Gregory Vajda, Music Director and Conductor
Education & Community
Community Outreach
Through its education activities, the Huntsville Symphony Orchestra touches many lives beyond the Concert Hall.
As we instill love and appreciation for classical music, we develop the audiences of the future, thus ensuring the survival of this great art form. In addition, thanks to the expansion of education activities into the neighboring counties of Morgan and Limestone, HSO is reaching its goal of becoming a true regional cultural treasure. Finally, through the Artist-in-Residence Program and arts-in-education programs serving low income schools and populations, HSO is reaching under-served audiences.
Young People's Concerts
funded by Siemens VDO Automotive, the Jane K. Lowe Foundation, the Alabama State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the City of Huntsville and Madison County, with additional support from the Huntsville Symphony Orchestra Guild.
funded by the Huntsville Symphony Orchestra Guild, Raymon Baker, the Sexton Foundation, Athens City School Foundation, Decatur Rotary, Scottsboro Education Foundation, the Lowe Foundation, Alabama State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Art.
As we instill love and appreciation for classical music, we develop the audiences of the future, thus ensuring the survival of this great art form. In addition, thanks to the expansion of education activities into the neighboring counties of Morgan and Limestone, HSO is reaching its goal of becoming a true regional cultural treasure. Finally, through the Artist-in-Residence Program and arts-in-education programs serving low income schools and populations, HSO is reaching under-served audiences.
Young People's Concerts
funded by Siemens VDO Automotive, the Jane K. Lowe Foundation, the Alabama State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the City of Huntsville and Madison County, with additional support from the Huntsville Symphony Orchestra Guild.
- Performed each year for 8,000 fourth graders from throughout the Tennessee Valley
- 200,000 children have benefited since 1968
Four forty-five minute performances at the Von Braun Center Concert Hall - No admission charge
- Visits to schools by Guild docents to prepare students for concert experience
- Other treats for students include visits by Maestro and orchestra musicians
- Private and group instruction in orchestral strings
- Suzuki and Traditional instruction available
- Scholarships available to the economically disadvantaged
funded by the Huntsville Symphony Orchestra Guild, Raymon Baker, the Sexton Foundation, Athens City School Foundation, Decatur Rotary, Scottsboro Education Foundation, the Lowe Foundation, Alabama State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Art.
- Free introductory violin classes, using Suzuki approach
- Instruments provided by HSO
- Piloted in one school in Decatur in April of 1998
- Offered in every elementary school in Decatur, Scottsboro, Hartselle and Athens school systems, several private schools and most schools in the Huntsville City System
- Funded by corporate and individual benefactors, with additional funding from the Alabama State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
- Regional adjudicated competition for young musicians
- Prizes include cash awards and savings bonds
- Winners perform at annual Young People's Concerts
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