Florida Orchestra Inc

Programs: Concert performances:for the last 50 years, the florida orchestra (tfo) has become tampa bay's largest performing arts organization and florida's largest professional orchestra. Tfo's concert season encompasses the full breadth of symphonic repertoire with 248 services a season and a total attendance over 135,000 patrons. In addition to standard orchestral works, tfo plays music from rock, pop and broadway, and collaborates in productions with local theater, choral and opera companies. Some of our most popular series are: -coffee concert series designed to provide audiences with an informal and informative classical music experience. Led by a tony award-winner principal guest conductor each 70-90-minute program features a variety of classical and modern works on a given theme, preceded by coffee, donuts, and pre-concert conversation with the conductor. -pops in the park extending its performances beyond the concert hall, lowering economic, geographic, and socioeconomic barriers to attendance and enriching the quality of life in tampa bay

community engagementtfo's extensive community engagement activities and accessibility initiatives make it possible for more than half of the orchestra's annual total audience to participate in its services free of charge. These activities follow our commitment to educate and impact a wide range of community members of all ages, backgrounds, and socioeconomic means, including but not limited to: -classical kids: offers free masterworks tickets to patrons ages 5-18, as well as program notes written specifically for children. This program is the first of its kind in the nation and is designed to promote attendance by families and cultivate an early appreciation of live symphonic music among children and youth-youth concerts: tfo enhanced its youth concert programming by implementing link up, a participatory music curriculum developed by carnegie hall's weill music that culminates in a series of interactive concerts in which the students perform along with tfo's professional ensemble. Last season's tfo link up concerts engaged approximately 17,000 area students across 157 schools, of which 84 were title 1 schools-family concerts: through its pay-what-you-can, community-based family concerts, tfo offers informal chamber music performances that provide shared music enrichment and educational opportunities for families with children in grades pre-k-2-sing out! Tampa bay: this free event invites up to 250 tampa bay residents of all ages and musical skill levels to sing onstage with the orchestra as members of the tfo community chorus-woodson chamber concerts: tfo has partnered with the dr. Carter g. Woodson african american museum to present a chamber music concert series one sunday per month. All proceeds from the woodson chamber concert series will benefit the museum directly in order to enable the museum to further develop its infrastructure

tfo on the go / tfo beyond the bay / residency program:tfo is constantly working to further extend its performances beyond the concert hall and reduce both real and perceived barriers to participation. Tfo strengthened its commitment to serving nontraditional audiences in 2016/17 by launching tfo on the go, a program through which the full orchestra or chamber groups perform at nontraditional venues such as tampa general hospital, the police athletic league, john knox village retirement community, james a. Haley va hospital, st. Joseph's hospital north, and bay pines veterans affairs medical center for facility patients whom are unable to attend tfo's ticketed concerts at the primary concert venues. Tfo reached an additional 13,000 florida residents last season through the launch of the tfo beyond the bay/residency program, funded by the florida department of state - division of cultural affairs. Tfo beyond the bay was created for the purpose of bringing high-caliber live symphonic music to communities around the state with limited access to a professional orchestra. Tfo visited: daytona beach, avon park and ocala counties.