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Amadi teaches a violin class for the Tapestry Music Program
Wesley teaches young students at the Tapestry Music Program
Wesley teaches an early childhood music class for the Tapestry Music Program
Jim teaches a ukulele lesson online for the Tapestry Music Program
Jim teaches a ukulele lesson online for the Tapestry Music Program

The Tapestry Music Project provides free music learning and listening experiences to students from underserved communities.

Washington Conservatory of Music’s Tapestry Music Project was born in 2017 through a grant from the estate of Gertrude Delfino, the daughter of Italian immigrants and a dual resident of Washington, D.C. and Rome, Italy. Ms. Delfino’s dream was to expand the opportunities available to children of immigrant families to study and excel in music. The Tapestry Music Project has grown through additional generous donations from our supporters and the Paul M. Angell Foundation to provide an array of free music learning and listening experiences to students from immigrant and low-income communities in Silver Spring, Wheaton, and Takoma Park, Maryland.
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Tapestry Music Project Impact

  • Since the Tapestry Music Project was launched in Spring 2017, we have provided free music classes to over 280 children in six locations in Montgomery County, Maryland, through a partnership with the Montgomery Housing Partnership.
  • We provide weekly early childhood music classes to children ages 3-5 in five locations in Silver Spring and Takoma Park, Maryland.
  • We teach two violin classes weekly to third-, fourth-, and fifth-grade students of Montgomery Housing Partnership’s Community Life GATOR Program at Arcola Elementary School in Silver Spring, Maryland. A violin is provided at no cost to each student in the classes
  • In the summer of 2017, we provided a free violin immersion experience—a weeklong, full-day music camp—to children ages 7-11, in partnership with CASA de Maryland.
  • In December 2017, we presented a morning of concerts by the world-renowned Spanish Brass to over 700 students, faculty, and parents at Arcola Elementary School.
  • Students receive scholarships for individual music lessons with artist-faculty members of the Washington Conservatory of Music at both our Westmoreland and Glen Echo Park teaching sites.

Washington Conservatory of Music has become one of our greatest partners. The music programs they provide through their Tapestry Music Project have helped the Play and Learn students, ages three and four, increase their language skills, work as a team, and learn to speak English.

—Sulema Middleton Stewart,
VP of Community Life Programs, Montgomery Housing Partnership

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