Grant Concert featuring Zoe Keating, Gilles Colliard, Amos Yang & more
Organization:
The Open String
Category:
Concert
Geographical Area:
San Francisco
Start
Date:
12/8/2015
End Date:
12/8/2015
Start Time:
8:00 PM
End Time:
10:00 PM
Event
Info:
The Open String, a nonprofit organization providing schools and musicians with access to quality string instruments, hosts its first annual Grant Concert on Tuesday, December 8 at 8:00 pm featuring performances by avant-garde cellist and "one-woman orchestra" Zoe Keating Swiss violin soloist, conductor and composer Gilles Colliard and San Francisco Symphony cellist Amos Yang, among other distinguished musicians. One hundred percent of the concert's proceeds will be used to supply Bay Area youth education programs with musical instruments.
Founded in 2014 by master violinmaker and Executive Director Robert Brewer Young, Designer and Director of Development Lucien Jamey and Managing Director Elfin Vogel, The Open String builds on over twenty years of charitable work by Young. Today, the organization supplies the frontline of the burgeoning music education movement with the tools its students and teachers need to succeed - durable instruments that sound good and stay in tune. In 2015 The Open String partnered with four free music programs to deliver nearly 90 violins, violas and cellos to students in need. Together these programs assist approximately 300 children in underserved communities around the Bay Area.
Based on the El Sistema model of music education, these programs aim to inspire youth to achieve excellence in all facets of their lives through the study and performance of music. The Open String's partners in 2015 and 2016 include Enriching Lives through Music in San Rafael, The Alameda Music Project in Alameda, Music Team in South San Francisco and Music Mission in San Francisco.
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