Education and Community Programming

SUMMER EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING

P.A.L.S. (Passes and Lessons Scholarship) Program: 110 AMFS students taught 1,248 private lessons to 132 students ages six to nineteen, with almost 60 percent receiving full or partial scholarships. They enjoyed master classes, pre-concert program-note chats, recording sessions, studio classes and ensemble experiences.

Festival Lessons: AMFS students taught 320 private lessons to fifty-six local and visiting students ages three to ninety.

FESTIVAL FOR KIDS

Sing Play Move expanded to two weeks of sequential instruction, delighting fifty youngsters and guardians with songs, movement, and music exploration.

Gotta Move! gave more than 500 children the opportunity to explore singing, sounds, and movement on stage in the Benedict Music Tent, and held two targeted preschool sessions attended by every preschool in Aspen.

A young Festival-goer experiments with sounds at an Instrument Petting Zoo.

Tunes & Tales, treated around 540 kids nine and under to stories blended with music performed by AMFS students and staff at the Pitkin County and Basalt Regional Libraries.

This year’s Family Concert featured an interactive performance of Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf,” along with Kids Notes, a preconcert event featuring snacks and activities.

PROGRAMMING IN LOCAL SCHOOLS

AfterWorks continues to provide music education for Roaring Fork Valley students, partnering with AmeriCorps to bring five ArtistYear Fellows to the Valley to teach in AfterWorks and Roaring Fork School District music programs.

Beginning Strings: 135 students in six elementary schools, plus 40 at the Waldorf School on the Roaring Fork

Beginning Strings students at a Spring Showcase.

Lead Guitar: 80 students in after-school programs at five schools; 215 students in in-school programs at two additional schools

Lead Guitar Students perform during a Spring Showcase.

Maroon Bel Canto Children’s Chorus: 85 students in grades three to six from five elementary schools

The Maroon Bel Canto Children's Chorus performs at a concert.

Maroon Bel Canto Singers, 60 select students in grades six to eight from four middle schools

ArtistYear Fellow Art Williams (lower left) poses with his Glenwood Springs High School choral students.

Musical Connections brought CU Boulder’s Ajax Quartet and Brass and Wind Quintets to area schools for classroom residencies and interactive concerts for elementary schools, side-by-side rehearsals and master classes for middle and high school bands, and live performances for all.

THANKS TO THE DONORS WHO SUPPORTED EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMMING

Alpine Bank of Aspen • Aspen Thrift Shop • Stephen Brint and Mark Brown • Les Dames d’Aspen • The Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation Inc. • Golub Family Foundation • Sue Anne Griffith • Leelee and Bill Harriman • Tita and Dan McCarty • Nancy Meinig - Meinig Family Foundation • Janet and Tom O’Connor • Beverle and Marc Ostrofsky • Hensley and James Peterson • Pitkin County Dry Goods • Anne and Chris Reyes • Caryn and Rudi Scheidt Jr. • Jeannie and John Seybold • U.S. Bank • Edith Kallas and Joe Whatley