Every age. Every school. No ticket price.
Your orchestra runs programs for kids from age two through the year they leave for conservatory — school visits, in-class workshops, youth concerts, instrument demonstrations, and time with living composers. Everyone eighteen and under gets in free, and so does every college student.
38,590+
Free student & college tickets since 2014
Ages 2–18
Toddler through senior year
60–70
High schoolers on stage each year
$0
What a student ticket costs
Four programs, one ladder
A kid can start at two and never leave.
Ages 2–5
Once Upon an Orchestra
Four small concerts, one for each instrument family — strings, brass, woodwinds, percussion. Kid-sized, story-driven, and short enough for a two-year-old’s attention span. This season they’re at the Vero Beach Museum of Art.
Grades 1–3
Children’s Concerts
Several thousand first, second, and third graders in Vero Beach every year, most of them hearing a live orchestra for the first time. They learn what the instruments are called, what a conductor actually does, and that a concert hall is a place they’re allowed to be.
High school
Side by Side
Sixty to seventy high school musicians from Brevard and Indian River counties get coached by our players, then sit in the section with them for the concert. Same stands, same music, same stage. Built with their band and orchestra directors.
Remembering Michele.
Michele Wallace Campanelli was a fierce, vibrant champion of the arts. For nearly two decades her creativity and imagination were woven into the fabric of your orchestra, and she wrote every one of our children’s concerts — Musicians Are Superheroes and Part II, Land of the Gnomes, Music at the Watering Hole, Back to the Watering Hole, and Ella Loves Elvis — each one built for the simple purpose of bringing joy to young listeners.
Nothing filled Michele’s heart more than making others happy. She was both a warrior and a quiet storm — powerful, steady, endlessly generous. A true collaborator, she lived her values in every interaction, every project, every story she brought to life.
To us, she was a superhero. We would not be the organization we are today without her dedication, imagination, and love. Every program on this page carries her name, and her spirit lives on in every note we play.
Six shows, all hers
Watch her work.
Musicians Are Superheroes
Musicians Are Superheroes: Part II
Land of the Gnomes — watch
Music at the Watering Hole — watch
Back to the Watering Hole
Ella Loves Elvis — watch
Teachers and school administrators
Bring us to your school.
School visits, in-class workshops, instrument demonstrations, and
reserved seats at a children’s concert — tell us your grade levels and
what you’re working on, and we’ll figure out what fits.
None of it comes back in ticket revenue
— the students don’t buy tickets.
