• 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. Symphony@Schools offers small ensemble performances by symphony musicians in local schools. We also provide to students and their families complimentary tickets to Marin Symphony performances in the concert hall.

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

Sit-In Concerts introduce young people to live, ensemble performance. Children in the "audience" literally sit beside and among the orchestra members to observe the sights, sounds, skills and magic of musicianship firsthand.

Sit-In Concerts also regularly feature an instrument "petting zoo," an instructive and endearing session after the concerts where the young members of the audience can try out the musical instruments for themselves. The aspirations of many a young musician have been forged in our petting zoos!