American Festival for the Arts, 2009 Summer Music Conservatory and Concert Series

 

Reasons to Support AFA

 

• AFA is nationally known as a model of community-based music education and is the only program of its kind in the state of Texas

• The AFA campuses have been a "home" to more than two thousand students and their families in the last thirteen years.

• One hundred percent of AFA's twelfth-grade students have enrolled in two and four year college programs. Of those pursuing a music major, AFA alumni have gone on to some of the nation's most prestigious program including the Eastman School of Music, Juilliard, The Curtis Institute of Music, Rice University, The University of Michigan, Indiana University, The University of Chicago, the University of Houston and many more.

• The 2008 AFA Concert Series offered twenty-one free concerts that entertained thousands of Houston and Southeast Texas area music lovers. AFA concerts take place throughout the City of Houston including Discovery Green, Zilkha Hall at the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, the Moores Opera Houston, Rothko Chapel, St. Martin's Episcopal Church and at Pershing Middle School.

• AFA premieres or presents more American works than any other Houston presenter.