Baltimore Symphony Receives $5m Gift Towards Family and Educational Programming

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) received a generous donation of $5 million from the Sherman Family Foundation. The gift is intended to help the BSO introduce more children and young people to symphonic music, and will support the orchestra's various outreach initiatives to this end.

The funding has been split into two parts. The first $3m will be immediately allocated to the BSO's existing projects, especially the OrchKids program. This program brings music to more than 2,000 young people, offering both in-school and after-school programming at nine different locations in Baltimore City, as well as at a summer home at Goucher College.

The funding will allow the program to expand significantly. The BSO will add a fifth day to the weekly after-school program (scaling up to six days in the coming years), establish a new choral program, and formalize a performance track (including private lessons, new side-by-side opportunities, application/tuition assistance, and advanced instruments) for its students.

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Source: The Violin Channel