The Academy of Saint Cecilia Youth Orchestra (ASCYO) is a non-profit youth orchestra created in 2001.
As volunteers, we are committed to improving our communities through the action of our chapters to recognize exceptional young artists by honoring and showcasing their talent. Equally significant are programs organized by our chapters that encourage charitable contributions to benefit the artistic growth and development of our youth. In partnership with individuals, local groups, and companies that donate to our local and national efforts, we recognize supporters in collaboration with chapters for helping to prepare our youth to succeed in the arts.
Compass Rose Theater, founded in 2011 by Lucinda Merry-Browne, is an award-winning small professional theater nonprofit organization with an educational mission. Compass Rose Theater offers theater classes, workshops, a Young Actors Studio, and several performances year-round. Performances are held at Maryland Hall in Annapolis, Maryland. Our teachers have a Bachelor's or Master's Degree in theater and work in the professional theater world, training students at schools, camps, events, and on-site at our theater in Maryland Hall.
Towson University Community Dance is an extension of the Department of Dance and its mission reflects the department’s mission of advocating “Dancing for a Lifetime.” The comprehensive curriculum, renowned faculty and highly trained instructors offer excellence in dance education for children, adults, and professionals.
The UU Chalice Series is a small solo and chamber music concert series in Columbia, MD - sponsored by the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Columbia
The Prince Georges Contemporary Ballet Theater is a classical Ballet organization that has a focus in classical training for Black and Brown youth in Prince Georges County and the DMV region.
The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland is an integrated arts laboratory where artists, arts scholars, students and arts administrators collaborate to spark inspiration and build a better future for the arts. As an intellectually curious and socially conscious community, The Clarice leverages creativity, scholarship, innovation and community engagement across the arts to foster expression, generate curiosity and inspire a greater good.
District5 is a daring, Washington DC-based wind quintet that specializes in new music and new transcriptions. They are recipients of a 2016 Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Grant with composer Evis Sammoutis and have recently performed at "The REACH" at the Kennedy Center, Dumbarton Oaks, U.S. Department of State, Library of Congress, Barns at Wolf Trap, DC Kosciuszko Foundation, and the Anderson House. In 2014, they gave the U.S. premiere of Karlheinz Stockhausen's ROTARY Woodwind Quintet.
With the mission to preserve the legacy of the remarkable life of Anna H. Wang, the Anna H. Wang Concert Series seeks to hold in sacred trust, the gift of music to humankind by:
Enhancing artistic excellence in the Maryland community through concert performances by world class artists.
Creating unparalleled opportunities for young talent to be inspired and nurtured by internationally renowned musicians.
www.worddance.org
WORD DANCE THEATER’S MISSION is to provide dance education through classes, workshops, partnerships, and performances that are embodied and expressive celebrations of life. Our work preserves and cultivates the dance legacy of Isadora Duncan through a return to the body that encourages the strength, beauty, and right of freedom of each person exactly as they are. Through creative educational experiences and performances, we embolden all genders, sexes, and identities to manifest well-being in today’s world.