Experience DCYOP

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.

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.

WMPI is committed to enhancing the diversity of the Baltimore and Washington D.C. region’s classical music community, recognizing that by providing a diverse, equitable, and inclusive learning environment for our students, we are preparing them for personal and professional success in an increasingly global society. The WMPI community recognizes that it has a responsibility for creating and sustaining a learning environment where difference is valued, and where equity and inclusion are practiced.