Community Report 2021-2022

COMMUNITY REPORT

OUR MISSION

Inside the Orchestra brings music to children, cultivating music appreciation and enhancing their education through engaging, interactive experiences with orchestral music.

OUR VALUES

• Increase equity among metro Denver’s communities by reducing barriers to the performing arts and ensuring that orchestra music is accessible, approachable, and enjoyable for all children.

• Respect the children we serve by providing relevant, authentic, engaging, and professional programming.

• Listen to the community and anticipate needs by soliciting and incorporating feedback from all stakeholders, including attendees, musicians, volunteers, and donors.

• Demonstrate that the arts are important to community health and vitality by providing fair compensation to artists, promoting arts education, and cultivating a lifelong appreciation of the arts in young audiences.

MESSAGE FROM THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Dear Friends,

While we continued to be impacted by COVID during our 2021-22 fiscal year, we had much to celebrate, and we couldn’t have done it without you. Thank you!

Our talented musicians continued to make music and to bring the orchestra to students throughout the metro community, and thanks to our virtual programming, the world. Inside the Orchestra continued to adapt and we are particularly proud that throughout the pandemic, we NEVER stopped providing high quality musical programming for young people.

In August 2021, we returned to in-person Tiny Tots performances, with Let’s Be Silly, bringing live performances to more than 4,000 children and their families throughout the year. The winter season brought the rise of OMICRON, which meant we needed to focus on providing virtual content in order to keep everyone in our community as safe as possible. We were pleased to present virtual performances of Music of the World during the winter season, with a return to live performances of the production in the summer.

We also returned to classrooms, reaching more than 2,000 students with in-person programming. And we released new virtual content - the Virtual Resource Hub. This highly curated curriculum includes resources teachers can use as a full-year framework or they can pull out individual videos, lesson plans, activities and games to use in their classrooms. The Virtual Resource Hub continues to be free to schools throughout Colorado and around the world. All in all, Over 68,000 students from 13 different countries signed up for virtual programs in 21-22.

Thanks to the community, Inside the Orchestra remained fiscally sound throughout the pandemic. Because of you, our 2020 and 2021 fundraising campaigns were our highest ever and our fundraising event Through the Looking Glass, was the highest-grossing fundraising event we’ve ever had. We were also the grateful recipients of a variety of relief funding/build back grants from the state and federal government including a Colorado Arts Relief grant and a Shuttered Venue Operators grant.

As we look to the future seasons, we will continue to strive to listen, to share, to respect, and to bring musical experiences to families, schools, and children of metro Denver. We can’t wait to see you and your families this year as we come together to celebrate orchestral music. We simply couldn’t do what we do without you.

Thank you for your support!

Warmest Regards,

The Board of Directors - Inside the Orchestra

CORE PROGRAMS SPOTLIGHT:

TINY TOTS RETURN IN PERSON

TINY TOTS

Experiential concerts for kids seven and under (and their adults). Attendees are seated on the floor and encircled by our 30+ piece orchestra. Music selection, program design, and scripting are all geared to connect young children with music - physically, emotionally, and mentally.

INSIDE THE ORCHESTRA FOR SCHOOLS

Interactive programming geared toward students in K-8th grade. The repertoire and scripting are designed to support and enhance school curricula. Programs are offered in English and bilingual (Spanish) formats, with the bilingual program featuring Hispanic composed and influenced music.

VIRTUAL CONTENT

Online resources for children in preschool-8th grade. Free resources include online musical games that explore instruments, musical concepts, and creation, themed playlists, stand-alone activities and expanded lesson plans. Additional in-depth platforms including Virtual Tiny Tots and Virtual Resource Hub platforms provide music educators with valuable resources to engage young learners at home and at school.

In February of 2020, we hosted our final live Tiny Tots performances before the pandemic shut the world down. After 18 long months of presenting Tiny Tots exclusively online, we returned to in-person Tiny Tots performances in August of 2021 with our Tiny Tots: Let’s Get Silly concert series. Audiences heard silly instrument sounds, explored emotions and made funny faces along with the music, played freeze dance with the orchestra, and were treated to performers from multiple partner organizations including Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Montbello Drumline, and Central City Opera.

Tiny Tots: Let’s Get Silly brought our Tiny Tots orchestra outdoors for the first time, with performances happening outside in public parks and green spaces, kicking off a new tradition of outdoor summer performances.

I absolutely love Tiny Tots. I worked at an elementary school in Denver years ago and would always volunteer to accompany the ECE classes, and I’m so grateful this opportunity is still available for my daughter. I love the creativity used to engage the kids with the music, the suggested activities, and the accessibility for the kids to be close to and see the instruments.

