It teaches you to navigate the world of classical music,” says Tara Byrdsong, a 2002 graduate of the program. Many participants go on to careers as professional musicians, educators or in the arts. The program selects 25 of the most promising Black and Latino musicians in metro Atlanta every year and offers them private lessons, mentorship, financial assistance, help preparing for auditions and opportunities to perform. She turns 100 in November and still attends concerts and keeps her hand in TDP. Hill, wife of Atlanta civil rights leader Jesse Hill. The Talent Development Program was founded in 1993 by a group of ASO supporters and volunteers headed by Azira G.
“In the classical music world, that is hard to come by.” “They gave me opportunity and they gave me access,” he says. They essentially paved the road for me to have this career,” says Williams, calling from Switzerland where he is attending the Verbier Festival Academy, a prestigious and competitive training program for the best and brightest young musicians. “There is no world where I am where I am today without TDP. It’s because of those two programs that Williams, a 23-year-old Julliard School graduate, joins the orchestra this year as a Fellow, along with Jordan Milek Johnson, a Black bass trombonist from Acworth. This year also marks the debut of the ASO Orchestral Fellows Program, which awards paid, two-year, part-time positions with the orchestra. To that end, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra started the Talent Development Program (TDP), a musical education and mentoring program for young people of color that is unique in the nation. population, which is 13.6 % Black and 19% Latino. revealed that only 2.4% of musicians are Black and 4.8% are Latino.īut efforts are underway to make those statistics more reflective of the U.S.
According to the League of American Orchestras, a recent survey of 156 orchestras in the U.S.
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