceded by activities around the subject of piano and music.

The concert will perform pieces of a colombian and universal repertory, most of them will surely be heard for the first time by the public.

Children, who have probably never seen a grand piano before in their lifetime, will have the opportunity to listen, play and discover its mechanism.

The whole project aims to offer an experience that invites the public to support and come closer to artistic practices.

Every installation will be concretized thanks to partners, already engaged, with local actors (foundations, associations, etc…). Their support will allow the proposition of 2 concerts, from the 5 considered, in the unprivileged neighborhoods.

Another concert will be proposed in one of the main business centers in Bogotá: a direct invitation to the Colombian society to reinforce their support and interest for artistic initiatives.

We dream of a collective project, independent, loyal to its values and its engagement to the people. It is for this reason that we wish that its financing be mixed, that it will integrate both the small and big contributions, coming from public or private sources, local and international.

We invite all those who believe in art’s capacity to transform society, to join this adventure and make PianoMóvil a project of their own. We work with all our efforts to offer a project that is transparent, federative, serious and considerate of every detail. The association EUPHONIA's purpose is to translate the resources of our beneficiaries into pertinent and significant actions for Colombia.

Colombia, a magical landscape of « Macondian » stories of the Nobel prize winning author Gabriel García Márquez, is naturally rich in exceptional diversity and is a fresh economic hope of Latin America, but it is also a country that suffered 50 years of armed conflict and confronts the highest inequality index of its region today. For the young generations, the lack of access to education and culture rests among the most important factors of social difference.

A Devoted Committee

The members of EUPHONIA gathered together with the conviction that art is capable of embracing a creative message, being socially constructive and a legitimate change agent.

The association, that functions thanks to donations and volunteering, was created in France in 2014 after the initiative of Diego Franco, a Colombian pianist who has lived in Paris for  6 years, and is constituted by active French and Colombian young professionals, specialized in diverse areas.

Our Mission

Through the transmission of the musical practice:

• Encourage children, teenagers and the most vulnerable people to become conscious of their own importance and to seek the development of their own potential, despite their difficult life context.
• Inform and increase general public awareness, as well as that of the actors -public and private-involved, towards cultural and social problems, trying to motivate them to take action.

Our Vision

• Perform and support artistic projects with social interest in order to open to their own populations enriching cultural experiences.
• In a post-conflict context, weave the links between populations divided from political tensions, social inequalities or their specific condition (peasants, indigenous, urbans, expatriated…), through a neutral and noble theme, common to all – the musical practice.
• Put in place a team, a network and a set of analysis and experiences in order to be able to propose pertinent solutions and to influence the decision making of official actors and particulars concerned with the issues hence studied.

Though we focus on the Colombian case, EUPHONIA aspires to develop a message with universal value.

PianoMóvil’s real tour is an ambitious project. It includes a grand piano, and above all a customized bus that transforms itself in a real stage. It has a sound and audio system for the realization of a documentary.

Such a mobile unit will have the capacity to perform annual tours. Real trips for territorial exploration, moving encounters, the discovery of local music and musicians and dialogues between different traditions … 2.547 kilometers of music !