Who we are
danzón is a European consultancy working at the intersection of music, education, and culture. We help institutions, orchestras, and governments create strategies, partnerships, and learning experiences that connect young people to music and music to the world around them.
With roots in Jeunesses Musicales and decades of experience across the cultural field, Danzón brings together two complementary professional backgrounds. The consultancy is founded by one partner with a conservatoire education and long-standing experience as a musician and leader within music schools and pre-college programmes, and one partner educated at business school with a strong background in strategy, management, and organizational development.
United through shared leadership experience in music education and cultural institutions, this partnership allows us to combine artistic depth with strategic clarity.
This combination allows us to merge artistic depth with strategic clarity. We draw on hands-on experience in innovative practice, education, institutional leadership, communication, funding, and evaluation. Our work bridges education, policy, and performance, building sustainable frameworks for growth, participation, and impact.
Rooted in artistic practice and strategic thinking alike, and grounded in a deep understanding of leadership, organizational structures, and audience engagement, we bring together strategy, creativity, and collaboration to strengthen music’s place in society.
Our story / vision
Danzón was born from a shared journey that began in Jeunesses Musicales an international community built on the belief that music connects people across generations and borders. We arrived there from different worlds: from conservatoires and artistic training on the one hand, and from business schools and strategic leadership on the other. In Jeunesses Musicales, these perspectives met and proved to be not a contradiction, but a powerful and creative alliance.
That experience, combined with many years of leadership roles within music schools and pre-college programmes, shaped our conviction that collaboration, creativity, and access are essential to the future of culture.
We saw a gap between schools, educators, pre-college programmes, and the professional music world all sharing a mission, but rarely sharing processes, structures, or language. Our vision is to close that gap.
We support organizations in rethinking how they engage with learning, audiences, and communities, combining creativity with strategy, and tradition with innovation.
Because every child deserves the chance to explore, create, and belong through music.