Operating Support
ACHF Arts Access
Faculty artistic development: The Conservatory seeks funding for 16-20 faculty residencies. The residency will allow faculty members to develop a new musical repertoire as artists, not just as teachers. The residency will allow them to develop, practice, and ultimately perform new ensemble repertoires at the Conservatory and with our partner, Saint Paul Public Schools, for youth and at other public venues to exhibit their musicianship and promote the musical arts. Executive Artistic Director Clea Galhano oversaw the progress of the faculty members who participated in the Faculty Residency Program. Galhano tracked the development of each teaching artist, the number of performances, and evaluated the overall success of the program. Faculty members were observed enhancing the mastery of their musical art and craft through careful research, rigorous practice, and the creation of new work. The four public performances of original repertoires supported a thriving arts community by giving the faculty a place to publicly share their artistic growth with enthusiastic audience members, family, friends, and music fans. Over 1,000 new audience members attended these concerts, attesting to the popular reception of the faculty members' repertoires, their artistic development, and to the successful effort of promoting the musical arts in the Twin Cities. 2: Promote musical art learning and appreciation: building on the residency, the Conservatory will use the faculty performances as a means to reach new audience members of all ages and socio-economic backgrounds, as well as to recruit paying and scholarship students to the Conservatory. The Conservatory will reach 1,000 new audience members and 100 new students. Programming targeted disadvantaged youth, adults, and elderly populations living in the St Paul east metro area with free high-quality music performances held in accessible locations and venues. Many of the audience members we reached were individuals who traditionally have not had access to the arts, such as socioeconomically disadvantaged youth of color, special-needs students, low-income seniors, and the chronically ill. Executive Artistic Director Clea Galhano tracked performance and audience member numbers. We recorded a growing popularity and demand for both music lessons and performances, observing audience members' appreciation of the musical arts. We also received regular feedback from audience members that described high level of enthusiasm, interest, and satisfaction among the wide-ranging participants, as well as increased major individual donor gifts demonstrating that we successfully engaged our targeted communities in the musical arts.
The Conservatory supported nineteen faculty members to participate in our Faculty Residency Program. These nineteen professional teaching artists spent funded time developing their artistic repertoires and growing as artists. Each teaching artist was given the independence to guide his or her own particular artistic growth by researching, creating, developing, and practicing new, original musical repertoires that then could be publicly shared. This program gave faculty members a rare and important opportunity for them to challenge themselves to grow as artists independent of their roles as teachers, and also gave them a chance to practice and perform their repertoires collaboratively. Through the end of the Residency Program, the faculty had delivered three world premiers of their original repertoires publicly at the Conservatory and at partner Saint Paul Public Schools. 2: The Conservatory reached over 1,000 new audience members in sixteen public performances held throughout the year at the following locations: University Club (St Paul); Athletic Club (St Paul); Edina Care Center (Edina); James J. Hill Library (St Paul); Sundin Music Hall (St Paul); Mall of America (Bloomington); Regions Hospital (St Paul); Spring Lake Park High School (Spring Lake Park); Twin Cities German Immersion School (St Paul); Hubbs Center (St Paul); and Pre College Elementary School (St Paul). Given the extensive range of public venues where faculty performed, we were able to successfully reach new audience members and new potential students of all ages and socioeconomic backgrounds, ranging from young kids at the Pre College Elementary School, to middle school students at the Twin Cities German Immersion School, to the chronically ill at Regions Hospital, and the elderly at Edina Care Center. We also gave a first-ever performance at the Mall of America.
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