San Francisco Symphony
For General Operating Support
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Amount$525,000
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Program
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Date Awarded3/16/2015
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Term36.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Organization
Strategies
Overview
Each year, San Francisco Symphony presents more than 230 concerts, which reach 500,000 people. Its extensive music education programs provide more than 25,000 students and families, including every San Francisco public school student in the first through fifth grades, with music and instrument instruction. Nationally and internationally, the Symphony reaches another 2 million through touring, recording, and broadcasts on radio, television, and the internet. Renewed funding would support the Symphony’s efforts to continue music education programs for K-12 students, sustain music-making opportunities for adults, and commence a series of audience development initiatives including enhanced programs.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.sfsymphony.org
Address
Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, CA, 94102-4585, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for contract negotiation facilitation
The San Francisco Symphony presents more than 200 concerts and delivers extensive community and music education programs to more than 600,000 people each year. Nationally and internationally, the Symphony reaches another 2 million through touring, recording, and broadcasts on radio, television, and the internet. Its excellence in musical performance and pioneering approaches, particularly in the areas of education and audience development, contribute to its ability to maintain the third-largest and one of the most diverse live audience of any U.S. orchestra. This grant would support the Symphony’s efforts to engage an experienced contract negotiations consultant.
for general operating support
Celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, the San Francisco Symphony annually presents more than 200 concerts and delivers extensive community and music education programs to 600,000 people. Nationally and internationally, the Symphony reaches another 2 million through touring, recording, and broadcasts on radio, television, and the internet. Building on the greater excellence attained during its Centennial Season, the Symphony is poised to conduct a feasibility study for capital renovations and the expansion of Davies Symphony Hall and to present a comprehensive portfolio of artistic, educational, and community programs that engage the third-largest live audience of any U.S. orchestra—and one of the most diverse.
