Part of GCCA’s mission is to make a worthy contribution to the community by bringing world-class musicians to our schools in the spirit of education and encouragement for the arts.
As school budgets, particularly for the arts, continue to come under pressure and are subject to less stability we are pleased to be able to provide Student Outreach Programs at no cost to local schools. It is a wonderful opportunity to stimulate students’ interest in music and to inspire young musicians. We have been sponsoring Student Outreach Programs since 2005, presenting approximately 40 sessions to date. We were pleased to arrange programs at Biglerville High School and at New Oxford Middle School during our 2024-2025 concert season, and at Gettysburg High School in. September 2025. The Neaves Trio will perform an outreach program in May 2026
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September 28, 2022
Cellist Sophie Shao introduces selections that she and pianist John Blacklow are about to play, providing insight into early modernist music composed for cello for New Oxford High School and Middle School orchestra during a Student Outreach program presented by the Gettysburg Community Concert Association (GCCA) with grant support from the Adams Electric Cooperative, Inc. and the Adams County Arts Council Star Grant.
Cellist Sophie Shao and pianist John Blacklow on stage at New Oxford High School. Orchestra students were riveted by the physicality in her expressive performance during a Student Outreach program presented by the Gettysburg Community Concert Association (GCCA) with grant support from the Adams Electric Cooperative, Inc. and the Adams County Arts Council Star Grant.
April 22, 2023
The San Francisco Bay area’s Telegraph Quartet presented a mini-concert featuring selections by Classical composers Haydn and Beethoven, as well as a Latin American influenced modernist piece by Gabriela Lena Frank, to the orchestra, band and music students at Gettysburg Area High School. Orchestra Director Krista Kriel’s string students – including an astounding number of cellists (18) and violists (17) – and J.T. Hofmann’s band students were wowed by the quartet’s energetic physicality which was likened to playing an endurance sport and the combination of brilliance and subtlety in playing, during a Student Outreach program presented by the Gettysburg Community Concert Association (GCCA) with grant support from the Adams Electric Cooperative, Inc. and the Adams County Arts Council Star Grant
PIANIST JOEL FAN STUDENT OUTREACH PROGRAM – BERMUDIAN SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL, SEPTEMBER 22, 2021
Pianist Joel Fan chats with piano students following a Student Outreach Program at Bermudian Springs High School for 225 high school music and 4th grade elementary students. Fan made frequent references to the similarities of athletic training to developing mastery on the piano utilizing Chopin etudes, essentially exercises for pianists, to showcase how each targeted areas for improvement: right hand only, both hands for coordination, dexterity, mental acuity or body awareness. Students had a lot to share after the concert: “I learned I should practice every day-engage your brain 110% in what you are doing” and this delightful comment from a 4th grader: “His hands were moving so fast that my brain melted into the shape of a piano!