The privilege and accountability of bringing music to 1000’s of people and communities round our area isn’t any “solo act”.
Collaborations and partnerships develop potentialities. Initiatives and packages are enriched by pooling the required sources: services, monetary, and human — bringing music to extra lives.
Help from many corners makes the distinction. Excellent performing artists, inventive creative imaginative and prescient, wonderful and caring instructors, keen college students and audiences, prudent and attentive management, keen and succesful companion organizations, and beneficiant patrons collectively flip the strange into the extraordinary.
Sharing the fruits of those collaborative endeavors provides final rewards throughout — gratifying to those that give and fulfilling to those that obtain.
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The Music Faculty of Delaware annually brings to life an extended listing of actions and packages in collaboration with many companions. With them, we’re capable of do rather more than what can be doable independently. We salute and thank our many collaborators for his or her efforts with us to counterpoint lives all through Delaware and past.
Ninety-five Music Faculty school members are, themselves, key connectors to different organizations, giving their time and experience to our faculty, whereas additionally holding positions with universities; elementary, center, and excessive faculties; orchestras; choirs; and small ensembles. Our program workers led by our dean and our Milford department director, working with the varsity’s school management staff, develop and nurture relationships with over 20 private and non-private elementary and pre-schools, the Capital Faculty District in Dover, the Delaware Symphony Orchestra, Newark Symphony, College of Delaware, Wilmington College, homes of worship, after faculty education schemes, and an extended listing of others yearly.
Only in the near past, working with the founding father of a thriving middle for music, the Music Faculty took on a brand new instruction web site in Seaford, preserving and strengthening great music choices there, already established by the middle’s founder.
An upcoming Serafin Ensemble undertaking in Wilmington on the finish of February is a testomony to the ability of collaboration. It celebrates the majesty and brilliance of Georg Frideric Handel and his contemporaries of the Baroque period. A 3-concert mini-festival, Hallelujah Handel!, brings collectively The Music Faculty of Delaware and Serafin Ensemble, with Grace United Methodist Church, Trinity Episcopal Parish, and their respective choir members. This four-way partnership is feasible as a result of the music administrators at each church buildings are open to working in consort with the Music Faculty, and with Serafin Ensemble.

Hallelujah Handel competition options performing artists from Pyxis Piano Trio, Serafin Ensemble, the Embassy String Quartet, College of Illinois, and College of Delaware, in addition to highly-regarded native vocal soloists and instrumentalists.
The mixed sources embrace the attractive Grace Church venue the place the three live shows will happen, Trinity’s and Grace’s choirs, promotional help from the Music Faculty, Serafin Ensemble’s imaginative and prescient and programming, and underwriting from the Shirley Hunsberger Memorial Fund at Grace Church. All that every companion provides helps to deliver the competition to our audiences at inexpensive ticket pricing.
It’s each performer’s, presenter’s, teacher’s and group chief’s hope that individuals will hear about what they’ve to supply and can benefit from the alternatives to take part.
Collaboration with print media, radio, social media, together with different avenues for communication, are vital ways in which working collectively makes it doable to achieve extra individuals.
Neighborhood constructing is the work of many – and the extra we share within the collective efforts to make good issues occur, the extra we are able to notice thrilling and artistic initiatives that uplift people, and encourage our neighborhoods, cities, and cities to be locations the place all residents can discover fulfilling and provoking actions.

The Hallelujah Handel! mini-festival takes place Feb. 23 to 25 in downtown Wilmington. Our venue, Grace United Methodist Church at 900 Washington St., is a beautiful area for music, and provides the advantage of free, onsite parking. Three packages (“Handel and His Contemporaries”; “Handel – Earlier than and After”; and “Hallelujah Handel!”) are distinctive, time-limited, and will likely be delivered by top-notch flute, oboe, string, vocal and keyboard musicians.
It guarantees to be mind-expanding, and soul-soothing.
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Be part of us to discover an thrilling world of musical creation via the sounds of Handel, Corelli, Vivaldi, Telemann, Boccherini, Mozart, Haydn and extra. The performers and companions from Grace United Methodist Church, Trinity Episcopal Parish, The Music Faculty of Delaware, and the Serafins collectively will current lovely music by these stellar composers.
We stay up for sharing it with all who attend!
To be taught extra and buy tickets, go to www.serafinensemble.org, or www.musicschoolofdelaware.org.
Kate Ransom is president and CEO of The Music Faculty of Delaware and creative director of Serafin Ensemble/Serafin Summer season Music.
