After-school mentoring and instruction for Memphis City School students from members of the MSO. The MSO musicians provide a professional performance, group lessons, master classes and a final student performance through this program for budding instrumentalists.
Introduce your youngest students to the world of music with a Kinderconcert. These wonderful presentations bring a string duo to your school to perform, demonstrate string instruments, play music games and introduce basic musical concepts to grades K-2 students.
An MSO Chamber Ensemble will visit your school to perform selected pieces, demonstrate orchestral instruments and teach musical concepts. Ensembles include: string quartet, woodwind quartet, woodwind quintet or brass quintet. Performances and demonstrations are designed for grades 3 and up and can be customized to match student needs. In the familiar environment of their own school, students respond especially well to the up-close presentation of classical repertoire by professional musicians.
Top-rate mentoring and instruction for students in Memphis City schools
- Positive role models to music students in the inner-city
- Additional teacher support to the public schools
- An overall improved self-image of students through infusing Memphis Symphony Orchestra players into instrumental and orchestral programs throughout the greater Memphis area
- Students learn from MSO musicians through performances, master classes, “side-by-side” rehearsals, and group lessons.
Through collaboration with the University of Memphis Community Music School, advanced middle and high school students will study a major work of chamber music for a semester with a MSO musician. The students receive weekly coaching, a guest artist coaching and several performance opportunities throughout the semester. Students will be chosen to perform on stage at the Buckman Performing & Fine Arts Center before each Paul & Linnea Bert Chamber series concert.
- Age-appropriate concerts for elementary through high school are enhanced by an integrated classroom curriculum. Provided by the Memphis City Schools, it is a collaboration through the pilot project Music, Math, Science and Technology. Students benefit from pre-concert and post-concert MSO musician visits which prepare them for the concert, as well as free recordings for student preparation.
- The MSO Family Series takes place at the Cannon Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Memphis on Sundays at 2:30 p.m., with free pre-concert activities – Instrument Petting Zoo, Musical Bingo, and much more – beginning at 1:15 p.m. These concerts, designed for the young and young-at-heart, are one-hour in length – a perfect introduction to music for even the youngest symphony-goer!
- MSO String Quartet, Woodwind Quartet or Brass Quintet will give a performance at your school, geared toward any age level. The musicians will perform and provide insights about music, their instruments and take questions from the audience in this intimate setting.
- Concert Spotlight – Beginning 45 minutes before each First Tennessee Masterworks series performance, join us in the Cannon Center lobby (GPAC Dance Studio on Sundays) for our new and improved pre-concert conversations. Maestro Loebel leads these discussions on the upcoming performance sharing his enthusiasm for classical music through his wit and humor. Surprise appearances by musicians and guest artists are also in store. Free to the general public.
- Student Rush tickets – We have Student Rush tickets at $5, available fifteen minutes before the start of the performance. Students must show their Student ID to receive the Student Rush price. Student Rush tickets and prices are subject to change and availability.
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