Education

Strings in Our Schools

The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival upholds a passionate commitment to the artistic needs of its local community. We provide enrichment programs for children, youth, and adults in Santa Fe and northern New Mexico. The programs address the needs of the lay community member who relishes high-quality audience experiences as well as the musical requirements of children in formative stages of artistic development, adolescents and high school–age students who’ve chosen music as an avocation and possible career path, and young adults who’ve undertaken post-secondary study in music.

Our music education programs are research- and standards-based, and they’re strategically structured for efficacy and reach. We light the fire of learning by educating the hearts and minds of our children. Repeated experiences over a period of several years, coupled with research-based, sequential, and spiral curriculum, have a long-range, transformative impact on students’ worldviews, potential for academic and artistic success, school attendance and graduation rates, and career choices.

Because of our programs, the artistic and cultural tapestry of our local community is infused with musical experiences and possibilities it wouldn’t otherwise have.