With a wide variety of music education and community offerings, your SCSO is committed to engaging with audiences of all ages. Through school music education programs, community collaborations, family events, and many other unique offerings, we not only share great symphonic music but invite YOU to join in making it! We best serve our students when we learn and grow with them. To support student well-being, we focus on listening and responding, not on assumptions about their background, identity, or home. At the SCSO, we believe people are the experts on their own lives.
OUR PROGRAMS
Children’s concerts are the ideal way to expose students in grades 1 – 3 to a variety of musical styles. They familiarize students with the environment and traditions of a concert hall, equip them with fundamental musical vocabulary, and cultivate a lifelong interest in classical music. The SCSO’s Children’s Concerts are an integral part of our mission to inspire and educate young minds through music. Each year, the concerts introduce several thousand first, second, and third grade students in Vero Beach to the world of orchestral music, many for the first time.
Once Upon an Orchestra features musicians from one of the four families of musical instruments (strings, brass, woodwinds, and percussion) at four different concerts. These kid- sized chamber concerts are designed for children ages 2-5. Expertly designed for our youngest concertgoers, each program will see us perform live music and enjoyable storytelling to create a unique and magical overture to the SCSO music experience. This season, the SCSO is presenting these special programs at the Vero Beach Museum of Art.
The Mentorship Program provides opportunities for aspiring musicians to work with the SCSO’s professionals on performance technique and musicianship. Selected participants will have the opportunity to perform with the SCSO musicians on the Masterworks Series. SCSO’s impact on the cultural vitality of Central Florida, on the art form itself, is perhaps underscored by the remarkable impact on the futures of its Mentorship Program fellows. Participants have been accepted to the Julliard, Curtis Institute, USC, Eastman, Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, among others.
The Side by Side concert is an opportunity for selected high school music students to receive coaching from and perform alongside the musicians of the SCSO. In collaboration with local high school music teachers, these concerts promote artistic development and offer valuable networking opportunities with professional musicians. As youth and professional musicians share the stage, they deepen their understanding of teamwork, discipline, and musical expression. Typically, sixty to seventy Brevard and Indian River County students participate in this special concert.
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REMEMBERING MICHELE
Michele Wallace Campanelli was a fierce and vibrant champion of the arts who left a long-lasting legacy that will inspire for years to come. Her work was highlighted and performed by the Space Coast Symphony Orchestra on many occasions over the two decades. She penned our children’s concerts including Musicians are Superheroes, Land of the Gnomes, Music at the Watering Hole, Back to the Watering Hole, and Ella Loves Elvis. Nothing made her more happy than making other people happy. She was a warrior, a quiet storm, and a lover of creating art with other people, who walked the walk in everything she did. She was our superhero and we would not be here today without all of her hard work and support.
