Summary
Organization name
Augustana Arts
1997
Tax id (EIN)
84-1414051
Category
Arts, Culture & Humanities
Organization Size
Medium Organization
Address
5000 East Alameda AvenueDenver, CO 80246
Denver County, CO, US
About
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Augustana Arts meets the community where their hearts are, providing exceptional classical music performances and education programming at a down-to-earth price. Innovation and meaningful connections are guiding lights for all within the organization.
Testimonials
I'm pleased to share with you how Augustana Arts is fulfilling its mission, serving local communities and re-inventing classical music performance and education to better accommodate changing audiences in the 21st century.
City Strings, Augustana Arts' life-changing youth music education program, continues to grow, adding another location this year, and providing enrichment to over 150 students who otherwise would never have the chance to create music with their hands and their hearts.
Stratus Chamber Orchestra is innovating in many ways as it redefines the concert-going experience. Music Director Adam Torres has taken the orchestra in new and innovative directions with concerts performed in both immersive style (with the audience sitting among and around the orchestra) and traditional style seating, allowing guests to personalize their concert experience. Stratus, and Augustana Arts, have commissioned numerous new works which have then premiered as part of Stratus's concert season.
The Augustana Concert Series is greatly expanding its appeal through top name international performers, including Canadian Brass, Chanticleer the Air Force Academy Falconaires and The Queen's Six. Perennial favorites include Colorado Choir and Anima.
For those of us who have watched and helped Augustana Arts grow over the years, our current situation is gratifying, as we thrive and optimistically look to the future. But the Augustana Arts team recognizes many of the challenges ahead - producing live music in the early 21st century is both exhilarating and often unpredictable. We need to continue to innovate, grow and further secure ourselves financially to maintain our position in the community. Our ability to achieve this depends to a great extent in our ability to attract and retain great leaders.
To all members of the Augustana Arts family - leaders, patrons, donors, supporters, participants, partners, collaborators, and volunteers -thank you for making this organization a unique and priceless member of the Colorado arts community.
Mission
Vision: Lives enriched and transformed through encounters with the arts
Mission: We bridge the gap between audience, so that all feel welcome and are able to experience the arts in a deeper, more meaningful way.
Background Statement
Now beginning its third decade of service, Augustana Arts has remained steadfast and true to touching the lives of people in the community through high quality music arts experiences. Believing in the transformative power of performance has been the bedrock of this organization from the time it began as a small program of Augustana Lutheran Church to its position now as a multi-dimensional independent non-profit. As a true community arts organization, Augustana Arts develops programming that intentionally makes the arts approachable and invites a connection between audience and artist.
Augustana Arts directly impacts 7,000 - 10,000 people each year by presenting an annual Concert Series that began in 1997 and producing Stratus Chamber Orchestra, the perfect outlet for local talent to express themselves. This rich landscape of performance is complemented by thoughtful and consequential education programming.
City Strings is now called Music Encounters to encompass more than only strings, was founded in 2002 to give low-income children direct and accessible access to the many benefits of in-depth music education. In the 2019-2020 season, Augustana Arts launched City Drums and the spring of 2020 brought the creation of Music Encounters, an umbrella for this growing confederacy of music education programs. Augustana Arts partnered with the Colorado Youth Music Festival in 2018-19 and was so inspired that Shine with Stratus became the organization's youth music competition program in 2020.
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Denver, CO 80246