Kara LaMoure: Two Steppin’: a collaborative concert of professional chamber musicians, beginning youth orchestra, and composer Mason Bynes

Kara LaMoure: Two Steppin’:  a collaborative concert of professional chamber musicians, beginning youth orchestra, and composer Mason Bynes

WindSync used their PRJC grant to host a multigenerational concert to motivate and retain beginning music students, encourage families to feel welcome to attending, and to begin students’ musical lives with a feeling of representation. To make this concert happen, WindSync partnered with Houston Youth Symphony, elementary schools, and programs promoting youth music education. Additionally, WindSync visited schools during their after-school programs to rehearse, provided free transportation, and presented the program in both English and Spanish to increase accessibility. Finally, their concert included a commissioned work, Two Steppin’ by Mason Bynes, who is an emerging Black composer from Houston. With all these components, WindSync hopes to draw future musicians to the stage and connect the dots for young people and provides racial equity through their artistic representation.

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