This fall, Savannah Music Festival is proud to launch Musical Explorers, a new, year-round K-2 curriculum in partnership with Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute. As part of Music for Our Schools (sponsored by Gulfstream Aerospace Corp.), Musical Explorers builds basic music skills in the classroom and connects to curriculum in reading, social studies and other…
Category Archives: Education Spotlight
Project 440 starts today!
SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVAL PRESENTS CLASSICAL MUSIC RESIDENCY WITH PROJECT 440 IN LOCAL SCHOOLS AND AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS BEGINNING SEPTEMBER 16TH SAVANNAH, GA – From September 16th through 20th, Savannah Music Festival (SMF) presents Project 440’s original musical interpretation of The Fish Who Could Wish for students grades K-4. Musicians from Project 440 present a 50-minute performance to ten different groups of local…
Acoustic Music Seminar
“I’m a better and more inspired musician after the Acoustic Music Seminar.” -Matt Witler, 22, (pictured above with David Grisman), La Crescenta, CA “A life-changing experience!” -Tatiana Hargreaves, 17, Corvallis, OR The 2013 festival saw the return of the Acoustic Music Seminar (AMS), our groundbreaking mentorship program for young string players. Sixteen students from around…
Project 440 returns to savannah
We are kicking off our 25th anniversary season with a very special residency in local schools – Project 440, an organization dedicated to inspiring and educating young people through classical music, is returning to Savannah as part of SMF’s Music for Our Schools 2013-14 season. Musicians from the Philadelphia Orchestra, Harlem String Quartet, the Curtis…
Roger Day’s “Marsh Mud Madness” available on DVD
Roger Day, one of the nation’s top touring family music artists, released a new music and educational DVD, Marsh Mud Madness, on May 21, 2013. Produced by the Savannah Music Festival and Roger Day, with support from the Georgia Sea Grant and the Courtney Knight Gaines Foundation, the video features engaging information about the plants…