Operating Support
Operating Support
The Saint Paul Conservatory of Music is a nonprofit, community minded music school whose mission is to enrich the lives of students and of audiences through the joy of music.
Peggy Burnet: entrepreneur, art collector, and community volunteer; Uri Camarena: director of business consulting with Metroplitan Economic Development Association (MEDA); Michael Charron: arts educator and an arts and civic leader; Richard Cohen: attorney in private practice and a former state legislator; Sean Dowse: arts advocate, arts practitioner, and civic leader; Anthony Gardner, vice president, marketing and communications at CentraCare; Philip McKenzie: team lead with Boutique Air, founder and owner of Bluedoor 74, adjunct college faculty; Mary McReynolds-Pellinen: executive director, Lyric Center for the Arts; Dobson West: retired attorney; Christina Widdess: nonprofit consultant; former managing director, Penumbra Theatre
Peggy Burnet: entrepreneur, art collector, and community volunteer; Uri Camarena: director of business consulting with Metroplitan Economic Development Association (MEDA); Michael Charron: arts educator and an arts and civic leader; Richard Cohen: attorney in private practice and a former state legislator; Sean Dowse: arts advocate, arts practitioner, and civic leader; Anthony Gardner, vice president, marketing and communications at CentraCare; Philip McKenzie: team lead with Boutique Air, founder and owner of Bluedoor 74, adjunct college faculty; Mary McReynolds-Pellinen: executive director, Lyric Center for the Arts; Dobson West: retired attorney; Christina Widdess: nonprofit consultant; former managing director, Penumbra Theatre
ACHF Arts Access
Minnesotans will be nurtured in their artistic growth and abilities through artistically excellent instruction and performance opportunities. Faculty will track student's progress towards technical mastery, musicality, and confidence. Performances will be evaluated by artistic staff. Qualitative feedback will inform future programming. 2: Expanded outreach programming, free community performances, and other artistically excellent programs will be accessible to underserved Minnesotans. Formal and informal surveys of performers, instructors, audiences and students; analysis of number of performances, musician contact hours, audience demographics; chart growth in community partnerships, including schools and performance spaces.
We served over 300 students with online and in person lessons and performances. Faculty tracked student's progress towards technical mastery, we compared enrollment to prior years, conducted surveys online and informally, and met with faculty to plan future programming. 2: We served over 5000 community members with concerts, residencies, and events. Informal and formal feedback from partnering agencies and audiences, surveys of public school students and teachers.
Other, local or private