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This Week Is Concert Week!
Finally, concert week is upon us! Here at the Atlanta Music Project, the ten-plus hours a week our students spend in our classes is always geared toward an upcoming performance. The performance is not just […]
Monica Pearson Donates Piano to AMP
What an honor we had today. It is my pleasure to announce that Monica Pearson of Atlanta’s WSB-TV has donated her piano to the Atlanta Music Project! A legendary news anchor at WSB-TV’s Channel Two […]
Guest Post: Cellist Johannes Moser visits AMP
You never know who’s gonna stop by the Atlanta Music Project! This past week we had a world-renonwed cellist visit the Atlanta Music Project’s Gilbert House site so I thought it’d be great to invite […]
Taking a Stand
On January 27, 2012, the fellows flew to Los Angeles, CA to take a stand. We had the great honor of delivering a keynote presentation at “Take A Stand”, a 3 day symposium on the […]
2012 Winter E-Newsletter
Maestro Abreu Receives Gifts From AMP A big moment for AMP! On January 30, 2012 Atlanta Music Project Choral Teaching Artist, Aisha Bowden and Atlanta Music Project Executive Director, Dantes Rameau, had the honor of […]
The Game Changers…
It is now midnight…I’m all packed for our trip tomorrow, but can’t sleep due to excitement. Not because this is my first trip to Los Angeles…not because we are flying on my favorite airline of […]
Atlanta Symphony Musicians visit AMP
We’ve started off 2012 with a bang! Two days ago six extraordinary musicians from the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra came to the Atlanta Music Project’s Gilbert House site to do a workshop with our students. The […]
AMP’S 11 HIGHLIGHTS OF 2011
2011 has been a great year for the Atlanta Music Project! From student performances and media attention, to Teaching Artist performances and community support, we are thankful for the opportunities that have been afforded to […]
What’s Been Happening at AMP’s Coan Site?!
As many of you know, the Atlanta Music Project launched a second site in the fall of 2011. Once again we partnered with the City Of Atlanta Recreation Centers. AMP’s second site is hosted by […]
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 […]