Levine Music is a welcoming community where children and adults find lifelong inspiration and joy through learning, performing, listening to, and participating with others in music. Levine’s core values – excellence and opportunity – infuse everything we do. Our distinguished faculty offers a broad and well-rounded curriculum that provides a strong musical foundation for students of different ages, abilities, and interests. We strive to make Levine’s education available to everyone. Hundreds of students receive substantial scholarship assistance; many hundreds more receive free instruction through fully funded in-school programs.

Hailed as a national model for diversity in music education, the DC Youth Orchestra Program’s mission is to empower young people to transform their lives through music and community. An award-winning non-profit organization that annually serves over 600 youth from across the Washington metropolitan region, DCYOP has received the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award and plays a key advocacy role for music education in the nation’s capital. The organization is proud to unite students with different identities from 250 different schools and 100 different zip codes with a shared passion.

Founded in 1931, the National Symphony Orchestra has demonstrated its firm commitment to artistic excellence and music education through a wide range of programs that reach audiences across the country and around the world. In addition to performing approximately 150 concerts of innovative programming each season, the NSO conducts an extensive education program, including career development opportunities for young musicians, as well as nationally recognized community engagement projects such as NSO In Your Neighborhood and the Kennedy Center’s Sound Health partnership with Renee Fleming and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In 1986, the National Symphony became an artistic affiliate of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, where it has performed a full season of subscription concerts since the Center opened in 1971.