Through Education and Community Programs, ALIAS enriches the lives of Nashville’s students, families, and diverse communities with the gift of chamber music. ALIAS nurtures enduring partnerships with area schools and fellow nonprofit organizations in order to engage a range of Nashville’s most underserved adults and children. The musicians bring both new and ageless classical music to the community in a variety of imaginative educational programs. One afternoon a string quartet works with young music students at the W.O. Smith School; another day brings a program for Nashvillians in substance abuse recovery that explores how six cellists work together in performance. ALIAS knows no boundaries in the ways music can change lives.
In the fall of 2010, in conjunction with The GLF Project, ALIAS presented Mestiza Music in Music City, a residency program in one of Nashville’s most culturally diverse neighborhoods, featuring educational and community outreach to families and school children. MMMC included arts-integrated lesson plans inspired by Gabriela Lena Frank’s composition, Hilos, and the composer herself was involved in the program. She talked to audiences of all ages about Andean cultural influences in her music and she demonstrated how she used traditional western instruments to evoke the folkloric traditions of sound and style.
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ALIAS is thrilled to be in a PENCIL Partnership with Hume-Fogg Academic Magnet High School, named by Newsweek as one of America’s top 50 high schools. Through this partnership, we regularly visit the students. ALIAS musicians bring educational concerts to the student body and interactive master classes to the bands and orchestra. Read more about this collaboration.
ALIAS is proud to have shared memorable Education and Community programs with students and adults in schools and organizations around the area including:
- Tennessee School for the Blind
- W.O. Smith Community Music School
- Outlook Nashville
- The Renewal House
- Foundations of Nashville
- Mending Hearts
- Virtual School at Vanderbilt
For inquiries regarding educational programs at your school or community organization, email Michelle L. Doane at mdoane@aliasmusic.org.
