Education and Community Programs

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.	Education and Community Programs Coordinator Michael Samis encourages children at Outlook Nashville to see images and characters in music. This program featured George Crumb's Black Angels.
This past December, Alias went virtual for the first time. Through an interactive videoconference, we explored the dynamic voice of Dmitri Shostakovich with local students as well as those in schools across the south from Texas to Florida. Alias is grateful to the Virtual School at Vanderbilt for helping us carry our Education and Community mission beyond Nashville.
ALIAS is thrilled to be in a PENCIL Partnership with Hume-Fogg Academic Magnet High School, recently 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