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AFA (American Festival for the Arts) Conservatory Orchestra

Presented by American Festival for the Arts at Houston Baptist University - Morris Cultural Arts Center

July 17, 2009

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AFA (American Festival for the Arts) presents an AFA (American Festival for the Arts) Conservatory Orchestra concert.

Join the Conservatory Orchestra in its' final performance of the season at Houston Baptist University's beautiful new Dunham Theater. Conductor Jeffrey Grogan (New Jersey Symphony), returning for his second season at AFA, will lead the orchestra in Dana Wilson's "Shortcut Home" and Shostakovich's popular Symphony No. 5 in D Minor. The 2009 AFA Concerto Competition winners will also perform.

Generously Underwritten by Omnibank, N.A.

American Festival for the Arts (AFA) was founded in 1993 by Houston composer J. Todd Frazier to provide accessible, high-quality music education and performance opportunities for youth and to broaden the audience for both new American works and the standard classical music repertory.

To achieve its mission, AFA presents an annual Summer Music Conservatory and Concert Series. This unique and acclaimed community-based music education program, featuring faculty members drawn from the nations’ finest educators, performers, composers and conductors, has become recognized as an important annual event in the cultural life of Southeast Texas and as a model for similar programs around the nation. A rigorous curriculum that includes large and small ensemble performance, music theory/enrichment classes and private lessons forms the core of AFA’s orchestra, jazz, choir, piano and composition departments.

The Conservatory is an inspiring, life changing experience for its students. In 2008, AFA’s thirteenth Summer Music Conservatory enrolled 332 students from 109 elementary, middle and senior high schools. AFA presented twenty-one free concerts to thousands of area music lovers featuring more American works and world premieres than any other area presenter. More than three out of every five students received tuition assistance from the AFA Scholarship Enrichment Fund.