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Benefits to Individuals
The mission of CMI is to engage our community in a life more beautiful through the shared experience and transformative impact of classical music.
We present an annual season of 5 concerts by reputable artists—all for just $30 per ticket or less—and 3 multi-age musical festivals to train and inspire young people. We also serve audiences by providing high-quality music, community partnerships, and a welcoming concert environment.
For many of us, CMI is much more than a classical music presenter. Our concerts are a place of connection and community, where artists and audiences enjoy together an experience that is fundamentally human, and yet transcendent—where the trivial gives way to the essential, and where we are all connected to a life more beautiful.
Services provided at no charge:
Music events that are free and open to the public.
- Publicity (design and print posters, write and distribute press releases)
- Audio recordings are given to all participating musicians. Audio recordings are made of all events. The recordings are given to the participating musicians to use as they wish. For example, students may find the recordings useful in applications to music schools, etc. With the performer's permission, works in the public domain may be made available on the website CortlandMusic.net, as podcasts or will be sent to the local library.
- Some recordings are made available on the website.
- Listings of local musicians on website “Musicians” page.
- Listing of local music events on website “Events” page.
- Listing of opportunities for local musicians on “Opportunities” page.
- Through our newly formed Musical Arts Institute we can provide piano accompanists for students participating in music events at very reasonable rates.
- We also have begun to provide classes in music theory, sight-singing, piano, violin, voice, singing and performance coaching, at a very low cost. In the future we are planing to offer music instruction in other instruments.
Funds to individuals:
- Professional musicians are paid an honorarium.
- Piano tuner is paid.
