Each gift leads to a tangible benefit: a more educated student, a better musician, a young person more skilled in collaboration and cognizant of the importance of community. Your donation is a wise investment in an optimistic future. What do your dollars support? Tuition waivers and private lesson subsidies; participation fees for tours, workshops and festivals; instrument subsidies, just to list a few. We depend on the generosity of individual donors, corporate sponsors, and granting organizations for more than one third of our total operating budget each season–that translates to over a half million in fundraising every year!
Business thrives in communities that support a vibrant arts culture. ESYO provides high level performing opportunities for our region’s residents and serves as an enticement to people seeking to relocate. ESYO also employs dozens of professional artists as conductors, coaches, judges and teaching artists, enriching the lives of hundreds of young musicians from across the Capital District.
Research now shows us that the study of music develops neural connections that help foster creative thinking and cognitive skills that are instrumental for problem-solving. ESYO graduates demonstrate this with successful careers in a wide variety of fields–many becoming inspirational leaders paving the way to a brighter future for all.
Now in our 40th season, ESYO is highly regarded as one of the cultural gems in the Capital Region, annually providing over 30 public performances of live music from a variety of genres – classical, jazz, band, and contemporary percussion. We support the local music community through collaborations with schools and groups such as Albany Symphony Orchestra and Albany Pro Musica. We invest in our communities by providing music education programs that use music as a tool for positive social change.
Many of ESYO graduates attend prestigious music schools such as The Juilliard School, Eastman School of Music, New England Conservatory, Oberlin Conservatory, and Manhattan School of Music. Others pursue non-music paths at colleges and universities such as Harvard, Princeton, Yale, MIT – yet they still make time for music. Our graduates can be found teaching in local schools, performing in small groups and community orchestras, running recording studios, composing music, and even performing in world-class orchestras.
The Bulova Stetson Fund
Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region – Opalka Family Donor Advised Fund
New York State Council on the Arts
Rea Charitable Trust
Seymour Fox Memorial Foundation, Inc.
William Gundry Broughton Charitable Private Foundation, Inc.
Alfred Z. Solomon Charitable Trust
The Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation
National Endowment for the Arts
Times Union+
Van Norton Family Foundation
Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region – John D. Picotte Family Foundation
Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region’s Ann B. & Robert E. Patton Music Fund
County of Schenectady
D’Addario Music Foundation
Summit Senior Living
BBL Construction Services
Broadview FCU
Capital Bank, a Division of Chemung Canal Trust Company
CDPHP
Couch White, LLP
Curtis Lumber Co., Inc.
Henry M. Butzel Family Foundation
KOT Electrical Construction Co. Inc.
The Lewis Prize Foundation
Nvidia
Schenectady County Initiative Program
Stewart’s Foundation
Wilson, Elser Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker LLP
Chipotle Mexican Grill
GPI
The Lady’s Got Glass
Microsoft
Music Company Orchestra Inc.
New York State Comptrollers Office
New York State Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation
Peckham Family Foundation
Takeda Pharmaceuticals
+ Includes in-kind contributions
* The showcased sponsors logos above this section are recurrent or sizable sponsors/partners that have donated an upwards of $5,000.
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45 MacArthur Drive,
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12302
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