COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Beyond concert halls, our education programs are infused with an interactive approach to decoding music for general audiences while our community programs create music with and for people with limited or no access to live music.
Highlights
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WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
Kathleen Parker
The Washington Post
“If you doubt that within every person resides a divine spark, listening to prisoners express their joys and sorrows — ever-luminous even in this dark place — may cause you to reconsider. The 19 songs created and performed came from deep places many had never explored before. With a few notable exceptions, many had no prior musical experience...the concert brought jubilation and left few dry eyes...I was privileged to witness the transformative power of music scored with human kindness.”
Jonathan Vaughan
Director of Music at Guildhall School of Music and Drama
“In all the years that I've been associated with music education, I've never previously encountered such a sure-fired formula to deliver exciting and innovative outreach work as Decoda brought to the Guildhall School last year… their approach to outreach gave our students a wonderfully secure and engaging framework for presenting their chamber music repertoire. But the most striking feature of their work was that all the groups involved in the project reported that they were inspired to play significantly better as a result of thinking about their repertoire the Decoda way.”