SPOTLIGHT: VIRTUAL CONTENT

In the fall of 2021, we released our Virtual Resource Hub, free to schools around Colorado and the whole world. The Virtual Resource Hub contains a variety of highly curated programs and resources for teachers to use with students in preschool through 6th grade, including:

• Virtual Curriculum: Organized into monthly topics and weekly lessons, teachers can use this resource as a full-year framework for music education or pull out individual videos, lesson plans, activities, or games to use in their classroom. Diversity and equity in composers, performers, and artistic styles are woven throughout the curriculum as students learn about the full, rich world of the orchestra.

• Virtual Tiny Tots: Eight unique program platforms with video performances, lesson plans, online games and offline activities all based on different themes.

• Composer Card Platform: Interact digitally with our custom Composer Card Deck, featuring diverse composers from the last 1000 years

• Additional Resources: A robust platform of educational and entertaining music games and themed playlists.

Tiny Tots: In-Person & Online

In-School Programs

KEY STATISTICS

Virtual Resource Hub Signups 2021-2022

Over students

13 68,000

from different countries

served in person

serving students

Virtual Tiny Tots purchased in 2021-2022

In-School Programs

Tiny Tots performances

4415 63 22 21 2361

365

Virtual Curriculum schools

Participants from states in the US and dozens of countries

35

13

countries students reached

89,244

2,727,299

total online interactions & views

CULTURAL PARTNERS AND FEATURED GUESTS

Summer ‘21 (Let’s Get Silly)

Denver Center for the Performing Arts

Montbello Drumline

Central City Opera

Christmas ‘21

Central City Opera

Colorado Ballet Academy

Ballet Ariel

Virtual Winter ‘22 (Music of the World)

Denver Center for the Performing Arts

Shelley Huckabay and Joanne Espinet

Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Company

El Javi

Spring ‘22 (Science of Sound)

Denver Center for the Performing Arts

Summer ‘22 (Music of the World)

Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Company

El Javi

LEADERSHIP

SHELBY MATTINGLY, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Shelby Mattingly has over nineteen years of financial, management, and event planning experience, in both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in theatre performance from Denison University and a Master in Public Administration with a concentration in nonprofit management from the University of Colorado Denver. She is a committed volunteer, dedicating hours to many organizations including Girls on the run of the Rockies, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Ronald McDonal House and Casa de Paz. She has served as the president of the Colorado Women’s Chamber of Commerce Downtown Power Partners Group and the Chair of the Aurora Cultural Arts District Stakeholders Group. Shelby served Inside the Orchestra from 2012 through 2022. Shelby has been thrilled to commit her professional career to centering children in the world of the arts.

SARA HARE, PROGRAM DIRECTOR

Sara Hare is a classically trained oboist and arts management professional with 10 years experience bringing music and educational opportunities to children around the world. She has a Bachelor of Music from the Cleveland Institute of Music and a Master of Liberal Studies in Arts and Culture with a concentration in Arts Development and Program Management from the University of Denver. Sara believes deeply in the transformative power of music and is passionate about changing the landscape of orchestral music so that it is a diverse and equitable space for all.

LORENA MENDEZ, PROGRAM AND DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR

Lorena Mendez has over 10 years of Office Administration. She approaches all aspects of any job with a positive, hard-working mindset, and is passionate about helping find solutions to any challenges. She has an Associate Degree in General Studies.

Music has been a very important factor in her family gatherings as a child and is excited to bring music to young kids with Inside the Orchestra.

CONDUCTORS MUSICIANS

BASS

Mike Fitzmaurice

Andy Holmes

Ron Bland

BASSOON

JJ Sechan

Deborah Torp

CELLO

Jennifer Fouse

Anna Leavitt

HORN

DeAunn Davis

Sarah Ford

Sue McCullough

Devon Park

Ron Torp

OBOE

Kathryn Simpson

VIOLA

Matthew Diekman

Sarah Richardson

James Shaw

Lora Stevens

VIOLIN

Hong An

Michael Brooks

Desiree Cedeno-Suarez

DAN LEAVITT, CONDUCTOR

Dan has a Master of Arts in Music from the University of Denver. He has written over 500 arrangements that are played all over the world. Dan has taught music at the University of Colorado Boulder, Metropolitan State University, Colorado Christian University and Cherry Creek High School. He is currently the conductor of the Mercury Ensemble. He has performed four times for Presidents of the United States. Dan is very excited to be conducting Tiny Tots. He has a passion for conducting, performing, composing and music education.

STEVEN AGUILÓ-ARBUES, CONDUCTOR

Argentinian-American Steven Aguiló-Arbues enjoys his roles as a conductor, vocal coach, répétiteur, and recitalist. Outside of his work with Inside the Orchestra, he conducts the Boulderbased choir The Renaissance Project (specializing in Renaissance a cappella choral music). His love for opera has led him to work with companies like Central City Opera, Sarasota Opera, Opera Colorado, The Atlanta Opera, Crested Butte Music Festival, and the Miami Music Festival. Mr. Aguiló-Arbues is also fluent in Spanish and English, helping him to communicate with countless students while educating them in music.

