Read below on local opportunities to get started in music or about performances in your area!
Albany Symphony:
Ready to see a show? The Albany Symphony is one of this region’s most revered music and cultural institutions, having won numerous national awards for its adventurous concert programming, recording projects, composer residencies, and innovative educational efforts involving area schools throughout the region. As the only professional symphony orchestra based within the Capital Region, the Albany Symphony enriches a broad and diverse regional community, engaging over 150,000 people each year across an extended geographical area.
Empire State Youth Orchestra:
Empire State Youth Orchestra engages more than 500 youth from across New York’s Capital Region and Western New England in the joyful pursuit of musical excellence. Guided by outstanding teaching artists, coaches and conductors, members explore their potential alongside like-minded peers in an environment that is musically daring and seriously fun!
Saratoga Performing Arts Center:
Want to spend a summer night under the stars listening to the Philadelphia Orchestra? Then come to SPAC during the summer to see one of their many shows! Saratoga Performing Arts Center’s mission is to cultivate, promote, foster, sponsor and develop among its members and the community at large, appreciation, understanding, and love of the performing arts.
Troy Music Academy:
Interested in learning an instrument? The Troy Music Academy is a full service music lesson studio providing private and group lessons for guitar, bass, drums, piano, voice, ukulele, woodwinds, banjo, mandolin, strings and kindermusik.. The Troy Music Academy is staffed by the region’s finest teachers and performers. We offer instrumental and rock band workshops, too! All ages and skill levels are welcome.
