• Refining manuscript reading skills, which include accurate note recognition, rhythm and dynamics interpretation, and tonal key recognition
• Learning the technical craft of producing a beautiful tone on one’s chosen instrument
• Gaining exposure to the classical music repertoire
• Developing the self-discipline to maintain a steady, independent music practice
• Becoming facile with auditions through experience
• Learning how to work and blend in groups
• Becoming adept at performance

Symphony@Schools is an innovative outreach program that brings symphonic music into the schools, and students into the concert hall. It is designed to challenge and train all levels of young people in musical awareness. To pique students’ interest, Symphony@Schools offers performances by symphony musicians, meetings with musicians (when possible) and complimentary tickets to Marin Symphony performances.

To help bring Symphony@Schools to your child’s school, click here.

Sit-In Concerts are essentially open rehearsals performed by the Marin Symphony Youth Orchestra. Their purpose is to introduce young people to live, ensemble performance. Children in the “audience” literally sit beside and among the orchestra members so as to observe the sights, sounds, skills and magic of musicianship firsthand.

Sit-In Concerts also regularly feature a “petting zoo,” an instructive and endearing session after the concert where Youth Orchestra members allow the young members of the audience to try the musical instruments out for themselves. The aspirations of many a young musician have been forged in our petting zoos!

To attend a Sit-In Concert, click here.