Each year students and their teachers join NYS Baroque musicians onstage for hands-on learning via musical masterworks of the Renaissance and Baroque. We work closely with teachers in our local schools to develop interactive Arts-in-Education programs, which are based on humanities and social studies curricula and presented in sync with each grade’s timetable. We aim for an efficient, concentrated, and effective learning experience. Students gain new perspective on cultural history as we enable teachers to widen and embellish their curricula.

We like to use music as a vehicle to convey connections about social norms and political realities in our Arts-in-Education programs. Instead of simply performing, we involve experts on dance, theater, and costume who effectively engage students through demonstrations and carefully devised activities. In a recent project, high school students reading Molière tried out Baroque theatrical gesture, learned minuet steps, and tried on period costumes in the context of seventeenth-century French theater music by Lully. They also improvised an elaborate seventeenth-century style dedicatory preface, praising their teacher instead of the king!

Early Music Brings History Alive Award NYS Baroque was the 2006 recipient of the "Early Music Brings History Alive Award" for excellence in educational outreach by Early Music America, the advocacy organization for historical performance in North America. If your school is interested in an Arts-in-Education collaboration with NYS Baroque, please contact us.