Wayne Templeman

CLARINET

Mary Jungerman

FLUTE

Valerie Johnson

PERCUSSION

Peter Cooper

TROMBONE

Jeff Craig

Justis Williams

Matthew Diekman

Nina Fronjian

Beth Greenberg

Beth McKenna Greensburg

Byron Hitchcock

Annamaria Karacson

Gyongyi Petheo

Takanori Sugishita

Désirée Suàrez Ward

TRUMPET

Alex Szasz

David Artley

Dawn Kramer

Derek McDonald

Patrick Tillery

TUBA

Mike Dunn

Cameron Holt

Tori Woodrow

Lila Woolman

Lionel Young

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

VOLUNTEERS

Taylor Anderson

Dana Aubin

Ryan Billows

Caitlyn Boyle

Gracyn Burt

Sebastian Damico

Sophia Donoho

Meg Druyor

Kathy Flanagan

Brendon Hofsetz

Marion Howley

Claire Jackson

BOARD MEMBERS

Matt Jylkka

Patty Jylkka

Emily Kapner

McKenzie Larson

Abigail Lastre

Jess Lingenfelter

Dave Mauro

Maura McGrath

Anita McGue

Kathy Meyers

Angela Murphy

Elena Myers

Alexander Nguyen

Sarah Novak

Lynn Owen

Lindsay Parker

Yulia Pastukhova

Jean Plotkin

Leah Podzimek

Michael Pool

Deby Schwartz

Brianna Shawcroft

Skylar Stader

Connor Tarbert

Brennan West

WILL BRAUNSTEIN Board President HEIDI WILBUR Board Vice President

JOSH NEUGEBAUER Board Treasurer CINDY CHANG Board Secretary

SEAN SMITH JASON GREEN JASON P. SCOTT CARLTON WILLEY

BECCA SMITH MARIA CORRAL JEAN PLOTKIN

TESTIMONIALS

SPONSORSHIPS AND GRANTS IN-KIND SUPPORT

I love that music vocabulary and information on how the instruments work are woven together in this program.

DONORS

5 years ago, my 5yo and 4yo attended an Inside the Orchestra Tiny Tots performance. I have a picture of my 4yo daughter gazing up at the flautist and my 5yo chatting with the violins. Now, that 5yo has grown into a 5th grader who decided to take up violin this year, and the 4yo is a 4th grader who is playing flute in band. Thanks for making a difference!

4240 Architecture A Dad’s Path

AlthausLaw

Avendi Promotions

Colorado Creative Industries

Colorado Arts Relief Grant

Fox Rothschild

Megan Quinn Mayfield Compass

U.S. Small Business AdministrationShuttered Venue Operators Grant

Arapahoe Basin

artSPARK Creative Studio

Bear Creek Distillery

Bonnie Brae Ice Cream

Boondocks

Denver Micro Brew Tour

Elevate Yoga

Ems Ice Cream

Esters

Fire on the Mountain Guard and Grace

iN-TEA

Little Feet

Live Love Lash

Melting Pot Littleton

Pappdeaux

Park Hill Yoga

Postinos Wine Cafe

Rolling Smoke

Rosenberg’s

Sam’s No. 3

Stange Craft Beer Company

Sweet Action Ice Cream

Tattered Cover

The Family Jones

The Universal

WoodHouse Spa

Y.Lo Epicure

Thank you for finding ways to make your performances interactive by dancing, moving, playing air instruments, etc.

Thank you to the Citizens of the Scientific & Cultural Facilities District (SCFD)

The music choice was just awesome and I love that you chose to feature different cultures.

