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Outreach

The Seattle Phil has a longstanding commitment to outreach activities.

Each year, we visit the Renton/IKEA Center at Renton High School to present a Fall Family Concert, which gives the local community an opportunity to hear a live symphonic program in their own city. We are also proud to welcome talented music students from the Renton area to rehearse and perform with Seattle Phil for this program, which affords these young musicians the experience of making music with older colleagues who can add to their growing musical knowledge.

In collaboration with the music school at Cornish College for the Arts, the Phil designated several evenings in past seasons to play the works of student composers so that they could hear their compositions played by a full orchestra and hone their craft with that knowledge.

We are also proud to support the efforts of Seattle Music Partners, a not-for-profit organization that offers after school music lessons to students with minimal access to the arts.