As part of our innovative Community Engagement program, Symphony musicians visit over 40 area schools every season, including pre-schools, kindergartens, elementary, middle, high schools, colleges/universities and even schools for retired people. The visits cover a wide variety of activities, including chamber music performances, sectionals and coaching with band and orchestra students, master classes, presentations, and demonstrations. Symphony musicians also perform regularly in nursing homes, community centers, and hospitals.

David Mollenauer and David Delambre conduct string sectionals at Churchill High School (video link)

 

Brahms on Tour

As a lead up to the highly-anticipated 2013 Brahms Festival, the Symphony will perform several free education concerts for area high schools students at their place of learning and during the school day. Concerts will feature the music of Brahms and will provide direct access for students within their own environment to an excellent performance of classical music featuring the city’s premier performing arts organization.

Brahms on Tour partner locations and performance dates:
11/27/12 – Holmes High School
11/28/12 – Saint Mary’s Hall
12/18/12 – Highlands High School
1/29/13 – Taft High School
3/5/13 – TMI Epsicopal School of Texas
3/19/13 – Roosevelt High School

2011-2012 Community Engagement Activities:

October 17, 2011 – violinist Mary Ellen Goree conducts a violin sectional at O’Connor High School.
October 7, 2011 – violist Terry Stolow performs at the Eleanor Kolitz Academy.
October 10, 2011 – oboist Mark Ackerman appears on KABB FOX 29 TV with Symphony CEO & President Jack Fishman for a segment about an upcoming performance of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade.
October 11, 2011 – cellist Morgen Johnson performs for a convention of real estate professionals.
October 11, 2011 – bassist Zlatan Redzic gives a bass master class at Health Careers High School.
October 17, 2011 – violist Wanda Lydon visits Highlands High School for a viola sectional.
October 18, 2011 – the San Antonio Symphony performs a free concert at the Jewish Community Center.
October 18, 2011 – violinist Andrew Small visits Highlands High School for a violin sectional.
October 18, 2011 – Matthew Zerweck, Sayaka Okada, Emily Freudigman and Ken Freudigman perform as a string quartet at the San Antonio West Chamber of Commerce Doctoral Achievement Awards Gala.
October 25, 2011 – violinist Amy Venticinque visits Highlands High School for a violin sectional.
October 26, 2011 – violinist Mary Ellen Goree conducts a violin sectional at Lee High School.
October 20, 2011 – bass trombonist Ilan Morgenstern teaches beginning brass classes at Lopez Middle School.
October 21, 2011 – violinist Andrew Small gives a violin sectional at Highlands High School.
October 22, 2011 – trumpeter John Carroll teaches a free trumpet master class at Alamo Music Center.
October 23, 2011 – Yuaan-Xiong Lu, Scott Strong, Amy Venticinque and Anastasia Storer offer a free Instrument Petting Zoo for children at the Tuesday Musical Club during the Brackenridge Park Family Jazz Festival.
October 24, 2011 – violinist Bassam Nashawati visits Wagner High School for a violin sectional.
October 25, 2011 – violist Lauren Magnus and cellist David Mollenauer visit Rayburn Middle School for sectionals.
October 25, 2011 – violinist Andrew Small visits Whittier Middle School for a group violin lesson.
October 25, 2011 – violist Wanda Lydon gives a viola sectional at Wagner High School.
October 25, 2011 – violist Allyson Dawkins appears on KABB FOX 29 TV with Symphony CEO and President Jack Fishman to highlight and upcoming performance.
October 25, 2011 – Matthew Zerweck, Sayaka Okada, Emily Freudigman and Ken Freudigman perform as a string quartet with members of Ballet San Antonio in a collaboration called Beethoven & Ballet at the Army Residence Community.

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