Music Matters! Educational Outreach Programs
Classroom Symphony
Program provides students in grades K-3 to experience the four instrument families in the symphony orchestra through multi-disciplinary workshops based on a thematic selection of literature. During each performance workshop the chamber ensembles demonstrate their instruments, perform a wide variety of music as accompaniment to the narrated story and teach musical concepts such as melody, harmony, rhythm and tone color.
Concerts for Young People
Offers children and adults the opportunity to hear the full symphony orchestra in an educational and entertaining format. Concerts center on a theme and often partner with area organizations.
Symphony Summer Camp
A two-week intensive training program taking place at Rutgers University-Camden for musicians in middle school and high school. The Symphony’s musicians provide lessons, music theory, history lessons, sectional rehearsals and large group performance experiences. The program concludes with a final public performance.
Young Composers’ Competition
A part of The Symphony’s long standing commitment to America music by providing the opportunity for young composers to submit new orchestra compositions. The winning composition is premiered and professionally recorded by The Symphony on a subscription concert and is considered by the Theodore Presser Company to be included in its rental library.
