American Festival for the Arts, 2008 Summer Music Conservatory and Concert Series

Did You Know That...

 

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 2007 Conservatory enrolled 292 students representing 99 area schools from 25 Independent School Districts and ten counties in Southeast Texas?

The AFA campuses have been a "home" to almost two thousand students and their families in the last twelve years and that at least two of every five students return for a second summer?

100% 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 many 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?

AFA draws a faculty of internationally recognized performers, composers, conductors and educators representing symphony orchestras and college and university programs from around the nation?

The 2007 AFA Concert Series offered seventeen free concerts that entertained thousands of Houstona dn Southeast Texas area music lovers?

AFA concerts take place throughout the City of Houston inlcuding Zilkha Hall at the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, The Moores Opera House, DiverseWorks, The Rothko Chapel, and South Main Baptist Church?

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