Triangle Youth Music, Inc.
Shaping the future of music
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
The Philharmonic Association is in need of a dedicated rehearsal facility. Such a facility would better serve our current participants with scheduling autonomy in a consistent and acoustically appropriate rehearsal site. It would provide rehearsal and performance space for small ensembles and community groups. It would also enable the addition of needed program offerings including track-out and summer sessions, new ensembles and classes.
A Center for Youth Music would ensure that young musicians in the Triangle would continue to have the opportunity to participate in orchestra, jazz, and chamber music programs in the future.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Triangle Youth Music
In early 1988, thirty-five high school-age musicians from around North Carolina's Triangle area decided to form a Symphony Orchestra. They invited Hugh Partridge, Principal Violist of the North Carolina Symphony, to be their conductor and to help them organize the Triangle Youth Philharmonic.
Today, Triangle Youth Music has grown to a multi-level youth music education organization currently sponsoring five orchestras, four bands, several smaller ensembles and an after-school beginner violin program. TYM serves over five hundred musicians through year-round programming. The organization seeks to provide both beginning ensemble training in supportive non-competitive environments, as well as top-level groups that inspire serious young musicians selected through a rigorous audition process.
Triangle Youth Philharmonic
The Triangle Youth Philharmonic (TYP) provides a stimulating atmosphere in which advanced young musicians from throughout the region can further their musical skills in a full-orchestra setting by working with professional musicians and performing great classical music. TYP is the youth orchestra of the North Carolina Symphony and performs concerts that typically include performances of complete, original works from the symphonic repertoire. A member of the orchestra is selected by audition to perform a movement of a concerto on the spring concert.
Triangle Youth Symphony
The Triangle Youth Symphony is for young musicians to expand their musical skills. Its mission is to provide a stimulating atmosphere for its members to develop musical skills in a full-orchestra setting by working with professional musicians and performing great classical music. Playing ability and balance of instrumentation are the determining factors in the selection of members.
Triangle Youth Symphony concerts typically include performances of occasional arrangements and selections from original works in the standard symphonic repertoire.
Triangle Youth Jazz Ensemble
The Triangle Youth Jazz Ensemble (TYJE) was established in 2005 under the auspices of the non-profit Philharmonic Association. TYJE is open to advanced middle and high school musicians, selected by annual audition in August. Since 2010, TYJE has been under the direction of Dr. Gregg Gelb, a 2019 Raleigh Medal of Arts awardee. TYJE members develop the skills to perform a wide range of jazz compositions in a professional setting. The current twenty-two students come from eight different towns and ten different schools and many have no other opportunity to play in a jazz big band. They rehearse once a week for an hour and a half. TYJE has earned top honors since 2012 at The Carolina Jazz Festival, North Carolina Regional Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Festival at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 2016 TYJE was the silver medalist in the national competition Jazz at Lincoln Center Essentially Ellington Festival and have been selected to participate each year since then as the only group from North Carolina.
Triangle Youth Orchestra
The Triangle Youth Orchestra is for young intermediate musicians with limited experience. Its mission is to provide a stimulating atmosphere for its members to develop the musical skills necessary to perform in our more advanced full orchestras by working with professional musicians and performing exciting arrangements of great classical music. The music for TYO is selected from arrangements of well-known orchestral works as well as purpose-composed educational music.
Triangle Youth String Orchestra
The Triangle Youth String Orchestras provide an encouraging atmosphere for young string players to learn ensemble skills. Members should be able to read music and have prior experience, such as private lessons or school orchestra. There is no audition to participate.
Where we work
Awards
Business Support of the Arts - Arts Education category 2011
Raleigh Chamber of Commerce
Affiliations & memberships
City of Raleigh 2012
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Goals & Strategy
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Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
The vision of the Philharmonic Association is to set the standard in our country for providing a comprehensive array of classical and jazz ensemble opportunities for young musicians, while at the same time leading our peers in growing and sustaining a culture of diversity, inclusion and accessibility in the arts.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
The Philharmonic Association engages in ongoing evaluation of our programming to determine how best to meet community need.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
The Strategic Planning Committee, a subcommittee of the Board of Directors, is charged with long range planning. The Philharmonic Association is in the process of developing an endowment fund to ensure its long-term financial sustainability. A reliable rehearsal facility is the organization's biggest challenge and plans to have a home for the organization are being pursued.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
We continue to offer first rate music education and performances. We have yet to achieve our dream of a Center for Youth Music - a dedicated rehearsal facility that would allow our groups to reach their full potential.
How we listen
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Operations
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Triangle Youth Music, Inc.
Board of directorsas of 02/26/2024
Christin Danchi
Kimberly Bentley
SAS
Kelli Partin
Stephanie Swisher
Alice Ju
Christopher Short
Christin Danchi
Joel Duquene
Seth Weinreb
Pam Bash
Bob Wiese
Jason Campbell
Joel Duquene
Krista Telford
Tiffany Haddock
Zoila Airall
Jennifer Mulrooney
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
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CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? No
Organizational demographics
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Equity strategies
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- We analyze disaggregated data and root causes of race disparities that impact the organization's programs, portfolios, and the populations served.
- We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support.
- We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
- We disaggregate data by demographics, including race, in every policy and program measured.
- We have a promotion process that anticipates and mitigates implicit and explicit biases about people of color serving in leadership positions.
- We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
- We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
- We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
- We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.