DONORS

Rosemary Acerra

Matt Adams

Whitney Adams

Rebecca Alleman

Jeff Althaus

Jacqueline Altreuter

Deanie Andersen

Delaine Bagwell

Darryl Baker

Eric Bakovic

Matthew Bartolomei

Halie Behr

Leonard Behrens

Albert Belsky

Emma Bindbeutel

Ron Bland

Robert Blume

Joel Bogen

Susan Borgos

Jeanine Branting

Will Braunstein

Margaret Brown

Julia Buonanno

Molly Campbell

Christine Carcano

Matt Cecere

Cindy Chang

Carol Childs

Trish Cook

Linda

Jeanine Cornell

María Corral

Catherine Correa

Brian Cox

Myra Crawford

Boyd Dailey

LeKita Scott Dawkins

Derrick Dease

Trey DeLaine

Joey Denoncourt

David DePeters

Dara Deshe

Chris Dillis

Vera Divenyi

Kari Doescher

Susan Dolson

Latitia M Doppler

Debra Downum

Faegre Drinker Foundation

Meg Druyor

Jennifer Duda

Alex Early

Desiree Edwards

Peter Ehrlich

Elastic

Jud Eson

Jennifer Feinberg

Michael Fitzmaurice

Matt Fontaine

Joan French

Ryan Frizzell

Elizabeth Fuselier

Megan Gallagher

Wendy Gallagher

Rosie Garner

Diana Garrett

Logan Giorda

Monica Glickman

Albert Gonzales

Philip Good

Angela Graf

Barbara Gray

Andrew Green

Diana Green

Jason Green

Kent Green

Hilary Gustave

Lindsey Guthals

Dustin Hailey

Elizabeth Hailstone

Jonathan Hanover

Pamela Hansen

Sara Hare

Kelley Hart

Mary Hartman

Sophia Hassman

Kristin Hathaway

Errol Haun

Yorlanda Hawkins

Josaphine Hehnke

Teresa Henderson

Meredith Henry

Paula Henry

Jacqueline Hersman

Mike Herzog

Darren Hewitson

Gregory Hicks

Laurie Hicks

Meredith Hicks

Natalie Hicks

Ali Hicks-Wright

Elijah Hicks-Wright

Janine Higgins

Tori Hill

Donald Hilsberg

Arlene Hirschfeld

Barry Hirschfeld

Brendon Hofsetz

Chyrl Hofsetz

Marion Howley

Linda Huff

Amy Humble

Jason Igo

Jody Igo

Paula Jackson

Erica Jaffe

Bradley James

Melissa James

Michael Jennings

Carol Johnson

Daniel Katz

Jeff Keacher

Krista Kilgus

Wendy Klein

Julie Koehler

Barbara Kottke

Addie Koyonos

John Kramer

Brian LaCarrubba

Sarah Lajoie

Janice Shillingford Lander

Bernadette Langdon

Joe Lanigan

Theresa Lanigan

Gina Lanning

Tara Leone

Kathryn Lester

Robin Levy

Danielle Lewis

Randi Libbon

Jessica Lingenfelter

Jeffrey Logan

Megan Lucero

Brian Lucius

Terra Luster

Robert Maack

Pamela Maass

Damon Maes

Jesse Marks

Carla Marie Martin

Christopher Mast

Ellen Mattingly

Shelby Mattingly

Dave Mauro

Pat Mauser

Megan Mayfield

Elle Mckitrick

Katherine McMurray

Courtney McRickard

Callista Medland

Carolyn Medland

Lorena Mendez

Danielle Merlino

Amy Mikulka

Judee Mikulka

Shelie Miller

Genaro Montoya

Kirk Moore

Natalie Morrow

Emily Murdock

Kathryn Myers

Erica Nelson

Duane Neugebauer

Elise Neugebauer

Joshua Neugebauer

Margie Neugebauer

Iola Neumayer

Ginna Newton

Jackie Norris

Carol Oakman

Fiona OCarroll

Kathleen Osgood

Kristen Padberg

Paola Paga

Antonio Parés

Nicolas Parés

Fran Petonic

Christopher Phillips

Karen Pincus

Jean Plotkin

Joshua Plotkin

Leah Podzimek

Cole Pokard

Petra Popiel

Carolyn Proctor

Lisa Ramirez

Greg Rawson

Carl Rehburg

Rob Rehburg

David Reiman

Shayna Reiman

Jane D Rogers

Mitch Rogers

Daniel Rosen

Rachel Rosen

Deborah Ross

Steve Ross

Fox Rothschild LLP

Joyce Rubin

Sara Rutstein

Doris Sachanandani

Jessie Santala

Terese Scofidio

Denisha Scott

Jason Scott

Nikki Scott

Zachary Segal

Cecilia Serna

Carolyn Shaak

Zachary Shannon

Brianna Shawcroft

Liz Shelby

Penny Shelby

Marina Shka

Carole Shockley

Sara Sia

Two Sigma

Laura Sigrist

Adam D Silver

Derek Smith

Kellyn Smith

Paula Smith

Rebecca Smith

Sean Smith

Dawn Snyder

Marc Spezialy

Brooke Stern

Judy Still

Erin Strawn

Sarah Strong

Erin Swank

Andrea Swenson

Laura Syme

Valerie Alice Taron

Joy Tate-Smith

The Medical Center of Aurora

Tyler Hicks-Wright

Demetrios Tzortzis

Davey Van Beveren

James Vaughn

Mary Villalba

Susan Walker-Smith

Jason Waltrip

Lance Ward

Cia Wenzel

Danelle F. Walker Whiteside

Kathleen Whitney

Heidi Wilbur

Gilad Wilkenfeld

Carlton Willey

Jen Wilson

Steve Wine

Jamie Wolf

Maureen Wood

Jessica Wu

Gregg Yamane

Tracy Zabel

REVENUE & EXPENSES

STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES

EXPENSES