Led by Paul Montalvo since its founding, the Classical Music Institute has grown rapidly while continuing its core educational mission.
The $25,000 budget has grown to $1.6 million with 45 regular musicians, and the summer education session that takes place over two weeks in June — now called theThough the organization’s new Tobin Center role might have been unexpected, Montalvo said CMI is on track for what he called his “30-year vision,” a plan to grow a new orchestra ecosystem of musicians, audiences and donors in San Antonio.
The group performed its first concert at Pearl Stable in 2008, and Montalvo said he was pleased to recognize some fellow firefighters in the audience — the kind of connection that would spur Montalvo’s mission to introduce classical music to whoever would listen. He also noted that the musical selections were different from the standard classical fare. “The music was a little different,” he said. “I love Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, and Brahms and all the rest of them … but Paul would throw in these other composers that I’ve never heard of, and it always spiced it up a little bit.”
Living composers on the season program included Sylvie Bodorová, Gloria Coates, Sofia Gubaidulina of the Czech Republic, and U.S. composers Lori Laitman, Kevin Puts and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich. The names Wolfgang and Amadeus also appeared, but as middle names of Austrian Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Karl Amadeus Hartmann of Germany.
The summer program then moved to Edgewood and grew to add more faculty artists, more students, and more public concerts, this year from June 12-23 with eight days of instruction culminating in a student concert at Edgewood Theater for the Performing Arts on the final day. Classical music concerts are “a good reason to give” on their own, Amini said. “But when you combine that with that same group going out and serving the community, and teaching these kids who might not be able to afford that type of instruction, and they’re doing it in a really positive and well-orchestrated way, it’s easier to write the check.”
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