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Become An AMP Concert Sponsor!
Get your business out into the community! Contact the Atlanta Music Project today to sponsor an Atlanta Music Project concert! Next sponsorship opportunity is December 14, 2011. Click on the picture below to see the […]
This Thanksgiving: Why Our City’s Underserved Children Are Thankful for Music Education
Entrepreneur Al Meyers was attending a TED conference in Palm Springs in 2009 when a presentation by TED Prize winner and Venezuelan conductor and economist Jose Antonio Abreu sparked an idea. During his speech, Abreu […]
VIDEO: AMP Teaching Artists Do TEDxPeachtree 2011
TEDxPeachtree has been a strong supporter of the Atlanta Music Project since before we even existed. At TEDxPeachtree 2009, Stanford Thompson was able to excite the audience about the possibility of El Sistema coming to […]
Atlanta Music Project: A Dream Realized
I remember the day I first learned of El Sistema. It was during a normal meeting of music teachers in D.C. when Ben Hall (Director of Music for D.C. Public Schools) mentioned this amazing music program […]
An AMP Solo at the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Today was a great day! I’m very proud of one of our students, violinist Chantania Shackelford, who performed a solo at the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s Board Of Directors meeting. The president of the Atlanta Symphony […]
Abreu Fellows Spread Their Wings
What a whirlwind! After weeks and weeks of discussions, workshops and seemingly endless days together – the Abreu Fellows have parted ways to see El Sistema in action. We have been given four weeks to […]
The Ensemble Newsletter – November 2011
A newsletter for the U.S. El Sistema Movement. Download your copy of the newsletter here!
Bits and Pieces of our Journey – New York City!
On October 6, 2011, the Abreu Fellows made their first overnight trip together – and what better place to venture than the Big Apple! We had a wonderful time – presenting at the Change Influencers […]
Field Trip to Grassroots Grantmakers Conference!
Last Wednesday November 2, 2011, the Community Foundation For Greater Atlanta invited our students to perform at the Grassroots Grantmakers Conference in downtown Atlanta. Led by Jessica Sherer, our Flute Teaching Artist and Gilbert House […]
AMP@CoanRecCenter Students Moving Fast!
Check out this video of one of our Coan Rec Center students. This video was taken by our one of our Viola Teaching Artists, Dr. William Johnston, who is also Principal Viola of the Atlanta […]
El Sistema through the eyes of the Talented Tenth
And we’re off! The Abreu Fellows Program has gotten off to a dynamic start! We have had almost two months of fun filled learning in Boston and our knowledge of El Sistema is expanding rapidly. […]
Premier Logic supports AMP at TAG Excalibur Awards!
Last Friday, the Atlanta Music Project was a finalist for the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) 2011 Excalibur Awards! TAG is Georgia’s leading association dedicated to the promotion and economic advancement of Georgia’s technology industry. TAG’s annual Excalibur […]
Fall 2011 E-Newsletter
AMP Launches Second Program Site We’re thrilled to announce that this past Monday October 3, we launched our second program site in the Edgewood neighborhood! With The Zeist Foundation providing major seed funding, our second […]
Atlanta Music Project Expands Social Change Mission into Historic East Atlanta Neighborhood
This October, the Zeist Foundation ushers the ‘Music for Social Change’ after-school youth orchestra program into Atlanta’s Edgewood neighborhood for the launch of its second program site. Underserved kids grades 1- 8 expected to reap […]
Creating music for social change
When I was six years old, I joined my first choir. I marched into choir rehearsal as a skinny little girl with a big mouth (that part hasn’t changed much) and belted out every tune […]