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Carlsbad Music Festival is a 501(c)(3) organization that aims to engage and inspire local, national, and international communities of composers, performers, creators, and concert-goers through world-class performances of adventurous music. CMF is committed to premiering new works, programming fresh and compelling music, and providing professional opportunities for established and emerging performers. Founded in 2004 by composer Matt McBane, CMF strives to enhance Carlsbad, California as a cultural center, engaging diverse audiences and providing wide accessibility by integrating events within community spaces.

Mission A. To contribute positively to the musical environment of the area it serves, whether local, state, or national. B. To provide an organization is open to all post-high-school-age singers without audition. C. To provide free, public concerts. D. To educate and entertain area residents who attend YCC performances. E. To provide special concerts in conjunction with the Ypsilanti Community Band. F. To provide an opportunity for individual musical expression and growth among the membership. G. To reaffirm the roll of the community concert choir in American music.

Founded in 1954, Lyric Opera of Chicago's mission is to express and promote the life-changing, transformational, revelatory power of great opera. Lyric exists to provide a broad, deep, and relevant cultural service to Chicago and the nation, and to advance the development of the art form. Lyric is dedicated to producing and performing consistently thrilling, entertaining, and thought-provoking opera with a balanced repertoire of core classics, lesser-known masterpieces, and new works; to creating an innovative and wide-ranging program of community engagement and educational activities; and to developing exceptional emerging operatic talent.

The mission of the School of Acrobatics & New Circus Arts (SANCA) is to improve the mental and physical health of children of all ages and abilities by engaging them in the joyous creativity of acrobatics and circus arts. SANCA offers experiences that are physically challenging, socially enriching, encourage participation in the arts, and reach youth of all ages and abilities who have the least access and opportunity to participate in healthy, creative, physical arts activities. SANCA gives youth a safe, social, constructive environment to be physically active, to learn physical literacy, and to learn physical creativity and performing arts. Our programs create opportunities for young people to explore their interests and build positive relationships with peers and adults.

The Guitar Center Music Foundation believes that music participation is an essential element in the fabric of an enduring society. The organization aims to keep music education alive and available in our nation’s schools and communities. Founded in 2005, this public charity has reached over 300,000 people through its grants of instruments to music education programs. These grant recipients, which give more people the opportunity to make music, include school music classrooms and community-based organizations. Guitar Center Music Foundation was formerly known as Fender Music Foundation.

Founded in 1947, the Phoenix Boys Choir has programs featuring training in voice, music theory, and performance for boys age 7 to 14. The Phoenix Boys Choir, through educating boys in the art of singing and performing the finest music in the boy choir tradition, develops character, discipline, leadership, global awareness, and a strong commitment to excellence, thereby contributing to the greater Phoenix musical life and enhancing Arizona's cultural reputation nationally and internationally. The Phoenix Boys Choir guarantees every member a world-class music education and one of the most significant experiences of his life.

The New Jersey Festival Orchestra (NJFO) is one of New Jersey’s premier fully professional regional symphonies. The NJFO’s mission is to promote the world’s legacy of symphonic and operatic music to audiences, involving them in this rich heritage through a diversity of professional musical experiences, including performance, education and mentoring. The orchestra also creates experiences that stretch the boundaries of traditional classical performances. Programs include classics from the orchestral repertory as well as offerings that bring to life the fusion of fine arts and popular culture. Furthermore NJFO’s mission encompasses initiatives facilitating performances for the physically and mentally disadvantaged, as well as economically disadvantaged areas of New Jersey, with the goal of enhancing the meaningfulness of life, spiritual and cultural awareness, and the participation in the life of their communities otherwise limited by their condition.

New Native Theatre’s mission is to create excellent Native American stories for the stage in four distinct ways: 1) Produce commissioned and existing plays by native playwrights. 2) Produce community created plays around cultural and social justice topics. 3) Present the best of Native American and first nations productions from around North America to encourage the appreciation of high level production values/expectations, and the cannon of native theatre created around the continent. 4) Provide an array of theatre training to native american community members. 5) Engage in collaborations with native artists and native organizations of varying artistic disciplines.

Founded in 1977 by the late Dr. J. Reilly Lewis, the Washington Bach Consort is a professional choral and orchestral ensemble based in Washington, DC, now led by Artistic Director, Dr. Dana Marsh. The Consort is committed to ensuring that current and future audiences experience the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and his contemporaries by: 1) performing the music of Bach and his contemporaries to the highest artistic standards, 2) sharing the joy of Bach’s music by broadening audiences in the nation’s capital, 3) nurturing the appreciation of Bach’s music through education and community outreach activities, and 4) interpreting the music of Bach for audiences of today, thereby ensuring his legacy.

Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater, under the leadership of Artistic Director Molly Smith and Executive Producer Edgar Dobie, is a national center dedicated to American voices and artists. Arena Stage produces plays of all that is passionate, profound, deep and dangerous in the American spirit, and presents diverse and ground-breaking work from some of the finest artists around the country. Arena Stage is committed to commissioning and developing new plays and impacts the lives of more than 10,000 students annually through its work in community engagement. Now in its seventh decade, the theater serves a diverse annual audience of more than 300,000.

The California Jazz Conservatory is a nationally accredited music conservatory providing a dynamic community of students, artists, educators, scholars and audiences with a forum to study, perform, teach, research, appreciate and enjoy jazz and related styles of music from throughout the world. Comprising two distinct education programs, the California Jazz Conservatory, a postsecondary degree-granting program, and the Jazzschool community music school, a non-degree-granting community education program, the institution honors the contributions of past masters and promotes artistic innovation, bringing together a diverse music community to develop practical skills, acquire artistic sensibility, realize creative potential and find artistic voice.

The festival creates an artistic magnet, drawing a national and international audience of Williams enthusiasts to a small tourist town on the tip of Cape Cod on an otherwise quiet fall weekend, bolstering the tourist economy and cementing the relationship between of one of our great American artists and Provincetown.The mission of the Festival is:* to produce performances that examine and celebrate Tennessee Williams work, life and evolving historical importance including the playwright's connection to Provincetown;* to honor Williams as a playwright of enduring and international relevance and significance; * to encourage the searching spirit of Williams writing to inspire new creative work; and* to draw on Provincetown's perspective as the longest-running American artist colony where serious American drama was born.